Recommended $5 flashlights for gifting in 2019

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@ActiveAl

I paid $16.72 for two TG06S flashlight last Nov from seller autocaredepot (now doing business as trac8894)), and they turned out to be poor quality fakes:

• They had the modes: High, Medium, Low, Strobe and SOS - INLINE. Whereas, the modes in a real TG06S have the modes High, Med, Low, MoonLight; and double tap to access Strobe.
• There should have been NO memory versus next-mode memory found with these.
• These flashlights were not even close to 500 lumens in High as with a real TG06S, and they have a cool white emitter (with a greenish tint) versus warm white, as they should.
• Grinding occurred while screwing head to body.

But appearance wise, they were similar to the real thing.

Got refunded for one while keeping both, and they are in my give-away-to-a-stranger collection.

Yikes!

In that case, I would avoid the cheap clones that I linked to earlier in this thread.