Too bad they don’t ship to Hawaii. I would have taken one. Oh well.
Might not be an outright scam (pay money, receive nothing), but maybe counterfeits.
I know there have been fake SWM products found floating around in the past, so certainly a possibility.
Great deal of not a scam. Would be nice to see some new v11rs here and maybe some new mods.
Don’t think it is a scam. The seller has 3,057 reviews and 99% positive feedback. I’m guessing the V11R is a very old light and Sunwayman decided to clear their inventory so selling these to distributors at liquidated pricing.
I think this would be a great EDC if we can put in some 90CRI emitters. I hoping this can support 16mm mcpcb so I can just drop in an E21A. I love the 4000k E21A in my Sofirn SF14.
I purchased two @ $18.99 from a California location, a bit of a gamble tho, number of sellers offering this light at rock bottom prices, odd…. my inner scam alert has been activated. Nobody said buying flashlights was ever gonna be easy.
I sure hope it’s not but unfortunately, in Ebay, historically all scams have very high positive feedback and reviews, always.
Looking back, BLF oldtimers will surely remember that Nitecore light/charger combo ( IIRC, Regular price at $260, offered online at $69+). Hundreds jumped in, received valid tracking numbers almost immediately (something was actually sent, btw), only to eventually receive cheap plastic trinkets not even worth a dollar.
Again, I sure hope this is not one of them scammers though.
Edit: Here is one of them in 2013: (100% feedback! )
Edit: Looking at his list of “other items for sale”, all are cheap and non-flashlight related, it’s scary.
I changed out the LED on my V11R. Just reflowed a different LED on the factory MCPCB. I didn’t think it was too hard. Also since the thread lock has now been removed, that allows me to get into it fairly easy to reapply some high vacuum silicon grease (Dow Chemical) in the future if the ring ever becomes loose.
Grab this light years ago for ~15$,
I’m still interested to get ext. tube for put 2AA
That’s a nice looking light!
Don’t know which one you are referring to. I have the AP-05 tube. It extends the lenght of the light by 17mm. Which is the space you need to put a 14500 (AA) in a light designed for a 16340 (CR123A). The box says: compatible with M10R, M11R, V10R, V11R, V10R Ti, V10R Ti², and V10R Ti+
Just checked it says more than 10 available. Seems like a scam.
The price dropped back down to $18.99. Not sure why would they use such a cheap and relatively unpopular item for a scam. It’s hardly worth the time. Rather use something like a PS4 or automotive parts that cost hundreds.
I kind of want to buy another one lol.
I just bought 2 of them showing 9 left. IDK?
We will see i suppose.
I emailed the seller to have him ship both orders in the same package, received a reply in broken English/Chinese, which of course had nothing to do with my request.
I just checked my email for receipt and conformation. The pay pal went to China some where. There was 3 Chinese letters numbers or what ever they are as i do not
read Chinese as the paypal recipient. May have just been scammed but paypal will honor the $36.00 so worth the effort if they are legit… The ebay ad states they are in CA so that is why we may have been scammed…
That is promising you got a reply.
Here is a picture of my receipt, yes it went to some Asian person…
I think that maybe paypal already flagged it since it still shows as pending…
They always reply…this is not to throw you off…if my suspicion is right.
I might regret it, but I jumped in too…
Sadly they always use the ‘too good to be true (and why not as Paypal is behind their backs)’ modus always, and always go for volume of sales since shipping with tracking perhaps some virtually worthless trinket or whatever is their only substantial cost.
A low-priced item will go under the radar for quite a while before getting exposed than a pricier one.
All my pronouncements above are based on my observations on the assumption that this deal is a scam (though in my books it looks that it is)