Where do you currently buy your flashlights?

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Where do you currently buy your flashlights? I was inactive for a few years and most of the stores that deliver to Europe no longer exist (e.g. Dealextreme, Fasttech, Gearbest).

I only know Banggood, Kaidomain and Aliexpress.

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Hkequipment, Nkon and many other places.

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A lot of companies have official storefronts on AliExpress (Convoy, Sofirn, Lumintop are the ones I already ordered from, others probably exist, too). A bunch of them also set up their own webstores by now (sofirn for example).

For batteries I really like nkon.

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I buy my lights from Hank. Silly question. :wink:

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Mostly AliExpress.
Here’s a good thread (with affiliate links :imp:) for the different stores:

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I would usually buy from official shops of low-cost brands on Ali Express : Lumintop, Wurkkos, Sofirn, Mateminco, and Convoy. Occasionally, Wuben.com has good discounts (I just bought two sets of Wuben E7 headlamp.) Banggood is no longer competitive. Its price is always too high when compared with the same on Ali Express. BTW, I don’t see discount coupons for Banggood on our BLF now. (?)

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Sometimes there are deals on Sofirn’s website…
https://www.sofirnlight.com

Also, sometimes there are deals on (American) Amazon.
I don’t know about German Amazon, though.

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https://budgetlightforum.com/t/28144/

https://budgetlightforum.com/t/216982/

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Here’s Wuben’s website, though I’ve never bought anything from there…

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Thanks “tercet” for sharing/showing the list of discounts on Banggood. Just pick one item: Lumintop Mach 4695 V2, listed at US169, which is about S$230 (Singapore dollars). I bought the same from Lumintop Official Store on Ali Express during 11/11 Sale for only S$209.19. A difference of about 10%. That’s why I say Bangood needs to improve its pricing in order to compete with Ali Express. Flashlight buyers now do check at different e-commerce outlets to compare prices.

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www.intl-outdoor.com

99% of my lights come from there.

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Usually the company’s online store (or amazon) or aliexpress

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75% from AX
15% from BG
The rest:
Acebeam from Acebeam
Emisar from Int Outdoor
Armytek from ArmyTek
Fenix from Fenix
Wurkkos from Wurkkos
Sofirn from Sofirn.

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https://intl-outdoor.com of course :wink:

Other than direct from the manufacturers, mostly on official manufacturer AE stores, and have bought a few from resellers, and go for ebay and the buy/sell sections both here and on Reddit and the Discord for used.

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Besides manufacturer’s 1st-party websites I only use Aliexpress and Amazon.

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