have you ever been here ? www.dealextreme.com

[Jesse123]

there lights have sweet specs and crazy prices like it must be a scam right ?

www.dealextreme.com
the direct link is http://www.dealextreme.com/products.dx/category.901

[Woz]

sure. I buy there about once a month, and never made a bad experience. Shipping is not really fast, but free. Shipping from China to Austria is 2-4 weeks, prices are insane. I highly recommend Romisen brand lights, they are really great!

[Zed]

wow cheap prices, i like the look of this 

http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.28546

[Zed]

is free shipping anywhere  they even have paypal 

[Magnus]

The lights are great an insanely cheap, this is my EDC light.

Nothing fishy about the prices, this is the prices companies pay before they quadruple the price and put their brand on it.

[nuphoria]

There are quality issues sometimes with DX, but they will usually send out a replacement once you fill in the silly form!
Overall, I highly recommend using them for stuff like lights. You also have the advantage of user reviews which can be very helpful

[cgk]

I think I am on some government watch list with all the packages I receive from Hong Kong.  (Love DX)

[Chako]

I think I need to get out more.

The Fantasy Egg for Him listed in the first link a bit down...I had no clue until I clicked on one of the later videos.

For some reason, I was thinking it was edible and chocolaty. 

[Benner]

Just a shame they insist on selling blatant bloody knife knock offs.  For that reason alone they will never get my custom.  My issue though and certainly not something I'd expect anyone else to follow.

[cerbera147]

I have bought from BestOfferBuy.com. From what I can see there are the same set up as DealExtreme, with nearly identical stock. I just happened to stumble across BestOfferBuy first.

DealExtreme has more reviews on products though with a forum 

I got a Romisen RC A4 from BestOfferBuy for about £9 with free shipping. It took about two weeks to get here but that's fine.

I highly recommend it as a budget flashlight  Here's the links plus one to the review I did

My Review

BestOfferBuy

DealExtreme

[NutSAK]

My issue though and certainly not something I'd expect anyone else to follow.

That's a load off my mind, because I was thinking, "There's no way I'm going to order from DX since Ben has a problem with them!"

 

[Gareth]

I think I need to get out more.

The Fantasy Egg for Him listed in the first link a bit down...I had no clue until I clicked on one of the later videos.

For some reason, I was thinking it was edible and chocolaty. 

 


Back on topic I think.  I seem to remember hearing that a few people have had issues with long delivery times, months rather than weeks, but it seems to be the exception rather than the norm.

[Neil]

I am the exception to the rule.  I have yet to have a transaction go well with them.  Admittedly that's only three transactions but I gave up at that point

[NutSAK]

I am the exception to the rule.  I have yet to have a transaction go well with them.  Admittedly that's only three transactions but I gave up at that point

That certainly would be enough for me.  I guess after the second bad transaction, you figured there was no way you'd have another?

[Neil]

Well the prices are very cheap which makes it very tempting 

On my final mess up they did eventually refund my payment so I still think they're probably worth a risk sometimes.  Not sure if I'll ever put my toe in that water again though.

[NutSAK]

That's no good.  Sorry to hear that, mate. 

I think I've ordered from them once.  I got my order, but the product was a POS knock-off of a River Rock lantern.  I took the common extra parts off the thing and tossed the rest.  I did end up buying an inoperable River Rock later that I fixed with those parts, so all was not lost.

[Magnus]

Just a shame they insist on selling blatant bloody knife knock offs.  For that reason alone they will never get my custom.  My issue though and certainly not something I'd expect anyone else to follow.

to be fair, they don't market them as knock offs themselves.

[Freudian Frog]

They just market whatever factories make over there, so there tends to be knockoffs. They never label them as the knockoff'd company though so it rolls right with me, just know what you're buying.

[Luxor]

wow cheap prices, i like the look of this 

http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.28546

That light its amazing. I had several of its incarnation and must say that specific one its (much) brighter than my Fenixes L1T and L1D and its waterproof  (at least dunked it in water for several minutes).

The down side it’s a possible flickering problem when it gets too hot

[Benner]

Just a shame they insist on selling blatant bloody knife knock offs.  For that reason alone they will never get my custom.  My issue though and certainly not something I'd expect anyone else to follow.

to be fair, they don't market them as knock offs themselves.

Makes absolutely no difference in my mind.

My issue though and certainly not something I'd expect anyone else to follow.

That's a load off my mind, because I was thinking, "There's no way I'm going to order from DX since Ben has a problem with them!"

 

You know what I meant 

Following Neils problem I can confirm that I still will not shop with them. 

[Blackbeard]

wow cheap prices, i like the look of this 

http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.28546

Stay away from that one and get the $19 model, the one with orange tailcap. The sku you are looking at is prone to failure and possibly DOA when you get it.

[PyroJames]

I think I need to get out more.

The Fantasy Egg for Him listed in the first link a bit down...I had no clue until I clicked on one of the later videos.

For some reason, I was thinking it was edible and chocolaty. 

LOL.  Those aren't Cadbury eggs...



To stay on topic: I ordered the Ultrafire A10b flashlight from DX and it was a pretty good light.  It's about 180 lumens (manufacturer rated 250 lumens) for only $14.  That's a pretty good deal.

[John]

Yes hundreds of times spamming four years and never had a real problem,if they really have it in stock they ship smartly and TBH they stock most of what gadgets we see on shelfs in the UK for a fraction of the price  so my recommendation score 1to10 is 9 

[NutSAK]

Yes hundreds of times spamming four years and never had a real problem

Be careful, you might be banned for all that spamming. 

[John]

Yes hundreds of times spamming four years and never had a real problem

Be careful, you might be banned for all that spamming.  

  (a little brain fart on my behalf)    yeah! lets hope Mike doesn't read this  

[Mike, Lord of the Spammers!]

Yes hundreds of times spamming four years and never had a real problem

Be careful, you might be banned for all that spamming.  

  (a little brain fart on my behalf)    yeah! lets hope Mike doesn't read this  

[Neil]

Yes hundreds of times spamming four years and never had a real problem

Be careful, you might be banned for all that spamming. 

He's a Brit so gets a free pass

[Gareth]

Yes hundreds of times spamming four years and never had a real problem

Be careful, you might be banned for all that spamming. 

He's a Brit so gets a free pass

Yes, but he might have to swear fealty the the Lord of the Spammers.

I know he made me do it.

 

[Lucky1987]

Please don't post anymore links as that is called spamming. - Benner

[Andreas]

I know this thread is a tad old, but since the happy little Chinese spammer bumped it...

I buy from DX a lot, but I can't really recommend the site. They've had some major security issues, especially earlier this year (or was it last year? time flies) where they were all on vacation just as the paypal system broke down. Peopl could pay and send them their money, but no orders were registered by their system. It took a week or more before this was noticed by staff. I also generally don't like them because they're screwing their affiliates. I put affiliate links in a couple of articles I wrote for a site I work for, and the size of the site meant those two links turned out about $60-70 in money for me even with only 1.5% payoff. Getting them to actually pay out that money was a battle in itself, it wasn't until I reminded them that they've made $5000 from two single links and that I could turn the same amount of attention on how they treat affiliates that they actually got it sorted. I think part of the problem is that the service staff doesn't know english very well and that creates a lot of issues. I still remember back to when the site started, when it was called something else (dont remember what) Kyle and Melissa who started it (prob fake americanized names) would answer things personally int he forums and make sure EVERYTHING was top notch. I guess it's the price of success.

As for their flashlights, I have a couple, but frankly I think the prices at shiningbeam.com (not spam, it's just the only other place I've bought flashlights)  isn't that much higher when you get the extra quality and customer support.