Originally Posted by
ItsJustMe
DX has never taken more than 6 weeks to deliver to me, typical is 3. I haven't ordered a TON of stuff, but I've now ordered from them a total of about 10 times, with 5 to 15 items per order. I've never been shorted on anything.
The one time I had a defective product, it was a bad 18650 battery. I had one dead one out of two 2-packs, they shipped me an entire new 2 pack for free.
The 18650s I have are trustfires, and I paid around $8 for two. I don't know where you're finding them for $7-$9 each, I don't think they have any for that expensive.
http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.5790
I've placed several orders with DX, and nearly everything I've ordered from them has broken in a short amount of time or simply didn't work right from the beginning. The last order I placed with them took 59 days for an 'in stock' item to reach me. They knowing lie about their stock status and shipping times, and I suspect that they also sell goods that didn't pass quality control. I base this on me and a friend both buying the same lights from DX and Shining Beam. The Shining Beam lights still work fine (two of them) the DX lights all died (three of them). Three of the same lights dieing is more than a coincidence.