I sometimes think that people crow about their expensive lights because they're too embarrassed to admit how economically ripped off they feel.

Upwards of $200 spent on something that frequently fails can make one feel like an idiot. Poor attachment systems, constant battery failure, cold weather failures and the fact that the system goes out of technical vogue so fast that you can't get replacement parts and "must" replace it every year or so just starts looking like a major scam to those of us who have more basic lighting systems. LED, Halogen, USB chargers, wall chargers- yeah, that's the ticket, let's fill the land fills with more chargers, plastic and chemicals until someone builds the "perfect" light. And we should all buy the latest and greatest so as not to be left behind in the great search for the material nectar of the light gods. Let us be slaves to the marketing masters that tell us of the need for ever more powerful light.

Boycott expensive poorly designed and produced crap. Must consumers be the beta testers for everything?