Got a $5 LED flashlight from ebay. It uses a 14500 3.7v rechargeable li-ion battery and is 7w powerful.
It's easily as bright as a similar form factor Surefire which retails for $220.
The Surefire is easily much tougher than the no-name Cree Q5 light. Definitely more waterproof.
But is a Surefire better than a $5 flashlight? Especially since it's the price of 44 $5 lights!
The ebay light is waterproof enough to survive in the rain, which is what I need it to survive. I don't need a dive-light to keep in my glove box.
One thing you can do with a $5 light is slam it down on the asphalt as hard as you can, shattering the poor thing to bits and go, "oh well, I need a new light." As opposed to not daring to do the same thing with your $220 light where if you do break it you go, "oh FUCK! My expensive light is ruined!"
I have seen this demonstrated. The person who put me onto the cheapo light is more than willing to break one. The owner of the $220 Surefire declined to emulate the destructive testing regimen.
The light thing reminds me of so many "tactical" things.
$300 for a pair dockers? Are you fucking high? Yet people buy them and extoll their virtues and they cannot be told from the $15 Wal Mart captive store brand at 15 feet. You paid 20x as much for a pair of pants! Even worse is you didn't even avoid them being made in China. I've been known to pay a premium for American made goods, but your extra $285 doesn't get that.
Will your $300 pair of slacks outlast a $15 pair? Most assuredly. Will it outlast twenty pairs of $15 slacks? Probably not.
The next question about pants is really one of style. There are places I would not wear dockers. Dockers are associated with dress-code in my mind; you wear them because you must look a certain way and the environments where this is true preclude a necessity for requisite level of ruggedity.
What do I wear for rugged use? Jeans. Good old fashioned denim. $10-30 at Wal-Mart, $20-50 at Target. Considering it was expansion of my waist and not wear that retired the last ten pairs of jeans, I'd be really mad if I'd spent more than $25 on them.
I admit that I am forgoing secret pockets for my carry gun, but I don't need them and certainly don't think they're worth an extra $250 over the expensive "high falootin'" Target brand.
Am I being cheap? You're darn tootin'! I am also being frugal and pragmatic. I am being honest about my needs and the demands I put my stuff to.
I will certainly spend more money to get better quality where there's a benefit to me for doing so. You may notice in a couple of pics that I have genuine Chuck Taylor All-Stars for sneakers. Because of my particular orthopedic problems, normal tennies are painful and wear out in six months. I get a couple of years from a pair of Chuck's and without the pain. $60 for two years or $20 four times?
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