HighTechDealZ - 445nm Aixiz Rkcstr Blue 440mA Laser Module



Im thinking there an error there.

Maybe a typo.. probably more like 59,50$

Edit: No typo! http://hightechdealz.com/product_inf...011460a3d6c450

Wtf?

I bet he gonna sell a tons of those at that price.

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It seems like a bad price for us, but others might not think so. After all we here at LPF is pretty spoiled with laser prices.

1,000mW + 445nm BLUE Laser Module AR Coated / Copper HS - eBay (item 320557608312 end time Aug-03-10 22:32:41 PDT)
f.ex. ^^That's WITHOUT a driver

you should ask Kendall about it, normaly hes pretty cheap with diodes and such.

even so, its still his choice on what prices he should ask for stuff in his shop.

Ok, if I were a hobbiest trying to "spread the love," I'd sell at like, $50 or so. If I owned a shop, obviously I'd sell at what people are willing to buy at. I can't say that I wouldn't do the same.

When these diodes first became available,we were paying >$500 apiece for them. Ryan and Kendall probably bought one (or more) of them at that price and are just looking to get their investment back.

They most certainly are not expecting someone form this forum to pay that price for them. However, there (hopefully) will be some member of the public that will appreciate the deal and pay the price.

Do not deride them for trying to get their money back out of them, but don't anyone here buy them

If you have not yet figured it out, WE get MUCH better pricing than the general public does. Appreciate it. Don't piss off our vendors.

Peace,
dave

He fixed it.

Yeah.... it's now at $95.00...
a bit more reasonable...IMO

Jerry

Yeah, but probably at a loss

I understand. I sold my first $500 445nm diode for $50

Peace,
dave

Said $58 for me.

That one is without the driver

Peace,
dave

..aah. Missed the first link. Man since they changed the link format I'm missing everything. What was the point of changing something that worked?

Just part of the last "upgrade."

Peace,
dave

I would have preferred to see it stay at $500. As Dave said 1. he might be recovering a loss 2. he doesn't intend us to buy.

For the general public they should be kept as costly as possible for as long as possible.
I know prices have & will drop more but we should still fight against it. Hopefully greed if nothing else will slow the drop.
Who knows how bad it will get when these become mainstream.

Of course its easy enough for anyone to join LPF & get in on a GB but some who only know point-click-buy just won't.

I just sold the 4 I had on ebay for 55 each

Dave is correct, I was not attempting to sell any of these A130 diodes to anyone on LPF, rather a business or scientist that happened to find my shop from Google or something. No one bought any though so now I'm selling at more reasonable prices ($49.50 shipped w/ my 10% off coupon for the diode alone).

Competition seems to be steep..

-Kendall

I just bought one last night, w/o the driver and it totaled 59.00

you didnt use kendalls 10% code either..

Ahah yeah. I wasn't informed of that.

A fool and his money are soon parted.

Every time I'm looking to buy something, I always do a hunt for coupons.

Yeah, you have to have quick fingers and quicker eyes! You didn't do bad though. They are certainly worth more than we have to pay for them. We definitely are spoiled in the 445nm part of the hobby, and probably spoiled for just about everything in the not too distant future.

unless wl has fixed the multi mode problem and really produced 1.5mm beam with 1.5mrad these lasers wont do much at any distance, My casio/nichia 445nm diode in an aixiz case with aixiz 445nm tuned glass lens can burn a nice 2mm hole at 6 inches, but at 20 feet the best dot I can get is 3/8 inch by 5/8 inch, totally useless for burning and about the size of 40 pupils, or 25mw in my eye and only 6.75mw if I reflected it back into my eye from 20 feet. So except for point blank abuse, accidental bouncebacks should be non critical, at least with the aixiz lens. Alas idiots will none the less blast each other at point blank and usher in new legislation destroying the freedom of our hobby.

regardless brightidea, I hope you wear some laser goggles rated to protect 445nm laser.

and @ Chris, I think you had purchased the diode pressed into an Aixiz module, not just the bare diode. If you want to email me with your coupon code I can refund 10% on your order as you didn't use the code on your order. some simple searchs on LPF or Google will enable you to find the coupon codes

thanks,
-Kendall