Who has bought from Kingbrite Technology Co?

REALSTYLES

REALSTYLES

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Shenzhen Kingbrite Technology Co., Ltd. is a great place to buy Cree. I recently purchased 24 Cree CXA3590 for only $39.50 and they sent me the new top bin and the shipping was only $40 DHL. You'll have to go through Alibaba to contact them. I'm not gonna buy from Digikey any more. They also have lenses and COB reflectors as well. I will be ordering from them when Chinese New Year is over. I'm thinking of a 6500K light.
 
AquariusPanta

AquariusPanta

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Wait, you bought all those Cree COBs for $40 total, without shipping?

Or am I reading it wrong and you meant to say $40 each?
 
REALSTYLES

REALSTYLES

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AquariusPanta said:
Wait, you bought all those Cree COBs for $40 total, without shipping?

Or am I reading it wrong and you meant to say $40 each?
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Yeah, I just told them I'm a troll and they gave me that price lol. But seriously asked for a quote and when he contacted me with the price I ordered right away. Does Digikey charge you tax when you buy from them? Because they charged me sales tax and I'm in California(9% tax) and they're in Minnesota.
 
AquariusPanta

AquariusPanta

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REALSTYLES said:
Yeah, I just told them I'm a troll and they gave me that price lol. But seriously asked for a quote and when he contacted me with the price I ordered right away. Does Digikey charge you tax when you buy from them? Because they charged me sales tax and I'm in California(9% tax) and they're in Minnesota.
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After looking at my last invoice, they did charge sales tax. Uncle Sam wants his cut too ya know!
 
REALSTYLES

REALSTYLES

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AquariusPanta said:
After looking at my last invoice, they did charge sales tax. Uncle Sam wants his cut too ya know!
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It's a voluntary they technically don't have to charge sales tax. Sales tax is for each individual state, I use to have a tool supply business that did a lot out of state sales and didn't charge tax that's why a lot of companies buy out of state. I just looked at Digikeys price on the top bin 3590 3500K's and they are $82.86720 and not in stock minimum order 50 and Kingbrite is only 10 but to get it at $39.50 order 20
 
AquariusPanta

AquariusPanta

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So that's how it works.

Kingbrite is going to be making a killing at those prices!

Any idea on why Kingbrite would sell sought after goods for such a bargain?
 
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deadgro

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I've done dealings with 'grey' market Canon and Nikon cameras before. The US has different requirements for product certification and even specs, and thus they have different warranties in every country they do business.
 
SupraSPL

SupraSPL

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I have crossed path with several hundred CXA COBs and many hundreds of XPEs XML2 XTEs etc, many from China. Not one single time have I found a dud, incredible track record. So far 2 have burned out. 1 XRE from 2009 and 1 CXA3070, both due to over voltage caused by myself during testing. So as long as you are getting genuine Cree, you probably won't need to worry about the warranty.
 
Greengenes707

Greengenes707

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They are basically the same as newark's prices, but actually in stock over in china...which means cree is making the same profit whether through newark, digikey, mouser, or kingbrite...it's just those distributors marking up so high.
So KB's prices really don't surprise me. I just wish the normal distributors would stock up and price fairly.
Good find RS.
 
REALSTYLES

REALSTYLES

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Greengenes707 said:
They are basically the same as newark's prices, but actually in stock over in china...which means cree is making the same profit whether through newark, digikey, mouser, or kingbrite...it's just those distributors marking up so high.
So KB's prices really don't surprise me. I just wish the normal distributors would stock up and price fairly.
Good find RS.
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That's why I jumped on it real quick. I like saving $$$
 
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