Who has bought from Kingbrite Technology Co?

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.

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?

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.

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!

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

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?

AquariusPanta said:

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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Because Cree is made in China they even have the new CREE XP-L leds

They must make up for the losses by using volume.

AquariusPanta said:

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

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churchhaze said:

They must make up for the losses by using volume.

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I think they make the reflectors and lenses so that's probably why and people are scared to buy from them lol.

Did you contact Cree and see if they'll honor the US warranty on chips you bought from China?

deadgro said:

Did you contact Cree and see if they'll honor the US warranty on chips you bought from China?

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No but they are authorized by Cree. Why would I have to be worried? Plus about time they go bad there will be a new and even more efficient COB.

deadgro said:

Did you contact Cree and see if they'll honor the US warranty on chips you bought from China?

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Oh yeah they are made in China so why wouldn't they warranty it?

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.

good luck kind sirs.

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.

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.

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 $$$

So did you get them yet or not? Another thread says you have them. Can you post pics?

deadgro said:

So did you get them yet or not? Another thread says you have them. Can you post pics?

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Here you go

They look legit! How'd they test?