Am I missing something? Light price rant!

[Rickoo]

You know,

Look around your house. 90% of what you own comes from overseas.

The whole "buy American" and keep our country working vs. buying imported products and send jobs overseas argument aside...

If there is a real benefit of spending big money for Rigid or similar lighting, why doesn't Rigid do a video and tear down one of their lights vs. the Chinese equivalent and show the differences in build quality and performance.

That's a video I think everyone would want to see. And if the American products are truly worth the higher price tag, doing so would help them sell a bunch of lights.

 

[mikehoncho88]

...If there is a real benefit of spending big money for Rigid or similar lighting, why doesn't Rigid do a video and tear down one of their lights vs. the Chinese equivalent and show the differences in build quality and performance.

That's a video I think everyone would want to see. And if the American products are truly worth the higher price tag, doing so would help them sell a bunch of lights.

I think I can guess why they don't make that video. Which is why I recommend buying the cheaper light.

 

[JJ f150harley]

I would be in for that video too. How hard would it be to make though? I'll contribute a rigid to the teardown.

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[skyscraper]

I like the comparison vid is a good idea... and I think a 3rd party teardown video would be best, so that it is unbiased.

 

[BearLeeAsian]

Here are my "Epic" branded lights that uses the same components as Rigid... Just like most of the off-brands. $400 and some change for each bar.

 

[justcozz]

the real question is more along the lines of failures. Has anyone on this forum ever had a failure of a Chinese light? I know I'm not the only one who has sent lights back to Rigid for repair...

If my life depended on my lights I'd have a box full of backups wrapped in bubble wrap on hand for my US assembled lights. I haven't seen the quality that they tout on their box or advertising in real life yet.

 

[Cleave]

I haven't seen any complaints from Baja designs, why doesn't anyone bring them or vision x up? I think those two are much better companies than rigid, I personally wouldn't purchase rigid lights either, but more because they don't bring anything amazing to the table when compared to vision x or Baja designs than because of their price or quality

 

[matrix243]

VisionX 40" are $2200 here. Bought mine for $240.

 

[JJ f150harley]

I have 3 rigid bars 2 6.7 visionx light cannons and 10 Baja designs lights. And the Baja and vision x are better quality and their optics are much better than rigid. And I also have Chinese lights. Personal opinion if someone likes rigid, look at bullydog lighting they are the same thing but cheaper.

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[skyscraper]

I really like the baja designs light squadrons, but I need about 8 of them for my front bumper. That will cost me way more than I'm willing to spend since I won't use them very often. Has anyone seen anything with a similar design that is cheaper?