Over at Amazon, Stanley’s 3-in-1 LED flashlight is on sale for $21. Featuring a compact tripod base and three separately removable flashlight units, each with a pivoting multi-directional head, this is a rather versatile worklight.
Stanley’s 95-155 3-in-1 flashlight typically retails for $30, so $21 is a decent bargain. We are waiting to see if the price drops any further, but we don’t anticipate that it will since retailers are instead stocking large quantities of the older single-head flashlights to entice holiday shopping.
Stanley 3-in-1 Tripod Flashlight via Amazon
Product Info via Stanley
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Wasn’t this the light that had some deceptive advertising, or they dropped the lumen output but kept the price the same? IIRC there was something mentioned about this light.
That is the 95-112 that you’re thinking of. Initially, that flashlight came with several LEDs and had an adjustable output switch. Then, at just around this time one year ago, cases upon cases of the flashlights were being stocked by Lowes and Home Depot ahead of Black Friday. However, the new version was much lower in price, and featured a single non-adjustable LED and a very slightly different appearance.
In the end, it is still not clear as to what happened or why. The original version was well reviewed and highly regarded, and then a new “upgraded” version came out right before last year’s winter holidays with the big box stores stocking and displaying them by the case.
The product number and UPS for both models were the same, which was a bit fishy and even possibly deceptive. At the time, Home Depot and Lowes classified the flashlight as a seasonal item that was not going to be reordered, implying that it was a specially cheapened holiday-season version.
However, it looks like the product design change was permanent, suggesting that the new version was not just released as holiday gift fodder. The product description and images were also since changed on Stanley’s website, whose slow and delayed updates led to the confusion.