Alien bee and Fotodiox the same company?

9 years 1 month ago #429608 by Tanner Bello
While on Amazon, I did some searches for Alien Bee softboxes and I'm getting "Fotodiox" showing up for Alien Bee, are these the same company?


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9 years 1 month ago #429634 by KCook
Nope.  Fotodiox provides softboxes and other lighting gear for a number of brands.  My "Flashpoint" beauty dish and softbox are really Fotodiox.

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9 years 1 month ago #429711 by garyrhook
Hardly. Apples and oranges.

Alien Bee is a brand of Paul C Buff (paulcbuff.com) and is of excellent quality and quite reasonable price.

Fotodiox is a budget brand. That does not equate to "cheap", just inexpensive.

Amazon searches work just like Google, et. al.: lots of "helpful" suggestions. Not. I really wish there was a way to filter search results by indicating "no, don't ever show me anything with this attribute." *sigh*


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9 years 1 month ago #429762 by KCook
Another helpful item for Amazon would be to list the percentage of returns for an item.  Amazon must know this, since all requests for returns must be made through Amazon.

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