{"id":3527,"date":"2026-09-25T15:15:01","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T20:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.advantage-advertising.com\/wordpress\/?p=3527"},"modified":"2026-09-25T15:15:01","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T20:15:01","slug":"maglite-flashlights-are-they-still-the-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.advantage-advertising.com\/wordpress\/maglite-flashlights-are-they-still-the-best\/","title":{"rendered":"Maglite Flashlights. Are They Still the Best?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s much competition in flashlights, in case you haven&#8217;t noticed.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1902\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1902\" style=\"width: 419px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.advantage-advertising.com\/led-maglite-flashlights.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1902 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.advantage-advertising.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/m3a.png\" alt=\"M3A Maglite Flashlight\" width=\"419\" height=\"239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.advantage-advertising.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/m3a.png 419w, https:\/\/www.advantage-advertising.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/m3a-300x171.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 419px) 100vw, 419px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1902\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">M3A Maglite Flashlight<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Anthony Maglica came up with a new idea, and patented it in 1981. For a while he was flying high with his new product. Then foreign competition creeped in and obtained a market share. At the turn of the century, when LED bulbs entered the arena, foreign LED flashlights really became a cheap alternative to the home-grown\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.advantage-advertising.com\/led-maglite-flashlights.html\">Maglite Flashlights<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A couple years ago I bought a package of LED flashlights at Home Depot. There were 8-10 torches in the bag, for about $10 total. You can&#8217;t beat that price. The batteries were not included. I had to put 3 AAA batteries in them. They work fine, but&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>The selling point of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advantage-advertising.com\/led-maglite-flashlights.html\">Maglite Flashlights<\/a> is their country of origin. They have always been made in the USA. Anthony intends to keep it that way. Enough buyers still believe in supporting the American worker, and continue to buy Maglites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s much competition in flashlights, in case you haven&#8217;t noticed. Anthony Maglica came up with a new idea, and patented it in 1981. For a while he was flying high with his new product. Then foreign competition creeped in and obtained a market share. At the turn of the century, when LED bulbs entered the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advantage-advertising.com\/wordpress\/maglite-flashlights-are-they-still-the-best\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Maglite Flashlights. Are They Still the Best?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[121,712],"tags":[723],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.advantage-advertising.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3527"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.advantage-advertising.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.advantage-advertising.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.advantage-advertising.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.advantage-advertising.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3527"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.advantage-advertising.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3537,"href":"https:\/\/www.advantage-advertising.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3527\/revisions\/3537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.advantage-advertising.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.advantage-advertising.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.advantage-advertising.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}