I too decided to buy one of these strobes. Mine has case wear and the bulb clearly has been used, but the light works well. Also the brass adapters I purchased (not from ebay, but I think the same seller) work great with the strobes I already have. As to the batteries, check out ebay, I have bought (in groups of 10 and 20) batteries at much less than in the stores and they work great <img src="images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />. Here are of some of the current lisitings:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=706&item=1949240864http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=706&item=1949439714http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=15202&item=1949311836http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=15202&item=1949377174Pete