That was fast!...well for Nintendo anyways.  The cradle is lighter and cheaper feeling than the stadard 3DS cradle, but It'll serve it's purpose well.  Best of all....it was free!

I hardly use my black cradle. Perhaps I should plug it in but usually I just charge without cradle due to playing while charging.

I never play till the battery's dead, so I have the cradle on my desk and just put the system back in it when not in use.  It's one of the things I missed moving from the original 3DS to the XL.  The only other thing I miss is that I had the limited edition Zelda 3DS.  I still think that was the coolest looking of them all, but my eyes needed the bigger screens of the XL.

You sold your Zelda 3DS?  You should of at least kept it for collectors item.

I wanted to, but it sold for almost double of what I paid ($179 at Best Buy) on eBay, so it paid for itself and a huge part of my XL.  I might change to the new Zelda XL, but I really liked the other graphic design better.