Oozing Goo - The Lava Lamp Syndicate
Are the 50th Anniversary Lava Lites any good?
I don't know what it is about the winter months that make me want to buy more lava lamps, but today I found myself ordering a 50th Anniversary model from Spencer Gifts. I wanted to see what you all think of this model and if any of you have any direct experience with it:
http://www.spencersonline.com/product/home-dorm/lava-lamps/17-50th-...
I do realize there's a good chance that this lamp will be crap. I know they usually arrive cloudy and usually don't flow after the first couple of uses. But I did feel like maybe this one would be different. If it works out, I'm going to give my kitted one to my son, and keep the new one for my desk.
It takes a lot for a lamp to earn its rightful place by my side at my desk. At this point I have gotten rid of almost all my non-working lamps that I didn't feel like kitting, and I just have the one 1997 Lava Lite model that I goo kitted last year. The thing is, I just don't like the goo from the goo kits. It's not the same look as Lava Lite lava, even if they don't use the same stuff anymore. I want to see if I can get lucky again and get a good working un-messed with Lava Lite.
So have any of you seen this lamp in action or owned this model? Anyone have any luck with these? There's only one review on Spencer's site, and it's a good on, but I don't trust that for a second. Lava Lite's stuff just really sucks these days.
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Claude J said:
Feb 9, 2016
Claude J
Agreed~!
However, Tad Wholesale IS a discounted sales warehouse that sells open box items they pick up at auctions and such.
They even sell stuff by the pallet.
Usually itemsare missing parts and such
There is a good likelihood that this lamp could be one of my LL or Amazon's returns?. :)
For some reason (past purchase?) I have them in my saved sellers.
I think it was a worktable for garage?
From a past business owner perspective, I can also see how such sales volume in one month would (almost justifiably) net less than @1% (.80) in complaints. Especially if they are experiencing understaffed, mismanaged employees, bad quality control, etc.. Somebody there must be sitting on the computer 12/7 to service this large volume. (5,527 listings per month)
I do wonder about some of the complaints,.. some of the seem absolutely credible while others appear unrealistic.
It is also obvious that they have some dickweed running the pickup counter who possesses no people skills
Whenever I have a issue with a seller, (And it happens more than I'd like it to) I involve ebay and wait for the resolution time period to expire,. Its a hassle, but I always get a decision in my favor and get refunded. This can even happen with sellers with 99% feedback approvals.
Granted, this transaction would be an absolute roll of the dice,.. But if the end sales price is cheap enough,..?
It might be worth it.
Even if it arrived cloudy, it would be a candidate for a glitter conversion?)
A un-dented 50th base and cap would be worth at least $40+
I agree, buyer beware,..
Feb 9, 2016
Chris
At this point I think I'm just sticking with the 17"-er I ended up with. It looks and flows really nice--I've been running it every day the last couple of weeks and it has had zero problems. Liquid is nice and clear, wax behaves as it should (for a China lamp) and most importantly, the wax color looks nicer than anything I've ever achieved with a goo kit. I've never liked the speckles in the globes, but on this particular lamp it looks kind of appropriate, since the color scheme is kind of a "night sky" type of theme anyway. The wax is a dark purple and the liquid is kind of a midnight blue, so the pinpoints of light kind of look like stars or a planetarium against that background.
I STILL don't buy it that LL can't make these without the bubbles in the glass though. Again, the nicer specialty models don't seem to have that issue.
Feb 9, 2016