Bad luck stories: tell your last bad surprise bought on the net!

[Astralav]

Hi,

Please tell me I'm not the only one, and you too, also suffering from bad luck when you're buying lavalamps from the net!

On the seven lamps I bought on the net (yet), I had bad luck for 4 of them!

Pretty much a big ratio!

-First was the Fluidium Grande I found on the net (I collected it in person but at night outside, so I didn't saw it really before I came home)

https://oozinggoo.ning.com/forum/topics/my-not-so-cheap-second-hand...

This one seems doomed, as now, I'm having problem with a bad batch of gookit on it.

-Then was my Lunar Horror story:

https://oozinggoo.ning.com/forum/topics/i-just-got-my-ticket-to-the...

Still have to find a bottle and repair the cone.

-Then was a Purple Fireflow R1, which came cloudy. I sent it back to the shop at my expenses, and when the shop sent me back a new one, it was lost because they didn't sent it registered.

They finally refund me the lamp, but I lost the return shipping :-(

Thanks the Glow Company (avoid them!)

-And now, after having so much problems with my second hand Fluidium Grande, I was decided to buy a new one. I bought one at Conrad.de.

It was in stock when I ordered it, but few days after being charged, I received an invoice telling me the lamp wasn't anymore on their catalog and won't be ever.

Same day I saw an auction on ebay.de from Conrad selling a 2nd choice Fluidium Grande at 49eur.

I bought it. I received a message telling me they won't deliver to France, so auction was canceled.

(are you still there? Not too boring? :-) )

Then Conrad refunded me 75eur from the 79.99 I've paid for the new one.

Why? I don't know, but I won't have business with them anymore!

Then, I found another shop in Germany with a Fluidium Grande in stock.

I bought it and received it today.

I never saw such a cloudy lamp!

but I was expecting that.

What I didn't expected was the huge defects on the globe:

(are you really still reading this? Come on! Get a life :-)  )

So please tell me this is absolutely normal situation when you're buying lavalamps on the net (used or new) otherwise I'm gonna think I'm a victim of Voodoo stuff or else.

And please: tell us your horror stories too :-)

[Da9L]

China lamps = Bad luck in all my cases..

I ordered my first Grande all the from USA to Denmark.. I didnt know anything about lava lamps back then, but oh well.. What i received was JUST as cloudy as your fludium there.. And that lamp was so expensive, not only the lamp it self but the shipping too.. I then contacted lava lite, which sent me another grande, for free! Nice service, but what i received was allmost as cloudy :( So i had to open them both up and thanks to Autumn and a lot of others in here i managed to restore both lamps to perfect crystal clear shape..

[Astralav]

Actually, on one of the seven I told, was a cloudy Grande.

But it was new and cheap, and nice after filtering, so I consider myself lucky on this one :-)

If it is just cloudy, then you're lucky !

[Dave Turner]

Bought a Mathmos Astro brand new from mathmos OW 5 weeks ago, never again, rubish flow, overheats after 5 hours, wax splits into tiny blobs, coil showing over base, top cap not spun straight and wobbles on bottle lid, scratches on base, £60 quid down drain.

[Astralav]

Dave,

why don't you return it, as you're in UK?

I don't know what's happening to Mathmos now, they used to be the best in the market.

[Dave Turner]

   Astralay

If i thought i could return it and get a perfect replacement i would, I've just accepted that i bought a mathmos at the wrong time as they seem to be on the decline. To be honest its put me off lamps all together, i am now looking for other projects to waste my money on lol.

[Astralav]

If I were you I would give it a try.

Astro are pretty expensive, but you're right Mathmos seems to have troubles right now.

[Astralav]

As it seems not many are doomed here, I 'll continue with my 2 last orders.

2 orders from different shops (1 in UK, 1 in France) but same results:

I paid both lamps listed in "stock", then both where listed "shipped", and now both are " Waiting for pre-order items".

I can't believe it! This is happening to me for the 3rd time :-(