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| Hello everyone! I found a Darly 4 way beacon near where I live and then the seller stopped messaging me and got really upset. A similar situation happened back in March when my grandmother and I went to get 4 LM Ovalite’s for a very low price, we tried to meet the guy at Menards but to no avail! I am so sick of these scams that happen with online shopping! When groceries get deleted or picked up, they don’t care about what you want, they just give you what they want.
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Screw the 2028 120 lumen per watt mandate and DeviantArt! Love old cars, cassette tapes, radios, severe weather and most of all, lighting!
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| I am so sorry that you have been dealing with these scams. I have also had a similar experience whenever I was trying to obtain a 3 lamp F40 art deco preheater via offerup and was told that the fixture had been destroyed somehow.
Additionally, I recommend moving this topic to “General Discussion” rather than “Web Finds”.
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Desire to collect various light bulbs (especially HID), control gear, and fixtures from around the world.
DISCLAIMER: THE EXPERIMENTS THAT I CONDUCT INVOLVING UNUSUAL LAMP/BALLAST COMBINATIONS SHOULD NOT BE ATTEMPTED UNLESS YOU HAVE THE PROPER KNOWLEDGE. I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY INJURIES.
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| I lost 2 GE J1s because this guy on marketplace sold them out from under me. He then proceeded to rub it in. Also have found 2 big hoards of old Sylvania clear top MVs and neither of them will respond either.
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HID, LPS, and preheat fluorescents forever!!!!!!
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| It seems like some of these people just want to destroy rare lighting even if it still works.
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Desire to collect various light bulbs (especially HID), control gear, and fixtures from around the world.
DISCLAIMER: THE EXPERIMENTS THAT I CONDUCT INVOLVING UNUSUAL LAMP/BALLAST COMBINATIONS SHOULD NOT BE ATTEMPTED UNLESS YOU HAVE THE PROPER KNOWLEDGE. I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY INJURIES.
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I am so sorry that you have been dealing with these scams. I have also had a similar experience whenever I was trying to obtain a 3 lamp F40 art deco preheater via offerup and was told that the fixture had been destroyed somehow.
Additionally, I recommend moving this topic to “General Discussion” rather than “Web Finds”.
I’m also really sorry that you dealt with this. I’ll work on moving this topic. Thanks for letting me know! |
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| A lot of FB sellers seem very unmotivated... However I sell lawn mowers on Facebook and can tell you that potential buyers can be extremely annoying as well. "Hello, is this still availible?" "Yes" I reply. Never hear from them again.
I have gotten a bunch of pretty neat fixtures for good deals off Facebook, it just tends to be a bit of a hassle.
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I lost 2 GE J1s because this guy on marketplace sold them out from under me. He then proceeded to rub it in. Also have found 2 big hoards of old Sylvania clear top MVs and neither of them will respond either.
Wow! Just wow! I’m really sorry to hear that! |
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A lot of FB sellers seem very unmotivated... However I sell lawn mowers on Facebook and can tell you that potential buyers can be extremely annoying as well. "Hello, is this still availible?" "Yes" I reply. Never hear from them again.
I have gotten a bunch of pretty neat fixtures for good deals off Facebook, it just tends to be a bit of a hassle.
I’m sorry to hear that! I have gotten a couple of fixtures as well for good deals off of Facebook as well, such as my NOS LM Spherolite. |
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| Not all Marketplace has been bad but lately I've seem to hit a string of bad luck. Starting with the /X loss.
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HID, LPS, and preheat fluorescents forever!!!!!!
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| I have so far had some decent luck with importing a preheat F40 shoplight fixture from Pennsylvania to California. I had to use an expensive forwarder to get the fixture shipped across the country.
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Desire to collect various light bulbs (especially HID), control gear, and fixtures from around the world.
DISCLAIMER: THE EXPERIMENTS THAT I CONDUCT INVOLVING UNUSUAL LAMP/BALLAST COMBINATIONS SHOULD NOT BE ATTEMPTED UNLESS YOU HAVE THE PROPER KNOWLEDGE. I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY INJURIES.
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| Had this happen with a top entry AJF Zodiac. Even went to the lengths of nagging my mum to take me to pick it up at the earliest possible time so I didn't have to wait.
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Fluro starter pings combined with a 50hz ballast hum and blinking tubes is music to my ears.
Rest in Peace Electronic Lamp Manufacturers of Australia
1925-2002
Bring back the AJF Zodiacs!
Total incidents since joining LG: 18
Lamps accidently broken or smashed: 15
Ballast explosions/burnouts: 3
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