Lumatek : chinese junk
933033
I  have 6 lumatek  ballasts. I grow from seeds so  i only operate for 5 months a year.  last year had back surgery & did not grow.  when i tried to fire up this year 5 WERE DEAD &  #6 lasted 2MORE MONTHS THEN IT WENT DEAD.  all had only 18 months of service life on them . a friend of mine bought a lumatek 1000 watt.  new from the factory it ran so hot it smoked & started a fire in his grow room. the factory blamed the failure on him .  the local dealer i bought them from said she won't carry lumatek any more because she gets them all back. when i called the lumatek warranty people they told me to eat the loss & " TAKE THE BALLASTS TO A SCRAP METAL DEALER & GET 5$ APIECE FOR SCRAP."  they said " if they failed it has to be your fault."  my wiring is professionally installed.  so much for their warranty & their customer service.  most of the reliable dealers  won't carry lumatek any more because they all come back.  ask the guys at Pacific Northwest Garden Supply in british columbia or Monster Gardens.com in california.  i have been doing this for 20 years . worst equipment i have ever bought. wasted 1000$ on their ballasts.  look into Solis Tek & Phantom .  read  the positive Lumatek reviews on amazon. all those owners have only had their Lumateks for a few months. a year from now all their ballasts will be dead& they will be burned on their warranties
4214431
These lights are a cheap knock off.  The pictures on the details page are even knocked off.  The two duallys in the fog area are Rigid Ind. LEDs.  They stole the picture off their website.  Cheap Chinese junk that hurts the American Economy and breaks easy.  Even when compared to a legitimate LED light company these lights look like child's play.
4186338
It has become very clear that these are cheap, Chinese led work lights.  Just from looking at the box you can see that its covered with "Nilight" stickers and tape because they did not manufacture these.  They bought these wholesale, opened each box, put Nilight branding on each light, and sealed them up again.  There is nothing describing the contents on the box.

As for the lights them self, both of them had scratches on the side of them fresh out of the box.
One of them was unfinished, having no threads for the bolts, I had to tap out the threads myself.

This is pretty much what you get for 19 dollars
3741894
Small product , less reliable data, too much high price . Chinese dirty  products .
980703
Bought one just like this about 8 years ago. It just quit. The LEDs went berserk.  What a disappointment!  When I bought it they were
all over E Bay for about $10.00 or less.  Can't bring myself to pay the current ($50. +/- ) price.  C'mon China. Flood the market again.
I really miss it.
2543379
Much more cheaply made than old ones.
China strikes again
4433962
This lamp is a very unfortunate and classic example of cheap Chinese made junk. The lamp itself is very attractive and functional, which makes this especially sad and unnecessary. When I first unpacked it, I was very happy with how it looked and operated. But I quickly found out that the quality of this lamp is extremely poor.

The single upper tube is pressed into the middle swivel joint only about 1/8 of an inch into the mounting hole. It is then secured by a crystallized (cold) solder joint, nothing else. The upper half separated at this joint after just one day of use.

In addition, as noted by other reviewers, the lower and middle swivel joints are so loose they cannot be tightened to the point where the lamp stays in place where it is positioned. Also, as noted by other reviewers, the lamp flickers when operating the switch. This is indicative of a low quality switch that is on the verge of failure at any time.

Considering the high price of this lamp, I think I should have a reasonable expectation of quality. No dice here. I am obviously sending it back for a refund. I was just lucky it broke immediately so I could return it. After 30 days, you're stuck with it. I can't recommend this lamp, period.

Some reviewers complain that these lamps run hot, and they do. There is no such thing as a cool halogen bulb, so it is not the lamps fault. Nothing beats halogen if you want a bright lamp in a small and light weight package. If you want cool, then buy LED or fluorescent. But the light from these is much dimmer.
2292782
I wanted to replace an old Suunto Vector altitude watch which lasted for 18 years. In the mean time manufacturing was transfered from Scandanavia to China. Now, the watches  either don't work or fall apart. And all the other brands are made in China and don't work either.

I decided to replace separate functions of the watch with different components. I bought an analog mechanical altimeter which works great.

I replaced the temperature function with this "fine" instrument.

With the battery door closed the battery wouldn't make contact with the lead. With the battery door  open I could push the battery into its seat and the device would turn on.

Prominently displayed was the quality control stamp saying the device had been tested. This is just typical Chinese electronics junk. Now I'll have to pay to ship the junk back.
58826
More disposable plastic from China into your nearest landfill.  You really only get away with selling this junk for two reasons:

1) Online buyers can't see what you don't describe.
2) clamshell blisterpack packaging, again hides the cheapness.

Hey, it works great until the plastic threads vs aluminum threads results in one side pooping out.  You can guess who wins.

 A picture is worth 1,000 words so I will just attach what I have left of a light.  Note: No one dropped or borrowed this light and I have others I use more often.  So it wasn't even heavily used.  This damage occurred in a padded bag after 2+ years of owning this novelty.
1115620
JUNK! It fell apart coming out of the package.  The instructions said to remove the battery tape.  Never found the 'battery tape'.  I am sick of getting Chinese 'junk' that doesn't work or works for two days!
4843581
Like most chinese stuff, lasted less than one year. Purchased it in August and its July and the camera will no longer turn turn on (even after trying 3 different batteries). I've had a Nikon and a Sony do this to me before. Nikon is a Japanese company but this model is made in china (says so on the bottom). $379.00 down the drain.
4829982
I received these flash drives, and only 2 worked.  Unfortunately, it wasn't until after the 30 days that I bothered to test them (but since they were 'Amazon's Choice', they couldn't be broken - could they?).  I tried reformatting the ones that didn't work, and it did nothing.  Now the two that did work won't even mount, a month later.  I don't have this problem with my Sandisks or Kingston drives.  Don't bother with this cheap Chinese garbage.
1929530
Good engineering, bad build quality. This thing had potential... had.
Made in China (flubbed in China). I get the feeling they don't really understand capitalism. You have to build a product people will actually want, not one they have to buy, which means putting effort into producing a working unit. This one was DOA. Sound familiar? The night vision image will not work. During daylight hours it does, in fact, work well enough, so far (one day in), and, although image quality is not that great I was entirely prepared to be happy with it. No dice. The thing just quits at dusk. I'm not going to bother fighting with them to get a refund or any repairs done. Rather than suffer any further aggravation, I intend to plant this thing on top of ten pounds of Tannerite and see if I can get another Chinese satellite into low earth orbit. If I can manage that I will send China a bill for the extension of their space program. As soon as that's done I will replace my mistake with an American made unit.
4071719
More garbage from China.  Alligator clips are intended to hold something to view. To position them, hand tighten a screw, which is threaded into the soft plastic base.  Long before the clips were tight, the screw stripped the threads of the plastic.  The result is an unusable product.

I hate buying junk.  I wish all products sold by Amazon were clearly labeled for country of origin, and I wish it were possible to exclude products from search results if they are made in certain countries that don't care about quality.

Fortunately, Amazon has a very good return policy.  But we still have to pay shipping when returning a product that has self-destructed before first use.
3941456
I had it for two years.  Used it perhaps a dozen or so times for MIG.  Today it stopped working, feed and LED were fine, but no spark.  I fiddled with it turning it on and off, adjusting dials, there were no error codes and manual gave no suggestion.  Few minutes later, it made a loud pop, and everything went dead.

I took the whole thing apart, looking for burn marks or any clue of a problem but none found.

So, its dead, warranty info is cryptic, and to send it back and forth two ways at around $50-100 (its not light about 70lbs I'd guess) each way before they allow me to pay to fit whatever is wrong is prohibitive.

I learned my lesson again, NO CHINESE tools, when will I learn?  If I had spent a bit more on a Miller, I could have driven it to the local dealer and gotten it fixed or at least looked at.  No one local is going to have anything to do with an off brand Chinese welder.

So 70lbs of disassembled junk in the trash today, what a shame.
64704
I bought this unit (from another vendor) and have used it four times before the switch knob broke. The importer located in Oxnard, CA has an "temporarily"inoperative phone number. Like most imported cheaply made Chinese JUnk it falls apart and there is no way to get it fixed or replace parts. In other words they profit by making worthless crap and assume Americans will go for it because it is cheap. But in fact it really isn't that cheap when it falls apart and is rendered useless after a few instances. It actually ends up being more expensive than just buying a good non-chinese made item, even if it initially costs more. The importers of course are in on this whole scam and thats why they don't answer the phone, change names, etc to avoid having to deal with their substandard products they hawk.
2381505
I was a long-time fan of the Lumix line, having purchased an excellent one in 2007ish.  Favorite camera I ever owned.  Metal body, wide angle Leica lens, great software and presets... simply effortless picture quality.

And then I made the mistake of replacing it with this piece of junk.  The lens, software, and picture quality are still top-of-the-line for a point-and-shoot, but the construction quality and durabilty have gone down the tubes.  The body may still be metal but it seems to be about the thickness of an aluminum pop can, with a flimsy metal reinforcement screwed into the side.  It physically broke after a year of ordinary use.  The camera body actually warped and twisted while subjected to the rather ordinary forces of being packed, in a protective case, in my carry-on bag during my last vacation.  Still turns on, but the lens housing is out of plane so it won't focus anymore.  Of course, it's out of warranty, so I'm out of pocket for a new camera now unless I want to blindly ship it to the Panasonic service department, which is impossible to get a hold of and has not returned any of my messages.

Long story short, unless they fix the construction quality, I will not buy another Lumix and I can't recommend it to others.