False Advertising

[bu-3922]

I want to complain about several venders who selling LED lamps for vehicles.  BTW, I am an Electrical Engineer so please note.  The correct electrical term for a device that gives off light is a LAMP.  Bulbs (an American term) are what you put in the ground to grow tulips and daffodils.

First, many vendors frequently miss-quote lamp’s base type as suitable for H1, H3, H4, H7, & HB2 or some other reference (i.e. base is how lamp fits into light shell).  Lamps cannot have multiple base types at same time.  Unless sold with adaptor, which I not seen listed in spec.

Second, lamp is either a headlight (i.e. twin beams) or a fog/spotlight (i.e. single beam). I know some headlight now use a single lamp for each beam, but headlights and fog-lights have different beam patterns.

Thirdly, they often mix technological types by stating lamps both LED and Xenon or Tungsten. These technologies completely different from each other and cannot be mix.  So page headline total sales gibberish.  

Finally, if lamp has twin beams, they must specify each beams individually power output (i.e. either in lumens or watts).  In addition, must NOT quote total power for both lamps plus both beams in pack, as if it one lamps output.  Must quote power for an individual lamp and each separate beam if applicable.  When buying a four pack of household lamps.  Pack state’s power of individual lamps inside (i.e. 100W), not total power of all lamps in pack (i.e. 400W). \

As most cheap LED vehicle lamps made in China.  As usual, China does not use internationally recognised standards.  They fudge spec to sound impressive.  However, lamps sold or manufacture in west DO quote lamps power correctly.  Does no one check vendors’ not falsely advertising on website?

I noticed spec quoted by different vendors appears to be identical.  As if a lot of copying and pasting going on.  Alternatively, maybe it really just one vender using multiple accounts (i.e. Chinse Government).  I already sent two lots of vehicle LED lamps back from different vendors.  As LED lamps did not meet expectations as advertised.  Then harassed me to change my review when I give a poor review based on false advertising and selling a sub-standard product.

[1956glyn]

Hi

We being given an English lesson too at the same time now?     If i have a table lamp and the bulb blows and i go into a lighting store and ask for a lamp i would be given a complete unit and not a replacement bulb.    I may not be an electrical engineer but that is not here nor there in the above example. 

If one of the headlights goes on my car then i just go to Halfords or somewhere and buy a new bulb.     Why make everything so complicated ?

The above aside......it is up to any buyer to know what they want and need.    If something is misdescribed in a listing then buyers always have the Ebay Money back Guarantee to fall back on.    If a buyer is in doubt as to what they need then they can contact the seller and ask for further details about their product.

If i wanted to be really pedantic......the word nowadays should be vendor and probably not vender as you have typed.

Vender is an outdated spelling for the word vendor that is defined as someone who sells things. An example of a vender is a man who has a hot dog cart and sells hot dogs on the street corner