Fake UV sellers response:-

From the BBC news web site today: 'Mr Trump then hypothesised about the possibility of using a "tremendous ultraviolet" or "just very powerful light" on or even inside the body as a potential treatment.' So go for it, chaps and chapesses, but do try to find a swallowable model :-)

Very generous minded? of you Tobyyy but I think it’s rather more likely that greed and fuck em is at the root of this.

I think this shows some pretty dangerous mindset of some people who learned stuff themselves without proper education. It's perfectly possible that these people genuinely wanted to help. They just don't know how badly they screwed up. They know some electronics, have manufacturing capacity, looked at existing uv lights and "reverese engineered" them. And missed big important thing that is hard to see when you don't know where to look. It's same like kids wanting to help parents but making just mess. Just naive ignorace that would be sweet if it wasn't such serious thing. Proper education is important.

Well, that settles it then. Purple = works just fine! It’s also on the internet and that just makes it even “truer.” 😂

Bo Holbo Rasmussen

Yep this is a known tactic - they try to delay you so much the eBay returns window expires. It's why you NEVER agree to have them resend it. What I always say is I'm happy for them to resend but they'll have to give me 100% refund and then I'll order another one from them so the buyer protection period starts all over again. The only sellers who have agreed to that have had the replacement actually show up so I guess those ones legitimately had it go missing. Also - never buy any storage medium from China unless you know how to use the tools out there that write to every byte of that storage and then verify it start to finish, so you know you're getting the capacity you ordered. Almost all of them coming out of China are fake, typically the small sizes they can't sell changed to report huge bogus capacities. If you know what you're doing you can complain, get your money back, then reflash the firmware or repartition the drives so you end up with a usable storage device out of it though (obviously much smaller than the label of course).

Berkeloid

Her real name is probably Xiaomi yu Wang.

Big Clive

Mary must have a huge wang giving you a reply like that.

Haha how many buyers now have these and are convinced. Up there with the deluxe foot probe detox beauty long life set. Hail Mary

Mary wang.

Big Clive

does that mean the purple glow in my bedroom is sterilising me?

Moz in Oz

what do you expect us electronics nerds to be stupid give Big Clive back his money

God 420

Reminds me of the time that I thought I had a constantly lit pixel at the bottom of my screen ...turned out to be the tip of my mouse pointer. I'm so tempted to liven up my evening by playing a track by the much missed and immensely talented musician Prince ...Purple Rain ...in homage to Mary, who is probably not a charming (but dim) lady sat behind a desk, but a big hairy *rsed geezer.

Phil in the kitchen

Phil - please change your avatar! I nearly wrecked my screen trying to kill that thing. Of course - I should have shone a purple light on it! (Much more effective and less destructive than the heel of my shoe).

Keith Miller

Mary, Mary, quite contrary, How does your disco light glow? With purple bells and no ozone smells, And a light that couldn’t sterilise jack sh*t …sorry, that doesn’t rhyme does it. (English nursery rhyme circa. 1744)

Phil in the kitchen

Start with purple... https://www.pantone.com/color-finder/Medium-Purple-C Add some green... https://store.pantone.com/uk/en/colorfinder/index/acfproduct/code/18-3838+TCX Well there you go. Who knew!

Mark Gray

come on lead her on and try pull out some info from her how purple is UVC :-D

Purple. How scientific of them. 🤦🏻‍♂️ Here I thought they were selling ultraviolet lights. Violet, with very few exceptions, is not purple (like none).

Hmpf. Nice me wants to allow that maybe the seller really is ignorant and doesn't know better. Mean me wants, at least, to tar and feather the seller.

Paul Ste. Marie

I have a purple scarf. Can't be too careful at the moment.

I always write "sterilizing" with a pen. If you want to write it another way I don't mind.

It's "ultra purple"

This comments section is such a let down, a set-up like that and NOT A SINGLE knob joke from 65 comments! Pah...

The Tinkering Shed

Im sure that it would work if you didnt have the 5G radiation waves getting in the way & blocking out all the purple goodness.

Well it is sterilizable, lol

But if it shone with purple glow As we all now rightly know All the nasty germy things Would pack their bags and go

Mary had a little lamp, with sterilizing glow, and everywhere she shone that lamp, the germs were sure to grow

Gordo

I bought a 2 TB USB drive in December. I got it in early January ,it was defective. They said they would replace it, after 3 weeks I asked for a tracking number and they gave me a fake tracking number. I asked the seller for a real tracking number since giving me the first fake and then they gave me a 2nd fake tracking number. I opened a complaint, they told me they would send a replacement after 4 days I asked for a tracking number, so I went to Ebay, they said the complaint was satisfied and I had 3 days to appeal and since its 4 I am out of luck, even thought I told them they never sent a replacement.Ebay said too bad. Funny I spent 40 on the drive and their first response in January was they offered a 10 dollar refund on the non working drive I spent 40 on.

Cleveland Prescott

Or maybe that was a little LAMP

Gordo

I guess as much. I bought some items from Aliexpress where the measurement wasn't quite correct (had included the length of something, but shouldn't have) and within the time to answer my question I had a refund appropriate to the length I was missing and the listing updated. I've had the opposite on eBay where they suggest a miniscule partial refund and if you do win your case the listing doesn't get taken down or updated. If it's a mission critical part I get confirmation about details from the seller before ordering (even though it's guaranteed you'll get your money back if a SNAD case goes in).

Marmite

"Mary"

Gregor Kildow

I bet it's indeed full spectrum - from ultra-violent to infra-dead!

Leak

This is just a "send the seller a question" and not an open case (yet). I want them to dig themselves deeper for our amusement.

Big Clive

Not yet....

Big Clive

Mary had a little lamb it’s fleece was purple as this lamp :)

e-Bay seem to look sympathetically on any "not as description" claims from actual buyers of the product (I've had instant refunds) but not to the listing being reported. I'd guess a lot of dodgy sellers report legitimate (and not-so) rivals to get them removed, so I don't think eBay place very much weight on it?

The House of Blue Light by Deep Purple.

Frank

So does that mean all I need is wrapper from a purple quality street and a torch and I can sterilise everywhere I go?

Too funny

AESFTW

Probably a panic at the disco

Raise you the rikerengage.png

Cerity

I had a look at doing that. Completely useless

Neil Tonks

I would love to see Clives reply !!!!!

Private Private

This lamp is sterilizable. By exposing it to a UV-C lamp. Sold separately. Purple batteries not included.

https://barbados.org/poetry/wheniam.htm

adrian

It really makes me angry that eBay don't do more to stop sellers selling fake items like these lamps. Their 'Report Item' features three drop down boxes, the 1st allows you to pick 'Listing Practices', the 2nd 'Item Description' - good so far - then the 3rd only allows 'Profanity, obscenity, and vulgar language or 'Publish contact information'. So utterly useless if you want to report the item description is incorrect/false etc. Still I guess eBay make a lot of money out of it so what do they care.

John Russell

It's not just purple. It's Ultra-purple.

adrian

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Michael Dunn

Hilarious. Surprised the seller is defending the product, normally these Chinese sellers will immediately give you a refund so they stay out of trouble with eBay. Thought they'd be more careful with the extra scrutiny in relation to products sold related to COVID19.

Michael Buchan

So what you're SAYING is that to prevent COVID all i have to do is wear purple stuff? Purple lense on my camera, purple shorts, purple filter over the reading light in my room? Thanks Chinese people, you've saved us!

Nolan Haines

"it is indeed sterilizable" ... Hard to argue with that logic. This fixture can be sterilized - therefore precisely as described :facepalm:

But but it's purple so that's good right?? I've just gone and baught a load of purple filter film and wrapped all my lights in it. Clive are you trying to tell me my house lights are now not serializable. I better take the ilm off :(. I liked the purple as well

Me thinks they don’t know you very well. Hope you return it, or as challenge as defective so they lose a bit of money for scamming people.

The Griffiths Family

I'm going to wear purple when I go out shopping, to keep me sterile and so protect me from Covid-19!

Makes me almost want to buy one now

Neil Tonks

There are multiple ways of writing sterilising, sterilizing, sterilisable and sterilizable. Somehow I have the feeling that this will not get anywhere...

Frank

If they'd called it a shade of garish pink they'd have got it past Clive...

Charleso

Oh, I am sorry, I thought it was violet! You are right, it is purple.

Davin Desborough

I've been attacked by germicidal lamps at all these discos. It's not 5g you need to worry about the discos are after you

It's just,,,,,incredible

papercrane, The Cuddledemon

Did you send them the link to your video? :)

Ryan Coleman

Initiate full on attack kitten mode!

Pixscotland

"You can check it on-line"... and the Internet wouldn't lie to you.

It's so hard these days to find sellers that actually knows anything about their products.

just_noXi

...and what does the blue light do? XD

Tim Albers

I would have called it mauve, personally

Phil Collins

Oh Mary...are you trying to gaslight Big Clive?

Chris Hegwood

Most likely intention if at all trying to salvage paying for return shipping 😈

Cerity

Well...... cos purple

Mike Wynne

pretty colours make everything better....... >.<

I think you misread their answer; the lamp itself is sterilizable.

Paul Schuur

Hard to argue with that....?

Michael Thompson

Well, if it's purple...

That's why I wear purple shirts at work. I'm always clean, no showering needed

What?!😂 I can’t believe what I just read.

Rofl, so ultra violet means it’s purple to the naked eye, eh? Man gotta sue my health care provider for warning about the dangers of the sun. Man, it’s not purpling

Cerity