a friend got a 600 watt chinese led lamp through alibaba, paid 700 he said, the thing is so bloody bright and awesome, we shine it at a white wall and it hurts just to look at the reflection off the wall. construction seems super solid, i was very surprised...
f'd up thing, after it's on for a minute it starts stinking like a hot glue gun! he has another better lamp on the way, offered me to use his for a bit, man i do not want to deal with it or that glue gun smell, the smell worries me and makes me think of off gassing, that's the last thing i need...the thing that sucks is that it is expensive and lame to ship it back to china, wait for them to fix it, then ship it back
after seeing this happen to him, it makes me want to avoid any lamps straight out of china, although it seemed like a good deal having to send it back and whatnot just kills the deal imho
if he was going to drop that kind of cash, i wish he went with haight or lumigrow or something not so far away to deal with
now to me, i'm looking at lamps, man i have no idea, it's coming down to haight or lumigrow or kessil, but i am so opposed to kessil until they announce their new product, i'd feel like an ass to drop 250 on a kessil or 500 for 2 and then their new product is twice as good but only 350 each or something