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Title: All Things Christmas
Post by: swackdog on November 07, 2011,
All,

Cheapest prices I found on vampire plugs - $0.35 - $0.37/each.

http://www.allthingschristmasandmore.com/

Swack
Title: Re: All Things Christmas
Post by: SteveMaris on November 07, 2011,
Great price on strobes. Thanks!!!
Title: Re: All Things Christmas
Post by: njKeever on November 08, 2011,
dang, that is cheap. I paid $.50 at CDI's preseaon sale!
Title: Re: All Things Christmas
Post by: abrianbaker on November 08, 2011,
Check out their FB page.  If you use the code "Blue" I believe you cand get free shipping this week...
Title: Re: All Things Christmas
Post by: njKeever on November 08, 2011,
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Check out their FB page.  If you use the code "Blue" I believe you cand get free shipping this week...

Thank you! I've had my cart open on their page all day because the shipping was going to hurt. Just placed my order!
Title: Re: All Things Christmas
Post by: stormym on November 09, 2011,
Glad I just found this thread, awesome deal!
Title: Re: All Things Christmas
Post by: stormym on November 09, 2011,
If you add the coupon code 'green' you can also get 5% off as well.
Title: Re: All Things Christmas
Post by: zwiller on November 09, 2011,
You guys kill me.  Placed my order yesterday without any codes.   :'(
Title: Re: All Things Christmas
Post by: stormym on November 09, 2011,
I missed out on the 5% as well, I just found it. I forgot to add one thing on my order and now I can't use the free shipping code anymore...I may need to ship to my office so it will let me do it again.
Title: Re: All Things Christmas
Post by: AaronS on November 09, 2011,
I am looking at buying some LED Lights, but I don't know if I should buy commercial or standard.  Are there any noticeable benefits of going with commercial over standard.  I don't mind spending the extra money if it will be well spent.

Thanks

Aaron
Title: Re: All Things Christmas
Post by: therealbigjim on November 11, 2011,
Thanks for the tip. Got some strobes 5% off and free shipping..... $41.65 for 10 led strobes .....
Title: Re: All Things Christmas
Post by: inzeos on November 11, 2011,
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Thanks for the tip. Got some strobes 5% off and free shipping..... $41.65 for 10 led strobes .....

What was the 5% of code?
Title: Re: All Things Christmas
Post by: barbotte on November 12, 2011,
good pricebut they dont take paypal ...unless i miss it somewhere also anyone know if they used UPS or USPS as UPS going across the border would kill the deal
thanks
Title: Re: All Things Christmas
Post by: bcstuff on November 12, 2011,
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What was the 5% of code?


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If you add the coupon code 'green' you can also get 5% off as well.

 ;D
Title: Re: All Things Christmas
Post by: barbotte on November 12, 2011,
anyone ever receive their stuff yet ?? is that company legit ?? i need to order stuff but i am scare as they dont used paypal ... any info positive or negativewould be apreciate
thanks
Title: Re: All Things Christmas
Post by: stormym on November 13, 2011,
I got a notice on Friday that my products had shipped, I guess I will find out this week if I actually get anything.
Title: Re: All Things Christmas
Post by: zwiller on November 13, 2011,
Very positive for me. Placed my order on Wed 11/9 and received it Fri 11/11. I had ups tracking info in an email within a few hours from placing order. I am not easily impressed but I was. I plan to use them in the future. I am not affiliated in any way, just a happy customer.
Title: Re: All Things Christmas
Post by: inzeos on November 14, 2011,
Got my order very quickly as well.  Got 100 male and female SPT2 plugs.  The style he carries is molded in a way that you cannot put multiple female plugs onto the SPT2 wire unless you cut away pre-molded stop.
Title: Re: All Things Christmas
Post by: njKeever on November 14, 2011,
Placed my order the 9th and got an email the 12th saying it shipped. No sign of a tracking number though.
Title: Re: All Things Christmas
Post by: swackdog on November 15, 2011,
i bought vampire plugs from them, payment went thru fine, prompt delivery.
Title: Re: All Things Christmas
Post by: therealbigjim on November 18, 2011,
Got my strobes yesterday...
Title: Re: All Things Christmas
Post by: Rod R on November 21, 2011,
I ordered Red LED rope light and they shipped me Red incandescent rope light.  Called at 3:00 PM when the UPS man came and unfortunately everyone left except for one rep.  She did say that they had stock of the stuff and would ship it out tomorrow.  She asked me how I knew it was incandescent.  I told her its drawing over 280 watts and I can feel the heat this stuff is putting out pretty toasty if you close by.  She said yea that's not the LED stuff.  Hope they come thru for me as I usually turn on the lights after Thanksgiving. <fp.
Title: Re: All Things Christmas
Post by: Wildbill on November 22, 2011,
I ordered strobes @$4. each and some female vampire plugs, processing took a few days, but shipping was fast, so I just ordered some more strobes and some male vampire plugs. :)
Title: Re: All Things Christmas
Post by: inzeos on November 22, 2011,
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I ordered strobes @$4. each and some female vampire plugs, processing took a few days, but shipping was fast, so I just ordered some more strobes and some male vampire plugs. :)

How are the strobes?  Those the ones that are continuous blinking LED's?
Title: Re: All Things Christmas
Post by: Wildbill on November 22, 2011,
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I ordered strobes @$4. each and some female vampire plugs, processing took a few days, but shipping was fast, so I just ordered some more strobes and some male vampire plugs. :)

How are the strobes?  Those the ones that are continuous blinking LED's?
No these are the xenon ones They are from China but the quality looks good.
Title: Re: All Things Christmas
Post by: inzeos on November 22, 2011,
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I ordered strobes @$4. each and some female vampire plugs, processing took a few days, but shipping was fast, so I just ordered some more strobes and some male vampire plugs. :)

How are the strobes?  Those the ones that are continuous blinking LED's?
No these are the xenon ones They are from China but the quality looks good.

Have a link?  All I see on there site are the LED ones...
Title: Re: All Things Christmas
Post by: Rod R on November 22, 2011,
Here is the link for the incandescent strobe

http://www.allthingschristmasandmore.com/E17-Base-17W-Strobe-Light-Incandescent-180-Flash-Minute_p_3816.html (http://www.allthingschristmasandmore.com/E17-Base-17W-Strobe-Light-Incandescent-180-Flash-Minute_p_3816.html)
Title: Re: All Things Christmas
Post by: inzeos on November 22, 2011,
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Here is the link for the incandescent strobe

http://www.allthingschristmasandmore.com/E17-Base-17W-Strobe-Light-Incandescent-180-Flash-Minute_p_3816.html (http://www.allthingschristmasandmore.com/E17-Base-17W-Strobe-Light-Incandescent-180-Flash-Minute_p_3816.html)

OK, so they just have the wrong product description then attached to it.
Title: Re: All Things Christmas
Post by: Rod R on November 22, 2011,
They have both the kinds of strobes and I agree weird how it's categorized under LEDS

LED these are $4.32

http://www.allthingschristmasandmore.com/E17-Base-1W-Pure-White-LED-Clear-Lens-180-Flash-Minute_p_3817.html (http://www.allthingschristmasandmore.com/E17-Base-1W-Pure-White-LED-Clear-Lens-180-Flash-Minute_p_3817.html)

and the the Incandescent are $4.00

http://www.allthingschristmasandmore.com/E17-Base-17W-Strobe-Light-Incandescent-180-Flash-Minute_p_3816.html (http://www.allthingschristmasandmore.com/E17-Base-17W-Strobe-Light-Incandescent-180-Flash-Minute_p_3816.html)

Have no idea what the quality is on these.  I bought a bunch from Paul at Creative last year.

Title: Re: All Things Christmas
Post by: Wildbill on November 23, 2011,
Tested the Strobes today...They are not as bright as the ones i got from christmaslightshow.com last year but the build quality is better. I'm happy with them >.d9. Just a note...when I first pluged them in they were not bright at all but after a minute of being on they got brighter and are bright when i plug then in now, almost as if they had to burn in. ::)
Title: Re: All Things Christmas
Post by: Wildbill on November 29, 2011,
Got my second order of strobes and male vampire plugs today. Took 7 days from order to at my door with turkey day in the middle. Good service, quality products, and good prices! 5 stars from me! ;D
Title: Re: All Things Christmas
Post by: Rod R on November 29, 2011,
Still waiting for my replacement LED Rope light tracking says it should be her Thursday, glad your having better luck than me WB.  Want to get some strobes because they are a good price, but still iffy about the company.
Title: Re: All Things Christmas
Post by: inzeos on November 29, 2011,
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Got my second order of strobes and male vampire plugs today. Took 7 days from order to at my door with turkey day in the middle. Good service, quality products, and good prices! 5 stars from me! ;D

Got my strobes in like 20 minutes ago.  Already have them unpacked and installed on a strand of C9 w/ the old bulbs removed.  All of them working with no issues.  Very satisfied with the product being offered.

I will probably order more for expansion next year.

Going to get them mounted outside probably in the next day or so, to wet and nasty out right now.
Title: Re: All Things Christmas
Post by: therealbigjim on November 29, 2011,
I am kinda disappointed with the LED strobes. They just  turn on and off,  not the  "pop flash" of the incan strobe. 
Title: Re: All Things Christmas
Post by: inzeos on November 29, 2011,
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I am kinda disappointed with the LED strobes. They just  turn on and off,  not the  "pop flash" of the incan strobe.

I got the non-LED ones they offer.  From all the reading I've done you never really get a flash strobe effect from "LED strobes" go figure.
Title: Re: All Things Christmas
Post by: Rod R on December 01, 2011,
I can officially say I'm extremely disappointed in this company.  I received the second replacement rope light and what do you know the same incandescent stuff.  I specifically asked for them to check the rope light prior to shipping it.  Meaning open the box up and check to make sure it is in fact the LED rope light.  How hard is it to open the box plug the ropelight in and see if it LED or not.  Take an extra two minutes to see how many amps/watts the rope light is pulling, hey the specs are posted on their website.  Also if its putting out a lot of heat it is not LED.  All the things I asked them to do prior to shipping.  Maybe they don't know what LED's are.  To top it off the replacement was shipped late.  Oh yea the first few feet of the stuff  has melted casing.  So if your looking for rope light this is not the place to get it from.

But glad to hear everyone else had a positive experience.
Title: Re: All Things Christmas
Post by: chrisatpsu on December 02, 2011,
thanks for the update Rod. I won't but rope light from here.  I did just purchase vampire plugs ( i wasn't gonna, but i figured that i should. plus it seems to be a good place for the incan strobes (listed under LED for some reason)
Title: Re: All Things Christmas
Post by: Rod R on December 02, 2011,
Well just a quick update.  I never got the phone call from customer service like I requested from the night before or in the email so I decided to called in (really wanted to see how the customer service would respond "grade D").  Did not want to wait till it was later in the day for them to say "Oh its too late to ship out".  Anyway when I did call in and asked for the customer service person, I was told they were out to lunch.  Anyway they asked for my name and they knew right away who I was and was told please hang on because someone will be with me in few minutes.  So I thought well if they knew who I was why didn't they not call me.  Anyway a gentlemen got on the phone I explained exactly my problem and he said he was aware of my issue but need more info (again why no call back that I requested would be happy to give you whatever info you want)  I told him yes it says LED on the box but the product was not LED.  He asked how I knew they were not LED and I went through the whole wattage/current draw and the amount of heat that was being produced.  I asked who he was He said he was the tech.  Anyway he said that he would look into it.  Ten minutes later I get a call and he tells me you know what your right they are incandescent.  :o <fp.. He said the shipping people scanned the bar code and it came up incandescent but since it said LED on the box away it went.  Then I explained then why when I called and emailed them and asked that they open the box and inspect the product before it ships so it did not happen a second time.  I asked him, "You would think that the CS would have told shipping dept or the tech that a box marked LED was shipped out but the product was not LED."  He was very quiet, I told him check the records because I'm looking at the communication between both parties.  Well I told him that the first shipment was a honest mistake second shipment was inexcusable especially when a customer specifically ask it be inspected prior to shipping.  He apologized and said I wounder how many of these went out to customers.  I said yea maybe someone should follow up huh.  I told him I was thinking about ordering other colors and wondered would I have the same issue.  He said no I should not have a problem.  But to tell you the truth if he is the only one there that know what the difference between LED and incandescent rope light is then confidence level not that high.  Anyway I'm crossing my fingers because as He said they would ship it today that was at 1PM.  I asked for a tracking number and said please expedite the shipping.  He said no problem will do.  So far no tracking number was sent so I can't follow up till next week.  I'm hoping they come through.  <md..

So if you got your order in and they ship you the correct stuff great, but if you have a problem with your order them hold on. <pop..
Title: Re: All Things Christmas
Post by: chrisatpsu on December 07, 2011,
i just got my male and female vampire plugs today, the females have the place where you can vut them out to make them not at the end of the cable.
Title: Re: All Things Christmas
Post by: Rod R on December 08, 2011,
Just an update.  I finally received the replacement rope light.  The box size and shape was totally different from the other stuff (incandescent) rolled on different reels.   The quality is OK but the color doesn't pop like the red LED rope light from other vendors. I think I'll stick to ordering Vampire plugs from this vendor.  Not sure if I want to try the incandescent strobes from them but the price is good.  Oh well live and learn, I'll survive and tomorrow will come  :).
Title: Re: All Things Christmas
Post by: BryanV on December 08, 2011,
I ordered the same brand incad. strobes from a different company. Used 20 last season and only 5 survived. They have holes in the base and filled up with water  :-\
Title: Re: All Things Christmas
Post by: inzeos on December 08, 2011,
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I ordered the same brand incad. strobes from a different company. Used 20 last season and only 5 survived. They have holes in the base and filled up with water  :-\

I'll have to look at mine again and see if I can seal them up then.  Haven't put them out into the weather yet.
Title: Re: All Things Christmas
Post by: Rod R on December 08, 2011,
I wonder if the Corrosion X spray will help after sealing the holes?
Title: Re: All Things Christmas
Post by: Wildbill on December 08, 2011,
No holes in the 50 i got, and they surived the monsoon we had this week.
Sorry Rod that your luck was bad with them.
Title: Re: All Things Christmas
Post by: Rod R on December 09, 2011,
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No holes in the 50 i got, and they surived the monsoon we had this week.
Sorry Rod that your luck was bad with them.

Hey not your fault, no worries just put me me behind a few weeks I'll live  :).