Hoasted some door to door sales type people for LED fixtures and lamps. Someone let them into the front office from a back door and they wound up in the front office unnanounced! At least they are no longer the door to door sales people types attempting to re-lamp our fluorescents with their brand of them.... this by way of sales people that don't know the CRI of their lamps.
Anyway, I was board so while normally I explain to such sales people - they have no idea of where they are visiting in trying to impress or sell to me in scale for buying lamps... I gave them a half hour. Yea... lamp budget for the shop is like 1:1,000th lamp budget at best, but ok let's discuss. We discussed - you could tell the difference between the sales rep. and his manager by way of questions I asked in who got stumbled and who answered mostly. They gave their pitch, I took them for a tour... in why they probably wouldn't get an order to re-lamp our shop, but I'll keep them in mind. I was literally inspecting bad lamps in a magnifying glass all day long & typing the serial number tacking into the computer all day long... it is boaring. On the other hand, just sent back two expensive Mythos lamps for clear factory warranty I will win - that pays for a few hours of my time at least This as opposed to all the exploded versions I'm tracking but not ready yet to study. Bad lamp bases are not the most seen cause!
The sales people and I discussed most of what they are offering for doing is already underway or done. After that was just the tour and especially for the rep boss... kind of a good tour and chats about lamps and fixture/lamp history. If nothing else, might have another trade show client to build or light their booth. The time was well spent in them showing me another side lit source for LED panel - used them for many years now and they are not RGB + have a case or two of them from Feit lamps... but in last part of the meeting they showed me a LED high bay light which was impressive for output. Ya never know when something might spark interest. Only somewhat of interest in converting another shop to LED - but will present to that shop the option, more for a retrofit to 5Kw and 10Kw Studio Fresnel retrofit. Was intense enough for use if a future show wants a white source instead of RGB/W in a small package. So it's a useful contact. They than showed me that they already have yokes for these lights.... that's good... light duty and would need a more rugged version for our touring use, but good to be planned for yoke. Not a sale, but I'll keep you in mind in actively buying products. Was a good visit.
That said... been buying lamps and fixtures since about 93' and get paid well to be the buyer at this point. The door to door sales person that will help your' shop get retrofitted to LED or re-lamp you should never be trusted! This especially as in this case where they didn't have a published catalogue to leave me. Said... stuff changes and on-line much more accurate to what we have. No, Published catalogue says not ready for a analogue buyer who wants to page thru it and or show others in providing what you have and for at least a while this is what you will support. Also their little sales pitch in not having a catalogue to offer... when you log onto our websit thru this sales person's link to it... he will be istantly able to help guide you thru it... Should troll the sales person at 2:30 in the morning, but overall, that's not the type of help one wants as a customer.
Good and bad but interesting. For a white high bay light, something interesting for me for shows and in helping re-lamp another building in concept for something I saw useful. Who was the door to door sales person company? Not saying as I would not want to give them an advantage. They also had dark parts about them - like the 5 or 10 year warranty versions of the fixture pricing, not providing CRI on those high bay lights etc. Are these not LED Fixtures that should work 50 years? If I can get one of the lower wattage fixtures for the price of a Mythos lamp - I can without volume discount.... we get into the details and cautions in being taken but keeping them in mind.
Anyway, I was board so while normally I explain to such sales people - they have no idea of where they are visiting in trying to impress or sell to me in scale for buying lamps... I gave them a half hour. Yea... lamp budget for the shop is like 1:1,000th lamp budget at best, but ok let's discuss. We discussed - you could tell the difference between the sales rep. and his manager by way of questions I asked in who got stumbled and who answered mostly. They gave their pitch, I took them for a tour... in why they probably wouldn't get an order to re-lamp our shop, but I'll keep them in mind. I was literally inspecting bad lamps in a magnifying glass all day long & typing the serial number tacking into the computer all day long... it is boaring. On the other hand, just sent back two expensive Mythos lamps for clear factory warranty I will win - that pays for a few hours of my time at least This as opposed to all the exploded versions I'm tracking but not ready yet to study. Bad lamp bases are not the most seen cause!
The sales people and I discussed most of what they are offering for doing is already underway or done. After that was just the tour and especially for the rep boss... kind of a good tour and chats about lamps and fixture/lamp history. If nothing else, might have another trade show client to build or light their booth. The time was well spent in them showing me another side lit source for LED panel - used them for many years now and they are not RGB + have a case or two of them from Feit lamps... but in last part of the meeting they showed me a LED high bay light which was impressive for output. Ya never know when something might spark interest. Only somewhat of interest in converting another shop to LED - but will present to that shop the option, more for a retrofit to 5Kw and 10Kw Studio Fresnel retrofit. Was intense enough for use if a future show wants a white source instead of RGB/W in a small package. So it's a useful contact. They than showed me that they already have yokes for these lights.... that's good... light duty and would need a more rugged version for our touring use, but good to be planned for yoke. Not a sale, but I'll keep you in mind in actively buying products. Was a good visit.
That said... been buying lamps and fixtures since about 93' and get paid well to be the buyer at this point. The door to door sales person that will help your' shop get retrofitted to LED or re-lamp you should never be trusted! This especially as in this case where they didn't have a published catalogue to leave me. Said... stuff changes and on-line much more accurate to what we have. No, Published catalogue says not ready for a analogue buyer who wants to page thru it and or show others in providing what you have and for at least a while this is what you will support. Also their little sales pitch in not having a catalogue to offer... when you log onto our websit thru this sales person's link to it... he will be istantly able to help guide you thru it... Should troll the sales person at 2:30 in the morning, but overall, that's not the type of help one wants as a customer.
Good and bad but interesting. For a white high bay light, something interesting for me for shows and in helping re-lamp another building in concept for something I saw useful. Who was the door to door sales person company? Not saying as I would not want to give them an advantage. They also had dark parts about them - like the 5 or 10 year warranty versions of the fixture pricing, not providing CRI on those high bay lights etc. Are these not LED Fixtures that should work 50 years? If I can get one of the lower wattage fixtures for the price of a Mythos lamp - I can without volume discount.... we get into the details and cautions in being taken but keeping them in mind.
