Forums > Beginner Poi Moves > Warning about poor LED poi!
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Location: West Midlands, UK
Comeone is selling LED strobe poi on ebay that are plastic and break really easily.. they are £15 when the sticks only cost £1 from poundland! Just thought i'd warn you! and if it's someone here... shame on you! they say the RRP is £50!
Look at me twirl my pretty rainbow poi in my rainbowhat with my rainbow earings and my rainbow top etc.....
old hand
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Location: In a van, United Kingdom
i saw them, the cheek.
passing through, this world still lives.
57 posts
Location: PETERBOROUGH
i saw them too!
just me, my lighter and a lifes supply of paraffin
384 posts
Location: West LA
They originally cost less than 1! Euro in Asia and are not supposed to be used as Poi . . . but if you never hit yourself or the Poi or the ground or anything else they work really nice
PS: Shouldnt be in the Poi-Moves Section - move it to Social Discussions and talk about bad practices and rip-offs in the Poi market . . .
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playing the days away
7,263 posts
Location: The Middle lands, United Kingdom
Rip off gits! Did you email them and tell them off or notify eBay perhaps? I did that to someone selling the LEDglosticks from here in exactly the same way, they even ripped off the HoP picture!! I asked them very nicely to take them down or put a realistic auction together or I'd alert eBay of their dodgy practices, 2 hours later the auction was gone!
Praise the power of email
Let's relight this forum 
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344 posts
Location: Midlands - nr cov, United Kingdom
Nice one bug!
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Dorothy Gale
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4,437 posts
Location: Staines, United Kingdom
cheek of some people, i pity the fool who places a bid
An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind
Give a man a fish and he'll eat 4 a day hit a man with a brick and you can have all his fish and his wife
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2,419 posts
Location: la-la land
I saw them too.. did you look further down to see the ones that looked a little like bacteria? they looked like they were made from tubes of rubber weaved together in a kinda sorta monkey knot..
I wanna make some like that!
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Classically British
5,689 posts
Location: Epsom, Surrey, England
But in fairness (if that's the right word to use) - there's nothing actually wrong with putting them up for sale at that price.
The bit that's wrong is "The RRP REALLY is £50" which is a lie.
Without that sentance, they can quite legally put them up for that price. People don't have to bid for them... Heck, go buy a load and sell them for £10 a pair, start a price war
Burner of Toast
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playing the days away
7,263 posts
Location: The Middle lands, United Kingdom
ok I emailed this dude about proving his £50 RRP claim, he says I've questioned his integrity and got very aggressive and emailed me his phone number. As he was very VERY confrontational by email I, amazingly, didn't phone him. He says he bought them in the US and "his friends" say they're worth £45-£50 so I may be sending an email to eBay today. I asked him to just give me the name of the manufacturer as he must remember the shop/have a receipt/they come in a labelled bag etc but he has refused anymore contact by email.
So do I tell eBay about it?
Let's relight this forum
2,419 posts
Location: la-la land
absolutly dude... we need to stop people selling rubbish toys!
I honour you as an aspect of myself..
You are never to old to storm a bouncey castle..
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344 posts
Location: Midlands - nr cov, United Kingdom
Yes, tell ebay.
My friends tell me my computer is worth thousands. If i wanted to tell it and claim that, i'd have to be prepared to *prove* that.
"But what would you do with a brain if you had one?"
Dorothy Gale
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344 posts
Location: Midlands - nr cov, United Kingdom
Btw.. His two later acutions with the same thing do *not* claim RRP £50 https://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?V...ssPageName=WDVW
although he hasn't edited the first auction.
"But what would you do with a brain if you had one?"
Dorothy Gale
HoP's Barman. Trapped aged 6 months
4,437 posts
Location: Staines, United Kingdom
yeh, tell ebay, especially if they are crap, im agine some kids face when he gets his new LED poi and they screw up, do it! do it for the sake of all spinners out there! do it for the children!
An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind
Give a man a fish and he'll eat 4 a day hit a man with a brick and you can have all his fish and his wife
"Will's to pretty for prison" - Simian
15 posts
Location: Northern Cyprus
that really is terrible, i brought a couple of glow sticks dat were pretty much the same as thoes from ayia napa last week for a couple of quid each! feel sori for the sap that buys em!
To each der own as with all in life.
64 posts
Location: West Midlands, UK
Well it may be that they are of better quality than the ones i got but the look of them isn't I dunno!
Look at me twirl my pretty rainbow poi in my rainbowhat with my rainbow earings and my rainbow top etc.....
508 posts
Location: manchester, uk
excellent spotting rainbow gal n thanks for letting us know! x
It's smashing to be back x
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Location: home of the tiney toothy bear, Australia
Burn them, EVIL, LET THEM BURN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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stranger
27 posts
Location: Whitehorse, Yukon, CA
Of course i bought a set of the "crappy" LED poi and guess how until they smacked together? c'mon....guess. it was several minutes. that's right folks. i paid $25 US plus S/H and they broke the very first time. they broke real good too. not the repairable kinda broke. the kinda broke where little fragments go shooting across the room and you find them 2 weeks later when you're walking around bare-foot and step on this sharp plastic shard and then you yell: "Curse you E-bay. Curse you all to hell for not warning me that these LED's are made of a egg-shell-like plastic". phew. i feel much better after that rant. sorry folks
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