Customer Reviews

Black Modern Halogen Torcheire Dimmer Switch Floor Lamp w/300W Bulb

5 star:		(11)
4 star:		(6)
3 star:		(6)
2 star:		(3)
1 star:		(6)

 

 

Being cheaper than most of the torchiere halogen lamps out there, I jumped on this. But it turns out, you get what you pay for (surprise, surprise). This is a very shoddy product. The ends where you screw on are made of plastic and are very prone to getting stuck. Mine got stuck this way. I cannot get the top lid to screw on correctly and now it is stuck and won't unscrew so I cannot return it. In attempting to unscrew the lid the entire assembly of the lid fell apart. I would HIGHLY recommend spending a few more bucks and purchasing something that assembles without falling apart. It looks like I am going to just throw this in the trash the same day I received it. $30 down the drain. Worthless product.

I agree with the other comment. I at least got my lamp assembled OK, but the dimmer switch on it broke after just a few days. So now it's either completely on or completely off. No in-between. It's a cheaply-priced halogen lamp which is good, but cheaply-priced for a reason.

I love this kind of lamp for the variable brightness and the indirect lighting. Put it in a corner in a room with light-colored walls and it's great. They are a fire hazard which is why they come with a metal guard and only a 300W bulb (I immediately replace these with the 500W bulbs of course).

The downside is that the dimmer switches are built pretty cheaply and will wear out on you within a couple of years. Oh well, the lamp's pretty cheap anyway, so I will continue to stock my home with this kind of lamp until I get around to installing some track lighting or something.

The light arrived promptly enough. It does not have a dimmer switch as seemed to be suggested by the description, but rather a two-level on switch. No big deal there. It also did not include any extra light bulbs as the description seemed to imply.

The light is not terribly bright but gets the job done. The problem with it is that it flickers like a firelight sometimes. Nothing I can do about it - just have to wait until it's finished.

Product discription for Torchiere lamp said model includes Dimmer Switch, but it simply had a high/low lamp setting. Other reviews seem to indicate they have continuous dimming. Out of the box, the knob was loosely attached and seemed likely to break quickly (though has lasted a month with minimal use). And the lamp does not (mine anyway) come with an Additional Free 300W bulb as the product title seems to indicate. (It might be that some states only allow 150W bulbs for safety and they're pointing out you won't have to buy your own bulb to "upgrade" to 300W; that said, there was no secondary 150W bulb as a back-up if the 300W bulb burns out. For $25 that seems fair, but the description is misleading.)

Shipping was in about 7-10 days. Product was acceptable quality for relatively low price, however the $9.90 shipping to NYC added another 40% to the cost. Customer service follow-up good.

I have had this torcheire floor lamp for several months now. The lamp is on for perhaps 8 to 12 hours per day and it is turned on and off on the average of three times per day.

Over the years, my experience with perhaps seven torcheire floor lamps is that the switch wears out. If a lamp lasts more than a year I have done well. To date, this lamp is performing as expected. For the price, it is a good buy.

My old halogen torcheire lamp began to give troubles. The final straw was when the off/dimmer switch broke. We needed something new. Halogen torcheire floor lamps are getting hard to find, but we found this one on Amazon. It cost a little more than we expected, but we didn't have much choice.

The new one works, but it puts out far less light for the same 300 watts, and the light makes bars and circle patterns on the ceiling, instead of a bright wide spread well illuninated circle. It is necessary to run the light at full intensity if reading, where the old one was almost never run at full intensity.

It looks nice, and it fits where we need it, and it has all the safety features, and as I said, it works. We were glad we could get it from Amazon and Visiondecor.

I sure wish I could fix my old one.

I have two of these in my office. After 3 months of continuous use, the bulb went out on one. I was expecting a little longer life than that. The replacement bulb is a bit of a pain to find. It's a double ended J Type T3/118mm, 300W halogen bulb. Ebay ended up being the only cheap place to buy them.

The lamps themselves are a bit dim compared to what I'm used to with torchiere lights. You may want to buy 2 or 3 to light a room properly. I never really use the dimmer switch, they're on high all of the time and it's just barely the amount of light that I need. (I do however like it on the dark side) The light quality itself is great. They provide a full spectrum with an incandecent-like yellow glow. The grates on top give a pattern to the top of the ceiling, and in an office it looks cool, but other locations may not be suitable. I was torn between 3 and 4 stars, and went with 4. They're cool looking lights, and *very* cheap, but you may want to consider all of their attributes before purchasing.

Other reviewers are correct: this lamp is extremely shoddy in design. The ends of the poles which are supposed to screw together aren't constructed well, and it is easy to get the lamp halfway assembled and then find that one of the joints simply won't screw in place -- and that you can't take apart what you've already done, either. I spent most of an hour trying to wrestle this thing into standing up straight.

It also comes in a huge amount of styrofoam packing material, so constructed that you have to break up the packaging in order to get the product out. It's not environmentally friendly and it doesn't make it easy to return the lamp, either.

I did finally get the lamp more or less assembled (though the pole was always a little tiny bit crooked). It then worked for eight days before the included bulb blew. The caging over the bulb doesn't look fun to remove and change, and I'm sick of this piece of garbage anyway. I'm throwing it away. Don't waste your money.

This is a replacement for one that I had for years that finally gave out. Light is bright and room-filling, and easy to operate. Replacement lamps are obtainable locally, and unit is easy to assemble.