Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Cheap glow stick


Though glow stick is a very fun and useful thing its life is short. But from the other hand cause of this they are comparably inexpensive. Whether you want to buy glow sticks for personal use or for resale the best place to do it is Internet. Yes it is very simple to find cheap glow sticks online.

Now close to the business. I think you know that “cheap” not always means “good”. Therefore you must follow “don’t buy bottom of the barrel” rule. Browse the net, read offers try to find out more about sellers. Try to know how long they are in the market? What customers’ responses they have? How they describe goods they sell?

Let us look close to problems you may have with low-quality cheap glow sticks.

- You may easily have couple of “duds” per tube/case while purchasing cheap glow sticks/necklaces. To check them all is a sort of “headache”.

- Quality products must glow from 4 to 12 hours when low-quality glow sticks may fade out within 20 minutes after activation.

- All glow sticks have so called “shelf life”. Quality products have (with proper storage) shelf life of 1-4 years. Inexpensive glow sticks and other glow products may have “shelf life” measured in months.

- It is a pity but there are dishonest suppliers in our world. And these suppliers can ship you expired glow sticks with month or less “shelf life”. When to have a discount you bought plenty of glow sticks and other glow goods you hardly use them at once. If your glow sticks are expired you will have no time to use them again or to sell to others. Instead of bright glow expired glow sticks produce a very dim light or may not activate at all.

- You wear glow necklace than all of a sudden notice that there is no clip-connector in it. 3 of 50 cheap glow necklaces may have no clip-connectors. It is not a great problem but nobody wants goods they can not use. You must decide if saved couple of bucks worth glow necklaces you must only throw out and unwanted “headache” instead of joy.

- Low-quality cheap multiple colors glowsticks may fade away in 1-2 hours producing dim orange-like color. Sorry but you will not have beautiful rainbow that you expected from glow stick of low-quality.

Of course all mentioned above is a strong foundation for claims to supplier. But do you need this crazy “headache” instead of joy?

One more rule. Never look for cheap glow sticks if you intend to use them in something serious. I mean something like diving or an attempt to attract attention of nice girls.

Be clever when you buy your glow sticks.

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