Review of Rextin E27 Motion Sensor PIR Infrared Energy saving LED Light Bulb

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List Price: $19.99
Sale Price: $15.69
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This bulb is exactly what I was looking for. The shipment arrived much sooner than the estimate and the bulb was well packaged. Some things to note:

1The light switch must stay on at all times for the bulb to work.

2There are no control settings for the bulb. It's either on or it's off.

3The bulb will only turn on when it's dark which is a great feature.

4The bulb cannot be enclosed in a globe of any sort.

5The light does not stay on long. Maybe 30 seconds or so.

6The bulb is LED so the light is pretty blue if that matters at all.

7I don't think it is technically rated for outdoor use, so keep that in mind. We have ours outside and so far no problem at all.

All in all a great bulb at a great price. I just ordered another one!

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I was very disappointed in this product until I realized that I wasn't thinking when evaluating it. (Hasty reviewers should take heed.)

This light does not go on in a lit environment by design. When the light is dim, the bulb works as advertised.

The documentation was disappointing because I have not learned Chinese yet. English text explaining how dumb I was waving my hand under it in a well-lit room would have saved me some aggravation.

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A longer on time than most sensor lights like this and, for sure it's the brightest sensor bulb I tried so far. Range is fine so it wont blink off to early. As crap from China goes, it seems OK. Horever another bulb I noticed was shipped directly from China was made of flamable plastic so who knows what this is made of?? Amazon needs some safty data on such items considering most reviews say it wont work properly and call it junk!!!! However as a sensor light goes this one is the one that was better than just a night light. If I bought another sensor bulb, this would be the one. But after having a bulb with nothing but Chinese lettering on the box burn up, i'm a little leary of using such things or recomending them.

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Where to start? The fact that the item's listing doesn't bother to indicate that the product will be shipped from China, via the Chinese post, in a box that's covered in Chinese characters with no English translation? Perhaps the fact that the bulb shoddily manufactured (plastic elements are malformed or damaged)? Maybe the fact that the bulb hasn't been tested or certified by UL here in the United States?

Each of these are adequate reasons not to buy the bulb, all three are reasons to be angry with Amazon for allowing this retailer to damage the Amazon brand with inferior goods.

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We were pretty excited about this new type of motion-sensor-in-a-bulb item on Amazon. We were looking for a replacement for our basement light that has limited ceiling height. Our existing arrangement has a CFL installed in a motion sensor that is long enough to hit our head if we are not careful, so this combined unit with it's shorter length looked like it would suit the basement location perfectly. NOT!

As soon as we received the lamp, we installed it and ... nothing! The light would not come on! Only when we tried unscrewing the bulb slightly would it come on. We made sure the light switch was on, and there was no globe or other covering on the bulb that would prevent the motion sensor from detecting motion. We found that if we waited, every once in a while the bulb would respond to our bare hand moving and come on, but that was the exception. Essentially the bulb was useless for us.

Now, we purchase from Amazon on a very regular basis, and when something doesn't work, we return the item, often asking for a replacement, less often for a refund. Given that there are no controls or switches on the unit, it was pretty clear that the unit was either defective or simply would not work properly, so we requested a refund, and within a day Amazon dutifully refunded our CC account. We also received the usual email with a link to the return address label, which we printed out and were about to tape back onto the return shipping box when we noticed the label stated "POSTAGE REQUIRED".

For ALL of the items we have returned, either for a replacement or for a refund we have NEVER had to pay for return postage to Amazon or to ANY seller. We were surprised! Was this a new policy of Amazon's? Will we now have to pay for return postage for all items we want to return to Amazon in the future. In large part, we purchase so much on Amazon for the reason that (at least in the past) that we would NOT have to pay for return postage no matter what the item is. So this was new for us.

Then came the kicker ... the address on the return label is to CHINA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So in order for us to get a refund, we are supposed to pay postage to return the $15 light bulb to CHINA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We haven't had a chance to get to the post office just yet but on the USPS web site, the cost to send the 9oz light bulb package would be $14.90 (or $13.41 if we ordered a shipping label online). So after paying for the return postage to CHINA!!!!!!!!!! we would get about a $2 refund from our original purchase of $15.69.

We checked to see if there was anything on the original Amazon web page for the light bulb that would have indicated that the bulb would be sent to us from CHINA, or indicated that in the event of a return that we would be liable for return postage to CHINA!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We saw NOTHING on the Amazon web page to that effect.

Given this new development, we will have to re-evaluate our purchasing practices if this is the new normal for returning our purchases to Amazon. Where is the item being shipped from? What is the seller's (and/or Amazon's) refund policy? Will we have to pay for return postage, and to WHERE?

We have been a bit blind-sided by this experience, but consider ourselves lucky that it happened with an item that was only $15.69 and weighted only 9oz. The question is, do we now have to contact each seller before we purchase any item on Amazon to find out what their return policy is?

A bit of a waste of time ...

Bottom line ... you might want to look elsewhere if you're looking for a light bulb with a motion sensor that will actually work for you (unless it doesn't matter to you if you ever get your $15.69 back)!