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Bauhaus Stained Glass Pendant Light
We've had multiple problems with these (we bought two). I'll try to be brief. 1) The canopies (ceiling fixtures) are small, so make sure your ceiling outlet holes are small. Also, one of the wire pass-throughs had cracked in shipping. We had to buy new canopies for those reasons. Just $20 at a hardware store but annoying. 2) If you tighten the globe at all you're in danger of cracking the glass lampshade, which we did. I mean we just snugged the globe up and ...snap... To their credit, they shipped out a replacement for free. It got to us in 5 weeks. 3) Once you tighten the globe, you can't loosen it. The friction against the plastic washer under the lampshade makes it impossible without first loosening the parts above the lampshade and holding the lampshade up while you struggle, all the while nervous you’re going to crush the globe. I learned this when we had to remove the cracked lampshade. 4) Then I kept the globe a little looser and guess what? It fell, hit the ground, and shattered into a thousand pieces. They shipped out a replacement for free. I thought it was my fault, but on installing the new one I noticed that the metal thread sleeve had come unglued from the globe, so it wasn’t my fault at all. It was just poorly manufactured, and this means it could happen at any moment to the other one! 5) On installing the replacement shade and globe, the ...other... lamp suddenly shorted out. I haven’t investigated it very closely yet apart from making sure it wasn’t a problem with the actual light bulb (it wasn’t). 6) EITHER WAY, and this is really the MOST IMPORTANT THING, the shades do not shade. They are completely transparent. So when the light is on, they might as well be two ..., vaguely yellow bulbs shining into your eyes like interrogation lamps. When they’re off, they look nice. Or at least one of them does. We haven’t yet had both in service at the same time. In all, we’re done with these. It’s been a frustrating experience and a waste of money and time. I’d give it one star, but the customer service is quite good, so they get positive marks for that.