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broadgage · 12th Mar 2018, 9:18 pm

Some years ago I was using well over £1,000 worth of lamps a week ! being in charge of lighting maintenance at a department store.
Gifts were always appreciated, both generally useful items and also samples of new lamp types before these were listed for general sale.

I remember one department being refurbished and lit entirely with the then new AR111 lamps that then cost about £10 each.
To the horror of a director, a routine weekly check for failed lamps found about 100 failures, so that is £1,000 spent in one morning on lamp replacement for one department.

I used to joke that we used every type of lamp that was made, and a lot that were not !

12th Mar 2018, 9:18 pm	#17
broadgage Nonode Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: North Somerset, UK. Posts: 2,129	Re: Remember Reps Freebees? Some years ago I was using well over £1,000 worth of lamps a week ! being in charge of lighting maintenance at a department store. Gifts were always appreciated, both generally useful items and also samples of new lamp types before these were listed for general sale. I remember one department being refurbished and lit entirely with the then new AR111 lamps that then cost about £10 each. To the horror of a director, a routine weekly check for failed lamps found about 100 failures, so that is £1,000 spent in one morning on lamp replacement for one department. I used to joke that we used every type of lamp that was made, and a lot that were not !