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It might not be the case here, but lot of these are drop ship outfits that don’t do any kind of stock check and are susceptible to whatever the actual manufacturer in China is up to. I learned about it buying a moon lamp and it taking over 6 months. When it arrived it was a lopsided 3d printed thing (isn’t that relatively expensive at any kind of scale?) I also discovered a lot of these drop shipping outlets are the product of get-rich-quick passive income courses that give you a Shopify template to copy. It being passive income is an impulse for allocating zero budget for customer support.


Interesting; that could be what was going on here, although at the price I kind of doubt it. I bought one of those floating moon lamps from a facebook ad too and it came quickly and was pretty great! Guess I got lucky. Mine is not lopsided, but it's definitely a decent 3D print, looks like low-quality stereolithography or maybe some kind of jetting. It hovers about an inch over the base and spins slowly. Great conversation piece; everyone thinks it looks impossible.


I hadn’t seen an advert, so for anyone else wondering what a floating moon lamp is: https://chrisstarkhagen.com/blog/floating-moon-lamp


Right, mine is the VGAzer one. I'm a little less pleased with it since I realized that the highs and lows don't correspond to lunar topography... the low (thin) areas are the areas that are light-colored on the moon. That way at night it looks like the moon... but the craters aren't physically craters, the maria are high instead of low. Now I'm thinking about upgrading!




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