And the lights went out...

With Kate’s Disco Party coming up soon, we bought a few things on eBay to use in the party.  The first to arrive yesterday was a revolving ball lamp with multi-coloured perspex lights.

Well the thing is it turned up half crushed.  Looks as though it was squashed under something in the Australia Post truck and as a result it met its demise on the way down from Queensland.  What is somewhat annoying is that the lamp was not packed better.  It was simply slotted into its box without Styrofoam, bubble wrap or any other form of protection.  Also, without any fragile stickers, it was probably schlepped around the various mail handling areas without a care in the world.

Now luckily enough I only paid $11 plus postage for this thing, so the loss isn’t that big a deal, but you would like to think that people would package things better.  I have sent an email to the seller – which is an online auction house rather than an individual – and will hopefully get a replacement.  In the interim, our search for party lights continues.