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HPsauce 10th March 2017 05:56 PM
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Originally Posted by Adrian E (Post 125623)
I never noticed a major colour difference between HID and main beam support with the ones I had - they're certainly bright enough to be effective!
Pretty good match here too, those RacingVision bulbs are pretty awesome:

johnny_quattro 12th March 2017 11:53 AM
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Originally Posted by moltuae (Post 125633)
You're welcome :) For reference/comparison, these were the fakes I received. It's hard to tell from the photograph, but the holographic element is 'flatter' on these than the genuine units. Comparing the bulbs with photos of fakes online suggests they fakes have been gradually improving, making it more difficult to tell but the lack of weld points was the clearest indicator.
The first thing that I saw when reading this thread and viewing the accompanying photographs was the heinous typo on the packaging, and that would have set Johnny's SPAG pedant alarm bell ringing (spelling, punctuation and grammar.)

www dot philips dot com ORGINAL?

HPsauce 12th March 2017 12:04 PM
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Yes, mine were the same. A picture of those labels was among the information I sent to Philips for their "amusement". :ROFL:

moltuae 12th March 2017 01:22 PM
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Originally Posted by johnny_quattro (Post 125752)
The first thing that I saw when reading this thread and viewing the accompanying photographs was the heinous typo on the packaging, and that would have set Johnny's SPAG pedant alarm bell ringing (spelling, punctuation and grammar.)

www dot philips dot com ORGINAL?
Wow. I'm a stickler for good grammar and punctuation usually too, but I hadn't even noticed the missing 'i' in original! :eek:

I even visited the link to check the bulbs when they arrived. I obviously just typed what I thought it should be.

moltuae 13th March 2017 01:41 PM
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Here's the packaging of the replacement genuine pair I was sent. Very similar to the fakes, but the folks at Philips can spell Original it seems. :D


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HPsauce 13th March 2017 02:33 PM
And proper holograms with unique ID's too.

tonupkid 13th March 2017 08:48 PM
I carnt spell or puncturate ,four fkuk .

HPsauce 15th March 2017 07:49 AM
I now have a refund via PayPal. Will wait to see the money back on my credit card then see if I can post appropriate and accurate feedback.

Knowing eBay they will have blocked that somehow; they do a thorough job of sweeping stuff like this under the carpet so that all appears well. :tuttut:

moltuae 15th March 2017 10:05 AM
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Knowing eBay they will have blocked that somehow; they do a thorough job of sweeping stuff like this under the carpet so that all appears well. :tuttut:
Yeah, I'm not sure you can leave feedback if you've had a full refund, can you?

Either way, once you're sure the refund has gone through, I think we should probably mention the name of this company here now. Now that two of us have received fake bulbs from them, months apart, it's clearly no honest mistake or mix up with their suppliers.

HPsauce 15th March 2017 10:24 AM
Feedback left, I found a route in:
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100% FAKE, verified by Philips. Others have had these from this seller. BEWARE!
Seller is lightec-autostyle-ltd http://www.ebay.co.uk/usr/lightec-autostyle-ltd
They also have a direct sale web site: http://www.lightec-autostyle.co.uk/


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