You just do a little searching and researching, and find yourself a Salt Lamp supplier on the Internet. When you’ve found the one who offers you the lowest prices, promises the highest quality and the fastest delivery you are confident and ready to go!

You place your order, hopefully knowing exactly what you want, and how many of each to order so you can fill up a container. You get an invoice from the supplier, and, if you were not already aware, soon find that you are required to send 100% of the cost of the order, plus the estimated freight costs, to your new “friend”, and do so by wiring the money directly from your checking account to his. Now you wait…patiently.

You may start to wonder if you have made a mistake, placing your trust in a foreign based company that knows it will be difficult if not impossible for you to track them down if there are any problems. That’s normal.

If you are fortunate, you haven’t fallen prey to a fraudulent exporter that takes your money and then disappears, reopening his business under a different name with a new website, laying in wait for the next American entrepreneur in search of the deal-of-a-lifetime to contact him.

For the fortunate, you will however, still find the “quick delivery” date you were promised will come and go. When you contact your supplier to check the status of your order, you will be told common tales of bad weather or labor problems or delays caused by the shipping company that are out of his control. Then two to three weeks after that, you will receive notification that your container will shortly be arriving at port, and you will take care of clearing the shipment through Customs and arranging for the inland delivery to your warehouse. The day finally arrives when your container load is delivered. You smile and heave a sigh of relief.

You start to pull open the double doors at the back of the container and the contents of the load, which have shifted in transit, push the doors fully open. Torn cartons filled with Salt Lamps begin cascading out the doors and crashing to the ground. Don’t try to catch them, each carton weighs between 60 and 80 pounds! Don’t worry, only 30 or 40 cartons will fall of the 600-700 cartons.

When you compose yourself, and finish unloading the container, you may find yourself the not-so-proud owner of 40,000 pounds of wet, moldy and dirty salt, with wood bases that are cracked or discolored, that will need to be destroyed or re-stained and polished. You will likely find rusty screws attaching the bases to the Salt Lamps, nearly impossible to replace because no washers were used and salt is not easy to drill into without cracking. You will find your Salt Tea Lights have irregular sized holes that don’t fit candles and broken or brittle plastic feet.

This is the worst case scenario to illustrate the pitfalls. Your experiences may be different.

You just learned Lesson #1 in the course: Salt Lamps 101.
You DO get what you pay for!


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