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Green Google Lava Lamp Sucks

Quality control on the Green Google Lava Lamp is awful.

The problem is that the liquid that the Green Lava Googlets float in is a murky, cloudy yellow
...as opposed to the Blue Google Lava Lamp, which is crisp and clear and really lets the Blue Lava Googlets flow freely. Where's the crisp and clear liquid for the Green Google Lava Lamp? I have returned this item twice, and twice I have received a new product with the liquid just as cloudy and murky as the last, so I have to give the Green Google Lava Lamp a big thumbs down. It looks like algae are growing in there or something.

Save your sixty-five bucks, folks, and

DO NOT BUY THE GREEN GOOGLE LAVA LAMP!!!
Google Store Customer Service is no help, and they charge me shipping every time I return the defective item. Just say no. Not even for your eXtreme Feedback Devices.

I'm writing this poor review with the hope that anyone googling for Green Google Lava Lamp will find my review of why this item sucks. If you must buy a Google Lava Lamp, buy the blue. I figure, if I can save just one person their hard-earned sixty-five bucks, it will all have been worth it.

Consumers of the world, UNTIE!!
Uh, I mean UNITE... ;)

Thanks to this post, Google knows one more thing about me.

August 25, 2004 at 01:14 PM in Google And My Obsession With It |

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Adam

Good line from David Berkowitz in John Battelle's Searchblog reference to this post: "Just think, with all the poor guy invested in the lamp and the shipping, he could have instead invested in the IPO. That could make for a good piece on TheStreet sometime: Own the lamp or own the company?"

LOL. :) :) :)

Posted by: Adam | August 26, 2004 at 01:01 PM

jeff

You can get a Google lava lamp for free when you invite their sales people into your company and listen to their sales pitch. They gave us 2 lava lamps when we invited them in.

Posted by: jeff | August 27, 2004 at 03:53 AM

Adam

Sweet!! What did the Google sales people pitch you about?

Posted by: Adam | August 27, 2004 at 11:17 AM

Eric

Google AdSense and Google Adwords suck!!! Its all a scam. How many decent leads or sales does one get from Google, NADA!!! They get publishers started on promoting them then they cancel their account without warning or any tools to help prevent invalid clicks. So, in theory, if we go on people's webpages and generate 1000 clicks, Google cancels them? They provide no technical explanation nor do they provide tools to prevent idiots like that. Google is gonna go down in this class action suit against them because they are arragance towards their publishers and advertisers. Any good decent alternatives out there? We would appreciate it the help and the support.

Thanks,

Posted by: Eric | April 10, 2005 at 02:56 PM

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