Would you buy lights early?

[Dolphins18]

add it to the cart there’s another $130 or so taken off

Oh wow, that is actually not a bad deal at all. It goes down to $583 after tax
For warranty reasons, I think I'd still hold off, but still a good deal

 

[Nick Steele]

Oh wow, that is actually not a bad deal at all. It goes down to $583 after tax
For warranty reasons, I think I'd still hold off, but still a good deal

I’d still be getting about 15 months warranty though. It comes with 2 years while most lights are only 1 year

 

[PeterC99]

add it to the cart there’s another $130 or so taken off

$1,600 - $1,253 = $347 Savings

$347/1600 = .217 or 21.7%

Still can't figure out how you get to 40% savings?

 

[Opus]

Okay so I have an upgrade planned for next year around June time. I have all my equipment planned and I was planning on buying a 48” photon v2 and an RB xho strip for a total of about $1000. Recently I have came across BRS sale on the Coral Care Gen 2 I would want 2 which would come out to about $1200 but is a savings of about $500 off original price. I’ve always been intrigued by these lights I just could never come around to spending almost $2000 on lights for a 100g tank (48x24x21).

I just wondering if it’s worth buying them now (9 months before build) or should I just wait till it’s time to do the build?

RB's normal black friday sale is 10% off on the photons and 20% on lumen bars, fyi. Black Friday is the only time I've ever seen him run a sale price other than a closeout or a return/refurb.

 

[Nick Steele]

$1,600 - $1,253 = $347 Savings

$347/1600 = .217 or 21.7%

Still can't figure out how you get to 40% savings?

It’s actually 32% off. You also have to exclude any taxes. So 2 fixtures are usually $1600 and now are $1087

 

[rtparty]

Invest your precious money into Kazakistan potassium factory and then use the dividends to buy 100 light units!

This is probably the best choice but we are reefers, we don't invest like that! We spend. LOL

Why do you think BRS is clearing out their inventory of these Phillips lights? It's only the black ones too.

The white version was already sold out. The Coral Cares aren't selling well for a multitude of reasons. None of them are because the performance and results aren't there. I rewatched the BRS video on them and it might be the worst Investigates they have ever done.

Imagine this...we didn't run the lights how they were built and then complained they didn't "perform" well enough??? SHOCKER! It is like taking the G5 Blue Radions and turning off 70% of the blue LEDs. Then complain about "poor performance" with them.

Where are you seeing 40% off? I’m only seeing 15%.

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They were normally $900 plus the $130 for the controller. So $1030 for one unit. They went on sale to $800 months ago and also offered a free controller for buying 2 fixtures.

They dropped them to $680 on BRS for clearance. Then they added another 20% off all clearance items. Taking a $900 (original price) light to $544. That is a 39.5% off. Sorry for rounding to 40% there. The sale price of $800 isn't going to run forever unless Philips dropped the MAP to $800.

The controller was $130 originally. It is like $110 on clearance. Another 20% dropped it to $88. So $632 for one light and one controller (one controller works for 4 lights IIRC).

So $1030 - 632 = 398.

398/1030 = 38.64%

Again, sorry for rounding to 40%

 

[PeterC99]

This is probably the best choice but we are reefers, we don't invest like that! We spend. LOL



The white version was already sold out. The Coral Cares aren't selling well for a multitude of reasons. None of them are because the performance and results aren't there. I rewatched the BRS video on them and it might be the worst Investigates they have ever done.

Imagine this...we didn't run the lights how they were built and then complained they didn't "perform" well enough??? SHOCKER! It is like taking the G5 Blue Radions and turning off 70% of the blue LEDs. Then complain about "poor performance" with them.





They were normally $900 plus the $130 for the controller. So $1030 for one unit. They went on sale to $800 months ago and also offered a free controller for buying 2 fixtures.

They dropped them to $680 on BRS for clearance. Then they added another 20% off all clearance items. Taking a $900 (original price) light to $544. That is a 39.5% off. Sorry for rounding to 40% there. The sale price of $800 isn't going to run forever unless Philips dropped the MAP to $800.

The controller was $130 originally. It is like $110 on clearance. Another 20% dropped it to $88. So $632 for one light and one controller (one controller works for 4 lights IIRC).

So $1030 - 632 = 398.

398/1030 = 38.64%

Again, sorry for rounding to 40%

Appreciate the clarifications - understand the numbers now. Didn't know they were originally $900 lights that needed an extra controller.

Curious though, why the steep discount?

 

[rtparty]

Appreciate the clarifications - understand the numbers now. Didn't know they were originally $900 lights that needed an extra controller.

Curious though, why the steep discount?

BRS is no longer carrying them. They are taking up very valuable shelf space. CoralVue has commented they are still selling them to every other vendor and the light itself isn't going anywhere.

With the acquisition of MD, BRS is completely out of space with everything else they brought in. Any items not selling are likely on the chopping block IMO.