just sayin...

Thanks for your input...

I take it, it's an attractive lamp, afterall you selected it, so someone else may like it as well. If you donate it with a note stating that it doesn't work, someone with some electrical experience might buy it and fix it.

Dunno why that didn't occur to me...

Maybe you could do it yourself. If it is just a bad socket that is really, really easy:

While I got a little lost in the video you helpfully provided, I'm afraid I would do a terrible job, just due to general fuckupedness on my part!

But I will tell the Goodwill people that someone with better motor skills than I could try to work on this.

What I don't understand is how a brand new lamp could alluva sudden get screwed up just sitting on my bedside table, undisturbed. That was what made me believe it was just a bad lamp.


Anyway, thanks for the video. It was helpful to my understanding...

If when they wired the socket to the cord, they did not catch the wires well, they could loose. Or it could be a bad socket.

Back when I was in high school, Mom pitched a fit that girls were required to take Home Ec while boys had no equivalent requirement, guaranteeing that college bound girls had one less college credit when they graduated. With four daughters she and Dad were adamant that we were all going to graduate college and wanted us to have the best preparation for it.

Mom lost, but the year I took Home Ec we got to switch with the shop boys for two weeks. The boys learned how to do laundry and some basic cooking.

We learned how to drive a nail (which I already knew, having built a shelf years before), and how to rewire a toaster and a table lamp. Well, you can no longer put new heater elements in toasters, but you CAN rewire a lamp! Kits with sockets and wire are easily found and are pretty cheap. The only time I have paid professionals to wire lamps were when we had antique lamps that were going outside and I wanted to make sure they would be completely safe - some of them still had the fittings to be gas lamps!

as I found out when I tried to plug in and start the toaster and coffee maker one morning. AHA! i discovered something called a "fusebox" in my basement. For awhile I put up with the coffee, toaster thing by doing them separately...etc...got sick of that and called an electrician and had my service upgraded.

Unbelievable, that in the 1980s people were still putting up with low elecrical service...

They may just take orders and have a third-party mail you your purchase.

It wasn't that expensive, under $40...