Great service from Intermatic

Lucky!!........I have never heard of such a thing , 2 years later non the less....unheard of.... CONGRATS!!

kudos to intermatic!

Intermatic makes several timers including one that has a tiny motor that moves a switch to turn the light on and off. That is the only one suitable for CF bulbs. THey have been making it for years.

I have 3 of these installed. All work well except the battery compartment if flimsy on the originals I installed several years ago and one recently broke. I ordered a replacement switch and the battery compartment had been completely redesigned.

They probably outsourced their customer complaints to New Delhi or Singapore :o) I've gotten a number of calls on my cell phone this week from an unrecognized number; no ID. I finally answered and it was a sales pitch from my own phone company, from a party whose English was barely understandable. And I'm on the no-call list. Why pay someone $8/hour to do what somebody else will do for $4?

Update: Their tech support department just returned my call. The new model they sent me - ST01C - ***IS*** compatible with CF bulbs. UPC code:

Non sequitur. They returned the call same day. The guy was definitely from "around here".

At Garner & Smith Bookstore in Austin, a strange book arrived one day from McGraw-Hill. It had the store's special order number on it, albeit quite old. The original special order was found in the attic -- from ELEVEN YEARS previous!

The store's owner went to the ex-students association to find the current address of the student from over a decade earlier. When contacted and told that his book had arrived, the ex-student (now a successful lawyer) laughed and asked if the bookstore owner was drunk!

Yes, that stuff happens.