Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

First, Amazon has lumped together all reviews for all products made by this manufacturer, which prevents us - the consumers who trust this customer rating system - from making good decisions. Notice that all the 4 & 5 stars are either clearly manufacturer-planted reviews (non-verified purchaser recommending other products by name) or reviews of products that are NOT lava lamps (such as the "tornado" and "glitter" lamps made by the Lava Lite company that appear - on the basis of reviews - to actually work). Virtually all of the reviews of this product - lava lamps with the moving wax - have 1 & 2 stars, with people repeatedly reporting even replacements not to work. The overall rating for this product is skewed by Amazon wrongly lumping all of these products, so that we are given the false impression that a clearly defective product functions. Second, and more importantly, please see the photo below (don't know why it is sideways): I carefully followed all user instructions. I used the bulb provided and a standard electrical outlet. I never moved the product while it was warm. I made sure it had settled from shipping for hours before turning it on. Every instruction was followed. I used the lava lamp once and it seemed ok at first. But after only 2-3 hours (the warm-up time; instructions say it's ok to run it for 8-10 hours) all of the wax congealed at the top. I looked at the Lava Lite website and it said that this was a sign that it was over-heating, so I turned it off (there's no thermostat, just "on" or "off"). I let it cool off, unused and unmoved, for a whole day. The second time I plugged it in, after only 1.5 hours or so, this (the photo here) is what happened. The metal heating element (which is not even attached to the bottom of the globe) turned red hot, as did the wax, and started floating upward. Had this product been left on much longer, the globe - which is only "sealed" shut with a bottle top akin to a Pepsi bottle (the silver cap on top isn't even attached; it just sits there on top of the bottle cap) - would have exploded open from the heat, blowing hot oil and wax (the lava lamp contents) everywhere. I use Amazon Prime regularly, and I really do not appreciate Amazon sending to my home a product that is clearly universally defective and that very easily could have, as the photo below demonstrates, caused serious injury to people in my home. This product is not only defective. It is a serious health and safety hazard, and Amazon is irresponsible to be selling it. This danger has been made clearly known to Amazon from the many other product reviews posted to this site and Amazon continues to sell it anyway. This is not a safe product to bring into your home.