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Probably mostly bollocks, but hey, it sells papers.
Otoh, if you happen to have a sensitivity to a particular insect bite, you can be in real trouble, and that's likely what happened to the bloke in the article. A friend of mine is in serious danger of death if she gets stung by one more bee or wasp and makes sure anyone she's with knows how to stab her with her epi pen. Rough stuff.

Bought 3 LED bulbs, two died, FT offered to repay return postage on the dead pair, all fine.

Credit for postage is on my account, fine.

Now they say that I only returned two bulbs - <fickme> of course I only returned two bulbs, you shower of ...

Anyway, what they're saying is since I got the mail refund and the refund for one bulb, I should be happy and to go frik myself, basically.

This has been going on for weeks, and it seems each person who deals with it is thicker than the last.
It's not a simple misunderstanding nor a command of English, at the root of it - it's sheer bloody mindedness and I'm now seriously considering whether I will ever deal with them again. I reckon I'll take what's in my account and cash it in for goods and never go back to them, if this is how they deal with screwups of their own making.

There are some real asshole attitudes around, still. I really wonder if all that progress we made in the 60s and 70s was all for nothing, given that the moronic mouth-breathers appear to be in the ascendancy once more. Perhaps they never really were on the decrease and it was just an illusion, but I like to think more enlightened attitudes and behaviour did have a knock-on effect.
For what it's worth, here's my take on it - breast is best, ok? Tastes fckin amazing, too.

They were quite quick to refund me the postage for the return package, but now they're quibbling about a 'discount' they say I had on the items. I can't seem to get through to them that the discount was small and of the three items I paid $20 for, two of them are dead and I'm owed $14. For some strange reason their systems seems to have listed one of the items as having been heavily discounted when I bought it - apparently only costing me pennies, which is a load of nonsense.

Well, my experience with them has been ok to middling, so far. The only bits that let me down were LED mains bulbs - two out of three failed (the third one is still going strong) and I returned them. On production of a mailing ticket, I immediately got the postage cost refunded, and elected to keep that in my FT account, but as for the items reaching them yet, there's no sign of them, so I haven't actually had the refund for those.
I will get it eventually, I've no doubt.

I just use a head-torch, really convenient for all sorts of other tasks, too.
www.fasttech.com/category/1602/headlamps

I got a couple of these, without chargers, for a fair bit cheaper.
www.fasttech.com/products/1602/10002109/1153402-y-1013a-cree-xr-e-q5-240lm-3-mode-white-light-zoom
I like these ones because the weight distribution is right - light at the front, battery at the rear, and it just feels comfortable enough to wear all day.
Also, the FT headlamps don't claim stupid output power - I can have this one on for ages and it doesn't overheat, compared to an almost identical ebay one that claims twice the lumens, and is brighter, admittedly, but soon wrecked itself overheating.
ps, if using one of these, get protected cells - you don't want a dodgy cell on your head Or go for the AAA option.

pps, oops, just reading further on, I see you don't want head attachments.