Our Overall Score:
8.9/10
Thanks for checking out our Tom Raffield Skipper Pendant Light review. We’re here to give you the best reviews of this product and hopefully leave you confident in whether Tom Raffield Skipper Pendant Light is the right product for you, or if there’s perhaps a better alternative out there for a product in the Lighting category.
Latest price search at John Lewis & Partners: £245
The most important part of buying online can be to read reviews and that’s why you’re here. We’ve scanned the internet to find as many Tom Raffield Skipper Pendant Light reviews as we can, regardless if they’re good or bad as we want to give you the most truthful and realistic overview of just how good Tom Raffield Skipper Pendant Light is. In finding reviews, we discovered that the best and most informative reviews were from customers over at John Lewis & Partners, to read these review just tap on the View Reviews button now.
When it comes to buying products online, whether that’s a TV, clothes, Lighting or even a something like a sofa, there are a general set of guidance or advice that you can follow to help you get the best product for your needs and also the best for your budget. As you can imagine there are tons of different options in the Lighting category and even loads of options of products from Tom Raffield so it’s important to take the time to find the right one for you. The four areas that we want to delve in to a little more are the quality, the price of the product, what the reviews are saying about it and then finally we’ll look at an overall score which takes into account the other factors.
Quality of Tom Raffield Skipper Pendant Light
Tom Raffield Skipper Pendant Light scored an incredible 8.9/10 for quality.
As you’d expect with a lot of products, quality is a very important factor for choosing products in the “Lighting” category. But it’s even more important to consider and get a feel for quality when you’re buying online because you aren’t given the benefit of being able to see and try the item for yourself.
This is of course why we can’t stress enough the importance of reading lots of reviews, as it will really help you to get a good feel for how good the quality is. A top tip when reading the reviews is to use the search function on your browser and search for the word “quality” in the reviews that way you can skip straight to customers that have mentioned about the quality of Tom Raffield Skipper Pendant Light.
Once you’ve had a good look over the reviews you’ll have a pretty good indication of how good the quality of Tom Raffield Skipper Pendant Light is, but we also have the following factors that you should consider to get an idea of the quality of the product you’re looking at.
- Price: It probably sounds obvious, but there are links to the price you pay and the quality of a product. Try and set your expectations for the quality based on your budget. You wouldn’t expect a Rolls-Royce for the price of a Fiesta so bear this in mind when shopping.
- Specification: It’s a really good idea to look over the product description and specification section of the website, for Tom Raffield Skipper Pendant Light you can read the full details on the John Lewis & Partners website where it will give you all the detail you need. It’s useful as you’ll probably already have a good idea of the sort of specs that make good Lighting. Also compare these specs to other similar products that are in the same price bracket.
- Brand: Tom Raffield are obviously a strong and recognisable brand for making great Lighting, so you’d expect Tom Raffield Skipper Pendant Light to deliver to these expectations. But always consider the brand when you’re thinking about the quality of the product you’re going to buy, and where quality is an important factor to you, look only at those well known brands (of course only if your budget allows).
- Your experience with Lighting: You’ll no doubt have some history with buying Lighting, and you may have even bought products from the same brand, Tom Raffield, use this information to your advantage. You’ll probably have a good idea of how good the quality of the product was and any faults or floors you remember from it.
Price analysis of Tom Raffield Skipper Pendant Light
Tom Raffield Skipper Pendant Light scored highly with 8.3/10 for price in our review.
Price, a hugely important part of any purchase. Price becomes even more of a consideration when we’re shopping online because it’s so amazingly simple to compare the price of several retailers in literally just a few clicks. In fact you don’t even need to do that, we’ve run price comparisons for you in order to find the best price. The lowest price we’ve managed to find Tom Raffield Skipper Pendant Light for is just £245 over at John Lewis & Partners.
There’s a lot of geeky analysis to be done on price, but what we find most effective and informative is to look at 3 different figures when comparing products and that is the average price, the most expensive and the cheapest. This gives you a really good feel for what the normal product would cost but also giving you an idea of just how cheap you can find it or the opposite, just how expensive some are. It’s also useful to look at the average of the products that fit in the same category as well as products from the same brand. So we’re going to look in more detail now at the price of Tom Raffield Skipper Pendant Light.
Prices of products in the Lighting category
We thought it would be useful to spend a bit of time exploring the price of Tom Raffield Skipper Pendant Light and seeing how it compares to other similar products. And also seeing how much variance there are in prices of products in the Lighting category. To do this we looked at all of the products over at John Lewis & Partners, there were a total of 356 products in the Lighting, and of these 356 products the average price was £221.47, making Tom Raffield Skipper Pendant Light above average at £245. We also looked at the cheapest option in the same category which was just £10.00 whilst the most expensive was £3281.00. So you can see there’s a huge variance in the price of products in this category, as an indication there were 1501 products less expensive and 170 more expensive than Tom Raffield Skipper Pendant Light in this category. So we thought it would be worth going into a bit more detail and looking at the prices of products from Tom Raffield.
Prices of products from Tom Raffield
So the average price of the 18 products available from Tom Raffield was £302.22, making £245 below average against the other products from the same brand. With the most expensive product from them coming in at £545.00 and the cheapest at £125.00. We thought a good next step would be to look more specifically at products from Tom Raffield that fit in to the category of Lighting rather than looking at all their products.
Of the 9 products from Tom Raffield in the Lighting category, the average price is £311.67 making Tom Raffield Skipper Pendant Light below average at £245. Again we looked at how much price can vary and found that the cheapest product to fit this criteria was £145.00 and the most expensive was £545.00 so there are again a lot of varying prices with the products. In fact to be precise we found 10 products from Tom Raffield that were more expensive and 5 that were cheaper.
Reviews of Tom Raffield Skipper Pendant Light
Tom Raffield Skipper Pendant Light scores 9.5/10 for customer reviews.
Reviews are really the most valuable part of your online shopping, they’re giving you the next best thing to being able to actually try the product for yourself. You’re not relying on a manufacturers sales description telling you just how good their product is, you’re getting genuine feedback from actual users of the product. We can’t stress enough how important it is that you spend some time reading the reviews of Tom Raffield Skipper Pendant Light over at John Lewis & Partners, click on the “view reviews” button now to read them.
Below is a video we found for Tom Raffield Skipper Pendant Light over on YouTube.
Overall score
Tom Raffield Skipper Pendant Light got an amazing overall score of 8.9/10 in our review.
This figure takes into account the various criteria that we’ve covered above, the price, the quality and the customer reviews, in order to give you an overall score. This overall score of 8.9/10 then gives you a really easy figure to use for comparison purposes if you’re then going on to read any of our other reviews of Lighting.
As you’ve already seen in the pricing section there are absolutely loads of different options from Tom Raffield so take your time to read the reviews, do your homework on setting a budget and seeing how the price of Tom Raffield Skipper Pendant Light stacks up against your budget and make sure you also set yourself a list of “must-haves” so you know that this product ticks all your boxes.
More info: Tom Raffield Skipper Pendant Light
- Brand: Tom Raffield
- Model Number:
- EAN: 21349553
- Description: A smaller version of Tom Raffield’s striking Butterfly pendant, The Skipper features a minimalist design, appealing to those who are looking for an understated look. The shade incorporates the brand’s signature steam bent design in stunning oak; ash; or walnut and is finished with a non-toxic varnish. Its petal-like shapes take form to allow light to intercept and cast shadows across your room. The quality and aesthetic of the wood remains at the helm in accordance with Scandinvian design principles. Fittings are included and feature an adjustable pendant cord. Growing up surrounded by the natural beauty of Exmoor, England, Tom Raffield was inspired at an early age by the unspoiled landscapes of his environment. Whilst studying at art school he developed an innovative steaming method which allowed him to manipulate a variety of wood types and bring his stunning designs to life. These contemporary pieces are heavily influenced by forms found in nature, and are constructed using sustainable materials and ecologically sound practices. Handmade in Cornwall, England, Tom Raffield’s exquisite collection of lighting and furniture offers a remedy to the current throw-away culture, and re-introduces the concept of the cherished collectable.
- Product ID: 3332512457
- Category: Furniture & Lights > Lighting > Ceiling Lighting
- Colour: Walnut
