For the money, the Mayfair outdoor lantern looks nice enough and provides adequate light beside our front door. Before I bought it I phoned Valuelights to ask how the lamp worked... "Did it come on at dusk and go off at dawn or only light when the PIR sensor detects movement?" The gentleman I spoke to told me it was a dawn to dusk lamp. Wrong. It isn't on all the hours of darkness, although I haven't yet worked out what does turn it on as it seems to illuminate quite randomly - as well as when someone approaches it. I not going to send it back, although I might replace it wjth what I really wanted in due course.