DAMIAN MULARZ · Tarnobrzeg, Podkarpackie
A shop on the Vistula bend
DAMIAN MULARZ trades from Tarnobrzeg, a town on the Vistula in Podkarpackie where summer arrives early and leaves late, and where a fan is not a lifestyle accessory but the difference between sleeping and not sleeping. The business grew out of that: four fans to move air and four power banks to keep a phone alive through a long day away from a socket. Eight products, two problems. We buy in small quantities, check every unit here, and keep the range narrow enough that a question about one of them reaches somebody who has actually run its battery flat. No warehouse pallets, no anonymous fulfilment, no products we have never held in our hands.
Two problems, one bench
A neck fan and a power bank fail in the same way: quietly, and in public. The fan that sounds impressive on the first speed and rattles on the third; the power bank that charges a phone once and a half when the label promises three. So both are tested the way they will be used. Fans run on every speed setting until the cell gives out, with the airflow checked at arm's length rather than against the vent. Power banks are cycled from full to empty and back again, with the delivered capacity measured at the port instead of copied from the box. Whatever survives that week gets listed; whatever does not goes back to the supplier.
What the labels leave out
The capacity printed on a power bank is the capacity of the cells inside it, not the number of charges you will get, because converting 3.7 volts to the 5 volts a phone expects loses energy on the way. We state the delivered figure on the product page and let you do the arithmetic honestly. The fans have their own quiet omissions: a run time quoted at the lowest speed, a noise figure taken at the highest, and a battery life that assumes a cool room. We publish the conditions with the number, so a six-hour fan is described as six hours on speed one in still air. It makes for a duller page and considerably fewer returns.
The paperwork, without small print
Everything bought here carries the fourteen-day right of withdrawal that European consumer law gives you, and the two-year legal guarantee of conformity that Polish law adds on top. We do not ask you to register anything or keep a receipt in a drawer; the order number in your email is enough. Returns come back to Tarnobrzeg, and if an item is faulty we pay the postage in both directions. Orders are prepared within two business days and shipping is calculated at checkout before you pay. If you are deciding between two fans, tell us the size of the room and we will say which one is likely to be enough, including when the honest answer is that neither will be.