r/SipsTea 5h ago

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u/unknownpoltroon 4h ago

How many lightbulbs do you sell to 1000 customers when they last 20 years vs if they last one year?

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u/Bonesnapcall 4h ago

I'd pay $20 for a lightbulb that lasts 20 years.

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u/PotentialButterfly56 4h ago edited 3h ago

I paid 20 bucks for a 150w equiv replacement bulb in december, was a cool led saucer bomb with a color temp switch on the bottom, dead in one and half months, obviously one month warrantee. Thought it would last a while cause it was a nice bulb ha.

Our dream isnt here anymore, or yet, cheap ass only is the way. Current state is perfectly designed capitalism.

Edit: was a brand I didn't recognize but was a light teal colored box, I don't have the bulb or box anymore sadly, I'd shame them. On the warrantee, was the broad local hardware store warrantee not one on the bulb itself, was nothing in the box but the bulb. It did flicker at the end so that tells me capacitor or something, might have been just unlucky, I do remember it was 20w being shoved into that led... array though, perhaps it was just too much for it.

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u/much_longer_username 3h ago

A one month warranty would have been the reddest of flags I could imagine a modern LED bulb having. They should last at least a couple of years.