For an LED light -
"LIFETIME WARRANTY 50000 hours of lifespan.1 year warranty and 30 days free replacement or refunds guarantee."
50,000 hours at 2 hours a day is ≈68 years.
Yea, could be a "lifetime".....
jerryc41 wrote:
For an LED light -
"LIFETIME WARRANTY 50000 hours of lifespan.1 year warranty and 30 days free replacement or refunds guarantee."
Try and collect on that!!
jerryc41 wrote:
For an LED light -
"LIFETIME WARRANTY 50000 hours of lifespan.1 year warranty and 30 days free replacement or refunds guarantee."
An oxymoronic statement alright.
Lifetime warranty often means the average lifetime of such products. SCAM
Bridges
Loc: Memphis, Charleston SC, now Nazareth PA
Manglesphoto wrote:
Try and collect on that!!
Right! When LEDs first began coming down in price, they were still around 4.50 each. Every time I went to Home Depot I would get a couple. I couldn't afford to replace all 78 lights in the house all at once (this didn't count lamps, just bucket lights etc.). I was expecting to get 3 to 5 years from each bulb since we burned them much longer than the 3 hours the package would state and which would allow them to last for 22 years. Well, about a year and a half into the project I noticed some starting to fail. I began writing the install date on the base of the bulb when putting new ones in. Some were lasting only about 9 months and others up to 1 1/2 years. When I approached HD they told me I would have to contact CREE. I wrote them a letter explaining what was going on with their bulbs and I never heard from them! Needless to say, I have never purchased another CREE bulb. I only buy Phillips or GE bulbs. CREE supposedly developed the LED lights and I'm sure some of the money I spend on other mfg. bulbs find their way back to CREE because of patent licensing, but they are not getting the same amount they would be getting if I was purchasing their product.
I always ask,.....Whose life?????????
I have LED bulbs in light fixtures on each side of my garage door that have been lit for about three years. Same for my front porch light. I’m a believer in LEDs. I wonder if cycling them off and on shortens their life.
Stan
sb
Loc: Florida's East Coast
I saw an ad for a roofing company that offered a "lifetime warranty".
My first thought was that their business plan must include: "Close business down after ten years. Reorganize under a new LLC".
I have a standard bulb in an outside light that sense light change, in other words it turns on at dusk and off at daybreak. The bulb has been in this light since I bought the house in 2001.
jerryc41 wrote:
For an LED light -
"LIFETIME WARRANTY 50000 hours of lifespan.1 year warranty and 30 days free replacement or refunds guarantee."
Whenever a sales rep tells me about a "Lifetime Warranty", I always ask them if that means that when the product breaks/fails they send somebody out to kill ME. A "Deer in the Headlights" look follows!
Wolrds worst warranty is a lifetime warranty on a pacemaker.
Check out YouTube for the "Great Light Bulb Conspiracy",
and how it now applies to LEDs.
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