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As with many things I am fairly picky - hey, I admit it! lol. When LED's first came out I absolutely hated them! They were either yellowish, greenish, pinkish or looked way to white to feel comfortable with. Nope - they were not for us!
Fast forward a decade, my Wife and I moved into our new home and we needed all new fixtures, sconces and lamps. The one light bulb we actually like as far as color tone, lumen output, and Kelvin temperature are the GE Reveal. The color is perfect for us and it is a very pleasing light while available in many different outputs. Even some of our new neighbors have asked me what bulbs we are using. Great, right!??
So we went to Lowes and they sell the whole line there in all different lumen (or wattage equivalents) and we bough dozens of them over the next few months as we bought fixtures. Cutting to the chase, so far I have had 11 of them either burn out, not work from the get-go or blink uncontrollably. BTW, these are supposed to last 13.5 years!!! Now please realize, these bulbs are over $8.75 each - not exactly Home Depot or Costco brand prices. So why don't we buy the H-D or Costco brand bulbs, we have - we dislike the color.
I've gone back to Lowes so many times with the receipts, and yes they give us new bulbs but COME ON!!! I have called GE twice - left on hold and I hung up. I have emailed their customer service dept. - no response. I have penned an actual letter to their HQ's - no response. Today, I went into my shop to do some work and guess what...... the one over my workbench did not go on.
OK, I grabbed my very last bulb. As much as these Chi-com bulbs are the worst quality, and I swear at them and keep saying no more GE Reveals, every other bulb we have tried is not for us. The funny part is all the other bulbs in the Home Stores are made in China too! While we don't much care for the colors & tones, they do seem to fare a bit better and they cost less than $1 each!
We are also sort of committed to these specific GE bulbs as some of the fixtures we have are multi bulb fixtures, so to replace one with a different value bulb will not do it for us. I sure hope someone else comes out with similar bulbs or that GE finally fixes the QC issues. The real kicker is that we have six, 3 way Reveal bulbs that are 3 different outputs (for lamps) and those are usually the ones that fail quickly. So far none have failed! Go figure that one!
OK, let's keep it in prospective, these are lightbulbs - not a tragic life changing issue here - I get it. It's just that I am so darned frustrated that they can't even make an EXPENSIVE light bulb that work properly! And of course it has to be the one damned bulb we like!
Fast forward a decade, my Wife and I moved into our new home and we needed all new fixtures, sconces and lamps. The one light bulb we actually like as far as color tone, lumen output, and Kelvin temperature are the GE Reveal. The color is perfect for us and it is a very pleasing light while available in many different outputs. Even some of our new neighbors have asked me what bulbs we are using. Great, right!??
So we went to Lowes and they sell the whole line there in all different lumen (or wattage equivalents) and we bough dozens of them over the next few months as we bought fixtures. Cutting to the chase, so far I have had 11 of them either burn out, not work from the get-go or blink uncontrollably. BTW, these are supposed to last 13.5 years!!! Now please realize, these bulbs are over $8.75 each - not exactly Home Depot or Costco brand prices. So why don't we buy the H-D or Costco brand bulbs, we have - we dislike the color.
I've gone back to Lowes so many times with the receipts, and yes they give us new bulbs but COME ON!!! I have called GE twice - left on hold and I hung up. I have emailed their customer service dept. - no response. I have penned an actual letter to their HQ's - no response. Today, I went into my shop to do some work and guess what...... the one over my workbench did not go on.
OK, I grabbed my very last bulb. As much as these Chi-com bulbs are the worst quality, and I swear at them and keep saying no more GE Reveals, every other bulb we have tried is not for us. The funny part is all the other bulbs in the Home Stores are made in China too! While we don't much care for the colors & tones, they do seem to fare a bit better and they cost less than $1 each! We are also sort of committed to these specific GE bulbs as some of the fixtures we have are multi bulb fixtures, so to replace one with a different value bulb will not do it for us. I sure hope someone else comes out with similar bulbs or that GE finally fixes the QC issues. The real kicker is that we have six, 3 way Reveal bulbs that are 3 different outputs (for lamps) and those are usually the ones that fail quickly. So far none have failed! Go figure that one!
OK, let's keep it in prospective, these are lightbulbs - not a tragic life changing issue here - I get it. It's just that I am so darned frustrated that they can't even make an EXPENSIVE light bulb that work properly! And of course it has to be the one damned bulb we like!
