Shortest Light Bulb Life Currently Known to Mankind...
341665
If you love not having those pesky mosquitos biting the crap out of you on those already uncomfortable humid Texas nights, I would buy ANYthing OTHER then this product.  The marketing department at this company should pimp themselves out because they really showed it to be the best new and blah blah blah... the actual device, sucks.... everyone continued to be bothered by mosquitoe some even commented that there were seemingly MORE of them... this is probably due to the little blister pack mosquito ATTRACTOR "juice" thing or whatever.  The mosquitos now had a sort of neon sign to fly to and blow off the device because I didn't hear or see one insect of any kind ever die in this device!!  They market it as "NO ELECTRIC SHOCKING NOISES!  Get real... hell, I WANT to hear this noise... makes me feel better knowing it's doing SOMETHING to some type of bug... ANYway... ABOUT THIS particular item... not only does the device it goes in suck... I actually went through THREE of these in LESS THEN A MONTH!!  WHAT THE HELL?!?  NO KILLING, NO LASTING BULBS???  It's not that it's attracti ve to look at either. I acutally set it out on the curb for anyone to pick it up and it stayed on the curb for 3 days until the trash pickup took it to where they all should be taken to... the community landfills.
SO... My summary for this product AND the thing it goes into??  Yeah... Saying it SO SUCKS OUT LOUD isn't even a bad comment.

DO NOT BUY THIS CRAP...  MARKETING DEPARTMENT??  EXCELLENT SKILLS... you get the picture.

Thanks for reading this and have a bug free life with SOMETHING ELSE... take care.
1744673
Why in the world would they take a simple desk lamp and make it complicated by using a light bulb that is impossible to find?  The light bulb base has two prongs that you shove in and then twist until it clicks into place.  Okay okay, it does come with one bulb, but once this bulb burns out the lamp is worthless except as a paper weight.

I bought this lamp to be a simple desk lamp thinking that I could just throw in a regular bulb that screws in the way Mother Nature intended light bulbs to be.  Au contraire mon frere!  It was not to be.  If this is evolution, you can keep it.
3368831
So far...so good. I use this tiny bulb in a small lamp in my RV. I wanted to minimize power draw when "boondocking" (not plugged in to shore power) and running on batteries to minimize power use while having a nice, ambient light in addition to the rather cold, "bluish" LED lights in my RV.
1156636
GE made these with 2 different bulb types. Ones replacable, but this style bulb here you throw bulb & lantern away when it goes.
The new GE lanterns Fluorescent bulbs are not available. There's some hard wired and glued into place. These lights are junk and filling up our landfills. GE is the biggest lightbulb manufacture in the world and refuses to make them for its own products. Also owners are stating less than 1000 hrs usage from these bulbs. I can believe that too since I quit buying GE's regular bulbs a few yrs back due to short life span.
 If this was a 10.00 lantern I would tend to agree with them to toss the light but at 39.00 they can kiss mine! Buyer Beware of GE's practices. Research all thier products well.

As a side note: Our GE dishwasher is being recalled for being fire hazards. Second GE dishwasher recall in less than 10 yrs for the same reason. Check google for models so it don't burn your family up. Seems GE don't care what they sell as long as it sells....CROOKS! I'm done with you GE!
2532066
These bulbs do not last long but they are easy to replace.  Nevertheless, the quality is not the best but I guess they will have to do.  I wish there is a replacement bulb out there which fit this TV which will last longer than 3 months at the most.  With the new technology today, I'm sure there is some replacement light bulb which may last longer with the same amount of light and use less energy.
60228
Do not buy these lights! I have used several bulbs already because they do not last! The most recent one I installed lasted less than 1 month. The "long life 2,000 hour" listed in the description is a joke. So far I've gotten less than 120 hours out of them. I thought I was saving myself money, but given their extremely short life, these cost more than buying from a big name store.
1264128
One week and one bulb is out. Too expensive for only a week's service.
575268
I placed this 75 watt equivalent warm white bulb in service in late December 14 and by the first week in May 2015 the bulb had dimmed to the level of a typical night light.  Before installation, the wattage checked on a Killawatt meter was around 12 Watts, just a little less than the 13 Watts specified by Philips.  When I checked today it is less than 4 Watts.  The bulb was installed in an open fixture in an air conditioned basement ceiling and ran 24/7. No dimmer installed. In other words, an ideal environment.  Philips claims a lifetime of  22.8 years at 3 hrs per day.  That equates to more than 34 months running 24/7.  Mine lasted less than 5 months at a usable brightness.  The individual LEDs still look uniform in brightness.  I suspect that there is a problem with the built in drivers that convert 120 volts AC to low voltage DC.

On the plus side this bulb put out very little heat and never got more than slightly warm to the touch.  However, the light was so yellow that it looked dingy.  This bulb replaced a 60 watt equivalent CFL that had run 24/7 for 3 full years.  Going back to the CFL.
3582167
My question is ...Who thought that having a light with this type was a good Idea? You cant even buy these STUPID light bulbs anymore...So I am VERY thankful for these adapters.

I hope the genius who designed the light bulbs with the brilliant connectors is taking note. We wouldn't need these adapters if the So called Genius was a forward thinker....perhaps we will call him BONEHEAD from this point forward....

Thank you for a great Design for these adapters....great price as well.....
1720776
Nice color/spectrum, though this bulb lasted all of about 3 months before giving out. Probably one of the shortest-lived bulbs I've ever used.
3448185
I bought two and one burned out within only a few hours of use. So I lowered my rating dramatically. I don't know how long the other will last.

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This is a compact small bulb that doesn't look too out of place in a candelabra socket in my ceiling fan.  I strongly prefer the 5000 K white light and was delighted to find such a small bulb with good light output.  It's not going to put your eyes out, but with four of them in the ceiling fan, it provides quite adequate lighting for my wife's sewing room.  It's certainly a lot brighter than the incandescent bulbs it replaced.  And the price is quite reasonable, too.  I thought about LED lighting, but LED lights are often too directional - not to mention still being too expensive.  Also it seems to me that the lumen specification of LED lights is overstated compared to CFC lights. I'm usually disappointed with the light output of LED lights.
1127166
I use this for sewing and reading and it works well for me. The lifetime of the bulb was way too short - another cheap bulb from China bites the dust despite having the name OttLite printed on it. This was my third Ott-lite but the previous two were different models.
I purchased this lamp in August 2012 and as of May 2016, I am still using this lamp at least 12 hours a day, 7 days a week. The solution I found for the original Ott-lite bulb is to purchase "Great Value Daylight" compact fluorescent bulbs, 60 watt equivalent/14 watt actually used, in packages of 4 from my local W...m..t for an excellent price.
I purchased the white version of this light and the plastic hood around the light bulb has discolored to a yellow tint over time, but that really doesn't bother me. Now I'm looking for a second one at a good price, but this time in black.
3794818
Three stars for the low life expectancy. I bought a package of 9006 of  this type for my minivan. Rated life 850 hours on the back of the package. Good! Thats a lot of nighttime driving. The 9005 arrived today and the back of the package says 200 hours for a rated life. Hummm... Thats a big difference.  I wish they posted that on Amazon so I could could have avoided buying the 9005 lights. So do I put them in for a year and replace them next year at this time? Frame of reference 10,000 miles at 60 miles per hour is 166 hours.
917483
Proprietary connectors and incandescent technology.  No reason this shouldn't be a $3 LED that lasts forever rather than a bulb that is near impossible to replace and burns out.
420342
They're pretty bright, nice-looking, and they work with a pleasing light. What more could you want from a fancy lightbulb?

Except that 2 years later, two of the three bulbs are out. They are supposed to have a nearly 6 year continuous duty. We don't run them constantly, so this is pathetically shorter than the advertised lifespan.

I do not recommend them if you need more than about a year out of them continuous use.
2074842
I installed this GE CFL light bulb in a motion-sensitive fixture, and less than one week later it died.  The motion sensors would turn it on maybe a couple dozen times per day for 30 seconds each time, so the bulb was on about 12 minutes per day (24 x 30 seconds = 720 seconds; 720/60 seconds = 12 minutes).  The bulb is advertised to have an 11-year life based on 3 hours use per day.

Sure, GE might argue that  turning the bulb on and off (via motion sensors) two dozen times per day diminishes the life span somewhat, but this is ridiculous and inexcusable.  GE recently announced they are phasing out CFL bulbs and will stop producing them by the end of 2016 (and shift production to LED bulbs).  Buyer Beware!!!!
1152620
About a year ago I bought 3 Cree 100-watt replacement LED bulb one just went dead, so failure rate for me is at 33%, the other two seem to be just fine... It's disappointing that you spend 20 dollars on light bulb and last less than a 8 dollar CFL.