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Pros: 4000k hard to find in LED bulbs

Cons: Poor reliability.

I purchased a 6 pack of these for a 4 bulb fixture in my home office and for 2 other single fixtures. Monoprice is one of the few merchants that have these kind of bulbs in 4000k (a more suitable color temp for an office). Although this review is quite some time since I purchased them, almost immediately I would have a "strobing" bulb when I installed them. After pulling different bulbs from the fixture and swapping places, it took me a long time to finally figure out 2 of the bulbs are bad and it is not my fixture.

I will have to search for other places to buy these kind of bulbs from in the future.

There's not much else that's important to say. These are a long way from the 20+ years LED promise. Interestingly, a couple of them failed in a way that they light up partially when the fixture is turned off.

Pros: Look great, seemingly run cool

Cons: died very early.

Bulbs arrived quickly and worked great out of the box. I've been slowly switching all my bulbs to LEDs over the past year or so and these were a good price so I jumped on them. About 2 weeks ago one of the bulbs dies, which although a little disappointing I wasn't to upset about. Fast forward until late last week and now 4/6 of the bulbs are dead. This is across 3 different fixtures in a 20year old house.

Requesting an RMA now, hopefully it was just a bad price.

Over the past year I have replaced bulbs around the house with these. One by one they each failed in about a month.

Pros: Low cost
Energy efficient

Cons: Light color - like fluorescent, cold, and soulless
Very short life

I was hoping for energy efficiency at a low cost, unfortunately, after just under 6 months, the first two bulbs I installed burned out simultaneously. The bulbs which boast 25,000 hours of life gave me just under 1,500 hours of life, short by a factor of ten.