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Ali Coleman
- Jan 1, 1970
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I am in the UK.
The bargain of the moment seems to be the discount store long-life bulb.
I mean the compact fluorescent type (CFL).
China may have cheap labour but I would imagine that the materials cost
of a CFL would not be vastly different than elsewhere. The electronics
is not elaborate but it is not entirely trivial. The folder cylindrical
bulbs and their coating have a real cost.
So how is it that these bulbs are so cheap? To look at their packagaing
and steady supply of bulbs, it does not seem they have come from a quick
sale of surplus stock.
So have they been slipped out the back door. A missing lorry or two in
China and arrived here in their tens of thousands?
Or is the explanation much more rational and less dramatic?
The bargain of the moment seems to be the discount store long-life bulb.
I mean the compact fluorescent type (CFL).
China may have cheap labour but I would imagine that the materials cost
of a CFL would not be vastly different than elsewhere. The electronics
is not elaborate but it is not entirely trivial. The folder cylindrical
bulbs and their coating have a real cost.
So how is it that these bulbs are so cheap? To look at their packagaing
and steady supply of bulbs, it does not seem they have come from a quick
sale of surplus stock.
So have they been slipped out the back door. A missing lorry or two in
China and arrived here in their tens of thousands?
Or is the explanation much more rational and less dramatic?