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Don Klipstein

In article . com,
wrote:
the manufacturers are trying to figure out how to make them fail sooner
so you keep buying more.....

just think of it light sets that last forever? sales just STOP

currently there working on a tiny bomb to go off after a year or two to
discourage reuse. just part of the set will quit.......

And we'll buy from someone who does not timebomb them! Sales throughout
the entire industry will plummet once ones that don't have burnout
problems hit the market. However, manufacturers of ones that do not burn
out will have continued sales from population growth and from people who
add more lights every year and from replacement of units mangled by
children, pets, accidents and lost during moves. Smart consumers should
cause burnout-ones to be the ones whose sales drop to zero!

Remember "Forever Bright"? It appears to me they're still around, only
with their lights now having the Philips name! Whether or not the
Philips ones are actually what was made under the "Forever Bright"
brand, you can get those at Target!
And if Philips starts timebombing them (I expect they have too much to
lose in sales of other goods if they would stoop to doing that, so I
expect they won't), someone else will find a profit motive to sell
non-timebombed replacements!

- Don Klipstein )