You bought ONE bulb that died, therefore THEY don't last longer? (I've had incandescents do the same thing.) Of course they last longer! I've got about a dozen in my house and some have been going for 5 years.
For other folks:
The brand I have looks just like regular bulbs in color.
If you think one size is too dim, buy a larger wattage. That's not hard to figure out.
C’mon, 8,000 hours is like 333 days running constantly. It lasts six or seven months of using them 4-8 hours per day. That’s way, way short of the mark. If they say 8,000 hours, they should deliver 8,000 hours. At the very least they should deliver 6,500 hours. So, like assuming 7 months at 30 day/month and 8 hours of use per day I got about 1700 hours. How is that even close? It’s something like 22% of the promised life.
Plus after reading about the clean up at Junk Science I don’t know that the hassle of an accident is something I want to put up with. So the false advertising and the potential for poisoning myself tells me that this isn’t the right technology.
I have more then that one bulb but I don’t think I’ll be buying anymore. Sometimes I drop things, I don’t want to spend $2,000 or have to put on a hazmat suit to clean it up.