One would think that buying at IKEA gives you more reliability. Well, tough luck.
The energy saving lamps I bought there promise the usual – “10,000 hours”. I don’t know really on what planet that might be. Many Chinese similar lamps don’t last long either, but I was hoping IKEA would do better. Maybe like Valerie said, it’s not 10,000 hours of operation, it’s 10,000 hours you HAVE the lamp. They get busted too quickly really. They don’t even mention the color of the “white” light. The IKEA lights turned out to be very yellow and contrast a lot with other Philips energy saving lamps. So, sure not likely to buy them again.
I bought the cute extension cords hoping they would at least work or work better than the usual Chinese crap. Wrong again. At first I blamed the plug. Finally I opened the extension cord and found the middle wire was not soldered to the terminal – the wire was a little too short and jumped off the terminal. Once soldered, in business again