The Mirror is giving away free CFLs (energy saving light bulbs) with this weekends edition. Retailers already have the lamps to dish out. The Sun did this last year, and we had about 20 packs left over in our shop, we let staff take them (they had zero value to the store and there were no returns procedures).
I did a count of the CFLs in my cupboard earlier and I have enough to last me about 60 years.
Four were free from British Gas (with whom we aint a customer), three were on special offer at morrisons, and one is a dimmable one i bought just to try it out. We only have two fittings that can take these CFLs, they are all Bayonet caps. Most of our fittings are SES (small screw) or ES (screw) fittings, with golf ball lamps or candle lamps.
So please, newspapers and energy companies, we dont need any more BC CFLs, we want decorative ones in ES and SES fitting!
This must create an awful lot of surplus lamps. Think of my stock that will take me 60 years to get through if I dont fit any more BC fittings (hard to come by)
At least let us choose what type lamps we desire! I mean, BG posted us our four free lamps. Would it have been so expensive to pay for two letters to ask us what type of lamps we want, compared to the cost of sending the lamps in the parcel in the first place???
I guess the theory behind BG sending four lamps is that we replace four lamps for these energy savers. But all TWO of our BC fittings have CFLs already! I dont see the point.
I did a count of the CFLs in my cupboard earlier and I have enough to last me about 60 years.
Four were free from British Gas (with whom we aint a customer), three were on special offer at morrisons, and one is a dimmable one i bought just to try it out. We only have two fittings that can take these CFLs, they are all Bayonet caps. Most of our fittings are SES (small screw) or ES (screw) fittings, with golf ball lamps or candle lamps.
So please, newspapers and energy companies, we dont need any more BC CFLs, we want decorative ones in ES and SES fitting!
This must create an awful lot of surplus lamps. Think of my stock that will take me 60 years to get through if I dont fit any more BC fittings (hard to come by)
At least let us choose what type lamps we desire! I mean, BG posted us our four free lamps. Would it have been so expensive to pay for two letters to ask us what type of lamps we want, compared to the cost of sending the lamps in the parcel in the first place???
I guess the theory behind BG sending four lamps is that we replace four lamps for these energy savers. But all TWO of our BC fittings have CFLs already! I dont see the point.