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In article <10183@pogo.WV.TEK.COM> bobt@pogo.WV.TEK.COM (Bob Tidrick) writes:
>filiment but when it goes out, which is every couple of months or so, I give
>it a bump and it works again. BOY, HOW DID THE BULB MANUFACTURERS LET THIS ONE
>SLIP BY.

Could you email me a copy of that bulb?  Ours keep on
going poof on us... :-)

>Another question.  How can they sell Christmas lights for as little as $ 0.10
>and a 40 watt bulb sells for nearly $2.00 ? Can it all be Volume? The design
>is basicly the same. There is only a few cents more material.  I think we are
>getting ripped off two ways here. 

Doubtful.  Bulbs are a commodity, probably with a minimal
margins, being supplied by several companies.

More likely it's not "volume" but volume :).  A 40-watter takes up about
ten times the space a little blinky xmas light does.  It costs therefore
about ten times as much to transport and store the things.  They're
also about a tenth as robust, so losses due to breakage are likely
higher.  Plus, the capital equipment used to manufacture the bigger
bulbs has to be much more complicated, and there's probably more labor
involved.  Then also, I'll bet the regular bulbs are made in the USA,
and the christmas lights...well...

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