Customer Reviews

7 Watt Ceramic Red C9 Light Bulb / Intermediate Base / Incandescent Christmas Light Bulb / Holiday Light Bulb

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I've always used C9 bulbs on my outdoor strings. This year (Christmas 2010) for the first time I have been unable to find replacement bulbs locally. Apparently the usual supplier (Sylvania?) stopped making them now that everyone is going LED. So I was happy to find these. They cost about half what C9s used to cost at the local hardware store.

I bought 50 of them, red, orange, green, blue. I had one DOA and no burnouts in the first couple of weeks, which is better than the old hardware store bulbs. My only complaint is that the red bulbs are not a nice deep red like the Sylvanias, they are more like a red-orange. The other colors are fine, brightness is fine. No off-center or loose bases. A good substitute. I think they're made in Thailand.

My sister recently gave me a broken red mini type bulb that was to be an
essential element of a monstrous statue, to be part of a gag wedding gift
for my niece getting married in a couple of months. I walked around the
Mall in a couple of outlet stores with no luck finding what I needed. I
decided to give the Net a try, so I went to Amazon.com I found a site with
a billion bulbs. I bought two handfuls, dirt cheap. Shipping cost 10x what
the bulbs cost. They got to me super fast. It all would have been worth it if
I had kept a closer look on the broken bulb and actually bought the right
size bulb...dummy! Some lessons are a hassle to learn.