not free
The
Ohio Public Utilities Commission has announced that they are asking FirstEnergy, the utlility company that was going to force its customers to pay $10.80 per light bulb as part of an energy-saving program, to delay the implementation of said program until they can figure out what the %#$& was going on.
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not free
Hey, who doesn't like to get free stuff from the power company? So it's awfully nice of Ohio utility FirstEnergy to deliver compact fluorescent bulbs to their customers' homes. Except for the part where the bulbs aren't free, and customers are being forced to pay nearly five times the retail price of the bulbs.
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success stories
It took an
Executive Email Carpet Bomb to convince
Best Buy to replace Bryan's Panasonic LiFi LCD Projection TV after it ate through four lamps. Bryan had purchased
Best Buy's extended warranty, which contains a no lemon clause that promises a replacement after three failed repairs. Best Buy conveniently insisted that replacing the broken lamp did not count as a "qualified repair." Bryan first escalated his complaint through normal channels; when he had no other choice, he launched the mighty EECB.
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fry's
Jim spotted this confusing sign at a Fry's store in Campbell, Calif. On a display of compact fluorescent
light bulbs, the store helpfully notes that some assembly is required. "Is it safe to assemble your own fluorescent light bulbs?" he wrote. "I mean with the dangerous mercury vapor and all?"
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home depot
We've
already mentioned this but people keep sending it in as a tip so apparently it bears repeating: Home Depot will be giving away 1 million (as in, not enough for all of you, Dear Consumerist Readers, for you are many and Home Depot is few) CFLs this Sunday in honor of Earth Day and as part of their new "
green" labeling promotion.
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Consumerist
Home Depot has started a nationwide compact flourescent light bulb recycling program. "At each The Home Depot store, customers can simply bring in any expired, unbroken CFL bulbs, and give them to the store associate behind the returns desk." CFL bulbs contain mercury and can be damaging to the environment if thrown into regular landfills. [New York Times]
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