Reason I have my 22W circline CFL and i noticed it has "LIGHTS OF AMERICA" printed on it, but I've always heard people bashing on LOA, is the company really that bad? is this CFL going to fail quickly? is this Lights of america different from the chinese one? or they all one in the same and the company just used to be good then went to piss? very curious. btw this question is not entirely about the CFL, this is just an in general question and I'm using the CFL as an example.

it depends, I do have a few Par38 LED bulbs from them used outdoors and they have been up for about 7 years and they still work, and I have an A-19 it works but it emits the most annoying whine when it's on, and it's an ugly (...) all metal with a strip of leds around the middle and a few at the top, but on the other hand I've had a  4 foot florescent fixture fail in the first week, it smoked, they wouldn't start once it got below 60 F, there is nothing you can do to fix them, a stock ballast won't fit, they are flimsy and bend with nothing more then a bug crawling on them, an even good quality tubes didn't last long, but they did make them cheap though, and there sockets for under counter lighting look nice but the GX52 led bulbs they came with sucked, they where dim and fell apart in days, the cheap Ikea Gx52 bulbs are much better and look good in the chrome fixture (I can't complain to much since I only paid a $1 for three GX52 sockets and lights with a cord, and the PAR38 Leds where $0.97 at walmart since they where getting rid of them, back when any other LED PAR 38 was $30 to $50 / bulb.)

it depends, I do have a few Par38 LED bulbs from them used outdoors and they have been up for about 7 years and they still work, and I have an A-19 it works but it emits the most annoying whine when it's on, and it's an ugly (...) all metal with a strip of leds around the middle and a few at the top, but on the other hand I've had a  4 foot florescent fixture fail in the first week, it smoked, they wouldn't start once it got below 60 F, there is nothing you can do to fix them, a stock ballast won't fit, they are flimsy and bend with nothing more then a bug crawling on them, an even good quality tubes didn't last long, but they did make them cheap though, and there sockets for under counter lighting look nice but the GX52 led bulbs they came with sucked, they where dim and fell apart in days, the cheap Ikea Gx52 bulbs are much better and look good in the chrome fixture (I can't complain to much since I only paid a $1 for three GX52 sockets and lights with a cord, and the PAR38 Leds where $0.97 at walmart since they where getting rid of them, back when any other LED PAR 38 was $30 to $50 / bulb.)

Could you post a picture of the bulb that whines annoyingly? I am curious what it looks like.. I think i may have encountered one before...