I am currently in the process of stocking up on lots and lots of fluorescent tubes, so that I will have a good stock for the rest of my forseeable life as a lighting enthusiast. So far, I have a few hundred fluorescent tubes in my collection, which is wonderful! It is unlikely that I will be able to use them all up in my lifetime, but I also want to be able to help out other lighting enthusiasts who might need tubes in the future, so they are not just for me! I feel like I should be good to go for a while forward. I am still stocking up on shorter tubes, such as 18W 2 footers and T12 2 footers. I have bought a lot of tubes from a seller on ebay named gluhbirnen shop, and also bought a lot from a site called "any lamp", which have a swedish version of their website. I like osram tubes a lot, they have always been great quality in my experience, so I have been buying mostly osram. I have also been buying a lot of philips super-80 tubes, because they are really cheap. not the best quality, but they should work for quite a while too! One thing I find extremely interesting about the Osram tubes, is that they are now apparently made in china. and their printing looks very different from before. I am having a really difficult time understanding their new date code systems, I know that they are made in Foshan, China. But then I do not understand how to decode the year/month. Either way, the tubes are very freshly made! And there seems to be almost an endless supply of them still, which makes me think that these must be still being manufactured. Could it be that they have moved their production over to china in order to avoid the EU ''ban''? It would be so wonderful if this was the case! I am super happy that I can still buy brand new tubes this easily, when the ''ban'' was first being talked about back in 2023 I thought it would mean the end for people like me who like these things, but well, here I am in 2025, and I am still not having any difficulty at all getting my hands on tubes Sure, the local electrical supply house has stopped carrying tubes, but there are plenty of places online who sell tubes very reasonably priced! Oh yes, my local super market still sells philips tubes too. So there still seems to be hope

either way, I am stocking up while I still can, just in case things go south soon. there is still a LOT of tubes missing from my collection that I would like to aquire, especially T12 bulbs, and coloured bulbs. But I will keep looking Luckily, I am not the only lighting nerd out there in the world, hehe. So I am hoping I will be able to run across some eventually!

This may very well be old stock from that company. As far as i am aware, importation of fluorescents into the EU has stopped. It's just that there are enormous amounts of stock everywhere that deplete slower and slower with more offices being converted to LED.

I can still easily buy incandescent lamps, but that's also just because there are huge stocks still sitting around everywhere. It's been 13 years ago since the 100w light bulb got banned in my country, but if i want, i can just order a box of them.

The only thing i cannot do anymore is go to the hardware store and buy them. The final stock of their tubes is now in the bargain bins, regular stock is only LED.