At stores the current socket designs for table lamps sucks, "the missing top socket casing sydrome" is something I hate!!! Those older metalic designs were much better, I've seen those plastic designs come out as early as the 1990s........don't like it one bit, it also causes more trashing lamps if nobody buys it due to this long time flaw!!!!

Lamps don't last as long as they used to.

streetlight fixtures are not as sturdy as they used to be.

When a light is serviced and it is not fixed right ie: wrong lense lamp and so on.

when fixtures are repaired,only to be shot out again.

When streetlights are relamped, only to be changed out to high pressure sodium fixtures.

When a hardware store sells a fixture that uses a special CFL but does not sell the replacement lamps. And at the same time sells replacement CFL's for fixtures that it doesn't sell!!

EDIT: Now I have more time to post, here are the details:

The store I am moaning about here is Wilkinson's Hardware. In their lighting range they stock mostly incandescent fixtures but do have two CFL fixtures; one is a small bedside type light that uses a 10w 4-pin PLC lamp, the other is an outdoor porch light that requires a 16w 2D lamp (with this fixture the lamp has to be bought separately as it's not included in the box).

However in their lamp section they stock neither 10w PLC or 16w 2D lamps - but for some unknown reason they stock 18w PLC lamps!!

Sounds like my hardware store, they sell LPS, and not a one LPS fixture to be found!

@Mr. Big - WHAT??? What hardware store sells LPS? Never heard of that info. Thought ye have to order them online.

@FGS ACE sells them here! There are only 2 on the shelf tho!

They too expensive? Who made them and what wattage are they?

90 watt if I remember, and ones osram and the other's philips
and yeah, 50 bucks for 1 not gonna be getting one soon

i hate it when a store jacks up the price,for example i can get a Regent Mercury Vapor Yardblaster at ace for 26.92$$,the same bucket is sold at a small family owned hardware store for 64.88$$!!!

when a MV streetlight is dayburning and it doesn't get fixed. then the ballast fries and insead of a new PC and MV ballast they give it a HPS ballast! and the light next to it is still a MV.

it also bothers me when the original glass in busted,only to be replaced by a plastic aftermarket refractor that yellows up badly within a year!!!