[pnh102]

I remember getting these. I love how we are now paying $12 a year forever for these "free gifts."

Our entire house uses nothing but CFL bulbs. We gain nothing from this initiative, except a higher electric bill.

[GodGunsGuts]

So now they can just mail you stuff you never ordered and just bill you?!?!? What happens if you don’t pay?

[weegee]

I remember an old PSA on tv that had the announcer saying that if you receive something through the US Postal Service, and you didn’t order it. It’s YOURs. They can’t go asking for money for unsolicited “gifts”.

[John123]

$11.88 for two compact florescent light bulbs? Pricey. Were the customers given a choice?

[Freeport]

$12 bucks!

Shoot! I bought three 100w equivalent bulbs for $18!!!

Send them back!

[cinives]

Do they come with instructions that once turned on, they should be left on for at least 15 minutes ? Or how about if you break one you need to immediately exit the room and call a hazmat team to contain and remove the mercury ? Or when they die you cannot throw them out but instead you need to take them to a hazardous waste recycling site ?

I bet not.

[NonValueAdded]

LOL .. they took a page right out of the old Ma Bell play book. For the kiddies and those reading in Rio Linda, way back when you could not buy your own phone, you could only lease one from the local phone company. The claim was that they must control what is connected to their network. They'd send the "phone cops" (hat tip to Dr. Johnny Fever) out to do a disconnect if they detected foreign equipment. The monthly charge was not that great, but you ended up paying for the phone a dozen times over.

I'd send them back their bulbs and not be too careful about the packaging. That would create an environmental nightmare in their receiving department, though, and probably earn you a $3000 hazmat charge on your next bill.

[ontap]

Sounds to me like they need to bitch slap their legislature and force these people to make some refunds.

[DaGman]

Renting light bulbs? Such are the wonders of utility deregulation. Utility deregulation is one of the biggest scams of our time. There is absolutely nothing good about it. The consumer in no way benefits from “competition”. All the prices are fixed.

Utilities are one of the few areas where a well regulated, preferably publicly owned, monopoly is appropriate. Taxpayers could storm city hall whenever this kind of “revenue generation” BS was employed.

[ml/nj]

I'm pretty sure that one who recieves unordered merchandise via the US Mail is under no obligation to return it or pay for it.

ML/NJ

[ErnBatavia]

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