I bought this lightbulb in November and after only a few days it turned black but still worked. I contacted the company and they never responded but did send a replacement bulb which I was surprised to receive since I never heard from them. The replacement bulb also turned black after only a few day and only lasted a couple more months before it burned out. I tested with another bulb to make sure it wasn’t the lamp and that bulb has held up just fine so apparently these bulbs just aren’t very good which is sad because they’re so pretty for the first day.