Looking for a reseller in UAE who can buy from amazon.ae and sell to the US. - Page 1
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author: Ben321
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: April 18, 2025, 08:38:53 pm
content: I read about the longest lasting LED bulbs ever made that are ONLY sold in the UAE, that are often called the "Dubai LED bulbs". You see, the company Philips, due to a law in the UAE requiring long lasting light bulbs, made a special version of their LED bulbs that used more LEDs for the same amount of power, thus distributing the same power over more chips so each LED chip doesn't fail so quickly. These last long enough to meet the requirements of the UAE law in question. In fact, they are available for sale on amazon.ae (the UAE version of Amazon) right now. Unfortunately Philips is NOT offering these for sale on the American amazon.com website. It seems Philips likes to sell bulbs that burn out quicker wherever it's legally permissible to do so. Perfect example of "engineered to fail" because when they fail you buy more, and that makes more money for Philips. So I decided to try to buy them from the UAE Amazon website. It said they were in stock, but as soon as I logged in (yes anybody with an Amazon account can login to any country's version of the Amazon website), the text that said "in stock" suddenly changed to say "out of stock".So it seems that amazon.ae has a region lock on it just like with DVDs and video games, and is currently blocking sales to the US. I do not want to spend more money than necessary buying tons of replacement LED bulbs, if I can just buy ones that last a long time. So I've decided to try to get my hands on some of these rare "Dubai LED bulbs". So I'm hoping someone here on this site lives in the UAE, or another country that amazon.ae is not currently blocking, and can buy these bulbs on my behalf, and then ship them to me. I'm willing to pay for this service. I have PayPal, so if you also have PayPal, I can pay you that way.The link to the page for the "Dubai LED bulbs" on amazon.ae ishttps://www.amazon.ae/dp/B07PF14S1V/

author: bdunham7
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 18, 2025, 08:44:01 pm
content: One problem--these are 240V light bulbs, not 120. So you'd have to do some extra work to use these.

author: coppercone2
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 18, 2025, 08:49:21 pm
content: Lol, this story is the kind of thing that makes you wonder if some of those power generator conspiracies are true. If they won't sell you a long lasting bulb, it makes you wonder about how they would feel about some highly efficient power generator.

author: MK14
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 18, 2025, 08:55:45 pm
content: Are you sure they are not for sale, in the US?I've bought them from Amazon, (50,000 hours life, super efficient), in the UK.US ones, seem to be, via links, such as:https://www.amazon.com/PHILIPS-Ultra-Efficient-Dimmable-LED/dp/B0CVBLMZPW

author: themadhippy
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 18, 2025, 09:00:04 pm
content: watch a few big clive videos and youll see how to adjust many bog standard leds into something a bit more longer lasting,often its nothing more than removing a resistor

author: MK14
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 18, 2025, 09:18:04 pm
content: Quote from: themadhippy on April 18, 2025, 09:00:04 pmBut the Philips Ultralife bulbs, replace the hot running, short lived (relatively speaking) capacitor dropper, with a 50,000 hour, ultra efficient switch mode power supply.Also, the LEDs, are replaced, with special super efficient ones.So I get something like, 50,000 hours life (it has been running for years so far, on much of the night), at only something like 3 watts consumption (it would usually be 6 to 8 watts, IIRC) consumption for (approx) 60 watts of equivalent light.You can remove a resistor from the normal LEDs (but opening the plastic or glass case, seems rather tricky and possibly messy, possibly reduced weather protection and safety, perhaps?), to get lower power consumption and longer life. But I suspect the real life lumens efficiency, would not be too good.Because these ultralife/efficient bulbs, also seem to have many more LEDs, both to improve the efficiency, and increase the running life (it helps them run cooler, hence longer life).But it is a good question, how do the proper Philips ultralife bulbs, compare to messing around with the current sense resistors, as regards, overall power consumption, lighting efficiency and running life expectancy?

author: themadhippy
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 18, 2025, 09:31:48 pm
content: Quotenothing thatexpensivefancy

author: MK14
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 18, 2025, 09:46:21 pm
content: Quote from: themadhippy on April 18, 2025, 09:31:48 pmBut google seems to say, those are a cheaper, older technology, that lasted for 25,000 hours.The ones I'm talking about, cost more, but give 50,000 hours life.I.e. A number of years ago, I can accept, they were the longest lasting ones (25,000 hours).But later technology ones, now give 50,000 hours life. If maximum life expectancy, at great efficiency, is what a person is after.

author: MK14
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 18, 2025, 09:55:40 pm
content: This seems to give some details:https://theledspecialist.co.uk/philips-master-ultra-efficient-led-2-3w-e14-clear-bulb-cool-white.htmlBasically seeming to saying that those Dubai lamps were good, but the design has been improved, so they are more efficient and last longer (if I've understood it correctly).Extract:Quote

author: wraper
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: April 18, 2025, 10:02:34 pm
content: Your endeavor indicates poor/no research. You can easily buy almost as efficient 170 Lm/W Philips bulbs in US,with the right voltage rating.https://www.amazon.com/Philips-Efficient-Dimmable-EyeComfort-Flicker-Free/dp/B0DVWMMK17Also if going for a wrong voltage, Philips sells even more efficient 210 Lm/W bulbs in EUhttps://www.amazon.de/-/en/Philips-Classic-Efficient-Energy-Saving-Efficiency/dp/B0C7W8V67Z

author: themadhippy
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 18, 2025, 10:06:14 pm
content: QuoteDidnt realise they'd tweaked them again,wonder if the new design had anything to do with the exclusive dubai only agreement of the originals

author: MK14
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 18, 2025, 10:14:46 pm
content: Quote from: themadhippy on April 18, 2025, 10:06:14 pmI suspect, it was probably an EU initiative. In that the EU (IIRC), mandated energy efficiency bar graphs on LED lighting products packaging, with VERY strict/optimistic ratings. So to get at or near the top efficiency LETTER (A, if I've got it the right way round), needs extreme energy efficiency.Hence them putting in the super efficient switch mode power supply, heavy optimization of LED efficiency etc, to achieve it. Then super long life (50,000 hours), rather cool running and great lighting efficiency.I.e. A sort of EU LED lamp, rather than a Dubai LED lamp!This:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_energy_label

author: TimFox
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 18, 2025, 10:22:42 pm
content: Quote from: wraper on April 18, 2025, 10:02:34 pmThe “Dubai” version cited in the original post is not dimmable.

author: wraper
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: April 18, 2025, 11:17:43 pm
content: Quote from: TimFox on April 18, 2025, 10:22:42 pmSo what? Also EU example I linked is non-dimmable.

author: TimFox
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 18, 2025, 11:20:32 pm
content: Yes, but I was agreeing that the two new ones you cited (correct and incorrect voltage, depending on your location) are better than the original Dubai version.