In my experience, the electronics _around_ the leds tend to fail rather fast. Few years back - around 7 - we expanded our house slightly (A room, a small livin

In my experience, the electronics _around_ the leds tend to fail rather fast. Few years back - around 7 - we expanded our house slightly (A room, a small living room and a small bath) so I put led bulbs in there, plus I replaced some of the bulbs in the rest of the house. As I bought several of these (5+) when I placed them I wrote on them with a permanent marker the date of installation. Bear in mind these were not extra cheap, more like mid priced ones. 6 months from installation I had to start replacing them, and at the 18 months mark I had replaced most of them. Bear in mind this coincided with a big legislation in my country that made "normal" light bulbs illegal (Because ecology, global warming and shit). I doubt they took into account how much trash these cheap bulbs generate. Also, whatever money you save from less energy consumption is probably a lot less than the money that it costs replacing them this often.