I bought my house about 6 years ago, and since then I've converted the whole house (about 100 bulbs) to LED, using bulbs from maybe 5 different manufactuers. O

I bought my house about 6 years ago, and since then I've converted the whole house (about 100 bulbs) to LED, using bulbs from maybe 5 different manufactuers. One of the mfg bulbs go bad. I think I'm at about a 50% failure rate with them. Something like 10 out of 20 bulbs. None of the other mfg bulbs have gone bad. Basically I bought bulbs that were on sale. The "bad batch", IIRC is when average 60W led bulbs were in the USD$2.5 range and I got them for about $1.0, so about 6 years ago. I bought some other bulbs at a similar price point/date, and they are still all fine. So, it could just be you got unlucky with a crappy mfg. Try some different bulbs.