I've yet to have an LED fail.
I started going LED last year, buying from WOOT when they had their multipacks on sale. At the time 60 watts were about the best you could get. I also picked up a couple of the Philips SlimStyle LEDs for use in reading lamps as their color rendering seemed to be a bit more true that the woot bulbs.
I also started moving a lot of the bulbs in my Mom's house to LEDs, and that's been an unqualified success, as well.
Some months ago I bought a pack of SlimStyle 75 watt bulbs for use in floor lamps I put in in my living room, then a few weeks ago I picked up a 3-pack of Tiwin 100 watt bulbs from Amazon (
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01G1J88V6/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1) for the floor lamps and also the lamp in my office.
To be honest, they don't seem to be that much brighter than the 75 watt SlimStyles, and nowhere can I find any indication of how many lumens these bulbs produce, which should have been a warning to me, but the color on the Tiwins is VERY close to an incandescent bulb, so close that it's really hard to tell the difference. I really like them for that reason.
In fact, I just found a review on Amazon that says that the Tiwins aren't much brighter, if at all, than a 75 watt equiv. Oh well, they at least were cheap as anything. I'll wait until the price comes down on the Philips SlimStyles and put the Tiwins in the basement I guess.
One of the big reasons why the price on the higher wattage LEDs is so much more than the 60s is in large part because getting that kind of wattage out the bulbs in a package that mimics the old Edison bulb profile can be very difficult. As the engineering on the higher wattages becomes more stable, the prices will start to come down the same way that the prices on the 60s and 75s have plummeted.
Earlier this year I also replaced the fluorescent light in my kitchen with 3 integrated LED surface mount fixtures from Lowes, very similar to these:
https://www.lowes.com/pd/Project-Source-2-Pack-11-in-W-Brushed-Nickel-LED-Ceiling-Flush-Mount-Light/999926358I actually bought 6, as I wanted 3 for the kitchen, and 3 to replace various hall lights.
Best choice I ever made. Spacing them out along the kitchen ceiling provides a HUGE improvement in the amount of light. No longer are the ends of the kitchen (galley style) dark. The only issue is that with the led chips all of the light goes straight down; there's not much side wash as there used to be with the fluorescent fixture, so the upper shelves of the cabinets are kind of dark when I'm looking for something. Not an issue, though.
