On the budget side of lighting, Amazon itself is offering the 16-pack of Philips LED A19 light bulbs, frosted, 60W equivalent (8.5W actual), 800 lumens, 2700 Kelvin, Soft White, with E26 base for the very specific price of $21.60. Free shipping for Prime members or with a $25+ order [check $5 gadget posts for ideas if you want to climb over $25]. Limit up to six 16-packs per customer. This is not a lightning deal.

On the utilitarian side of lighting, 16-packs of Philips LED A19 (E26 base) 60W-equivalent lightbulbs are on sale for $25~, making them just over $1.50 per light bulb. They are available in Daylight (5000 Kelvin) or Soft White (2700 Kelvin). The Soft White are limited three sets per customer, the Daylight do not appear to have a limit.

But that’s not all! Until 9/30/17, Amazon has a Philips Special Promotion. If your order total of eligible items is $48+, you can get this Philips LED A19 SceneSwitch (four color-changing light bulbs, they switch between 5000, 2700, 2200 Kelvin) for FREE. You must add the free SceneSwitch manually to your order. Check this post for Step by Step Instructions.

You can get the free SceneSwitch item with one of each of the 16-packs or two of the same 16-pack, or any other combination of eligible items. Remember, all items must be sold and shipped by Amazon itself as a one-time purchase (not Subscribe and Save).

Good until 9/30/17 (or earlier if sold out), Amazon has a promotion when purchasing $48 or more in participating Philips LED light bulbs, sold and shipped by Amazon itself as one time purchases (not “Subscribe and Save”). Over a dozen different Philips options are eligible for the promotion.

How to Get the Freebie PHILIPS SCRENESWITCH

• Add $48+ in eligible Philips lights – this can be multiple units of the same item, or a mix and match of various items. Amazon itself must be the seller, not anyone else
• manually add the free item to the shopping cart, the Philips LED A19 SceneSwitch (four color-changing light bulbs, they switch between 5000, 2700, 2200 Kelvin). This too must be sold and shipped by Amazon itself
• Proceed to Checkout. If all is well, the price of the SceneSwitch ($23.90 as of the time of writing) will be deducted from your order total at the top right corner of the Amazon Checkout page)
• If you don’t see the discount, it means the promotion expired or there is some other problem. Do not proceed. If you don’t see the discount, you will pay full price! Screenshot of what you should be seeing below:

They are not professional lighting gear, but light is light 🙂 This 4-pack of Philips LED Daylight A19 light bulbs (60W equivalent; actually 8W) is on sale for $8 at Amazon by Amazon itself with a limit of three 4-packs per customer. Free shipping for Prime members. At the moment this is restricted to Prime members only, one of the many Prime benefits.

Photography needs light, and sometimes regular light bulbs are the only lighting option available. Or something like that.

The “Soft White” offer continues, a 16-pack of Philips LED light bulbs, 60W equivalent, are on sale for $32~ at Amazon by Amazon itself. This makes it around $2 per light bulb (I didn’t even need to use a calculator for the complex math!).

The “Daylight” offer expired: Which brings us to a pretty good LED deal, a 16-pack of Philips LED Daylight light bulbs, 60W equivalent, are on sale for $24.56 at Amazon by Amazon itself. It comes out to around $1.54 per light bulb, which beats the Home Depot 4pk for $9 ($2.25 per bulb). These are A19, with 800 lumens. Only the Daylight is discounted thusly.

The usual free shipping terms apply, Prime or with a $49+ order, or $25+ in books.

Speaking of books, coupon code HOLIDAYBOOK gets you $10 off an order of $25+ in printed books sold and shipped by Amazon itself until Monday at 3am ET. This is a great opportunity to get books that are rarely discounted or have the same price elsewhere, or books that you would consider too expensive to buy under normal circumstances (eg the illustrated Game Of Thrones Book #1).