Lamp prices are lower prices for merchants

Rising prices of rare earths have risen for a period of time, leading to an increase in the price of energy-saving lamps, which are important raw materials, by at least 30%. Not only do consumers feel “very hurt”, even some small profit-making businesses are increasingly difficult to do business. In contrast, there are LED lights to lower prices, and replace the energy-saving lamps to become the new favorite saying, but according to the current market point of view, there will be no short-term sales of LED lights.

Rare earth price is soaring is the fuse

Since April of this year, the price of rare earth as an important raw material for energy-saving lamps has soared, from one kilogram in March to one kilogram in today's 2,600 yuan. Together, the price of energy-saving lamps in the terminal market has continued to rise in July.

According to the reporter's understanding, during the promotion of energy-saving lamps, each household can purchase a certain number of energy-saving lamps, the price is generally three or four yuan, the same as the price of incandescent lamps. It mainly depends on the government's subsidy of up to 50%. In fact, the market price of the same energy-saving lamp is about ten yuan. This time, the price increase of 30% makes the price difference between the two more significant. The original price of a 11W energy-saving lamp from Philips was about ten yuan, and it has now reached fifteen yuan. “We have already adjusted the price before the shop, and Philips' energy-saving lamps have risen by 30% from August 1.” said a Philips lighting salesman in the lighting market. The owner of another shop said that this year's energy-saving lamps are continuously increasing prices, but the two-month increase in strength is the strongest. "The raw materials have risen. We can only follow up."

The price is only for puerile

"We have a Philips energy-saving lamp, the original purchase price is 5 yuan yesterday suddenly informed us to rise to 7.5 yuan, a full increase of 50%!" Xinzhan Road, a hardware store Lin boss repeatedly fell to the bitter. However, the reporter found that the actual sales price of energy-saving lamps did not increase as much as the purchase price. Some well-known lighting companies such as Philips and OSRAM have relatively large numbers of consumers because of their relatively large brands, but some of them are very bad.

"The purchase price has gone up, but our selling price has been declining, and some have risen little." An owner in the lighting market reluctantly said, "If I increase the follow-up price here, people may not I bought it here, all around here are lighting fixtures, and the competition is fierce.” Lin boss also said that the original energy-saving lamp of $3 can only fine-tune the gains, and the profit is greatly reduced.

When asked about when the prices are ready to be lowered, the lighting companies are also distressed: “I can’t raise the price, or even the rent of the shop can't be paid, how can the business be done?”

It is still time for LED lights to become the new darling

While the price of energy-saving lamps has risen sharply, the saying that LED lamps will occupy the original energy-saving lamp market after price cuts will flourish. In the course of the visit, the reporter found that LED has been favored by the industry for its energy-saving, long-life, mercury-free advantages, but the hot-selling argument has not been established within a short time. General LED light bulbs range from a few tens of dollars to a hundred dollars, the price is far higher than the price of energy-saving lamps that have risen, and more shops have not said that the price of LED lights is greatly reduced. If the original use of energy-saving lamps and replaced with the same brightness of the LED lamp, although the service life will be thousands of hours, but the same price to turn up several times. Take 11W LED bulbs, one would be 80 yuan, a little more than a hundred more. "The LED lamp is longer than the energy-saving lamp, but even if the price and the energy-saving lamp, there is a difference of twenty or thirty yuan. Some good energy-saving lamps are equally good quality, home use is certainly a cost-effective energy-saving lamps." Shanghai Haoyuan Lighting Ms. Huang of Luminaires Ltd. said frankly.

The reporter found that many LED bulbs on the market are used in certain specialized lighting fixtures. While the original incandescent light bulbs occupying major markets are still cheap, their short lifetime and power consumption characteristics make them in the secondary market. In the process of selling lamps and lanterns, each store still strongly recommends energy-saving lamps to consumers.