"FREE" LED Light Bulbs at OSJL in MA, RI, CT (NH, NY out of stock)

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Today is March 4, 10 days after the start of this thread.
I am traveling through Massachusetts and Rhode Island today and 100% of the Ocean State Job Lot stores I have stopped in have had plenty of stock of “Crazy Deal” lightbulbs.

Today is March 28. Yesterday I was in the Sturbridge, MA store and they still had lots of these bulbs for sale. Same Crazy Deal!

Elsewhere in the same store, lots and lots of bulbs.

Today is April 12th and this bulb deal is still on in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Today I was in Westfield, MA and stopped in an OSJL. They are still replenishing stock after all this time. This deal has been going on now for months, the chain must have bought all CREE had.
I took this pic today, April 12th

This time I loaded up on Daylight 60W equivalents.

After I bought 40 more bulbs, 10 bulb limit but I did several different transactions, I went back into the store to see what other deals they had and came across this.
I already knew about the $15 LED shop lights and I was actually intending to buy more.

But this time there was something new, MaxLite 100W equivalent 2700K light bulbs. And they were only 99 cents. That is by far the cheapest straight up price for a 1600 Lumen bulb I have ever seen.


There is also another CRAZY DEAL on GreenLite bulbs, buy 12 at 99 cents each and get $11.88 back in a gift card

And a straight up price on an LED ceiling fixture or an outdoor light, each for $6.99

So what I did after buying 40 more CREE’s is buy 3 LED shop lights and 12 of the 100W equivalents.
These are not CRAZY DEALS, but I can use CD gift cards to buy them.
To the left is 1 of 4 receipts buying 10 CREE’s and getting a $9.90 gift card back.
To the right is my receipt for buying 3 LED shop lights at $14.99 each and 12 of the 100W equivalents at 99 cents each. the bottom of the receipt shows that I used CD gift cards to pay for them

If anyone lives near an OSJL in MA or RI, there is still time to get in on this!!!

Today, May 12th, 2017, I was in Massachusetts and went to 2 different OSJL stores. Both had CREE and Greenlite bulbs, still on the Crazy Deal. I picked up 50 more bulbs, got the $50 worth of gift cards and used gift cards from previous deals to buy 8 more of the LED shop lights.
There aren’t too many of the LED shop lights left in stores, from inventory only about 120 spread out over the 100+ stores in the chain. Only the stores closest to the warehouse in Rhode Island have any chance for stock.
Better chance of finding the individual bulbs on Crazy Deal in all stores in MA and RI, even at this late date.

Today is June 4, 2017 and stores in MA and RI are still receiving more stock. Unbelievable!!!
Today I went up to MA specifically to get more bulbs and shop lights. Between June 1 and June 7 OSJL is having their annual “Silver Salute” where they offer 25% off everything in the store. Those $15 LED shoplights are now $11.25!!!
AND I can use the CRAZY DEAL gift cards to buy them.

Even better, OSJL has moved more stock in for the CRAZY DEALS and now offer MaxLite 100W equivalents. I bought a bunch of those and got the CD cards for those purchases and bought more of the shop lights :slight_smile:

The 100W Maxlites. They had hundreds of these!


They also had new, other stock of different CREE bulbs. Up until now they were offering the 4Flow bulbs, now they include the glass globed bulbs.


These high CRI recessed downlights are $3.99 each and are NOT a CRAZY DEAL.

So many bulbs, they are in multiple locations throughout the store. Here are the $15 LED shoplights that I got for $11.25 each and used CD gift cards to pay for them.

Somebody, please take advantage of this ongoing deal
:stuck_out_tongue:

I went out again today to round up more of the free 1600 lumen bulbs and get more shop lights.
I sacrificed one of the MaxLites to see what it looked like “dedomed”


Compare that to an 800 Lumen FEIT on the right and a 450 Lumen Utilitech on the left.

And these 2 now unkowns. Probably 450’s

Are the connections on the 1600 lemons soldered or just a sliding fit—would the entire disk come out with those 2 screws? Wonder what the dc voltage would read on that array. i’ll have to check if ollies are here has any of those.

s. You got some great deals on those shop lights plus buckets full of free bulbs, sweet!

The disk just plugs on, no solder.
75V DC

Ollies is the closest type store to OSJL that I have seen. Ollies has just set up a few stores in our area. Perhaps the reason OSJL has gotten soooooo aggressive with their sales.

BTW, while I had the disc off I spread the thermal compound around a little better.
I sure don’t want to have to do that to all the others I got today. :slight_smile:
about 170

Lately the stores have new batches of the CREE bulbs
I just visited my local CT store and CREE bulbs are back in stock!!!
Plenty of the CREE’s on Crazy Deal, but out of stock on other brands. I was talking to a manager and he seems to think that CREE and the utility companies made these bulbs free to OSJL so that they could offer this “free” bulb promotion.

i’m down in alabama with a banjo on my knee, but this deal is still going on, and i just got 10 free Cree bulbs from OSJL in CT. pretty pink plastic bag and all that too.

i told a friend your story of this crazy deal with 10 bulbs and the $9.90 gift card, and then she brought me a bag full yesterday. Turns out her family lives up there and she makes an annual summer trip home—and she had to see if it were true for herself. It is! Thanks for sharing the pictures and details of this great deal.

Funny thing is that her familia wasn’t even interested in loading up some bulbs for themselves—go figure…

Did they ship them or travel all that way just to get them to you? :smiley:

Like I mentioned before,
It seems as the whole world is in darkness, and doesn’t see the light.

I know personally, that if I have been deprived of a “need” in the past, once that “need” becomes available I tend to over compensate. That’s why I jumped all over this opportunity, while others pay it no mind.

Today is July 16, 2017
I was in the Wethersfield, CT store today and there seems to be no end to the supply of Cree bulbs.
Crazy Deal is still on at all stores. I took this picture today. That’s a lot of bulbs!

BTW, here’s a picture I shot not too long ago at Home Depot when they first started to clear out the Cree’s
These bulbs are now found at OSJL for “free”

Nice price, but the store is not near to me. :frowning: Are these bulbs also sold online at this price?

Today is September 14, 2017
The CREE bulbs at OSJL is dwindling down to just the flood lights and 40W equivalents.
But they are bringing in other brands and styles and putting them on CRAZY DEAL. Yesterday I picked up 12 of the filament style LED’s for 99 cents each and got a $12 gift card. The sign said $11.88, but they gave one for $12 Better than “free” :slight_smile:




Less then penny deals, very impressive

I just realized, they paid me a penny each to buy them :laughing:

I better go get some more…………
see ya.

:smiley:

I finally found LED bulbs at the local Dollar Tree. Two of them already replaced burned out CFL bulbs on the rear porch, and just in time for cooler weather when CFL’s take longer to reach full brightness.

It has been over a year now that I first came across these “free” LED bulbs at OSJL.
These are still available, they just keep trucking more and more in!
MaxLite, GreenLite, CREE and FEIT plus others.
Here are pics of some of the latest offerings.

Notice that now some of these LED’s are High CRI




Note that the High CRI versions of this recessed light comes in both Warm White and Daylight

CREE High CRI flood and a Maxlite High CRI recessed light, 1200 Lumen dimmable!


If you are ever near one of their stores, you just haft to stop in and get some.