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From time to time we have some extra inventory or products we like to clear out of inventory.  So, we have opened up an ebay store where we will be auctioning off different items from time to time.  Its a great opportunity to look at some new products that are our top sellers and also be able to pick up great deals on overstock or discontinued items!  So feel free to visit our ebay store and if you are a regular ebay user feel free to add us to your favorite sellers.

Just as I predicted on March 26th, 2007 in a earlier post, Color Kinetics is being purchased by a major lighting manufacturer. As far as the industry is concerned I think this is good news overall. Phillips has the manufacturing power that Color Kinetics never possessed and I would expect the price of LED lighting products to drop over the course of the next year which is a good thing for consumers. It will be very interesting to see how Phillips wraps color kinetics distributors into their portfolio since most distributors are highly trained professionals when it comes to led lighting products. Hopefully Phillips will not lose the edge on computer driven light because the led market is getting more competitive every day.

This is a tidbit of interesting news, Ledtronics Inc, website was completely copied by the Chinese company, Jiaxing Chuantian Lighting Co.A customer informed Ledtronics of it and they took action.  Ledtronics is a good company and we sell some of their product lines and its a shame that a Chinese Manufacturer attempted to sell products with Ledtronics content that they work very hard on.

 My advice, be very careful when ever you purchase led lighting products from Chinese website, especially if they copied others websites.  We have seen this happen before.  If you do not purchase from the source that wrote the material, then you really do not know what the specifications of the lights you will be getting. Guess Ledtronics will be busy filing DMCA complaints with Google, Yahoo and MSN.

 You can read the full article here.

Recently there has been some news that Color Kinetics should either be a buy or hold with a target price of $25. Being experienced in the led lighting industry I would say its a definite buy and you should consider holding the stock. Color Kinetics is very smart as a company with the way they patent led products. With a bunch of other manufacturers paying Color Kinetics for licensing agreements, Color Kinetics continues to grow their cash fund. They spend a lot of money in Research and Development each year to expand their offerings.

I checked today and it was trading at $18 a share and I would say you should invest in this company for the long term. As the led market grows, so will Color Kinetics. Eventually we might see GE try to purchase the company as the industry moves towards replacing the average incandescent light bulb with led light bulbs. So you should consider holding on to this stock for the long run.

Color Kinetics is a good investment, you should consider purchasing their stock.

Super Vision International recently decided to change their name to Nexxus Lighting.  In December Super Vision sold more than $9 million dollars of stock to private investors and planned on using the money to execute a new business strategy.  This is a very interesting move on their part.  As a distributor of Super Vision Products, we have not seen much of a change at all from our end. 

Their pool lighting products and commercial products are a strong market but the sign lighting division is not doing as well at all due to stiff competition of Chinese companies led lights.  They are in the process of moving their corporate headquarters to North Carolina and its production facility to a new location in Orlando Florida.  It will be interesting to see how the company will operate with the heads of the company in one state and the body of the company many miles away. 

 Super Vision is starting to gain a larger market in the United States in fiber optic lighting as we have witnessed, but the led lighting products are typically too expensive for the end user.  Lighting products are selling at a much lower cost from Chinese competitors right now.  The down side of the Chinese companies are their warranty work though and Super Vision should concentrate on extending their warranties for their products to three to five years instead of two.   Super Vision has a great system for warranty issues and by pushing an expanded warranty program, the few hundred dollars extra a customer would spend might be well spent.