That price is for singles there.

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Numerous on ebay. Here's one:

ebay.com link: 10 boxes of 10 per 1847 Miniature Lamp Bulb 6 3V Box 100 bulbs

I got tired of the Eiko bulbs burning out. Just ridiculous. The flashers are really bad. I went LED and never looked back.

That definitely comes under the category of excellent customer service. Mostly unheard of in this day and age.

LED's may not be the cure-all you think they are. I'm testing a section of LED strip lighting on a power supply running 24/7 after getting some strips that went dim after about a month. There is junk to be had in the LED world as well.

Not sure about the strip lighting you're testing, but in the past 3 years I've gone 100% LED I've only had 2 go bad. One started to flicker, one color changer just failed and was replaced by cointaker no charge. I only buy good LED's so that's probably why I've had success. Those early style single led bulbs were too dim, they are cheap but not bright enough. I guess you get what you pay for, but in the incandescent bulb you're so limited.
I realize a lot of people don't like them and that's cool. The benefits of them (to me) is worth the extra costs.

Yes absolutely!

When I rebuilt my Gottlieb, one of the items ordered was the exterior shooter barrel spring. I received the long inside shooter spring. I called Steve for a correction, and told him I was going to drop the incorrect spring in an envelope and mail it back. "No" he said, because it will cost me more in postage than the spring is worth. "Keep it and I will send the right one out today".
And he did.

I ordered a few things a while back for my '76 Williams, one item I needed was the yellow translucent coin switch cover for my coin door. Steve said he was sorry, but the only available was solid color not clear. So I ordered the solid cover.
I was delighted to open the box and see a translucent yellow coin switch cover. I feel he listened to me, understood and went the extra mile and I got what I needed.

Outstanding. I wish more businesses operated this way.

I had this discussion in length with Terry a while back. They concluded the #44's consistantly outlasted the #47's and suggested I migrate away from the 47 for a while and see what happens. Well, what happened was I no longer replace light bulbs 3 days after shopping a game. I have seen night and day difference and the only place I use 47's now is behind the backglass of older SS games. Otherwise playfields get 44's in my games.

I concur... I have had nothing but positive dealings with PBR. They are top notch.

Yep.

I'm mainly wanting #47s for a routed F-14. The inserts on those are a nightmare and depending on where it's going it could be running 24/7. Based on the latest report though it seems Pinball Resource is the way to go for these.

I tried both CEC lamps from TheRealBobRoberts.net (great video game resource) as well as Eiko lamps from various sources. Plus my machine had about 50% original GE lamps and about 50% of a foreign lamp (nickel base, stamped "ITALY"), and then the 100 packs of 44 and 47 Ablaze made from PBL:

Overall my impressions are:
New Ablaze incandescents - Nice. No problems yet.
New CEC - Suck .. strange texture to lamp causing a weird star difussion pattern. Only 1 burn out
New Eiko - Acceptable, again not the best made glass at all, some weird light patterns. Only 1 burn out.
Used Italy ones - absolute crap.. Filaments busted simply removing lamps, didn't matter if cold or hot.
Used GEs - Amazing.. take anything, complete dropping 4' onto carpet or 2' onto playfield, and light right back up.

I've had almost no bulb failures after switching from #47 to #44 on my pins. I did this to make them brighter, but it does seem that the #44s are more robust too.

I don't see Ablaze incandescents on Pinball Life.

100 packs only, but essentially 75c for 10 lamps

#44:
http://www.pinballlife.com/index.php?p=product&id=2521

#47:
http://www.pinballlife.com/index.php?p=product&id=2523

#555:
http://www.pinballlife.com/index.php?p=product&id=2525

I asked Steve Young about the longevity of the Eiko bulbs today. His theory is they are trying to keep the price low, so purposely make them poorly-planned obsolescense!

Has anyone else had good results with Ablaze #47s vs. Eiko's version?

Bump. So I'm guessing just a bad batch of bulbs? Are Ablaze's bulbs proving to be better?

I keep the old GE bulbs from old games also. People ask me why when new ones are so cheap, I always tell them they are cheap for a reason, they are cheap Chinese crap. The old GE bulbs as long as they aren't silvered or turning black, seem to last forever. I tell my friends if they are shopping a game, don't throw the old GE bulbs out, give them to me.

I put on a clean old t-shirt and use my belly button to dust off dirty bulbs.
Lol
Fyi only 555's and 47/44's though, flashers don't fit.

For me they last until I get the machine home and shop it, and then its LEDs and no changes ever again.