My bad. I absolutely should have included that. The MSRP that I saw online was $42.99. I suspect you could find these lights a little cheaper than that.

The hardware on these solar lamps is actually pretty good - not in the slightest bit flimsy, and except for the lens problem I describe in the post, overall relatively sturdy. They do use LED bulbs, but there are only two of them and they simply don’t produce a lot of output.

One of our neighbors has a new solar lamp kit that has a separate solar panel that’s about 1′ by 1′ square. (It sits separate from the lamps). Their kit produces substantially brighter light than these, as I would expect since their are able to harness many times the energy that these lamps can (these lamps have a 2″ by 2″ square on top… the solar panel as about 144 sq. in. of surface area, compared to 8 sq. in. total for these lamps.

I had some wired accent lights and they used an LED. It baffles me that solar accent lights can’t make use of the same low wattage bulb. My experience with solar lights is pretty disappointing: the hardware was usually small and/or flimsy, and the light quality was barely on par with a children’s night light.

-Jon