My house just completed renovation last month with total of 55pcs of 12w led downlight.
Majority of LED downlight purchased from Taobao China. I had choose the most reputation brand and I really regret not purchase all the downlight from Taobao.
At first I also worry about online purchase and shipping issue from China. I had purchased 30pcs of 5" inch round type led downlight and 10 pcs square led downlight.
I had put one of the round led downlight for testing in my office for more than 2 months with 24 hours, everytime I free I will use the lux meter to test the lumen, result before and after is the similar about 990-1020....
I also purchase 15 pcs (RM55) of the square led downlight from light shop at puchong, know what... 4 pcs give the problem, but manage to exchange it from the shop with 1 year warranty.
The 40pcs of LED downlight i purchased from China so far no problem. Somemore the price only about RM32 for round and RM64 for square led + shipping cost about RM200+-
Even my electrician also keen to find out from me how to make purchase from China about this led light.
Just my 2 cent....
You need to run yrs or 2 before can know the quality and cost effective.
I have a LED downlight under testing everyday for 12hr. It already run for 7mth+. And still not convince I should change all the light to led.