Just when you thought you shouldn't trust dodgy foreign ebayers

[Jonny69]

I took a chance 12 months ago and bought a cheap clone laptop battery for £25 direct from a Hong Kong ebayer instead of paying £85 from an online laptop battery shop. Ironically the battery was identical to the one I was replacing from that shop which lasted quite some time, so I was dead chuffed.

Unfortunately it started to die at about 10 months old and I rooted through my old emails to find the seller. Several short vague emails later it was in the post back to Hong Kong but apart from the postage the buyer was happy to replace it. Today I'm happy to say the replacement arrived and it works perfectly.

So there are some good ones out there. Sometimes you get burned, sometimes you get lucky

[Flibster]

Originally Posted by Jonny69

Sometimes you get burned, sometimes you get lucky

Not a good phrase to use when talking about laptop batteries...

Just ask Sony, Dell, Apple, Toshiba.....

[Mark]

Originally Posted by Flibster

Just ask Sony

Fixed - in all cases they were Sony manufactured cells, and they took the hit for it (rightly so).