** hantslug@??? <hantslug@???> [2012-07-31 14:35]:
> On Tuesday 31 July 2012 13:40:32 Paul Tansom wrote:
> > I'm assuming they aren't as good, but can they be that bad
> > to justify the price of an official one? (Actually official ones seem to be
> > thin on the ground so it seems likely to be a 3rd party anyway.).
> >
> > Does anyone have any experience / horror stories / good revies / etc.?
>
> Yes, I got a horror for my Acer Aspire One. If I remember, I'll show it to
> you. A quite horrific waste of £40. It came from somewhere in the Far East,
> and the internal connections do not even meet. Desmond suggested that it
> might be worth prising the thing open and soldering the connections together.
> I cut my losses, but keep it as an object lesson on the side-effects of
> parsimony!!
>
> Branded batteries for me from now on.
** end quote [hantslug@???]
Yes, this is what worries me about eBay!
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