** 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@???]
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