On 6/2/23 23:45, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:
On Sunday 05 February 2023 06:29:12 pm local10 wrote:
5 Feb 2023, 20:28 [email protected]:
Does anybody knows trusted manufacturers / brands I could find on the Internet? I am
really disappointed by this battery (brand "vhbw") partially broken after only
two years…
As a general thing, most electronic consumables sold on ebay are not
just potentially fraudulent in some way, they are almost certainly
fraudulent.
Ebay fully condones this and lets listings run despite numerous bad
reviews. I think the theory is that only a relatively small percentage
of customers will complain and demand a refund, so ebay overall makes a
good profit from it.
I have at times bought (and often returned) Lithium cells, Phone
batteries, Cordless tool batteries, CF drives, and solar panels
Batteries, individually, for laptops, phones, and tools are notoriously
listed at far higher capacity than actual. That, and the brand is often
faked as well.
Another big fraud is compact flash, where brand is very likely faked,
and/or the parts are repairs or fakes in some way, such as replacing the
micro controller to report different manufacturer and/or capacity.
To be fair, supermarket CF have problems, such as overrated speed
performance or CF labeled one brand on the shell, but reporting some
other brand electronically. Inevitably these drives do not last in
applications for computer drives. My standard for CF now is to buy
genuine SanDisk or Samsung drives from an authorised distributor
--
Jeremy
