Hi, I'm looking to get a replacement battery for my Acer laptop. They are available on ebay for a little over $20 from China and they are 'genuine and original'. Anyone any experience with this kind of stuff? For that price it wouldn't need to last forever, as long as it doesn't explode or set my house on fire. Thanks.
Laptop batteries on eBay: how reliable?
End3vour on 21/11/2015 - 13:41
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Lucky then. Out of the 3 batteries I've purchase (all for Acers) one was a 'good' battery and the other two failed within 5 months of use.
They have a fairly high lemon rate.I took one apart (it was a Acer Aspire One netbook extended battery) and lo' and behold, it was actually cobbled together using lousy quality 18650's, probably of the Trustfire / Ultrafire / Poopfire variety which are sold at $2 a pop.. It probably only costs $1 dollar to produce these cells.
Knowing that though, $20 for a fake battery isn't always a bad deal because even though the cells may be of poor-to-average quality sometimes you may get one that might perform to 60-70 percent capacity of the original SKU, which may be an improvement over what you currently have. But there's always a risk it may die prematurely as the workmanship is usually pretty poor.
They are available on ebay for a little over $20 from China and they are 'genuine and original'.
BS. Sorry but they won't be genuine. Get one from Australia
they are not genuine, you prob know that.
I bought two batteries from an Aussie seller (one for dell, one for toshiba) and they still are fine two years later.
Just looked up the seller and they are not around anymore.
I chose the Aus seller just so I would get the item quicker ad wasnt much more in price.picked up an ebay laptop battery for my asus eee pc and it was an extended type so larger one and so far say for 2 years now it has been given me 10-12 hours battery life with heavy use but has dropped slightly.
i might open it up and change thhe cells soon when i get the funds as it will be more expensive BUT better quality batteries i think.
Cheers, yes I'm aware it's not original stuff hence the quotation marks. I couldn't find an Aussie seller for my battery unfortunately. There are a few American ones and their batteries generally have good reviews (might well be the same batteries as the ones coming from China though, not sure). Might just give it a go for that money. Thanks again.
I think it is a bit of hit and miss. I have bought laptop batteries from ebay before. One was DOA, one didn't latch onto my Dell laptop properly. I know a lot comes with "2 year warranty". But I think most won't be around after 6 months. I have contacted the one with the DOA, no response from the seller.
If your laptop is an oldish laptop, it probably doesn't make sense to pay too much for a new battery, might worth the risk for a $20 battery.
Agree on the "hit & miss", though I've had more hits than misses.
Last was a larger $60 battery for my son's uni laptop. After about 8 months, it would no longer charge to more than 20%. I wrote to the seller who offered to sell me a replacement for $30. Considering that I'd have to ship the other back for a "diagnosis" & then likely pay for ship[ping back, I went with the flat $30. Got it in about 4 days & it's worked better than the other thus far. It's not quite a year yet— so fingers-crossed. If this one tanks, I'll be making a fuss.
Prior to that, I've gotten about 6- 8 for myself & customers & only had one dud.
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I've only done one windows battery replacement from ebay, and it lasted longer than the compute before it crapped out. I'd go for one from within australia, way less shipping.