Disgust at shop prices nb-4l batteries

oldwiring

One quote was £43 from a well known high street specialist, yet on line they are under £15.

I want to get a spare for OH's camera, but with such a wide price range don't want to buy rubbish because it's cheap.

What are members' views and recommendations?

roddydogs

Play has a Duracell for £9.99.........E-Bay has cheap ones for £3-4, if you want to take a chance.........but ALWAYS keep a spare, charged battery ready if the photos are important. Dont think you'll get a GENUINE Canon for £15.

John_Gray

It would seem that Canon sell them for £43, and you can get them from Amazon for £34.55. Are the ones you can 'buy online for under £15' the genuine ones, or a knockoff? (Not that they might perform similarly...)

Clearly the genuine manufacturer's items are ludicrously expensive, but since they sell the camera 'so cheap' <chortle!> their pricing model is somewhat similar to the printer manufacturers: "Buy a (nearly) free printer, and pay for it through the nose with the replacement ink cartridges".

By the way, have you ever needed to buy a battery for a laptop recently?!

darich

I've bought a really cheap li-ion battery for a camera before.
It was a few years ago but it was rubbish. It was fine for a few charges then it eventually wouldn't take any more than about 10-12 shots before it was dead.

Cheap isn't always better value.

oldwiring

Actually the cheapest pattern battery by a known manufacturer (Hahnel) was around £20.

Knock offs... forged labels?

Hammyman

oldwiring wrote: »

One quote was £43 from a well known high street specialist, yet on line they are under £15.

I want to get a spare for OH's camera, but with such a wide price range don't want to buy rubbish because it's cheap.

What are members' views and recommendations?

My view is that you need to retitle the thread. A high street shop has overheads. In addition to that, you've got somewhere to go back to to complain if it is faulty. The wuxongpington battery for 1/3 of the price on fleabay or wherever may work or may not, may be the capacity it states or may not, may actually fit or may not but one thing you can guarantee is there's no guarantee.

Wintermute

I bought a cheap compatible battery for my Canon camera off ebay before going on holiday so I've always got a spare battery and to be honest it's fine. The life seems about the same as the official Canon battery, but it was a fraction of the price. My advise is order a cheap one off ebay, if it doesn't work you have paypal there for protection, if it does you've saved yourself a few quid.

roddydogs

Hammyman wrote: »

My view is that you need to retitle the thread. A high street shop has overheads. In addition to that, you've got somewhere to go back to to complain if it is faulty. The wuxongpington battery for 1/3 of the price on fleabay or wherever may work or may not, may be the capacity it states or may not, may actually fit or may not but one thing you can guarantee is there's no guarantee.

You have the same Gtee from E-Bay as anywhere else, for "New" goods, plus DSL.Trouble is people post "positives" when theve just tried the goods once, they dont wait, say 3 months to see weather it lasts, meaning even the "Tat" gets 98% positives.

fwor

I've had good experience with 7dayshop's Canon copies, like this one at £4.50 shipped:

http://www.7dayshop.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=777_3&products_id=99821

That way you know it's coming from this country (well the Channel Islands, actually), so you don't need to worry about it taking ages to get here from China/HK.

Hammyman

roddydogs wrote: »

You have the same Gtee from E-Bay as anywhere else, for "New" goods, plus DSL.Trouble is people post "positives" when theve just tried the goods once, they dont wait, say 3 months to see weather it lasts, meaning even the "Tat" gets 98% positives.

Good luck enforcing that with the seller based in Hong Kong or China.

oldwiring

I'd never go for a completely unknown make from any source whatsoever.

As to retitling the thread, my opinion remains, that if one takes in to account that even on line sellers have overheads and pay tax, so needing a decent mark up yo sirvive, then what the shops add om to cost to them is still distasteful.