Bought Camcorder, Can't Get Spare Battery

Beancounter

Valli wrote: »

That's bad (from them I mean, not you).

Have you asked Argos for a refund because, of course, when you bought it you were assured you would be able to buy a spare battery;)

I haven't asked the question yet, just wanted to see what opinion on here was. I did actually ask if spare batteries were available and was told yes although they didn't stock them.

I may just take it away with me on holiday and hopefully get enough life out of the one battery then sell it on afterwards.

wealdroam

Which model did you buy?

Valli

Beancounter wrote: »

I haven't asked the question yet, just wanted to see what opinion on here was. I did actually ask if spare batteries were available and was told yes although they didn't stock them.

I may just take it away with me on holiday and hopefully get enough life out of the one battery then sell it on afterwards.

Then you have DO a claim for mis-selling. If it were me I would take it back and buy something I could definitely get the spare battery for!

Beancounter

wealdroam wrote: »

Which model did you buy?

Camileo X150

DevCoder

This is compatible (same part number)

http://www.amazon.co.uk/TOSHIBA-EUROPE-PX1733E-1BRS-battery-Camilieo/dp/B0052W1IS4/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1369482547&sr=8-3&keywords=px1733e-1brs

wealdroam

krisdorey wrote: »

This is compatible (same part number)

http://www.amazon.co.uk/TOSHIBA-EUROPE-PX1733E-1BRS-battery-Camilieo/dp/B0052W1IS4/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1369482547&sr=8-3&keywords=px1733e-1brs

Hmmm...

Three sellers... two selling a used battery, and the third based in Italy.
Over £50 to get the one from Italy. :eek:

Not sure I would want to buy any of those.

withabix

The part number for the battery seems to be PX1733E-1BRS

There are lots of compatibles and genuine ones available

https://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&tbm=shop&q=+PX1733E-1BRS&oq=+PX1733E-1BRS&gs_l=products-cc.3...1027.1027.0.1263.1.1.0.0.0.0.121.121.0j1.1.0...0.0...1ac.1.5SKckpGyHkQ

bris

Loads of batteries for this, ebay is full of them.

Beancounter

I had bought a compatible battery but it was ever so slightly bigger and wouldn't fit in the camcorder sadly. The code on the compatible was PX1733E-1BRS as opposed to a plain PX1733 on the original.

Anyhooo....took it back to Argos this afternoon and they happily refunded the whole amount. I will just have to use the iPhone for video recording whilst away.

pmduk

Good for Argos, you had a decent result there.