On 08/06/2011 04:48, Bryan Horstmann wrote:
I bought some watch batteries on Amazon; Renata batteries are
available from many suppliers there. I had a dud, and two
replacements were dud(low voltage) also (right hand picture below).
Three supplied ones as on the left, seemed OK on voltage per Renata's
spec. I asked Renata how I could tell the age and was surprised by
their response:-
Dear Mr. Horstmann,
We did receive your fax regarding the fake batteries. It seems that
you did buy fake batteries from an unsafe source. The blister pack on
the right hand side of your picture is a fake battery, for sure. The
blister on the left hand side is looking like our blisters, but you
don't know what is inside. We are aware that fake batteries Renata and
other brands are offered via internet and trade shop sources in China,
Hong Kong and Dubai (and maybe some other places too). Prices are very
low because these are alkaline button cells. Each and every genuine
Renata battery is marked with a date code on the battery itself.
May I strongly recommend that you purchase Renata batteries
exclusively from an official Renata distributor. Could you please let
us have more information about your company and your business
activities (complete address details, homepage etc.) in order to be
able to inform you about your nearest official distributor for genuine
Renata batteries. Thank you very much in advance and
best regards,
Daniel Cragnolini
Key Account Manager Consumer Batteries
Renata SA:-
"Fake Renata watch batteries"
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Oh dear; they stripped out the picture embedded in the text. The left
hand was black printing on white and the right hand had an orange on
blue Renata logo on the bottom portion.
Bryan H
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