[email protected] said: > Expressing my opinion here. I buy all my batteries, from cell phone and UPS > to diesel pickup truck from Northwest Battery Supply at SE 37th and Belmont. I > could save money by buying on line, but will gladly pay more to support local > businesses. We need the variety and expertise that local vendors offer. That's > why I buy from the above, Parkrose Hardware, and others.
Agreed. I make a point of buying all of my car and motorcycle batteries from a local small business (and I've bought a lot of them over the years). For things like laptop and UPS batteries I usually go to BatteriesPlus down the street, mostly because I don't know anywhere else near here on the west side that deals with them. But this is a special circumstance, basically what would otherwise be a throw-away piece of hardware that's not worth spending that kind of money on. (I didn't talk about how I had to rebuild the case with J-B Weld and Super Glue to deal with a broken hinge). If I can extend it's usefulness for under $20 that's a good thing. Otherwise I'd rather just spend a little more and get a brand new Lenovo with full warranty, a core-i7, 12G RAM and 1TB hard drive from Costco for $450. I wasn't recommending this as a general source, but if you're on a really tight budget and willing to take on some risk it might be worth considering. john- _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
