cheaperrooter
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Long story sorry for the read. Ordered 100 AA Duracell's on Amazon. They came in a generic white box, loose, 25 to box. Immediately they just didn't look right to me. I noticed they were missing expiration dates and then when I finally found the expiration it was at the very top next to the plus signal, etched into the label running perpendicular to the Duracell name.
Thinking maybe these were for a different foreign country and that's just the way they did it I started googling pictures of examples of fake Duracell's. All hundred batteries failed the genuine test because they had the following.
1) No batch numbers written anywhere on the battery.
2) The expiration date in a different location
3) The name Duracell is etched into the very bottom, flat part of the battery
4) Duracell doesn't sell copper top batteries loose but only packaged in a retail card.
But because I am a prepper and I stock hundreds of these, now curious I went back and checked my last 200 Duracell's I also purchased on Amazon, each an order of 100. Both orders of 100 had the name Duracell was printed on the very flat bottom of the AA battery and came loose.
Finding it hard to believe now that three different businesses sold me three different batches of 100 fake and counterfeit Duracell batteries and all 300 were bought at different times over the last three years, I decided to call Duracell to see if the information out there on Google is correct.
My focal point was two things and one was the fact that the name Duracell was etched into the bottom flat part of the AA battery and that they were missing batch code numbers in all 300.
First I sent them emails with pictures attached and asked whether or not Duracell ever prints their name on the bottom of the battery and whether they should all have a batch code. I got a generic response with tips to look out for but was told the batteries will have to be sent in before they could make a determination. They failed to answer the 2 direct questions I asked them.
Sent them a second email with once again the above two specific questions asking why would they not answer them and once AGAIN they failed to answer them, but the email was less generic and appeared to be a direct response and said that the batteries have to be sent in.
Sent a third email frustrated and irritated and I asked them why they continue to avoid answering 2 very simple questions. I got no response this time..
I then called and spoke to a gentleman. I explained the entire situation and yet his response?? He would not answer those two questions "initially" but just said that I had to send them in the mail. Being more hardheaded now and not excepting that for an answer I finally pinned him into a corner and I asked him three direct questions.
Does Duracell EVER etch or put their name on the bottom of the battery? He said no, that's very rare, but because of manufacturing processes the only way to say for sure I would have to send them in.
I then asked does Duracell ever loose pack Copper top AA batteries? Pete repeat. No, they are only packed in retail cards, but because of manufacturing processes the only way to tell for sure...
Then I asked my last question, do Duracell batteries always have a batch number written on them? He said yes they do, but because of manufacturing proc.... (not even sure what the heck that means)
So I asked him a very simple and logical question. If Duracell never loose packs, never prints their name on the bottom of the battery and they all have batch numbers written on them and none of my 300 batteries meet those qualifications why exactly do I have to send them in to be checked?
I mean, if Duracell never puts their name on the bottom and my batteries have their name on the bottom, why exactly do I need a team of specialists at Duracell to tell me whether or not they are fake, that would mean they ARE fake right?
From this point it was me asking the same questions over and over worded a bit differently and him saying the same thing, that I would have to send them in because of manufacturing processes! It just makes absolutely no sense whatsoever and either you do or you do not do something and manufacturing processes would mean that maybe it's a fluke, they made a mistake. But not with three different batches of 100 batteries over three years.
I don't understand their hesitancy at simply saying that they are fake??? Or telling me the three things they do and do not do but then going on to say that possibly those three things can or cannot take place because of manufacturing processes?
SMH. I'm assuming there is a really big problem with fake batteries and I did contact all three sellers at Amazon and all of them assured me that they order direct from the manufacture and have to pass and prove authenticity for Amazon.
Honestly I just don't know what to believe now and I don't know whether these batteries are fake or not!!!
Thinking maybe these were for a different foreign country and that's just the way they did it I started googling pictures of examples of fake Duracell's. All hundred batteries failed the genuine test because they had the following.
1) No batch numbers written anywhere on the battery.
2) The expiration date in a different location
3) The name Duracell is etched into the very bottom, flat part of the battery
4) Duracell doesn't sell copper top batteries loose but only packaged in a retail card.
But because I am a prepper and I stock hundreds of these, now curious I went back and checked my last 200 Duracell's I also purchased on Amazon, each an order of 100. Both orders of 100 had the name Duracell was printed on the very flat bottom of the AA battery and came loose.
Finding it hard to believe now that three different businesses sold me three different batches of 100 fake and counterfeit Duracell batteries and all 300 were bought at different times over the last three years, I decided to call Duracell to see if the information out there on Google is correct.
My focal point was two things and one was the fact that the name Duracell was etched into the bottom flat part of the AA battery and that they were missing batch code numbers in all 300.
First I sent them emails with pictures attached and asked whether or not Duracell ever prints their name on the bottom of the battery and whether they should all have a batch code. I got a generic response with tips to look out for but was told the batteries will have to be sent in before they could make a determination. They failed to answer the 2 direct questions I asked them.
Sent them a second email with once again the above two specific questions asking why would they not answer them and once AGAIN they failed to answer them, but the email was less generic and appeared to be a direct response and said that the batteries have to be sent in.
Sent a third email frustrated and irritated and I asked them why they continue to avoid answering 2 very simple questions. I got no response this time..
I then called and spoke to a gentleman. I explained the entire situation and yet his response?? He would not answer those two questions "initially" but just said that I had to send them in the mail. Being more hardheaded now and not excepting that for an answer I finally pinned him into a corner and I asked him three direct questions.
Does Duracell EVER etch or put their name on the bottom of the battery? He said no, that's very rare, but because of manufacturing processes the only way to say for sure I would have to send them in.
I then asked does Duracell ever loose pack Copper top AA batteries? Pete repeat. No, they are only packed in retail cards, but because of manufacturing processes the only way to tell for sure...
Then I asked my last question, do Duracell batteries always have a batch number written on them? He said yes they do, but because of manufacturing proc.... (not even sure what the heck that means)
So I asked him a very simple and logical question. If Duracell never loose packs, never prints their name on the bottom of the battery and they all have batch numbers written on them and none of my 300 batteries meet those qualifications why exactly do I have to send them in to be checked?
I mean, if Duracell never puts their name on the bottom and my batteries have their name on the bottom, why exactly do I need a team of specialists at Duracell to tell me whether or not they are fake, that would mean they ARE fake right?
From this point it was me asking the same questions over and over worded a bit differently and him saying the same thing, that I would have to send them in because of manufacturing processes! It just makes absolutely no sense whatsoever and either you do or you do not do something and manufacturing processes would mean that maybe it's a fluke, they made a mistake. But not with three different batches of 100 batteries over three years.
I don't understand their hesitancy at simply saying that they are fake??? Or telling me the three things they do and do not do but then going on to say that possibly those three things can or cannot take place because of manufacturing processes?
SMH. I'm assuming there is a really big problem with fake batteries and I did contact all three sellers at Amazon and all of them assured me that they order direct from the manufacture and have to pass and prove authenticity for Amazon.
Honestly I just don't know what to believe now and I don't know whether these batteries are fake or not!!!
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