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- From: neilw@informix.com (Neil Williams)
- Newsgroups: misc.consumers
- Subject: Re: Millennium rechargeable batteries are COMPLETE JUNK!!!!!!
- Keywords: rechargeable batteries, highway robbery!
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.225644.20291@informix.com>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 22:56:44 GMT
- References: <1992Nov19.071547.3706@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Sender: news@informix.com (Usenet News)
- Organization: Informix Software, Inc.
- Lines: 26
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- In article <1992Nov19.071547.3706@leland.Stanford.EDU> rsingh@goliath.Stanford.EDU ( raj) writes:
- >Folks, *don't* buy Millennium rechargeable batteries from a company
- >called "Gates Energy Products, Gainesville, Fl 32602."
- >
- >I bought four millennium AA size rechargeable batteries and a
- >recharger at Fry's electronics a while .. it had a offer in that if I
- >mail the original receipt and one dollar to some p.o. box number in
- >kalamazoo, michigan, they would send me two more batteries free.
- >Well, it's been over 2 months and nothing has arrived. (And I put 1#
- >note, not a check, so don't even know if they got the letter or not.)
- >
- >More importantly, the rechargeable batteries seem to have died down
- >after just abut 8-10 charges! Even if I charge it for many hours, it
- >still barely runs for 1-1.5 hours in my walkman WITHOUT using the
- >motor for cassette, just radio. Seems like a complete ripoff!
-
- My Milleniumns work fine. They have a lifetime warrantee - just
- send them in to Gates for replacement.
-
- --Neil
-
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- Neil Williams: neilw@informix.com
-
- Seen on my last trip on United: "If you are seated in an exit row
- and can not (sic) read this card... please notify a crew member."
-