Caution Vantage Vue users, bad CR123 battery vendor

[Gerard Cerchio]

Here is a warning to people who have stations that use the CR123 lithium battery.

AmazonMy vendor  Battery Suplier is selling bad Panasonic batteries.

this is the  URL 

The battery totally failed in 2 weeks.

[Tom Keffer]

It's certainly possible that you got a bad battery, but double check that your AC charger is working. I say that because it takes about 2 weeks for a VP2 to go dead if you unplug it.

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[Gerard Cerchio]

The station reported low battery for the 2 weeks that the counterfeit  battery was installed. Normally the low transmitter battery indication goes off within a day. The kicker was that the station went dead last night and picked up once the solar cells lit up at dawn. I ran out to home depot and purchased a replacement and that is working perfectly and the low transmitter battery indicator went off immediately. I looked further and the name of the Amazon seller has changed at least once in the comments. There is no doubt it is just another Amazon scammer.

[Tom Keffer]

My apologies. For some reason I thought we were talking about the console. No idea where I got that idea from!

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[gary....@gmail.com]

I don't know the country, but in the US, Home Depot and Lowes sell CR123A batteries. Lowes is less expensive than HD in my area.

For Amazon/Walmart/Etc, just remember that they are the same as EBay. They actively recruit vendors to post their merchandise for sale with little care if the items are old, fake, whatever.

If it is something I really need to work, I only buy if it is sold by and shipped by Amazon/Walmart.

[John Kline]

> If it is something I really need to work, I only buy if it is sold by and shipped by

> Amazon/Walmart.

The problem is, Amazon commingles shipped and sold by Amazon merchandise with 3rd-party merchandise of the same bar code.  Google it.

I make no claims about Walmart.

On Oct 1, 2024, at 6:29 PM, gary....@gmail.com <gary....@gmail.com> wrote:



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[Jimi Lawson]

"One swallow doesn't make a summer" 😉

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[gary....@gmail.com]

I stand corrected. I find that I use less and less Amazon ordering though.

Lousy shipping for me (2 day delivery is from when they ship, not when ordered) poor return process, pricing not that great.

In a related vein, I had a motherboard, CPU, and memory that when installed didn't even light up. Back in the box and dropped off at the free UPS drop off. Days later, no refund. Why? They didn't receive the return. No problem, UPS tracking number shows delivered. Oops, no good. That is a bundled tracking number for everything sent that day by that location. No tracking on your specific return.

That took many emails, calls and grief to finally get resolved.

Yeah, Amazon, no thanks.