On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 00:51:36 +1300, Russell McMahon 
wrote:

>...<
> Has anyone else met fake NimH before?

Maybe, matbe not, but I've had Li-ion batteries that 
were *advertised* in such a way as to suggest that they 
were Sony (for a portable MiniDisk recorder) and IBM 
(for a Thinkpad laptop) and in each case they were not.  
The IBM ones are very cleverly made to look like real 
ones, except that where the originals have the IBM logo, 
these say "For IBM".

I also had some "Sanyo" NiMh AAs recently that were 
completely useless - the best ones kept a charge for 
about half an hour and the worst had no battery-like 
activity whatsoever - they could have been a lump of 
wood for all the good they did.  They were supplied with 
a laser level ("Batteries Included" for a change), and 
the price of the unit was so low that it wasn't worth 
the hassle of trying to get them changed.  Whether they 
were counterfeit or genuine Sanyo I have no idea.

British law makes it illegal to import couterfeit items, 
even if you aren't intending to deceive anyone (so 
people coming home from the far east with $10 "Rolex" 
watches are a bit peeved to have them confiscated at 
Customs) and I guess this may be true in NZ too.

Cheers,


Howard Winter
St.Albans, England


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