Test / Review: Fake Eneloop batteries from DinoDirect and Manafont, buyers BEWARE!

Funny, I already told Manafont in May 2011 that their Eneloops were fake…

I’m “talking” with their Customer Service via email… it sucks, they try to avoid and delay everything they can, it makes me think that they don’t even read what I write showing proves… Dealextreme was easier and better every time I used they CS.

Still for sale…

With Jim?

From what I remember, they will check with their supplier who will then tell them if the product is fake or not… (or mimic as they call it). So I guess the supplier of the fake Eneloops doesn’t tell them it’s fake…

With Audrey. Waiting for a response right now… I hate this (and everybody does!)

Jim listened when I complained and added “mimic” to all fake Solarforce items (but not to the fake Eneloop or the fake Maxell batteries I also complained about).

I guess those fake batteries sell quite well, hence why they dont remove them from their listing or dont add clarifications that these are not original products.

Maybe someone is reading this?

http://www.manafont.com/product_info.php/sanyo-brand-mimic-eneloop-12v-2000mah-rechargeable-nimh-aa-battery-4pc-pack-p-5685

First post updated, thanks ;)!

Nice… maybe my contact with their CS had this effect?

Sanyo should shut this down. Even on Manafont where they admit it, it’s trademark infringement. That’s some pretty sleazy tactics there.

People have to be pretty naive to think that a Chinese company would sell genuine Eneloops with European/American packaging for a low price…

The genuine Eneloops sold in Hong Kong have a “Sanyo HK” hologram sticker, the other fake ones are sold everywhere.

I know that and you know that, but regardless of how naive someone is, it’s not the buyers fault. There are some regular buyers who probably come to that site searching for Eneloops or batteries.

Then, get these and they’re junk. Now what does that person think and tell others about Eneloops? It’s misrepresentation and damaging and there’s no excuse for it.

Cheap testers are really making a nightmare out of honest Fake-Battery sellers try to get a living…

spotted this preview picture on Dinodirect. looks real!!

Manafont’s eneloops also looks like this… and they are not real.

I believe that enough pictures and user posts have been submitted to realise by now that DinoDirect and Manafont are selling fake Eneloop branded batteries, check out original post Kreisler :wink:

you win

;)

Why is anyone even buying the ancient 1000-cycle eneloops? I’ve only gotten 1500-cycle ones since 2009!

BTW, seems there could be fake 1500-cycle cells now too. I recently saw 1500-cycle Eneloops both with and without the Sanyo HK hologram sticker in Hong Kong (and yes, the ones without sticker were cheaper).

I figured I should do discharge test on one of my Fakepoops after I tested it with battery voltage tester and noticed that its slightly below 1.30v, that got me curious since it was in the drawer for few months.

The battery was discharged at 300mA with MAHA C9000, discharge stopped at around 1.09v, I accidentally unplugged charger when it had almost 1700mAh discharged from it, after second discharge it showed 425mAh sucked out of it, so in total that makes around 2100mAh, last time I charged these batteries was probably somewhere around spring, thats the minimum period of time these batteries might have been in storage.

Battery number is IX=9, which was around 2530mAh fully charged when I reviewed them last year, back then it showed 2416/2272mAh capacity after 2 days of storage and ~2 weeks of storage.

So, losing ~400mAh after around 3 to 5 months of storage aint that bad.

Where these batteries suck big time is high load - they cant provide voltage neccessary, tried in my digital camera and even without flash it takes less than 20 shots for them to sag so badly that camera shuts down, the same happened with cheapo BTY rechargeables when tested.
Obviously, never so with original Eneloops!

So judging by one battery out of many my verdict is - good for low drain devices and not that bad in remaining capacity after some storage time.

Recommended? No, they suck for the money and are incosistent as phuck!

Thanks for reading!