Iām ātalkingā with their Customer Service via emailā¦ it sucks, they try to avoid and delay everything they can, it makes me think that they donāt even read what I write showing provesā¦ Dealextreme was easier and better every time I used they CS.
From what I remember, they will check with their supplier who will then tell them if the product is fake or notā¦ (or mimic as they call it). So I guess the supplier of the fake Eneloops doesnāt tell them itās fakeā¦
Jim listened when I complained and added āmimicā 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.
I know that and you know that, but regardless of how naive someone is, itās not the buyers fault. There are some regular buyers who probably come to that site searching for Eneloops or batteries.
Then, get these and theyāre junk. Now what does that person think and tell others about Eneloops? Itās misrepresentation and damaging and thereās no excuse for it.
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
Why is anyone even buying the ancient 1000-cycle eneloops? Iāve 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!