[geeks] How to avoid counterfit gadgets?

[hike]

If you look at the counterfeits coming out of China, you would have to
answer, bYesb.
I have seen the real and the counterfeit routers and, side by side, the
differences are easy to tell.  The reports indicate that internal
components are swapped with inferior components.  The untrained eye
wouldnbt notice the difference.

As for batteries, the USA has mandated the really bad stuff out of
batteries.  Stuff such as mercury.  USA batteries can be thrown in the
trash without harming the environment.  If China does not have these same
standards then these are mercury ridden products and the greatest risk is
disposing of these counterfeits the same as the USA standards batteries and
damaging the environment.

I have taken apart a counterfeit AA battery.  It was actually a AAA battery
inside the AA-size shell.  Since the counterfeit couldnbt delivered the
same amount of energy, I was defrauded.


On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 2:31 PM, Andrew Jones <andrew at jones.ec> wrote:

> On 02/03/2014 03:48 AM, microcode at zoho.com wrote:
>
>> Recently I was looking for batteries and it looks to me like the local
>> shops
>> are selling counterfit Duracells. The batteries themselves look pretty
>> good
>> but they have some Chinese characters on them. The dead giveaway is the
>> packaging. It doesn't say Duracell anywhere on it. It's brown, generic
>> packaging.
>>
>
> I think it's more likely that they're grey-market imports or
> commercial/bulk supply than counterfeit.
>
> Are they bad batteries?
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