Are these legitimate batteries or a cheap Eneloop knockoff?

[fireguy]

There are some ebay sellers offering Enelong 2100 mAh hybrid NiMH batteries. Are these a legitimate battery or some kind of cheap imitation?

The link to the manufacturer website is below:

http://www.jtt.ne.jp/products/original/enelong/index.html

 

[Mr Happy]

They are legitimate enelong batteries.

Edit: They apparently cost 1280 yen for 4AA, or ~$14. You can decide for yourself if they are cheap.

 

[Haz]

They are legitimate enelong batteries.

LOL!!!, ROFL!!!

yeah, they are legit alright, just that they are not eneloop

 

[fireguy]

LOL!!!, ROFL!!!

yeah, they are legit alright, just that they are not eneloop

Yes, it was a good response. :nana: But, I was wondering if the experts on here thought that they might be worth investigating, or if brands like this had come up before - trying to sound like eneloop but just being cheap and poor performing batteries.

 

[Carpenter]

I love the picture on the site of the batteries in the charger. The brand name of the charger is "My Charger - Refresh". :thinking:

 

[TakeTheActive]

There are some ebay sellers offering Enelong 2100 mAh hybrid NiMH batteries. Are these a legitimate battery or some kind of cheap imitation?

I would buy *ANY* (<$10, regular price or ON SALE ) Hybrid recommended by at least a few CPF Members before I would buy any unknown / 'pig-in-a-poke'.

My stockpile of RadioShack 1300mAhs and Rayovac 1600mAhs is beginning to fade so I've recently purchased one Eneloop AA @ $9.97 (Thomas Distributing), one Duracell (Japan) AA @ $9.99 (Target), two Kodak AA @ $8.97 (Walmart) and several RadioShack AA and AAA during the 2 @ $2.97, 4 @ $3.97 "find-em-if-you-can" clearance several months back.

If the Members here are willing to BUY them, TEST them and then POST detailed tables and graphs, it looks like a 'win-win' situation for me.

 

[jtr1962]

At $14 for 4 AA those certainly don't offer any price advantage over genuine Eneloops. Might be worth taking a chance if they were maybe $1 a cell though. On another note, I'm so sick to death of knockoffs which end of giving good products a bad name. That goes double for things like this where you're not even really saving money over the genuine article.

 

[DCexplorer]

I'm really resurrecting a dead thread, but the Enelongs are all over ebay, so I think it's still a relevant question in 2012.

According to some simple math, an eight-pack of AA Enelongs can be had for $15.89, while an eight-pack of AA Eneloops can be had off of Amazon for $20.60. That comes to $1.99 per Enelong and $2.58 per Eneloop.

I'm a confirmed tightwad; I like saving money, but spending 59 cents more per AA battery for Eneloops seems like the wise choice.

As of January 2012, "no-name" low-discharge batteries still don't really cost a whole lot less than Eneloops. If there are low-discharge batteries MASSIVELY cheaper than Eneloops, I am unaware of them.

(you may need to buy something else, though, to bump your total to $25 on Amazon for free shipping)