Did I score a bargain or what?

Albinoni · Sep 25, 2008

Here in Australia CR123 batts are expensive and you will py between $6.59 and $10.00 for a good CR123A bttery. Well last week I won an ebay auction for 21 Panasonic CR123A batts. The batts are all new and genuine Panasonic batts.

BTS how can you tell or pick the diffence between a real and fake Panasonic

Take care

Fallingwater · Sep 25, 2008

Can't say if you scored a bargain or not if you don't tell us how much you paid for the auction.

Albinoni · Sep 25, 2008

Ohh silly me, I paid $21.50.

cave dave · Sep 25, 2008

I believe that there have been reports of fake Panasonics.

But if ebay add says its real it must be ... right?

Marduke · Sep 25, 2008

cave dave said:
I believe that there have been reports of fake Panasonics.

But if ebay add says its real it must be ... right?

Yes, the fake Panasonics had "Electric" spelled incorrectly IIRC

werdnawee · Sep 25, 2008

Are they WHITE panasonics or BLACK panasonics.

If WHITE, good chance they are fakes (especially from eBay)

I have bought about 20 of them and they seem to work fine. BUT, realising they were fakes, I discarded them. (Better to be safe than sorry)

And YES, there is a spelling mistake on the fake ones.

Real ones say "Matsushita Electric Industrial"

Fake ones have "Matsushita Elestric Industrial"

Here is a link - http://candlepowerforums.com/vb/showpost.php?p=2442417&postcount=15

Did I score a bargain or what?

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