Buyers beware of items requiring batteries

[kovaca0]

Many of the items sold on ebay require batteries, and many of them are not available if you do not live in the country where the item comes from. If you are purchasing an item requiring batteries make sure you can get them where you live.

[Anonymous]

Actually I would prefer to receive items WITHOUT batteries and I can buy my preferance of batteries myself.

[theundercutter]

It is not the seller's fault you didn't order speciality batteries. I sell 18650 and AG13 batteries if that's what you need.

I would revise that negative feedback you left....

[brandeentertainment]

Why would you invite someone to buy off you if they leave neg feedback for reasons like that? 

they should contact seller and revise that feedback but if i had to the guess the seller probably already blocked them...

What happens in ones head to blame a seller for something like that ...

Well i bought a radio from the UK and now I have to change all the outlets in my house so I can use it aaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwwwww

LOL

[amethyst1415]

I love Buyer Central. It allows me to see which buyers are bad news, and block them BEFORE they have a chance of looking at my stuff. 🙂

[froogal_electronic_parts_and_overstock]

here's a hint. 

you can buy batteries from the same venue you bought your item from

you can buy batteries from the same country you bought your item from

The venue rhymes with beebay

The country rhymes with China

If the item does not say it includes batteries, then it doesn't. Watch late night TV more, or kids commercials.....batteries not included.

It's such a popular phrase, they made a movie named that

[portfelt]

The way things are going it will be soon next to impossible to order batteries through the mail. Canada Post has restrictions on parcels containing them. They expect customers to comply yet there is no way they can inspect and enforce this regulation. Lithium Ion batteries are the main culprits apparently. They caused a cargo plane in the US to crash awhile back. China a few months back has cracked down on shipping these batteries as well. I order a lot from China and noticed they are not being shipped directly now. I get a lot of packages being shipped through Malaysia, Singapore and even Sweden, yet I bought from Chinese sources. That missing Malaysian passenger plane contained a huge cargo of batteries and news organizations have surmised this may have caused the crash. US and Cdn regulations would never allow them to be shipped on a plane carrying passengers.  Be aware that the batteries themselves are not the problem, but sloppy packaging is what creates the safety hazard. The Boeing Dreamliner generates all its electrical power on board from Lithium Ion batteries which through faulty engineering created fires and caused grounding of the entire fleet. What is ironic is that Japan airlines had the first new planes and the lithium ion cells all come from you guessed it Japan. The circumstances in this case is very different from simply transporting them. In the plane they are in circuit and because they produce such high current for such a tiny package they can ignite and even explode. These batteries are the most efficient to date and are starting to appear in cars as well. Making them safe to use is a problem that still requires a lot of work.

[dmil8030]

Hello 'kovaca0',

It's true what the folks here are telling you.  It is your responsibility to ascertain in advance of

purchasing whether or not batteries will be a problem.

Do you know what type exactly you need?  If you cannot find any for sale on ebay, perhaps someone

here will be able to suggest where you can buy them?

If you bought that item from China, - maybe a local 'Dollar Store' would sell that type of battery. 

Everything in those stores comes from China, including lots of items which don't quite 'fit' with the

standard sized of things we have here.  It's not much of a solution, I know, but I can appreciate your

annoyance at having purchased an item you cannot now use.

Would you be willing to post the item number?  That way, other members here may be able to help

sort out exactly what size and kind of battery and where to get them.

Just a thought.

As others here have mentioned, there are many reasons for sellers not to include batteries, --

not being able to simply mail them, or if they sit in the item too long they may be dead when they

arrive, or sometimes they leak.

I once got an item in which the AA cells had exploded in the battery compartment.  Fortunately the

seller was really good about it when I told him.  He didn't know there were batteries in it when he

mailed it.

Otherwise, yes, you would do yourself a favour to explain to the seller that your initial disappointment

caused you to over-react with a negative, and that you would like to revise it to a positive if he

wishes to send a Revision Request.

You see, your negative will make little difference to that seller who sells in such volume.  It will, however,

have a greater impact on yourself.  You might find your bids removed from auctions by sellers who

fear you leave negatives too quickly.  (Sellers are permitted to remove bidders if the desire it).

So, -- get that revised, it will help you more than the seller.  And see if anyone here can assist you

with finding the right size and type of battery.

Best of luck