Batteries Reviews

This battery refuses to charge in my ZR85 camera. I would not recommend it.

The Sakar battery refuses to engage the charging circuit on the camera. Therefore the Sakar battery is unchargable. The factory battery charges fine. I've called their customer service. They will charge me 6.95 to exchange the battery. I figure that by the time I've paid to have the original battery shipped to me, then paid to have the defective battery shipped to the return point, and then pay them 6.95 for the privilege of getting what I should have gotten to begin with (a working battery). I haven't saved very much money at all by buying this product now have I ?

Purchased this battery for our ZR85 and the mounting slide does not fit tight enough to recharge it. Now we are having to pay shipping charges on its return. The Canon BP535 says it fits all ZR style cameras. What's up?????

Well, I bought the PowerPad 160 (not cheap, those things are like $400) last fall. Last month the thing went dead. It would not charge at all. So I called customer service, and was told that they'll give me an exchange after I send in the proof of purchase. By the way, customer service over there = 1 person (Michael). So I did, and nothing happened for days. Called back, apparently whoever received the proof of purchase never informed customer service. Finally, their RMA department (possibly the same person), according to Michael, gave the exchange approval and told me RMA number is on the way. So I wait for another week...nothing. Called back, apparently there's another communication breakdown. No one bothered to call or email the RMA number and instruction. By the way, they don't ever return your calls. So leaving messages is pointless, you'll just have to keep calling. So I got the instruction over the phone, and was told that they will ship out a brand new replacement unit the day after the old unit is received. So I overnighted my old unit. Almost another week went by, nothing came. So I called again for the tracking number. This guy told me: "I got your message and was about to call you. But I can't read the tracking number I wrote down so let me look it up." A few minutes later, he came back and said "I can't find the tracking number, it hasn't been entered into the system" (hmmm....interesting, Michael, I though you just wrote it down and was about to call me)..."however, we did sent out your replacement unit on Thursday and you should receive it today or tomorrow." So I thought I'd finally get the new powerpad. So the next morning, while waiting anxiously for the UPS delivery, I get a call from electrovaya. Someone from electrovaya had just informed me that they received the unit I sent, it is unrepairable and since I've had it for 7 months so it exceeded the 6 month warranty, there's nothing they can do but to safely dispose it. Wait a minute; I said, for the last 3 weeks, I've been told a new unit was on the way! So the woman goes talk to Michael (customer service department). 10 minutes later, I find out that nothing was shipped out, he made up the whole thing about the exchange approval, they make a bad product that breaks as soon as warranty is up, nobody talks to each other, nobody knows what's going on, they need to improve internal communication, and oh yeah, you just wasted a bunch of money. Hey, electrovaya, there's this thing Alexander Gram Bell invented in 1875 called the telephone, use it! So I hope the $400 some dollars was a nice bonus for some proud electrovaya employee and made his kids happy over last Christmas. Or use it to cover overhead used to fire the customer service department. In conclusion, their product is crap, people I've dealt with over there are clueless and dishonest. If you are looking for an external batter, check out Valence at http://www.valence.com, a US company with a cheaper, and mostly likely, better product.

The Electrovaya PowerPads "Puff Up" and become very ugly and dangerous looking. Here is a quote from the director of sales: "...the battery can over-discharge and the cells can be damaged. In some cases when a stored PowerPad was later charged it puffed. The puffing was actually a good thing in that this is how the battery was designed." Electrovaya has now reduced the length of their warranty to 6 months because they no longer like to support their PowerPads. I have seen this happen to 70% of PowerPads within 1 year of use. I would not recommend this product in any way!

well, I bought the PowerPad 160 (not cheap, those things are like $400) last fall. Last month the thing went dead. It would not charge at all. So I called customer service, and was told that they'll give me an exchange after I send in the proof of purchase. By the way, customer service over there = 1 person (Michael). So I did, and nothing happened for days. Called back, apparently whoever received the proof of purchase never informed customer service. Finally, their RMA department (possibly the same person), according to Michael, gave the exchange approval and told me RMA number is on the way. So I wait for another week...nothing. Called back, apparently there's another communication breakdown. No one bothered to call or email the RMA number and instruction. By the way, they don't ever return your calls. So leaving messages is pointless, you'll just have to keep calling. So I got the instruction over the phone, and was told that they will ship out a brand new replacement unit the day after the old unit is received. So I overnighted my old unit. almost another week went by, nothing came. So I called again for the tracking number. This guy told me: "I got your message and was about to call you. But I can't read the tracking number I wrote down so let me look it up." A few minutes later, he came back and said "I can't find the tracking number, it hasn't been entered into the system" (hmmm....interesting, Michael, I though you just wrote it down and was about to call me)..."however, we did sent out your replacement unit on Thursday and you should receive it today or tomorrow." So I thought I'd finally get the new powerpad. So the next morning, while waiting anxiously for the UPS delivery, I get a call from electrovaya. Someone from electrovaya had just informed me that they received the unit I sent, it is unrepairable and since I've had it for 7 months so it exceeded the 6 month warranty, there's nothing they can do but to safely dispose it. Wait a minute; I said, for the last 3 weeks, I've been told a new unit was on the way! So the woman goes talk to Michael (customer service department). 10 minutes later, I find out that nothing was shipped out, he made up the whole thing about the exchange approval, they make a bad product that breaks as soon as warranty is up,nobody talks to each other, nobody knows what's going on, they need to improve internal communication, and oh yeah, you just wasted a bunch of money. Hey, electrovaya, there's this thing Alexander Gram Bell invented in 1875 called the telephone, use it! So I hope the $400 some dollars was a nice bonus for some proud electrovaya employee and made his kids happy over last Christmas. Or use it to cover overhead used to fire the customer service department. In conclusion, their product is crap, people I've dealt with over there are clueless and dishonest. If you are looking for an external batter, check out Valence at http://www.valence.com, a US company with a cheaper, and mostly likely, better product.

The Electrovaya PowerPads "Puff Up" and become very ugly and dangerous looking. Here is a quote from the director of sales: "...the battery can over-discharge and the cells can be damaged. In some cases when a stored PowerPad was later charged it puffed. The puffing was actually a good thing in that this is how the battery was designed." Electrovaya has now reduced the length of their warranty to 6 months because they no longer like to support their PowerPads. I have seen this happen to 70% of PowerPads within 1 year of use. I would not recommend this product in any way!

I received this battery pack, only to find out that it requires the Expansion Pack Plus to work. Nothing in the write-ups indicated this. Now I have a battery pack with no place to connect it. Now ... I have to figure out how to return it ... sigh.

I bought this battery pack in hopes of extending the life of my Compaq Ipaq 3635. The battery now holds a charge for less that a minutes, and dies. I received this battery pack, only to find out that it requires the Expansion Pack Plus to work. That means, it cost nearly $150 to replace a poor battery, if you include the cost of the Expansion Pack Plus, plus a slimline battery.

Unless you own the Expansion Pack Plus, don't buy this. Either change PDAs, or get a do-it-yourself install kit for the internal battery on the IPAQ.

Sounded great, half price for a stronger battery- and I wanted one for those long days away from a charger. But, this one is decidedly subpar. Alas.

I bought this but although this claims to be 1000mAH, so far, it doesnot even last as long as the original 750mAh, also after a few weeks, even I left in the original charger, it wont last longer than 1 hour when I use my camera, avoid this item!

This ... Interplak toothbrush is posibly the worst item I have ever purchased from Amazon, unfortunately I threw out the packaging before trying out the product the next morning, and now I cannot get my money back! I changed the batteries a number of times but the brush head moves too slowly to clean any teeth. My ... Crest Spinbrush is much better than this.

This is possibly the worst product I have ever purchased...and at such a high price, no wonder it is no longer manufactured! My $5 Crest Spinbrush works 5 times better than this Interplak product, which cost me 5 times more! I threw out the packaging immediately b/c I had faith it would work and now I can't return it and get my money back! The brush and motor work extremely slow and do not clean properly...it is totally worthless....

Despite of the negative review of this Canon S30 replacement battery from amazon.com, I still fell for it for its cheaper price. I bought two new ones...one turned out to be ok. The other one was never functional. After a full-charge, the malfunction one could only take a few shots before it runs out.

I brought the two with me for a trip only to find out that only one works. So I had to be prudent in taking shots and missed many valuable moments.

I should have stick to the original canon battery , even it is more expensive.

I bought this battery a couple months ago for my Powershot S45 since it was so much cheaper than the real NB-2L. PLEASE! Do not make the same mistake. The first few uses were fine and it appeared to be a genuine equivalent. However, after about 10 uses, the battery life was completely sapped. It now takes just a few shots after a "full charge" before I hit the low battery indicator. Of course, my original Canon battery is still fine after many uses. I highly recommend sticking with the real thing.

I've read the other review here and decided to add the voice of my experience as well. For whatever reason, all of the 8 batteries I bought also malfunctioned. They didn't hold a charge or charge at all. The 4 of 8 that did initially work slowly started to malfunction as well, so that after 6 months I needed to buy new NiMH batteries (Rayovac, which have been working great.

It's been a long time since I've encountered a product that is so badly designed or manufactured. I purchased a total of six of these AAA batteries and none of them worked properly. Some of them refused to hold a charge, and those that did still could not power my little mp3 player. I returned the charger and batteries and even the replacements have the same problem. One of the batteries even started leaking on its first charge. I have had much better luck with Kodak's Ni-MH product.

I asked for 1 Recoton T123 3.6 V, 2500 mAh Ni-MH - Panasonic 2.4GHz Cordless Battery.

and I got 1 of Recoton T123 3.6 V, 1210 mAh Ni-MH - Panasonic 2.4GHz Cordless Battery.

When I sent the item back for refund they deduct shipping for this item though it is their fault to send me the wromg item.

I ASKED FOR: 1 Recoton T123 3.6 V, 2500 mAh Ni-MH - Panasonic 2.4GHz Cordless Battery..

I GOT: 1 of Recoton T123 3.6 V, 1210 mAh Ni-MH - Panasonic 2.4GHz Cordless Battery

Whats up with that?

This battery does "fit" my DCR-PC1 but the chip is not compatible and so the battery does not work with the camera. Had to return it. Get the genuine Sony instead.