100 Rayovac AAA batteries, 15 shipped.

[RADEoN]

http://www.graveyardmall.com/raaaamaplalb.html

[SEALTeamSix]

Slick deal, Price Nazi.

[MGDMN]

Nice dude, thanks.

[dracos]

I'd need to go buy more remote controls for all of those, I've never use them all... but still a very good deal

[visionviper]

Man, if only they were AA.... but very hot deal.

[MavericK96]

In for one pack of 100. Why not?

[TheBuzzer]

what is a normal battery life?

it says it might go bad in 2010

[MavericK96]

what is a normal battery life?

it says it might go bad in 2010

I think they're only guaranteed to be good until then. The actual shelf life could potentially be quite a bit longer. It also says that they range from 2010 to 2013, so just use the 2010 ones first. ;)

[RADEoN]

Maverick is right.

I've also heard that refrigerating batteries can help them keep shelf life.

[MasterShake]

Maverick is right.

I've also heard that refrigerating batteries can help them keep shelf life.

I've also heard that it can ruin them (?)

[TheGamerZ]

I think I'm going to submit that to Mythbusters to test out. I would like to know if refrigerating really helps or not.

[Trombe]

Lower temperatures is supposed to slow leakage, but by how much I don't know. Wish these were AAs though, so I can keep throwing them into remotes and Rock Band instruments.

[WildMonkey]

You could always buy a AA adapter like this:
http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.3657

[spacetrader]

well this scraps my need to buy those sanyo eneloops... thanks

[RADEoN]

You could always buy a AA adapter like this:
http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.3657

I've never seen such a contraption. This makes the 100 pack even more clutch.

[Northerner]

link is bad, i couldnt even get them to come up on a search? :-(

[ReconSniper]

link is bad, i couldnt even get them to come up on a search? :-(

Was probably the deal of the day, and now its dead.

[MavericK96]

Has anyone gotten these yet? It seems like it's been quite some time since I ordered, but I can't find any sort of tracking info.

[Losfiendos]

aint got mine yet either... give it a couple of weeks i guess.

[oplin]

I got a tracking number on my order. No f'n clue what i'm going to do with all of these but for this price i can just throw them out when they go bad instead of using rechargeables. I think these would last about 1/2 or 3/4 as long as a AA so putting in that caase probably wouldn't get you a very long lived battery.

[Valset]

said it just shipped today

[matrix563]

bummer. i misssed it :(

[Mr. Wolf]

You can find similar deals on eBay. I recently loaded up on D, AA and AAA batteries at great prices.

[oplin]

So does my mom

[MavericK96]

Yeah, mine just shipped today according to the email I received.

[eon]

How can you possibly use all those batteries before they expire

[spacetrader]

when batteries expire they dont suddenly go bad. theyre like cheese- as long as you properly store them they can go much longer then their exp date. im sure they will work fine at least 1 year after the printed date- probably 2-3 years after.

[MisterDNA]

The date on a battery means that's when the cell has lost 20% of original energy to storage. They'll still work, especially in low-drain devices like my Bluetooth mice.

Deal's back on, by the way.

[spacetrader]

i was just thinking about all the batteries i throw away. with deals like these, i cant even imagine how many batteries are buried in landfills.. (wait, i know... all of them lol)

[Nomad]

Thanks op

[ryan_975]

yuck Rayovac. 100 of them is like what 25 Duracell or Energizers?

[spacetrader]

are you saying rayovacs dont last as long? i dont think the difference is noticeable...

[mope54]

Evidently they are a bunch of unpackaged, busted up batteries?
Let us know how that turns out once you get them :P

I bought a 20 pack of energizers over 4 years ago and I still have half of them left...they're date 2014, so these 2010-13 batteries are quite old. I doubt the site even knows the conditions they've been stored, either.

Probably better off buying a 10/20 pack of energizers in the store for the same price.

[spacetrader]

Evidently they are a bunch of unpackaged, busted up batteries?
Let us know how that turns out once you get them :P

I bought a 20 pack of energizers over 4 years ago and I still have half of them left...they're date 2014, so these 2010-13 batteries are quite old. I doubt the site even knows the conditions they've been stored, either.

Probably better off buying a 10/20 pack of energizers in the store for the same price.

im not sober right now but isnt this not right? 100 fresh rayovacs are going to last at least 4x longer then a 20 pack of energizers. you used 10 batteries in the last 4 years... which means you really dont have shit for electronics. i think i lose 10 batteries every 4 years. but maybe its the influences

[mope54]

While 100 FRESH rayovacs are going to last 4x as long as 20 fresh energizers, I pointed out that my 4 year old energizers have an expiration date of 2014, which makes these batteries 4-5 years old at best, with some being 9-10 years old.

They are banged up, smashed, or whatever "blemished" batteries covers. Bulk batteries, with no case, and stored in unknown conditions.
So if that is your idea of FRESH batteries, I'd hate to see your sock drawer.

Shit for electronics? What do you have that takes AA/AAA batteries?
The only thing I would use alkaline batteries in are my remotes and flashlights.


The rate those devices use up batteries make it best to just buy a pack of batteries for a few bucks as needed. If you've got a ton of devices then get a 20 pack for $8 (or $5 for generics). You can buy 40-60 batteries for the same $15 bucks and if you bought them when you needed them, they'd be FRESH and would have a shelf life upwards of 2020 instead of next year.

Seems much better than buying these and also buying those translucent containers to use them in AA devices.

For high consumption devices, like cordless mice and keyboards, it's more cost effective to buy an 8 pack of AA eneloops for sale at Amazon for $24.99 (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000LNI5VC) or 2x4 pack AAA for $20 http://www.amazon.com/Sanyo-Eneloop-Pre-Charged-Rechargeable-Batteries/dp/B000IV2YLY/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1241761693&sr=1-1.

[Valset]

still waiting on mine

[memnoch_thedevil]

Shit for electronics? What do you have that takes AA/AAA batteries?
The only thing I would use alkaline batteries in are my remotes and flashlights.



Clearly you do not have any children. Every single toy or game my kids own takes either AA or AAA (a few C and D here and there). We have 3 kids, 7, 5, and 1...and probably go through at least, I'll say it again, at least 100 batteries a month...and that's being nice. So ya I will take a shot on these, why not? $8.99 for a 100 AA batteries? not a bad deal, I could care less what they look like, as long as they work. So, if these last at least a month, we are already saving money lol...

[mope54]

Clearly you do not have any children. Every single toy or game my kids own takes either AA or AAA (a few C and D here and there). We have 3 kids, 7, 5, and 1...and probably go through at least, I'll say it again, at least 100 batteries a month...and that's being nice. So ya I will take a shot on these, why not? $8.99 for a 100 AA batteries? not a bad deal, I could care less what they look like, as long as they work. So, if these last at least a month, we are already saving money lol...
Yes, clearly :rolleyes:
Or, since we are on a hardware forum, I framed my response in what is most relevant to most readers here: peripherals.

But if you haven't actually shopped around, and you do have children eating through 100s of batteries per month, then you can choose between spending $125 bucks on 1200 batteries from this place or the same money on rechargeable batteries (bulk prices range from .79 to 1.19 depending on size and capacity) and end up with significantly more battery life for your bucks.

Coupled with the fact that damaged and old batteries leak caustic, poisonous material, which is exacerbated when they are improperly stored (for example, a hot warehouse in China for half a decade), and children putting anything they can possibly fit in their mouths, and the environmental costs of disposing 1200+ batteries per year (in my state it's illegal to dispose of alkaline batteries in the trash or landfills) means I don't see the benefit of these batteries for someone in your situation.

[MisterDNA]

Rayovac bases their dating on a five year cycle, last I noticed.

[Dogboy714]

Sigh. Don't buy alkaline batteries. Get low-discharge NiMH rechargables and save the planet, plz. For AAA batteries they run around $2.50 a piece, but you can recharge them 1000 times. U can do the math.

[MONSOON]

^^Thank you Captain Planet^^

[MavericK96]

Sigh. Don't buy alkaline batteries. Get low-discharge NiMH rechargables and save the planet, plz. For AAA batteries they run around $2.50 a piece, but you can recharge them 1000 times. U can do the math.

I'm sorry, but none of the rechargeables I've bought have gotten "1000 charges" without significantly degraded capacity. Usually after probably something like 50-100 charges they will start to drop in terms of capacity. Alkalines tend to last a lot longer in my devices than any rechargeables. And I've used dozens of rechargeables. For some things they're good, yes, but for the price it's a lot more cost-effective on paper than it is in reality.

[mope54]

I'm sorry, but none of the rechargeables I've bought have gotten "1000 charges" without significantly degraded capacity. Usually after probably something like 50-100 charges they will start to drop in terms of capacity. Alkalines tend to last a lot longer in my devices than any rechargeables. And I've used dozens of rechargeables. For some things they're good, yes, but for the price it's a lot more cost-effective on paper than it is in reality.
So you've gotten 50-100 times the use from rechargeable batteries, but alkalines have been more cost effective in reality?

How do you figure that...are you paying $40 per rechargeable battery?


Even if you only got 50 recharges from the batteries I linked at $20 per 8, with 50 charges that would be equal to 400 alkaline batteries.
With 100 charges that would be 800 batteries. That's anywhere from $60-100 dollars for these craptastic batteries.

Do any of you guys even bother doing the math when you see a hot deal or you just have to buy things because they're cheap?

[spacetrader]

why do you assume people are dumb? theres more to it then simple math. i don't go through 100 batteries a month, i dont really go through enough to warrant rechargeables. and last time i bought a box of 80 aa rechargeable nimh, they lasted about 3 years. they were hq panasonics that most wore out, some got lost, a few had been given away. i find myself in a lot of situations too where i cannibalize batteries from whatever is around too, and that also mixes things up.

also, there are some devices that work better with alkalines because their higher voltage. my cordless mouse is one of them... and that only needing to be changed out every 4 months or more.

the one part that does bother me about alkalines is the waste... but at the same time, i dont think its the end of the world.

[mope54]

why do you assume people are dumb?
I don't assume people are "dumb," however, your argument is based on objectively flawed premises.

theres more to it then simple math.
Deciding which batteries fit an application best is based upon comparing price, volume, voltage, and rate of discharge. If one wanted to calculate environmental impact of one's choice in batteries that can be represented mathematically, as well.

The only considerations "more to it then simple math" are stubbornness, laziness, or claiming that multiplication and division are not simple math.

i don't go through 100 batteries a month, i dont really go through enough to warrant rechargeables.

Well that's interesting given that your response to my first post was to claim I must have "shit for electronics" since I only used a dozen batteries in a few years and suspected that most people would be better served by buying batteries as necessary rather than stockpiling outdated alkalines.

The next person responding to that argued that his family does use 100 batteries per month...a claim I suspect is greatly exaggerated. If it isn't, I offered a solution of buying bulk rechargeable batteries for a much more cost effective solution than this option. Short of that, I suggest throwing a ball around with his kids or teaching them to play marbles or at least turn their devices off when not in use.

also, there are some devices that work better with alkalines because their higher voltage. my cordless mouse is one of them... and that only needing to be changed out every 4 months or more.

There are no devices that "work better with alkalines because their higher voltage." While that may have been true twenty years ago, rechargeable solutions are currently available in a variety of voltage options and modern devices compensate anyway. Even the concern that rechargeable batteries discharge over time has been rendered moot with the eneloop type batteries.

the one part that does bother me about alkalines is the waste... but at the same time, i dont think its the end of the world.
This sentence just appears to be state that some of us made a good point, but for the sake of disagreeing you're not going to acknowledge it's importance. In any case, there are green battery solutions available for those interested.


Now, if you were a boyscout leader, or heading a summer camp, or going on a trip with 20 buddies, or giving out 30 battery driven presents at Christmas, or something along that nature where you needed a large volume of batteries for a single use, then it might make sense to bite this deal. But for the normal consumer, it's pretty hard to come up with a reasonable justification for this many batteries sitting around in your closet/freeezer while you try to go through a few at a time in a translucent case that allows you to put them in an AA device.

[spacetrader]

i have a fm transmitter that i bought 2 years ago. if i plug three alkalines into it, the range is about 100ft longer then if there is nimh. write another book picking that apart

[MavericK96]

i have a fm transmitter that i bought 2 years ago. if i plug three alkalines into it, the range is about 100ft longer then if there is nimh. write another book picking that apart

I assume that probably has to do with the fact that NiMH rechargeables are 1.2V, whereas alkalines are 1.5V. Which can be another advantage of alkalines.

[DaedalusHelios]

Come on guys... its just batteries. You can't save the planet buying rechargeables.

There is no "saving our planet" because of the rate China pollutes. If we stopped polluting completely in the USA, China would still create enough pollution that we would just slow the curve. So lets all just calm down a bit.

[spacetrader]

I assume that probably has to do with the fact that NiMH rechargeables are 1.2V, whereas alkalines are 1.5V. Which can be another advantage of alkalines.

that's my point, its not as cut and dry as some make it seem.

i got the batteries today. the packaging makes this a not-hot deal. its just 100 batteries thrown into a bubble envelope... all touching eachother... probably draining fairly fast. they are mostly 2013 though... a bunch a 2012 and just a few 11's and 10's. theyll be great for my hobbies around the house, but they are clearly used batteries probably ones taken out of unsold toys and such.

[mope54]

I assume that probably has to do with the fact that NiMH rechargeables are 1.2V, whereas alkalines are 1.5V. Which can be another advantage of alkalines.
It probably has more to do with the fact that he bought 80 cheap, outdated, "blemished" batteries from a similar deal as this one in order to "save" money rather than spending his money more wisely on a few known good, properly stored, NiMH when he needed them.

Of course, assuming he's not exaggerating or wrong that his transmitter works an extra 100ft with alkalines (1/3 of a football field is pretty hard to test accurately), he could just buy rechargeable alkaline batteries...

Even still, I never said never to use alkaline batteries. I just questioned stockpiling 100 of them. By the time his transmitter needs new batteries, most of the ones in this box he got will be worse than properly stored and charged NiMH.

[spacetrader]

It probably has more to do with the fact that he bought 80 cheap, outdated, "blemished" batteries from a similar deal as this one in order to "save" money rather than spending his money more wisely on a few known good, properly stored, NiMH when he needed them.

Of course, assuming he's not exaggerating or wrong that his transmitter works an extra 100ft with alkalines (1/3 of a football field is pretty hard to test accurately), he could just buy rechargeable alkaline batteries...

Even still, I never said never to use alkaline batteries. I just questioned stockpiling 100 of them. By the time his transmitter needs new batteries, most of the ones in this box he got will be worse than properly stored and charged NiMH.


you sure know a lot of facts about other people's lives without even knowing their real names:rolleyes:

[mope54]

you sure know a lot of facts about other people's lives without even knowing their real names:rolleyes:
Well I'm sorry if I confused you with the person who wrote this:
last time i bought a box of 80 aa rechargeable nimh, they lasted about 3 years. they were hq panasonics that most wore out...i find myself in a lot of situations too where i cannibalize batteries from whatever is around too, and that also mixes things up.

[Sniviler]

I bought these for my home theater keyboard and I'm to fucking lazy to bother with rechargeable batteries.

when I'm done with the batteries I will wrap them in a plastic bag, put them in a box filled with styrofoam peanuts while eating a can of tunafish and drinking ice cold bottled water on the way to the landfill.

[Domllama]

It probably has more to do with the fact that he bought 80 cheap, outdated, "blemished" batteries from a similar deal as this one in order to "save" money rather than spending his money more wisely on a few known good, properly stored, NiMH when he needed them.

Of course, assuming he's not exaggerating or wrong that his transmitter works an extra 100ft with alkalines (1/3 of a football field is pretty hard to test accurately), he could just buy rechargeable alkaline batteries...

Even still, I never said never to use alkaline batteries. I just questioned stockpiling 100 of them. By the time his transmitter needs new batteries, most of the ones in this box he got will be worse than properly stored and charged NiMH.

I just expect mine to work in my remotes for my tv...lol, don't be so tense man lighten up..they are just cheapy batteries!!

[spacetrader]

yeah i give in since this ended up being a warm deal at best anyway. all hail rechargeables. nothing ever existed on the planet that was greater. now come krod (mandoon), we got women to look at!

[artless1]

deal is now back on, price dropped to $8.99 for 100

[MavericK96]

deal is now back on, price dropped to $8.99 for 100

I think that's what it was in the first place, plus $6 or so for shipping = $15.

[spacetrader]

Deal is a fail for sure. only 83 of mine checked out to be over 1.43v, and almost half of those were under 1.5. only about 40 were 1.5v+. out of the ~25 dead ones, a few were like 1.3v and most were shorted out completely.

[monto]

Deal is a fail for sure. only 83 of mine checked out to be over 1.43v, and almost half of those were under 1.5. only about 40 were 1.5v+. out of the ~25 dead ones, a few were like 1.3v and most were shorted out completely.
Damn, I was just about to pull the trigger

[LurkerLito]

Deal is a fail for sure. only 83 of mine checked out to be over 1.43v, and almost half of those were under 1.5. only about 40 were 1.5v+. out of the ~25 dead ones, a few were like 1.3v and most were shorted out completely.

Doh that's not good. My order is suppose to be arriving today :(. I guess I should go get my multimeter ready.

[spacetrader]

definitely. what prompted me was my buddy bought a refurb dvd player, and of course the aaa's for the remote was dead. *yip!* i thought, since i knew i had a hundred of them... so i tried a set and the remote still didnt work. tried another set and it worked for 5 sec. then i got the multimeter out and found that nearly 30% of my stockpile is trash. trash i paid for to have shipped to me:D

btw- graveyardmall.com you get a -1

[LurkerLito]

OK my order came and I sorted out the batteries.
< 1v : 6 (unusable)
1v - 1.46 : 13 (usually 1.2v - 1.3v)
> 1.46 : 81 (these usually were 1.47v - 1.48v or higher only a few at over 1.5v)

[spacetrader]

pretty similar results to mine. i wouldnt doubt for a second these guys actually tested each one and split them up accordingly. "a few new ones mixed in with a bunch of used ones sprinkled with a few dead ones. $15 for other people's trash, sale sale sale!"

[oplin]

I got a bunch that weren't completely usable what a bunch of shit.

[MavericK96]

I haven't really tried any of these yet, but mysteriously the deal is gone now. Pretty shady overall.

Oh well, $15 lesson learned. Looks like most of them *should* work, at least for awhile.

[dj_2004]

This is usually the case with bulk battery buys for cheap.

[MavericK96]

So here are some numbers for the "expiration" dates I got with my set:

2009-2011--- 8
2012----------- 29
2013----------- 63

I didn't test them all, only a random sampling of ~10 from each batch, but only one in the 8 "older" batteries was less than 1.4V, with the majority being >1.5V. The other batches didn't have any below 1.4V in my sample groups. Obviously there could be some bad ones scattered around in there, but overall it seems like the vast majority are good.

I have to say the packaging was atrocious, though. I thought we'd at least get some shrink-wrapped bricks of 25 or something.

[spacetrader]

most of my bad ones were 2013's

[epicjas0n]

It's funny, Fox news is having a story about buying electronics (including batteries) from the bargain bin and how dangerous they can be.

[spacetrader]

meh... this hot deal has been lyin on my futon for a week now... i still can't file a homeowner's total loss claim. if these things burned my house down it would turn out to be the hottest deal ever, pun not intended but fitting.

[tenjuna]

heck, mine didn't even arrive in bubble wrap, just a plain manila envelope folder over itself a few times.

one of the batteries leaked all over the others, which basically made this entire purchase a fail.

lesson learned.

[MavericK96]

Well look, to buy this same amount of the exact same batteries in a quantity of 100, you'd be paying something like $85+. Even if only 1/4 of them work perfectly, you're still getting a deal.

[DraGun]

I haven't even received mine yet...