[geeks] How to avoid counterfit gadgets?

[Andrew Jones]

On 02/03/2014 03:48 AM, microcode at zoho.com wrote:
> Recently I was looking for batteries and it looks to me like the local shops
> are selling counterfit Duracells. The batteries themselves look pretty good
> but they have some Chinese characters on them. The dead giveaway is the
> packaging. It doesn't say Duracell anywhere on it. It's brown, generic
> packaging.

I think it's more likely that they're grey-market imports or 
commercial/bulk supply than counterfeit.

Are they bad batteries?