[geeks] How to avoid counterfit gadgets?

[microcode at zoho.com]

On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 02:31:45PM -0500, Andrew Jones wrote:
> 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.

I guess it's possible but given how much Chinese counterfitting goes on and
how much currency counterfitting goes on here, and you not being here, I'm
not sure how you can make such a statement.

> Are they bad batteries?

I don't buy suspicious stuff, so I couldn't tell you.