Re: Short-lived watch batteries

So you're saying all brands must be of equal quality? This is not true in a
lot of products, and yet they are sold . Look at automobiles and the JDPower
scores of Toyota (best) vs. Range Rover (worst), for example.

There are a number of explanations:

1. Lack of good information

2. People value other attributes than quality (e.g. price), especially the
people who pay for the product (e.g. the manufacturers who install Vartas -
by the time they leak the warranty is over).

3. Even the "poor" product is fairly good - it's only bad in comparison with
the excellent. If 1 of 1000 Maxells leaked and 5 of 1000 Vartas leaked, the
Varta would be 5 times worse, but 99.5% of all Vartas would still be problem
free. As a consumer, you might buy 100 button cell batteries of various
brands in a lifetime, so your chances of ever seeing a bad one are small
(especially if you do not leave dead batteries in for years -that seems to
be the time they leak). But for pros who see literally thousands of watches,
the statistical odds begin to catch up with you.



"John S." <hjsjms@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Norman M. Schwartz wrote:
"dAz" <dazb@zipDOTcomDOTau> wrote in message
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another battery I avoid above all else is Varta, they make great
steaming
piles of crap, virtually any Varta brand battery I have come across in
as
long as I can remember have leakage problems in one form or another,
Varta
is/was running a promo on the tele, every time they say how reliable
and
great their product is, I just gotta laugh.

I have never had trouble with any of their camera batteries and am still
using some of their Mercury 675s.

I've used batteries from Varta in cameras and Renata in watches and
have had zero problems. I find it hard to believe those brands have
gotten as big as they are by selling batteries of the quality described
by others on this forum.



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