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He didn't handle 18650s. He bought a battery pack for his laptop that was supposedly an HP replacement, except it was either counterfeit or refurbished by a thi

He didn't handle 18650s. He bought a battery pack for his laptop that was supposedly an HP replacement, except it was either counterfeit or refurbished by a third party. This doesn't surprise me. I don't order batteries from Amazon because all of the batteries I've gotten from them have been counterfeit. It is not worth buying that item from them because of the risk of fire and malfunction. And the way they commingle stock from unrelated sellers makes it very easy to buy an OEM battery that is actually a counterfeit. In my opinion they are criminally negligent for not informing customers that counterfeit or third-party batteries can result in explosion or fire, and they should stop selling batteries entirely. And it's pretty clear both from what happened here and from my own experience that they simply don't care about counterfeiting on their network.

segfaultbuserr 7y ago
> He didn't handle 18650s. He bought a battery pack for his laptop that was supposedly an HP replacement, except it was either counterfeit or refurbished by a third party. If you reread the article, you'll see that the article mentioned a series of related issues, one was about the defective laptop (and other off-the-shelf) battery packs. I think everyone knows something about it already, even the great kernel hacker Alan Cox was a victim! His 3rd-party laptop battery pack exploded in 2006. * https://slashdot.org/story/06/09/24/062217/alan-coxs-exploding-laptop https://slashdot.org/story/06/09/24/062217/alan-coxs-explodi... But the article mentioned another issue as well, which is the purchasing and handling 18650 cells by individuals (mainly for e-cigarettes), which I found was something new and different. Thus I posted the discussion above.