On 24 Apr 2006, "nightjar" nightjar@insert my surname here.uk.com
wrote:

"Andy" wrote in message
...
I was in my local newsagent in London and saw he had a card of
button
cells behind the till which he was selling at œ2.99 each.

I recognised the card of cells as one which I can get from my
local pound shop for œ1. It contains about 16 cells.

Considering that the pound shop makes a profit then it will
already have raised the price from something like 50p.

If it was, indeed the same product, it will have been bought from
somewhere that specialises in bankrupt and surplus stock sales, so
the selling price is no indication of the original trade sale
price. However, pound shops also sell remanufactured button cells,
often in packs that look a lot like manufacturers' original packs,
which do not have the life of new cells.

Colin Bignell

I didn't get the feeling they were bankrupt stock. A card of very
cheap button cells has been available for a long time both in the UK
and in the US. The reason they are not popular is probably because
people feel it isn't worth putting one in because the cells will last
a very short time or perhaps the cells will leak. I guess there
might be a bit of truth in both those worries.