On Mon, 15 Jan 2007 02:27:37 GMT, Andy wrote:

|Poundland (in the UK) sells a set of three AAA Duracell Plus batteries
|for ?1.
|
|The batteries are sold in a blister pack The cells seem to have all the
|small print of a genuine Duracell on. However the backing card of the
|blister pack has some nondescript brand name on it and makes no
|reference to Duracell.
|
|Are these real Duracells?
|
|If not then why would a known chain like Pouldland really try to
|deliberately pass off counterfeit goods as the real thing?

Unlikely. Duracell will protect their copyright of the name at law.
Have you looked at the date on the pack? Are they out of date?
Alkaline batteries have many years shelf life, so even if outdated I would
expect them to work fine.
--
Dave Fawthrop dave hyphenologist co uk Google Groups is IME the *worst*
method of accessing usenet. GG subscribers would be well advised get a
newsreader, say Agent, and a newsserver, say news.individual.net. These
will allow them: to see only *new* posts, a killfile, and other goodies.