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Default 50 Dying batteries: Can they be shorted by cardboard if humid enough?

jasen said something like:
On 2007-03-04, Thomas G. Marshall
. com wrote:

I recently ordered on eBay 100 energizer AA batteries.

I tested them using a simple battery tester from radio shack. 4
were dead, one was near death, and 95 were at an identical high mark,


dig out your magnefying glass, what's the use-by date on those
batteries?



Were they actually *on* those? There was something that looked like 1/2 pt.
type, but I gave up on it....