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Ron(UK) wrote:
Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
Peter Hucker wrote:

LESS THAN A YEAR?!?!?! I have Duracells with a use by date of about 4
or 5 years in the future.



So do I. They rarely last more than a year before they leak, and some
brands even less. Before they changed from some anonymous Chinese
manufacturer to GPT, the Office Depot brand sold here lasted 3-4 months.


An awful lot of the 'Duracells' you'll find in discount places, markets,
etc. are chinese fakes. A genuine Procell PP3 has six cylindrical cells
which look like a small AAA cell. The ripoffs I`ve seen have flat cells.
You can barely tell the difference from external appearances alone - the
price should be your guide.

Ron(UK)


They are actually AAAA cells.....

jak