iPhone batteries...

[Aractus]

[dyresand]

Wow you should shame them for that that is fraud and you should request to get your money back.

[Aractus]

[Whateverist]

Thank you for the warning.

[Aractus]

[jesus_wept]

Let me get this straight. Apple doesn't sell replacement batteries, so you decided to buy a cheap, "genuine" battery from eBay, from a company that says the battery might be unsealed, knowing full well that eBay is full of fake batteries and scammers, and you're upset that you're been scammed?

[Aractus]

Well because I didn't think registered Australian businesses, with a retail outlet, would do it. I also didn't think they'd be so stupid as to disregard my warning on PayPal. Something like an iPhone battery would cost at most $8 fresh off a boat in a shipping container per unit. It may be as low as $4. Without cutting one open and pricing the parts I can't know for certain, but it's somewhere in that range. So I expect a new, genuine, battery should cost $10-20. $24 at the most (150% mark-up). Apple charges $95 to change the battery - and they wipe your phone's memory and may send you a different phone back. And it takes up to a week. Up to a week for a 60 second job. AND, they don't pay Australian company tax. So I'm not going to give them my business. I can order from appleipodparts.com (UK) at a cost of about $45. At least double what the cost should be (even if I take the shipping cost off, it's still around a 300% mark-up at the very least), but they can charge whatever they like because they know that it's difficult to find their competitors that sell genuine products, and that Apple charges much more than that. For $20 a battery (fresh off the boat) it would have been a much better quality battery with a much longer life and perhaps a 10-20% higher capacity. In fact the same is true for the iPhone 5 which has the lowest battery capacity of any iProduct because they reduced the size considerably compared with the 4/4S (the 4S battery is significantly smaller than the 4 battery but it holds almost the same charge). The iPhone 4 battery's capacity is 1420 mAh, and the iPhone 4S's capacity is 1430 mAh despite being signifiantly smaller. Had Apple used a better quality battery the capacity as mentioned could have been boosted around 10-20% and furthermore it would have lasted a lot longer than 18 months without loosing capacity. But they don't want to do that, chiefly because they don't want the batteries to last. They also deliberately made them non-user-serviceable, most other phones have easily detached batteries. With the iPhone you have to open it to access the battery, but from there it's straightforward.

[dyresand]

If you think that's bad, then this will blow your mind.

wow...

Also i did a google search for the OEM battery i seen a couple of places selling them.

[Aractus]

Yeah, and look how old those reviews are. Amazon are not doing themselves any favours by allowing such sellers to operate - they're just devaluing their brand.

[jesus_wept]

Well because I didn't think registered Australian businesses, with a retail outlet, would do it.

You live and learn.

I also didn't think they'd be so stupid as to disregard my warning on PayPal.

I wouldn't say they're stupid. If anything, presuming the law in Australia is similar to the UK, they're quite clever because they know you're not going to waste your time and money taking them to a small claims court because it'll cost you more than you'll get back.

This is how many scammers work. Having a registered business means nothing really because they'll just close the business down, if needs be, and start again under a different name. We have a programme here called watchdog (or we used to at least) and you would see it happening all the time on it. A company opens and rips everyone off, only to close and reopen under a different name to do it all over again.

You could've saved yourself a whole lot of time by saying "yes, you've got it straight" btw.