Bought a Dell Brand Laptop Battery off of ebay

[wetcat007]

It's supposed to be a Dell made battery but I don't think it is. Is there anyway to check? It says Dell on the battery and other than the ink being darker than normal it looks like a Dell battery label. The vender is listed as SMP(when I check in ubuntu power management), my other Dell laptop batteries all come up as Sony or Sanyo, with the exception of a generic battery I have which says SMP.

The reason I'm wondering is I have another generic battery that has the same vender name(no dell logo on this one it's obviously generic). It also never stops blinking the charge light and which is an issue I had with the generic battery.

I got it from an Ebay store with largely positive feedback primarily selling batteries.

Does anyone know is SMP is a valid maker of Dell batteries, or if Dell has a way to verify a battery was made by them?

 

[ViRGE]

Doesn't it have a serial number that you can run by Dell?

 

[Eli]

Sounds like a fake..

Bust them!

 

[xSauronx]

Originally posted by: Eli
Sounds like a fake..

:Q

 

[Yanagi]

Could you provide us with the serial number of the battery?

Usually looks like CN-0XXXX- and so on
Could start with JP aswell

 

[rudder]

Fake batteries on Ebay? Never heard of such a thing.

Seriously though.... the reason they have positive feed back is because most people are too stupid to realize they got a fake battery. All they know if they got one at a great price.

 

[Steve]

Does it work? What's the issue here?

 

[SparkyJJO]

I've seen Dell batteries using well-known cells such as Sanyo, Sony, and Panasonic cells plus a couple random ones.

 

[OdiN]

Dell doesn't make any of their own batteries anyway.