[General Accessories] SacGuru:
I have submitted my review of these batteries along with details of a genuine problem I have been having, along with multiple other users, and most of us have submitted photos as proof. I do not know how it goes with you guys, but in reviewing a product you don't look at how well an earlier generation of similar products by the manufacturer have performed, unless you are looking at them for comparison, the ratings a products get depend solely on the performance of the product in hand. The performance of these batteries has been like sh*t, and crude as it may sound, that is more or less the truth of it.

If I actually review these batteries based on what your opinion is, or how reviews about other Anker products has been, then that would be a biased review. As you admit yourself, you have only been using these batteries for a fortnight or so, while I would've been completing four months was I still using them. For the first two months, as I have repeatedly said earlier, there was no problem with the performance or the build. Even now, the batteries would give me good performance in all probability, I guess. There is just this small problem of making them fit inside my phone though, with them swollen almost as wide as most extended batteries now.

In all my mails to Anker, I have not mentioned that I want the replacement delivered to India at all. I want them to be delievered to a relative's place in the UK - the nation where they were originally purchased from. They were actually very prompt with their first reply, which came within 24 hours of my writing the original mail to them. I wrote back to them and it has since been more than three days and I have not got any reply from them to that mail explaining what happens next (if at all anything happens). So much for the responsive customer service.

Then their's this another matter, of this other guy who keeps on suggesting how everything from temprature to humidity etc might be a cause, and 'concludes' that people who have been having problems with these batteries are solely themselves responsible for 'breaking' the batteries. First of all, if that was true, again, as I have noted and asked repeatedly, would he mind explaining why the original batteries haven't been having this problem, why is it only the special anker batteries we have been able to 'break'. Secondly, this is the same guy who has written a post on May 29th about how he has already had to get an Anker battery replaced, and then his money reimbursed as he wasn't happy with the replacement either.

You mention just two reasons as to why people give bad reviews about a product - either they are competitors, or people unable to get the battery replaced, according to you. That is simply quite amazing and astonishing, and a bit offensive. I could similarly claim why people give repeatedly good reviews of a bad product is because they gain financially from the manufacturer. The majority of times people give bad reviews is because, simply put, the product or the services offered are bad, which is the case here.

You have every right to write a good review about a product you have used, as much as I have to of reporting a problem I have encountered with my battery. I just suggest that you compliment the durability and longevity of these batteries only when you have used them for a longer period of time, say three or four months or so, not based on the performance of different Anker products you may have used earlier :)

Sent from my GT-N7100 or the Nexus 10, heaven knows.

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