@Kidsandliz Human nature being what it is, we all fill whatever space is available to us. Ergo, the bigger the fridge, the more the batteries. There can be no end to this cycle.
Or, to quote Jaws (and I’m positive this is the exact quote), “We’re going to need a bigger fridge”…
@haydesigner I know; I came back and edited the post after ordering the batteries; apparently that just squeaked in under the 5 minute mark and the inappropriately feline (cats are assholes) image showed up just after.
OTOH it might just be representative of the results I can expect from Lucas batteries…
@spitfire6006006 No reviews available for Lucas alkaline batteries, but the car battery reviews are pretty much +/-.
Frankly the previous batteries we bought on Meh have not been got to a lot of the electronics we put them in- and that was the “Never-ready” brand-named ones we bought.
The generic Japanese-named ones were actually better than the name branded ones.
@nolrak it’s been so long I can’t remember. Meh made good on those and I’ve had name brand batteries leak so these are probably fine…but I’m still skipping them.
@Stallion My last order of batteries on meh didn’t leak, but they only have about 10% of a normal charge. Strange thing is that they are extremely light, like 1/2 the weight of normal. Anyway, meh gets a meh from me on anything battery related.
@nolrak I come across great batteries at .07/each about two times a year (sold in boxes of 100 or more) and I buy several hundred of each. I might buy these anyway because .15 is also a good price if the batteries are decent.
I didn’t find any reviews, but I did find this fundraising sales sheet that shows graphs of the voltage of Lucas batteries versus national brands while connected to resistive loads.
Spoiler: they show that they last longer in the 1v-0.8v region, where they’re too dead for most of the stuff you would put them in. They also show that they’re pretty much the same as the big guys, but that also includes Ray-o-Vac, which I wouldn’t expect to have the same results as Energizer or Duracell.
“We’d like to begin today with an unassailable truth: these are batteries.”
Warning: nerd roast ahead.
These are technically not batteries, but cells. Batteries, such as 9 volts, are collections or arrangements of multiple wet or dry cells. If you cut open a true battery, you will find multiple small cylinders connected with wire. Inside a psuedo-battery, you will find a (usually) carbon rod covered in a pasty material.
So, contrary to the “unassailable” claim, these are not batteries.
@DVDBZN An aside: I once owned a voice recorder that took three AAAA - which no one carried at the time, at least not as individual cells. Instead, I’d buy them by the six-pack - I’d rip open a 9v battery.
@DVDBZN And they should have been available around twenty years ago - but there was a year or so stretch when they essentially vanished from the shelves. Dunno why.
After my experience with many of the cat batteries popping open and one set corroding and destroying a nice gps unit, I only trust Kirkland brand now. To bad for me because I trusted everything Meh before neverready batteries.
If these came with an elf-guarantee where when these leak a little elf would appear to clean the battery compartments of all my kids’ crap, then this would be a great deal
Ever since a harbor freight moved in next to my grocery store I get more batteries then I use. They always have a free coupon for batteries or flashlights or tarps and a 20%off coupon . So go in my 1 thing of sandpaper you need get 24 batteries and get out of the store for under 2 dollars.
So the last block of batteries I bought were a bust. They had so little charge they must be changed every couple of weeks if you want to use them in something important such as your doorbell or even worse, your front door lock. Otherwise you get a conversation that sounds like this Me: That new front door lock you bought on Amazon last month is crap. I can’t get the code to work and must use the key. Why have a code if you have to use the key?"
Him after messing with door “The door lock is fine. The batteries you bought on Meh are crap. I replaced them with fresh batteries and the lock works fine. By the way, that was the problem with the bell at the back door too.”
Me: “hey want some beef jerky or candy corn?”
@elliedan “a” jaguar? Aren’t you supposed to have 2? One in the shop, one in the garage? (I used to own a '90 XJ6. I wish I had a second for all the rental cars I needed.)
Is this like those batteries that failed in epic fashion a few years ago and meh did a full recall/refund? They came in a green box and were similarly colored…but I’m pretty sure not this brand.
I’m taking a chance on these. They’re batteries. I feel like even the “name brands” burn out quickly these days. Plus: I never get an opportunity to order a gross of anything. SO that’s appealing.
These don’t appear to have sold on Amazon at $32 for a gross (144) lowest price… gonna take a pass on these. Still lacking the “energy” from the last batteries I believed the write up, and not the pictures.
Bright side, we should be finished with this box of Industrial Eveready’s soon, since we go through 4 batteries a week on our TV remote.
@RiotDemon Our remote has the light up keys, and a voice command option. Use the voice command 2-3 times, and the past deal for Eveready Carbon Zinc batteries (from the pictures and what I received), are not Alkaline batteries like advertised. Light up feature and voice command, likes to gobble thru these batteries at 2-4 per week.
I almost bought these, but still feeling lack luster from the last battery pack.
We purchased these batteries in November 2018. Nearly 3/4 of the AAA have already leaked and they are still in their original packaging. This was a bad deal.
I got the AA’s at the same time (using the /buy command just a few posts above), and they have all worked great - no leaks at all, and they are still powering things.
I just put two of them into the fan for my youngest’s Alien Abduction Halloween costume last night.
Especially when including the $5 coupon, this was one of the best deals I’ve ever gotten for purchasing* batteries.
*I used to get AA’s for free out of the Comcast dumpster. You’d be amazed how many remotes and packs of AA’s get tossed because people already had their own universal remotes they use. I use to just go pick them out, but then they got one of those closed up dumpsters to prevent people from illegally dumping there. Too bad.
Hopefully you are right; we may have just been unlucky and received a defective batch. At the same time, we also purchased the same deal on the AA batteries. None of those have leaked yet. However we haven’t attempted to use any of those yet, as we go through so many, we buy in advance and are just about to start using the AA batteries. Thanks for your input; I appreciate it.
In the box I received the batteries were already half dead when I opened the box. My first bad experience ever with MEH and that goes back to before Amazon bought Woot.
I purchased both the AAAs and the AAs. No leakers in either batch, but the active life of the AAs has been terrible. They’ve been used primarily in my kitchen, basement and outdoors in digital thermometers, remote-to-base station transmission. 1.57 volts out of the package, and they probably last about 10 days. Of course, I’ve tried other brands, and they’re fine. Among my worst meh purchases.
I was leafing through the old deals and saw this thread. I wanted to just add that the Lucas batteries were by far the worst thing I’ve ever bought off meh.
Specs
What’s in the Box?
144x AA batteries
OR
144x AAA batteries
(Either 36 4-packs or 72 2-packs or some combination of those that equals 144 total batteries)
Price Comparison
AA: $75 (for 6x 24-packs) at Amazon
AAA: $72 (for 6x 24-packs) at Amazon
Warranty
90 day Mediocre
Estimated Delivery
Monday, July 13th - Thursday, July 16th
/image refrigerator
@shahnm Clearly you are going to need these because your puny little home fridge clearly isn’t going to be big enough:
@Kidsandliz Human nature being what it is, we all fill whatever space is available to us. Ergo, the bigger the fridge, the more the batteries. There can be no end to this cycle.
Or, to quote Jaws (and I’m positive this is the exact quote), “We’re going to need a bigger fridge”…
/giphy jumping for joy
Had the same thought, @thismyusername
/image meh
/giphy woohoo
You finally get AAA batteries, and they’re from Lucas? The bleeping Prince of Darkness?
Oh well, they’re AAA.
/giphy healthy-labored-sidewalk
@duodec
/image Lucas replacement smoke
And it won’t let me edit the giphy. Bravo. Lucas wrote the code too.
You can only edit comments for five minutes, @duodec.
@duodec @haydesigner I’d refresh it for you, but there’s a cat, so I won’t.
@duodec HAH!..as a guy who owned an old Triumph…I concur that batteries by Lucas are both nostalgic and highly ironic.
@haydesigner I know; I came back and edited the post after ordering the batteries; apparently that just squeaked in under the 5 minute mark and the inappropriately feline (cats are assholes) image showed up just after.
OTOH it might just be representative of the results I can expect from Lucas batteries…
/giphy dead batteries
@duodec @ggrochr my dad has a TR4A and I grew up hearing Lucas jokes
@duodec @ggrochr @novium My son has a 77 Spit…its a mixture of Lucas and rust…
Oh
finally some damn AAAs. I have enough AAs to last through a nuclear winter, but AAAs…
@spitfire6006006 No reviews available for Lucas alkaline batteries, but the car battery reviews are pretty much +/-.
Frankly the previous batteries we bought on Meh have not been got to a lot of the electronics we put them in- and that was the “Never-ready” brand-named ones we bought.
The generic Japanese-named ones were actually better than the name branded ones.
Meh, I say, Meh!
@PhysAssist
+/- are pretty much the most appropriate reviews for a battery, aren’t they?
Are these alkaline batteries or not?
@docflash photos indicate yes, though there’s no mention in the specs
After the leaky battery experience I’m not so sure I trust batteries on Meh.
@Stallion those were those other weird green ones, yes?
@nolrak it’s been so long I can’t remember. Meh made good on those and I’ve had name brand batteries leak so these are probably fine…but I’m still skipping them.
@nolrak @Stallion No as above, for us, it was the “Never-ready” ones that leaked mostly.
@Stallion I totally agree with you. Those batteries destroyed my handheld gps and my trust in batteries meh sells.
@Stallion My last order of batteries on meh didn’t leak, but they only have about 10% of a normal charge. Strange thing is that they are extremely light, like 1/2 the weight of normal. Anyway, meh gets a meh from me on anything battery related.
@McDude9999 @Stallion The light batteries are carbon batteries. They’re not as good as alkalines, but a little cheaper.
Is this considered a crap ton of batteries?
@mehgrl A Metric Crap-Tonne to be exact.
@mehgrl It’s a gross amount, that’s for sure.
@mehgrl @mondegreene We shouldn’t allowed to order in quantities other than 1 or 3…because that would be too gross
Yay! To bad they don’t come with a refrigerator to store them in. But I’ll get them anyway.
@heartny Hmmm, looks like I need to buy a vowel. Anyone got a spare ‘o’?
@heartny
15 cents a battery for alkalines is about as good as I’ve seen, I’ll take my chances
@nolrak I come across great batteries at .07/each about two times a year (sold in boxes of 100 or more) and I buy several hundred of each. I might buy these anyway because .15 is also a good price if the batteries are decent.
@nolrak. Menards regularly has Rayovacs on sale for less than 10 cents.
… and they have offbrands like this for less than 5 cents
Blah blah t-shirts popsockets blah stuffed irk blah blah
Gross batteries!
/giphy Lucas pukes
After a long period of non-use, I have exercised my VMP. And the atrophy did not keep it from working!
Batteries, likely to explode, pop sockets not so much
@deathbynoodlez
/giphy exploding pop sockets
As badly as I have wanted to see AAA batteries on this site - I am torn Lucas? No reviews anywhere I can find except for car batteries.
@mfladd Wow, I was not expecting a Natalie Imbruglia reference when I opened this thread.
10/10, would buy.
@Aspirant_Fool “Hamper That Makes Chomping Sounds When You Put Clothes In It” gets some weird Google results around the forth result.
The Meh button flip is quite cute …
Seems about half the price of Kirkland batteries, but I trust Costco…and I don’t need this many right now.
@Kyser_Soze Costco batteries suck…big time leakers. Google it…I stopped using them after a few flashlights and Grundig radios got ruined.
@fastharry @Kyser_Soze Yeah, I don’t buy Kirkland brand batteries anymore. I’ll buy the Duracell, but I’ve been burnt by Kirkland’s too often.
Now it’s time for some decent Bluetooth speakers for stocking stuffers. It’s been a while.
I didn’t find any reviews, but I did find this fundraising sales sheet that shows graphs of the voltage of Lucas batteries versus national brands while connected to resistive loads.
Spoiler: they show that they last longer in the 1v-0.8v region, where they’re too dead for most of the stuff you would put them in. They also show that they’re pretty much the same as the big guys, but that also includes Ray-o-Vac, which I wouldn’t expect to have the same results as Energizer or Duracell.
Here are the relevant screenshots to save clicks:
I was talking about the AAA graph above.
@djslack What happened to the AAA Energiser? There shouldn’t be that much disparity.
@Fen_Star I’m with you there, not sure what’s up with that.
These graphs should definitely be taken with a few grains of salt.
Fundraising with Lucas batteries? No more Thin Mints for me.
https://mlfamilyent.com/promotional-products.php
@heartny Hmmm… for $20+ I think I might either want a dispenser that wasn’t going to be thrown out instantly or my logo on the batteries.
Are these better than the 10 for a dollar I get at the dollar store?
@Fen_Star more than likely, yes. Because those 10/$1 are likely “heavy duty” batteries (which aren’t) and not alkaline batteries.
“We’d like to begin today with an unassailable truth: these are batteries.”
Warning: nerd roast ahead.
These are technically not batteries, but cells. Batteries, such as 9 volts, are collections or arrangements of multiple wet or dry cells. If you cut open a true battery, you will find multiple small cylinders connected with wire. Inside a psuedo-battery, you will find a (usually) carbon rod covered in a pasty material.
So, contrary to the “unassailable” claim, these are not batteries.
@DVDBZN 1s1p, but still a battery. Also, there is no requirement that cells are cylindrical.
@DVDBZN And most of the time they are connected with bars rather than wires. Wires are drawn out into rods.
@DVDBZN
@DVDBZN An aside: I once owned a voice recorder that took three AAAA - which no one carried at the time, at least not as individual cells. Instead, I’d buy them by the six-pack - I’d rip open a 9v battery.
@rpstrong
How bold of you. I know Microsoft’s Surface Pen requires AAAA “batteries”, but they are more widely available now.
@DVDBZN And they should have been available around twenty years ago - but there was a year or so stretch when they essentially vanished from the shelves. Dunno why.
I only buy meh. branded things on this site. Let me know when you sell meh. batteries.
My first car was an MG. I learned to avoid anything electrical that has the “Lucas” brand name on it.
@khearn
Lucas, known as the Prince of Darkness, built headlight switches with three positions: Dim, Flicker, and Off.
After my experience with many of the cat batteries popping open and one set corroding and destroying a nice gps unit, I only trust Kirkland brand now. To bad for me because I trusted everything Meh before neverready batteries.
@Odorous careful Kirkland leak a lot
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0015UVOJU/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_t1_mKR8BbRARBF83
@Odorous
You have battery powered cats? And they have GPS?
@Odorous I’ve had a lot of Kirkland AA’s puke their guts over the last couple of years.
I have yet to use any of the last block o’ batteries I bought from Meh!
If these came with an elf-guarantee where when these leak a little elf would appear to clean the battery compartments of all my kids’ crap, then this would be a great deal
With these work in my Scrotal Expander?
@Bumplepimp Sounds like you need AA, but not the battery size.
Ever since a harbor freight moved in next to my grocery store I get more batteries then I use. They always have a free coupon for batteries or flashlights or tarps and a 20%off coupon . So go in my 1 thing of sandpaper you need get 24 batteries and get out of the store for under 2 dollars.
@CaptAmehrican BTDT, but the’re usually “Heavy Duty” not alkaline, they don’t last as long as a full load of Pez. But they’re free, so ¯\(ツ)/¯
@CaptAmehrican I tried those batteries, and in a couple of months they had destroyed everything I put them in by leaking and corroding everything.
Lucas - Leaks Until Compartment Assuredly Sucks
So the last block of batteries I bought were a bust. They had so little charge they must be changed every couple of weeks if you want to use them in something important such as your doorbell or even worse, your front door lock. Otherwise you get a conversation that sounds like this Me: That new front door lock you bought on Amazon last month is crap. I can’t get the code to work and must use the key. Why have a code if you have to use the key?"
Him after messing with door “The door lock is fine. The batteries you bought on Meh are crap. I replaced them with fresh batteries and the lock works fine. By the way, that was the problem with the bell at the back door too.”
Me: “hey want some beef jerky or candy corn?”
@allergycheryl same here. Candy Corn!
But what if I need AAAA, do you have any of those?
@Asviloka Open a 9V battery and you’ll find six of them.
I own a Jaguar—I know that ‘Lucas’ branded electrical products are a great buy.
@elliedan “a” jaguar? Aren’t you supposed to have 2? One in the shop, one in the garage? (I used to own a '90 XJ6. I wish I had a second for all the rental cars I needed.)
@Jorgisven I have a spare for parts—seems to help.
@elliedan Is “I own a Jaguar” In every sentence you say or write?
MEH has had nothing really great for sooooo long. How about something we can all use? Knives, batteries, jewelry and in general crap is getting old.
@not2bforgotten More knives, I need to test my willpower.
Is this like those batteries that failed in epic fashion a few years ago and meh did a full recall/refund? They came in a green box and were similarly colored…but I’m pretty sure not this brand.
@Jorgisven Yep! All the free acid you could eat. Great deal!
@Jorgisven I don’t think those were alkaline
Are we trusting the AAA?
@chr2 People in AA are quitters, but I don’t know much about AAA.
More Eneloops or similar rechargeables, please, not these.
@earmstrong yes!
@earmstrong yes++ also!
White elephant gift, here I come!
/buy --size AA
@fuzzmanmatt It worked! Your order number is: actual-blessed-weasel
/image actual blessed weasel
/giphy slimy-progressive-voice
I’m taking a chance on these. They’re batteries. I feel like even the “name brands” burn out quickly these days. Plus: I never get an opportunity to order a gross of anything. SO that’s appealing.
How many do I need to power my Tesla for 100 miles?
@donver ALL of them.
Was excited until I realized — not rechargeable.
Came for the Lucas jokes, left satisfied.
/buy --size AA --coupon LEDOHNO5
@zachdecker It worked! Your order number is: grieving-righteous-line
/image grieving righteous line
Okay, good enough.
/giphy harmless-fictitious-change
These don’t appear to have sold on Amazon at $32 for a gross (144) lowest price… gonna take a pass on these. Still lacking the “energy” from the last batteries I believed the write up, and not the pictures.
Bright side, we should be finished with this box of Industrial Eveready’s soon, since we go through 4 batteries a week on our TV remote.
@hpw3inc how? I haven’t changed the batteries in my TV remove in years.
@RiotDemon Our remote has the light up keys, and a voice command option. Use the voice command 2-3 times, and the past deal for Eveready Carbon Zinc batteries (from the pictures and what I received), are not Alkaline batteries like advertised. Light up feature and voice command, likes to gobble thru these batteries at 2-4 per week.
I almost bought these, but still feeling lack luster from the last battery pack.
Status of my order?
@123sachz
You can click on the “head” icon and go to orders. You can also check the estimated delivery date. This one shows…
Estimated Delivery
Monday, November 26th - Friday, November 30th
We purchased these batteries in November 2018. Nearly 3/4 of the AAA have already leaked and they are still in their original packaging. This was a bad deal.
@JacktheButt Sounds like you just got a bad box.
I got the AA’s at the same time (using the /buy command just a few posts above), and they have all worked great - no leaks at all, and they are still powering things.
I just put two of them into the fan for my youngest’s Alien Abduction Halloween costume last night.
Especially when including the $5 coupon, this was one of the best deals I’ve ever gotten for purchasing* batteries.
*I used to get AA’s for free out of the Comcast dumpster. You’d be amazed how many remotes and packs of AA’s get tossed because people already had their own universal remotes they use. I use to just go pick them out, but then they got one of those closed up dumpsters to prevent people from illegally dumping there. Too bad.
Hopefully you are right; we may have just been unlucky and received a defective batch. At the same time, we also purchased the same deal on the AA batteries. None of those have leaked yet. However we haven’t attempted to use any of those yet, as we go through so many, we buy in advance and are just about to start using the AA batteries. Thanks for your input; I appreciate it.
In the box I received the batteries were already half dead when I opened the box. My first bad experience ever with MEH and that goes back to before Amazon bought Woot.
I purchased both the AAAs and the AAs. No leakers in either batch, but the active life of the AAs has been terrible. They’ve been used primarily in my kitchen, basement and outdoors in digital thermometers, remote-to-base station transmission. 1.57 volts out of the package, and they probably last about 10 days. Of course, I’ve tried other brands, and they’re fine. Among my worst meh purchases.
I was leafing through the old deals and saw this thread. I wanted to just add that the Lucas batteries were by far the worst thing I’ve ever bought off meh.