Comment by blagie
2 days ago
Curiously, the mystery brand Bosch-compatible batteries on I bought on eBay -- literally cheapest seller -- seem to work very well even after years.
With brandless batteries, it's luck-of-the-draw, but overall, as much as I do wish there were some way to know what you're getting, I've had good luck more often than not.
What's also been nice is the rise of adapters. My Bosch blue batteries now fit many places they didn't used to.
I wish these manufacturers wouldn't go brandless, because I've found some cheap but great laptop chargers in the past that I would buy a ton of if I knew who made them, but the brandless nature means that once that seller is done or out of stock, it's back to crapshoot.
Some of these brandless Chinese makes are really solid, high quality products, but you can't easily tell which ones because they're visually indistinguishable from the bad ones.