New Battery
I bought an off-brand battery on ebay for £60, good deal I thought, until the damn thing overheated and buckled out of shape. My trackpad stopped working and my macbook got very hot. Thankfully it’s OK now. I got a real battery from apple instead. If you visit the genius bar, you get a battery for £77 when you trade in the old one. That’s good value and you get a real apple battery. I’m currently trying to send back the old one for a refund. The email I got from them is a little strange….
We are really sorry for the trouble caused to you.
Would you mind telling us your laptop model and your old battery code? Just wonder if your adapter and the system of the laptop is fine?
We will issue the RMA and returned details for you after getting your reply.
Have a nice day!
I sent my reply back to them on the 3rd of June and I’m still waiting for a response
Thanks for responding. The laptop is a mid 2007 Macbook Pro
17″ 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo. The battery model number is:
A1189 – 10.8V 68Wh. Power Supply is E131881 – 18.5V (4.6A) /
16.5V (3.6A).
The adapter has never caused me any trouble in the past and
the laptop is now working correctly with a new Apple brand
battery.
I’ll leave it another couple of days and then use paypal dispute system.
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Turns out that Mail.app was a little bit over zealous with the spam detection. Returned item via 2nd class recorded for £2.99 and got my £59.00 refund. Meanwhile still at 100% health now with 5 cycles on the new battery.