Just browsing Ebay and I saw someone who routinely sells a lot of a non OEM extended battery, the bp3t.  Anyone ever order one of these?

Also does anyone know a place that sells the extended battery for less than Sony does?

If your not saving over 50%...I wouldn’t bother.

Generally I try and stay away from non-OEM batteries, but if the price is that good, its hard to resist.

Erik

They are only $150 for a supposed 6600mA, but I guess I should go with OEM.

On a related note, anyone know if there are standalone chargers just to charge the battery while its off the laptop. This way one could have a battery always charged.

I had a terrible experience buying a battery for a toshiba laptop over eBay. The battery I had lasted for just an hr so I decided to buy one over eBay. The seller claimed that it carried a full charge and would last for approx. 2 hrs…when I tried it (after charging it fully), it did not last even 10 mins!! I think it was a non-oem battery.

Certain things should never be bought or sold on EBay…used batteries is one of them.  A used IBM deskstar is another. :ph34r:

Used is one thing, non-OEM is another. You should never consider a used battery, you have no idea how it was used.

Erik

The seller has like 4300 feedbacks, 99% positive and all the recent ones say the batteries perform better than expected.  I have bought batteries before on ebay and never had a problem so I think I will get one as well and let everyone know how it works out.  Cheers!

You may be fine.  I hope it works out for you.  It is just that there is a risk involved when buying used batteries.  It is not as if you are just spending $10.  Nobody likes to risk potentially throwing good money away.  Good luck. :D

[quote author=“Guest”]Do you think the batteries are used?
I thought they are brand new but their one drawback is only being a non-OEM battery.

Please explain.

:o

TruthSeeker was confused, they are not used.

Erik

My bad.  I thought we were still on the “used” subject.  Sorry.

No biggie, it happens to the best of us. I only mentioned that I wouldn’t buy used batteries, i’d take a non-oem first.

Erik

OEM stands for original equipment manufacturer or basically something manufactured by the original manufacturer of a product. Like the PCGA-BP3T battery is an OEM since it’s manufactured by Sony for the TR who also manufacture the TR itself, while an aftermarket/non-oem battery would be compatible with the TR but not manufactured by Sony (in this case).

[quote author=“Rahul”]OEM stands for original equipment manufacturer or basically something manufactured by the original manufacturer of a product. Like the PCGA-BP3T battery is an OEM since it’s manufactured by Sony for the TR who also manufacture the TR itself, while an aftermarket/non-oem battery would be compatible with the TR but not manufactured by Sony (in this case).

To add further using Sony TR battery,

PCGA-BP3T might not even be made by Sony(remotely possible), it could be made by a company called ABC who is an OEM company and brand it under Sony.

If there are no exclusive agreement on the product, ABC could sell the same product/design to other companies without the brand which is of the almost same quality.