😂 yea I thought I had a great “hookup” I’m American and I live in Canada currently so I would buy them off eBay USA and pick them up used them for a year dewalt, Milwaukee, all fkn fake, every single one both 5 dewalts both 10s, all my m12s 2 m18s whatever they work I learned my lesson but I’m still using them they work fine
When you buy off eBay you could tell what's real and what's fake because my dad has bought batteries a lot of times and most of the batteries we bought the original for really cheap it's just depends on the seller that if you wants to sell them really cheap because some you could just tell right away that they come from China
I have bought a couple M12 CP25s off amazon and those seem to be real. You have to open up the pack and look at the cells and circuitry along with the injection mold marks inside. The truth is that these batteries and tools when bought from "official" retailers are marked up 100-150%. Thats why they have perpetual sales and deals up for grabs; they cannot just slash base prices because then people would all immediately realize they've been getting ripped off. There is zero other reason for perpetual sales/markdowns amounting to 50%+ off ALL THE TIME. The M12 CP25 from HD is $80USD. It has 3 Samsung 25S 18650's in it which are about 5$ each bought in bulk. Throw in another 10-15 bucks for the circuitry, plastic, and manufacturing cost and its a $30 battery. Yet these bastards sell it for $80. Go off the Amazon seller's sold volume and their lowball reviews. If they got a very small percentage of dreadful reviews and a huge volume sold its legit. I've not bought a lemon yet. My M12 tools are genuine and so are the batteries.
