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Chrome Battery Danger!

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Purchased one for the GS1000E, no problems. Have had the unit in the bike 6 months, so I can't verify as to the longevity. To be fair, $55 is not a lot of money for a sealed battery delivered to your door.

Unfortunately, the second (and third) purchase resulted in a damaged/leaking battery delivered by the USPS. The batteries, with foam wrapped around the top and sides with nothing protecting the ends, arrived in a box twice as large as necessary. Since there is nothing to prevent a 10-15 pound lead acid battery from sliding back and forth in the box. the last two batteries arrived leaking. How much effort is required to fill up the void with folded up cardboard, foam, folded news print, something!?

Although the money has been refunded (Amazon) without any arm twisting, think of the potential harm that will occur to some unsuspecting soul when handling these damaged batteries. When you think about it, this borders either on extreme stupidity, or just plain evil.

This issue has been brought to the attention of the local USPS, Amazon and a segment of the motorcycling community.

If I were more computer literate I would post images.
 
i have only bought one just couple months ago.
came well packaged/dry/charged and dirt cheap for a 270cca AGM battery.
53 bucks to the door.
i am happy...that's all that matter's.
i have heard the same issue's you posted with all the low end/shipped battery's.
postal service is rough on stuff...
people needs to go to a dealership and hold one in there hand and pay over twice the price...then they would be happy happy happy;)
 
I've notice that is something is marked "fragile" it will arrive damaged, or at least roughed up.
 
Chrome Battery Danger!
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The title of your post would suggest that there was something wrong with Chrome batteries. Perhaps your thread should have been titled.."idiots in the shipping department don't know how to pack batteries". Ordering heavy items from Amazon is always a crap shoot but their return process is easy so there is no harm in letting them try and ship you something heavy.
 
hmmmm,
i ordered straight from chrome...cheaper and free shipping.
my battery was packaged very good..
this could explain it.
so the sky is not falling??????
oh,
i use acid to clean parts...sheet won't hurt anybody:-$
 
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