Best place to buy official Canon batteries?

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Was just about to buy a LP-6 battery from Amazon but read the reviews which state they are fakes! :eek: I'm shocked Amazon are allowing them to be sold on their site :nono:

Anyway they seem roughly about £65 everywhere else so does anyone know where's a reliable place to buy from? I can't really afford to have batteries dying on my or frying my camera mid wedding!
 
Well I guess the market place shops are a bit harder to control by Amazon! I'd be surprised if it was actually Amazon that supplied the fakes... Then again they just rely on their suppliers I guess!

If not Amazon then any of the regular photo shops I guess?
 
Phal said:
Well I guess the market place shops are a bit harder to control by Amazon! I'd be surprised if it was actually Amazon that supplied the fakes... Then again they just rely on their suppliers I guess!

If not Amazon then any of the regular photo shops I guess?
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Yeah I was looking at the usual suspects so will probs just buy from Jessops or the like :)
 
If it's the LP-E6 you want - then Amazon real Amazon is the cheapest place... Not marketplace.. And they are genuine.
 
I bought a "genuine" off ebay and it turned out it didn't work. Would charge for 10 secs and stop. Ended up paying more to buy one from Jessops.
 
Amazon quite often dish up the cheapest price from the "as new" these are normally always fake.

Look at the list of sellers an your see Amazons genuine price in their not the "Sold by"
 
If buying from Amazon, I make sure I've selected a Department and you can then select sellers.

eg typing lp-e6 into amazon.co.uk
- department on left suggests "electronic & photo" so will click on this.
- you can now scroll down the left column and select "amazon.co.uk"

Now all of your search results will definitely be from Amazon and not a third-party seller.

Note: This is a complete PITA is your search item might be in more than one department, since you cannot select multiple departments.
 
omens said:
If buying from Amazon, I make sure I've selected a Department and you can then select sellers.

eg typing lp-e6 into amazon.co.uk
- department on left suggests "electronic & photo" so will click on this.
- you can now scroll down the left column and select "amazon.co.uk"

Now all of your search results will definitely be from Amazon and not a third-party seller.

Note: This is a complete PITA is your search item might be in more than one department, since you cannot select multiple departments.
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Just tried this mate and the same one came up :shrug:
 
Oh and just spotted that Amazon are doing a silly thing - where the feedback left is for the overall product - no matter who it is supplied by. So if you bought off Amazon or you bought off Joe Bloggs Dodgy Batteries - and left a review from either - they are all getting lumped together in the same pile of reviews. So people buying one from Amazon proper are leaving 5 star reviews and are happy.. And those buying from Joe Bloggs Dodgy Batteries are leaving 1 star reviews.. That's a really misleading way of doing it.. Sometimes I do wonder if Amazon knows what it's doing :)
 
cymruchris said:
Oh and just spotted that Amazon are doing a silly thing - where the feedback left is for the overall product - no matter who it is supplied by. So if you bought off Amazon or you bought off Joe Bloggs Dodgy Batteries - and left a review from either - they are all getting lumped together in the same pile of reviews. So people buying one from Amazon proper are leaving 5 star reviews and are happy.. And those buying from Joe Bloggs Dodgy Batteries are leaving 1 star reviews.. That's a really misleading way of doing it.. Sometimes I do wonder if Amazon knows what it's doing :)
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Ahh ok I see what you're saying... how do you know which review relates to which supplier out of interest?
 
ajax_andy said:
Just tried this mate and the same one came up :shrug:
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You need to look closer.

If I go with your method, I get this: clicky
£43.99 Sold by discounts r us and Fulfilled by Amazon.

If I go with my method, I get this: clicky
£54.21 Dispatched from and sold by Amazon

That's the one you want. Genuine item supplied by genuine retailer.

As above, you can get reviews for the same product. Worse, you can get the same reviews for different variations of the same product, which makes it more difficult to differentiate which review is for which item.
 
omens said:
You need to look closer.

If I go with your method, I get this: clicky
£43.99 Sold by discounts r us and Fulfilled by Amazon.

If I go with my method, I get this: clicky
£54.21 Dispatched from and sold by Amazon

That's the one you want. Genuine item supplied by genuine retailer.

As above, you can get reviews for the same product. Worse, you can get the same reviews for different variations of the same product, which makes it more difficult to differentiate which review is for which item.
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That's what I said :)
 
Sorry I meant how do you know which review relates to which supplier... I understand what you're saying about how to identify the seller, but I can't see any way of confirming that none of the bad reviews relate to Amazon and all relate to the 3rd party sellers.

Other than trusting that Amazon wouldn't sell fakes I'm not sure how you can tell 50% of the bad reviews aren't from people who bought from Amazon directly :shrug:
 
You can't tell...

But I've bought from Amazon Amazon - and they are real. No doubt. Genuine. And are the cheapest.

I would not buy from a marketplace seller fulfilled by amazon even if my life depended on it..
 
I have bought items from marketplace sellers and so far never had any issues with them.

But I tend to use them for things that I don't mind losing out on. From third party sellers, I have bought:

- a fenix torch
- a small portable blender (for protein shakes)
- RS-60E3 release for the camera

amonst others. They tend to be official companies who have an Amazon channel. In some ways, it's like buying off ebay. You pays your monies and you takes your chances.
 
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