Buying replacement battery

My wife's 1.2GHz iBook's battery seems to be on its last legs as it holds a charge for less than an hour these days. I'm wondering if anyone has any experience or comments on buying cheap third party batteries as a replacement?
I know Other World Computing sells Newer Technology batteries for about $120 and Apple sells iBook batteries for $130. However I see batteries on Amazon in the neighborhood of $70-$80. I'm sure tempted to get one of these and save 50 or 60 dollars, but wonder if there's some reason these are available at such a big discount compared to more "established" options.
thanks for any input.

Thanks for the intput Lyssa. To be clear, I wasn't considering a battery thru an individual. If you search under "Electronics" at Amazon for "iBook battery" you get tons of batteries sold by companies I've not heard of such as "Flex", as I indicated in my initial post, priced in the 70 to 80 dollar range.
Obviously, I'm not completely comfortable with these "no-name" battery suppliers or I wouldn't be asking here about them. I'm leaning a bit toward the more well-known solutions such as OWC.
Thanks once again.

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