Are 'cheap' replacements any good?

Hello all,
I've seen a few cheapish relacement batteries on ebay (around £45) although the Newertech ones mentioned in these discussions retail for about £100 - I'd like to hear from anyone who has tried a cheap battery to know if it is any good, or is it a case of you get what you pay for?

The standard Tibook battery is rated at 4400 mAh, not 4000, and the NewerTech batteries are rated at 4800. So a battery that starts off at 3700 is only at 84% of standard capacity and 77% of NuPower capacity. A standard battery that's been used enough so it only offers half the original 4400 is often barely usable, and may not produce accurate charge readouts or the normal pre-sleep warning that you're running on reserve power. So the useful lifetime of a standard battery extends, in practice, from when it's new until it's down to about half its original capacity. I don't know anything about the cheap batteries being offered on Ebay, and maybe at less than half the price of a NuPower, they're worth buying. But I think normnod is wise to rely on his only as a backup, not as his only battery.

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