Need recommendation for replacement battery on Wallstreet PB

I have a PB G3 Series Wallstreet (292MHz, family M4753) for which I need to replace the battery. Other World Computing has a replacement for $130. There is also lots of others in the $60 to $90 range. This is only for occasional use. 2 hours run time is fine. Is there any way to know if any of these less expensive batteries are OK? Thanks
Owen

Batteries Plus is a franchise. I asked my local (West of Boston) franchise what the majority of its business was, and they pointed to the shop table where several laptop batteries were being re-built and explained they replace the cells in laptop batteries. They also had displays of coin batteries, alarm system backup batteries, and other specialty batteries.
If you got the guy who started today, he might have heard "Re-Sell old batteries" and thought you were strange. Who would buy used-up old batteries? Maybe it's just not a big business where you are, or maybe they have not signed up for the training yet.

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