Sources for silver oxide "watch" batteries?

[Rick]

Anyone know why those teeny tiny silver oxide battery prices are off the
charts? Retail stores - including Radio Schlock - now want between $3.99
and $4.39 *each* and only a couple years ago they were half that price.
It doesn't make a lot of sense that you can buy a toy for your kid that
includes 3 LR44 batteries and it costs $1.99. And then it costs $12.00
to replace the batteries in it!?

Anyway, any less expensive places you know of to purchase "watch"
batteries? MCM used to be good and inexpensive but the last time I
checked their pricing wasn't much below retail stores on silver oxides.
They used to carry a wide range of SylvaCell inexpensive replacements
but dropped the line and only have brand name Eveready, Duracell etc.
with a much smaller selection.

Rick

 

[Ron(UK)]

Anyone know why those teeny tiny silver oxide battery prices are off the
charts? Retail stores - including Radio Schlock - now want between $3.99
and $4.39 *each* and only a couple years ago they were half that price.
It doesn't make a lot of sense that you can buy a toy for your kid that
includes 3 LR44 batteries and it costs $1.99. And then it costs $12.00
to replace the batteries in it!?

Anyway, any less expensive places you know of to purchase "watch"
batteries? MCM used to be good and inexpensive but the last time I
checked their pricing wasn't much below retail stores on silver oxides.
They used to carry a wide range of SylvaCell inexpensive replacements
but dropped the line and only have brand name Eveready, Duracell etc.
with a much smaller selection.

Rick

Local market here sells a card of 40 assorted button cells for £1.00 I
beleive that`s about $2 of your Earth money.

Ron(UK)

 

[spam]

Anyone know why those teeny tiny silver oxide battery prices are off the
charts? Retail stores - including Radio Schlock - now want between $3.99
and $4.39 *each* and only a couple years ago they were half that price.
It doesn't make a lot of sense that you can buy a toy for your kid that
includes 3 LR44 batteries and it costs $1.99. And then it costs $12.00
to replace the batteries in it!?

Anyway, any less expensive places you know of to purchase "watch"
batteries? MCM used to be good and inexpensive but the last time I
checked their pricing wasn't much below retail stores on silver oxides.
They used to carry a wide range of SylvaCell inexpensive replacements
but dropped the line and only have brand name Eveready, Duracell etc.
with a much smaller selection.

Google is your friend. Google for - LR44 battery - and check the first
few links that come up. Plenty of online sellers with LR44s for less
than a dollar apiece.

 

[clifto]

Google is your friend. Google for - LR44 battery - and check the first
few links that come up. Plenty of online sellers with LR44s for less
than a dollar apiece.

Still too expensive. You can usually find a small red-LED flashlight with
three LR44s for $2 or less.

 

[clifto]

Anyone know why those teeny tiny silver oxide battery prices are off the
charts? Retail stores - including Radio Schlock - now want between $3.99
and $4.39 *each* and only a couple years ago they were half that price.
It doesn't make a lot of sense that you can buy a toy for your kid that
includes 3 LR44 batteries and it costs $1.99. And then it costs $12.00
to replace the batteries in it!?

And while we're on the subject, look how many devices that really should
use AA batteries are made to eat AAA, and devices that would have a decent
battery lifetime with AAA are made with CR2032 or other coin cells. It's
not just places like Radio Shack that make money on batteries, either;
the makers just seem to be making them this way.

 

[Jumpster Jiver]

Anyone know why those teeny tiny silver oxide battery prices are off the
charts? Retail stores - including Radio Schlock - now want between $3.99
and $4.39 *each* and only a couple years ago they were half that price.
It doesn't make a lot of sense that you can buy a toy for your kid that
includes 3 LR44 batteries and it costs $1.99. And then it costs $12.00
to replace the batteries in it!?

Anyway, any less expensive places you know of to purchase "watch"
batteries? MCM used to be good and inexpensive but the last time I
checked their pricing wasn't much below retail stores on silver oxides.
They used to carry a wide range of SylvaCell inexpensive replacements
but dropped the line and only have brand name Eveready, Duracell etc.
with a much smaller selection.

Rick

Check that famous awctioun sight - we bake.
Importers selling large quantities for pennies each.

 

[Jim Yanik]

Anyone know why those teeny tiny silver oxide battery prices are off the
charts? Retail stores - including Radio Schlock - now want between $3.99
and $4.39 *each* and only a couple years ago they were half that price.
It doesn't make a lot of sense that you can buy a toy for your kid that
includes 3 LR44 batteries and it costs $1.99. And then it costs $12.00
to replace the batteries in it!?

Anyway, any less expensive places you know of to purchase "watch"
batteries? MCM used to be good and inexpensive but the last time I
checked their pricing wasn't much below retail stores on silver oxides.
They used to carry a wide range of SylvaCell inexpensive replacements
but dropped the line and only have brand name Eveready, Duracell etc.
with a much smaller selection.

Rick

I bought a 18 pk of AG-13 cells at Target for $4.

they are packaged "For Aura flickering LED candles",were located back in
the flashlight section.

Aura p/n TOP-609NB UPC code 87215 01361

BTW,the pkg says "batteries contain mercury"

 

[Homer J Simpson]

Anyway, any less expensive places you know of to purchase "watch"
batteries?

Dollar stores - sometimes with gadgets they're still cheaper.

 

[HandyAndy]

Most of the cheap battery powered toys and watches sourced from the
Far Eastern countries contain mercuric oxide batteries which must be
cheaper to produce. They also last longer than silver oxide batteries
which is why when you buy a new watch the battery lasts a couple of
years but your new replacement battery only lasts 1 year. Here in the
UK its ok to import a peice of kit containing a mercuric oxide battery
but its illegal to sell them as a replacement, due to kids eating them
and being poisoned.

 

[Homer J Simpson]

Here in the UK its ok to import a peice of kit containing a mercuric oxide
battery but its illegal to sell them as a replacement, due to kids eating
them and being poisoned.

ISTR you can still buy them in Canada. Apparently our kids are smart enough
to not eat batteries.

 

[quietguy]

Our local Clints store sells a 'sheet' of mixed batteries - about 5 each of
10 different types - $4.99 for the lot (about 50 batteries)

David