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I have a couple of Ultrabay slim battery's that are used only once. Looking for 60 dollars shipped.

The prices look OK.

What are the cycle counts on the batteries?

Thanks,

~Rich

Hi, I have one left with 3 cyles and one with 5 cycles, so that means that the capacity is still way above what IBM intended

Mr_Roboto wrote:The prices look OK.
~Rich

Dang, dang, dang, If $60 ia a good price I should have bought the 50 new ones offered to me for $750 by my battery supplier a few months back ($15 each). I could have sold them here and retired to the Bahama's! That's what I get for being out of touch.

- Yak

brainpicker wrote:

Mr_Roboto wrote:The prices look OK.
~Rich

Dang, dang, dang, If $60 ia a good price I should have bought the 50 new ones offered to me for $750 by my battery supplier a few months back ($15 each). I could have sold them here and retired to the Bahama's! That's what I get for being out of touch.

- Yak

Hahaha, you should have indeed! The retail on these battery's is like 150 plus.

$150 bucks is a lot to pay for an estimated 2 extra hours of unplugged time. $60 is a lot better.

If I were only made of money

<-----Edit: Hit the Jackpot, I guess I won a ThinkPad!!
2nd Edit: This is the post that got me my 1st feather!!!

brainpicker wrote:

Mr_Roboto wrote:The prices look OK.
~Rich

Dang, dang, dang, If $60 ia a good price I should have bought the 50 new ones offered to me for $750 by my battery supplier a few months back ($15 each). I could have sold them here and retired to the Bahama's! That's what I get for being out of touch.

- Yak

Here or on Ebay!

On ebay the lowest is around $60 PLUS shipping!

BIG $$ making opportunity missed, but were they OEM batteries or knock-off's?

Hi, mine are original IBM

Is there anyway to tell the computer to drain this one last??

I run up a ridiculously high cycle count because it drains this first over my 9 cell... Considering these cost about as much as a 9 cell, and a 9 cell puts on cycles like 300% slower than these do, Id rather drain that one and use the slimbays only if I have to.


I recently got duped on ebay... a slimbay claimed to be like new... it showed up with 160 cycles and 15 Wh charge

rcrooks wrote:Is there anyway to tell the computer to drain this one last??

This has been discussed before in the T4x forum. IIRC, the anwer was that no one has figured out how to do this yet, and it may not be possible.

Cheers,

Bill

Mine are 1 cylcle and nothing more. I have some new ones in.

How old are the batteries, manufacture date?

Hi, can't tell yet.
But the battery's i had where from 2004 -11.
I'll be getting in new ones, so the will have 2005 dates.

Het Toine,

If you have any, I'm in the market for one. I'm in the UK and thankfully your deal would suit me the best thanks to EU Custom laws - i.e. no custom charges!

So, basically reiterating the questions already posed - what is the manufacture date/cycle count of the/any ultrabay battery you have. I'm about to buy a 7200rpm HDU and when used with the wireless card when I'm mobile, this would really help as I currently get about 4hours and really need just that little bit more.

Let me know.

Smids.

(PS Forgive me mods if there are any specific rules regarding sales e.g. post count [like on another forum where I am a member]).

smids wrote:If you have any, I'm in the market for one. I'm in the UK and thankfully your deal would suit me the best thanks to EU Custom laws - i.e. no custom charges!

Just for the record, there's no "duty" on computers or computer parts shipped from the US to the UK.

However, you will be responsible for 17.5% VAT!

Regards,

James

JHEM wrote:

smids wrote:If you have any, I'm in the market for one. I'm in the UK and thankfully your deal would suit me the best thanks to EU Custom laws - i.e. no custom charges!

Just for the record, there's no "duty" on computers or computer parts shipped from the US to the UK.

However, you will be responsible for 17.5% VAT!

Regards,

James

It's a "gift" to his long-lost brother.

Could someone confirm to me that those wil work in an Ultrabase X6 ??

JHEM wrote:

smids wrote:If you have any, I'm in the market for one. I'm in the UK and thankfully your deal would suit me the best thanks to EU Custom laws - i.e. no custom charges!

Just for the record, there's no "duty" on computers or computer parts shipped from the US to the UK.

However, you will be responsible for 17.5% VAT!

Regards,

James

Actually not, because it's a person to person thing. So no duty will be paid, as I paid duty for the battery's when I got them.

smids wrote:Het Toine,

If you have any, I'm in the market for one. I'm in the UK and thankfully your deal would suit me the best thanks to EU Custom laws - i.e. no custom charges!

So, basically reiterating the questions already posed - what is the manufacture date/cycle count of the/any ultrabay battery you have. I'm about to buy a 7200rpm HDU and when used with the wireless card when I'm mobile, this would really help as I currently get about 4hours and really need just that little bit more.

Let me know.

Smids.

(PS Forgive me mods if there are any specific rules regarding sales e.g. post count [like on another forum where I am a member]).

Hi,Just PM'ed you.
THe batterys have 1 cycle on them, and where first used 2005 december.

Toine wrote:Actually not, because it's a person to person thing. So no duty will be paid, as I paid duty for the battery's when I got them.

I'm not certain what point you're addressing, but as I said it depends on the country of origin.

A Forum member who's a neighbor of your's purchased a T42 from me and paid a substantial VAT bill.

But there was no "duty".

Regards,

James

But VAT is duty here in Holland, so indeed.
From US to europe is 20% Tax, VAT, BTW whatever.
From europe to europe, nothing

Toine wrote:But VAT is duty here in Holland, so indeed.
From US to europe is 20% Tax, VAT, BTW whatever.
From europe to europe, nothing

Ah, our problem is semantics (the meaning of words).

VAT is not duty. It's a means of recovering sales taxes that should been paid incrementally during a product's construction and represents the difference between the tax paid on raw materials and the increased value of a finished product. Hence, Value Added Tax (mehrwertsteuer or ad valorem tax!)

Duty, otherwise known as a tariff, derives from trade agreements between nations on particular items of manufacture representing what a nation wishes to protect among its own manufacturing facilities and what it's willing to import. Hence there is no longer a tariff on a VW built in Augsburg and sold in FR under Common Market rules, but a Ford Explorer built in the US and sold in FR is subject to a 25% tariff as well as VAT!

Regards,

James

thibouille27 wrote:Could someone confirm to me that those wil work in an Ultrabase X6 ??

bump

Actually I don't know.
They won't work in a t60.

thibouille27 wrote:Could someone confirm to me that those wil work in an Ultrabase X6 ??

Should work, but I'm not positive.

The Ultrabay battery for the Ultrabase X6 is ThinkPad Advanced Ultrabay Battery 3-cell (flat bezel) 40Y6789.

Regards,

James

JHEM wrote:

thibouille27 wrote:Could someone confirm to me that those wil work in an Ultrabase X6 ??

Should work, but I'm not positive.

The Ultrabay battery for the Ultrabase X6 is ThinkPad Advanced Ultrabay Battery 3-cell (flat bezel) 40Y6789.

Regards,

James

Yeah it seems that Advanced Ultrabay Battery and Ultrabay slim battery are not the same (go figure).

MMmm I guess that Ultrabay2000 batteries will not work in a X20 (in an Ultrabay X2 to be precise). So bad ...

Bump, still a couple for sale.

I bought one from Toine, and a sleeve from IBM Japan as well. They should be on their way now.

Very friendly seller, would recommend him to all. Will post more info when I receive the package.