Energizer AA cheap

[Metspitzer]

They are running a deal. By 2 packs of 8 AA. It cost me about 13 bucks. You get a 10 buck Walmart card back after entering the codes in the battery package.

[Stormin Mormon]

Is the form printed on the package? Is this only at Walmart?

[Metspitzer]

The package has a small insert with a code. The energizer site wants the code from both packages. I got mine at Walmart. I don't know if the offer is for anywhere else.

[Stormin Mormon]

First, thank you for helping us save money on things we use (most folks use AA cells...) Is there something on the outside, so we know which are the coupon ones? I'll admit, I'm not all that happy with rebates, after the $40 rebate I never got from Radio Shack.

[gonjah]

Best place I've seen for alkaline batteries is Costco. Kirkland Signature AA are rated almost as good as Duracell and cost $.50 per. Energizer Max and Gold are rated lower and cost more per Consumer Reports.

[Meanie]

I was planning to chime in about Costco batteries as well. Been using them for years and they last a long time. I don't even use Duracell or Energizer anymore unless they come with a new device.

[Metspitzer]

You are welcome.

The package looks the same except there is a blue label the size of a postage stamp in the center of the clear plastic that houses the batteries.

[Metspitzer]

BTW all they asked for was name, address, email and the codes. They didn't even ask for a receipt. I just checked the email address I furnished and there is no email with instructions to mail in a receipt.

[Metspitzer]

3 bucks/16 batteries = $.20 bucks per battery.

[Metspitzer]

An even better offer

[gonjah]

Sure, for 16 batteries. They have been about .50 at Costco as long as I remember.

[Stormin Mormon]

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Sounds fun. Wonder if they actually send the rebate?

[Stormin Mormon]

Farther east than that, BJ's Wholesale Club has some kind of house brand of AA cell, which have worked for me.

[Art Todesco]

Here in western NC the local Ingles grocery store frequently has Ray-O-Vac Alkalines (4 AA or 4 AAA or 2 C) on sale, 10 packs for $10. But, the good news here is, you only need buy one for the price. So, that's .25 per battery (AA or AAA). And, even better, when Ray-O-Vac runs their $1 off coupon for any of their packages, that comes to $0; you pay the NC tax only ... of course, you only buy on at a time, with a coupon.

[Stormin Mormon]

Hmm. I think Dollar Tree has four AA or AAA alkalines for a buck.

[Percival P. Cassidy]

Ray-O-Vac batteries are the only ones I've ever had leak badly enough that I had to get the device in which they were installed replaced. It was only a flashlight, and they replaced it.

Perce

[notbob]

I don't know who rated what, but I do know KGO (channel 7) News, in San Francisco, did a battery throwdown, every Christmas, for years. They put about 6-7 brand name batteries in a buncha those little toy monkies that jump up and down and crash two cymbols together. IOW, a motorized toy, which is a good test of batteries. Last toy running wins. Energizers have won by several hours for years.

Another test, one I did inadvertently. I put brand new AA Duracells in a mini-maglite in my van, one winter. It got down to about 25 deg F and when I came out next morning at o'-dark-thirty and turned on my maglite, zip! Nada! Not even a weak dull orange glow. Later that day, I checked again and the flashlight came on full strength. Next moring, another sub-freezing night, dead as a doornail! I changed to Energizers and never had that cold weather problem ever again.

Now living in CO, so I don't see channel 7, anymore, but do know I'll never waste money on a Copper-Flop, ever again. ;)

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[Stormin Mormon]

Thanks for the field report. Now that it's near zero, I ought to put some different brand of batteries out. Or, I can go out and see which brands are in the vehicles, and try them. Check the flash light in the van, for example.

[gonjah]

The ratings were in the January Consumer Reports (page 7). I don't usually get Duracells unless I need some right away. Can't recall any issues. Someone once told me that Duracels were "oversized" so after you use them you won't be able to use other batteries. I don't know if that's true either. All sorts of rumors out there about battrees. :)

The Consumer Reports rated the Duracells #1 but suggests the Kirkland Signature (#2) is the "best buy" coming in at 1/4 the price of Energizers and Duracells.

[notbob]

CR is da' bunk! I once bought their top rated toaster oven. Junk.

nb