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I bought a couple of the key fob blinkies that have three LEDs, red,
green adn blue, and you push the button and it plays a rainbow, or
blinks different colors, flashes, etc. Like about ten bucks on some
website. Well one disadvantage is they use four LR44 button cells,
which don't last very long when kids _of_all_ages_ start playing with
the blinkies. The minute they see one of these, they say, hey, that's
cool, I want one of these! I've already had to part with one because of
this. So I decided to stock up on some LR44 button cells.
I got onto cheapbatteries.com and they sell them cheap, but the best
deal is when you buy 200, at $.15 each. With shipping, they're probably
only a few cents more than that. But I doubt that I'll be able to use
up 200 cells before the expiration dates on the batteries.
So I stopped by Fry's the other day, and they sell A76 which subs for
LR44s, for a dollar each. Sure is a lot more expensive than the ones on
cheapbatteries.com. And they didn't have very many of them on the
shelf. Maybe only 5 or 6, and I was figuring on getting at least 8, or
two sets.
Then on the way home yesterday I decided to stop by Radio Shaft. They
have a generic sub called 76 which doesn't say it subs for LR44 but some
other numbers including SR44, which I don't know what the diff is
between that and LR44. But they were moving the stuff around on the
shelves, and there were no prices. So I asked the salesdroid how much
they cost, so he scanned one in and up popped $3.19! Yikes!! 21 times
the price of what cheapbatteries.com wants. And like I'm gonna pay over
$13 for just the 4 batteries, when I can get the whole blinkie for less,
even including shipping and handling? No Way! I don't think so!!
So I ended up doing a search on Ebay for LR44 button cells, and I got a
bunch of auctions. Some of them were for a hundred cells for $4.95, but
they're from a Hong Kong seller and with the five bucks shipping, the
cost is about $11, so they're not all that cheap. And they take a
couple weeks to get here. So I chose another seller from Mississippi,
selling 50 cells for $7, with a dollar shipping. I had to do the "Em,
Eye, crooked letter, crooked letter eye," etc, ditty to get that one
right!
In a few days or a week, I'll get a more reasonable quantity for about
the same price each as from cheapbatteries.com. And shopping around
paid off very well for me - I learned that there is such a thing as a
free lunch.
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Don't be ripped off by the big book dealers. Go to the URL
that will give you a choice and save you money(up to half).
http://www.everybookstore.com You'll be glad you did!
Just when you thought you had all this figured out, the gov't
changed it: http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html
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green adn blue, and you push the button and it plays a rainbow, or
blinks different colors, flashes, etc. Like about ten bucks on some
website. Well one disadvantage is they use four LR44 button cells,
which don't last very long when kids _of_all_ages_ start playing with
the blinkies. The minute they see one of these, they say, hey, that's
cool, I want one of these! I've already had to part with one because of
this. So I decided to stock up on some LR44 button cells.
I got onto cheapbatteries.com and they sell them cheap, but the best
deal is when you buy 200, at $.15 each. With shipping, they're probably
only a few cents more than that. But I doubt that I'll be able to use
up 200 cells before the expiration dates on the batteries.
So I stopped by Fry's the other day, and they sell A76 which subs for
LR44s, for a dollar each. Sure is a lot more expensive than the ones on
cheapbatteries.com. And they didn't have very many of them on the
shelf. Maybe only 5 or 6, and I was figuring on getting at least 8, or
two sets.
Then on the way home yesterday I decided to stop by Radio Shaft. They
have a generic sub called 76 which doesn't say it subs for LR44 but some
other numbers including SR44, which I don't know what the diff is
between that and LR44. But they were moving the stuff around on the
shelves, and there were no prices. So I asked the salesdroid how much
they cost, so he scanned one in and up popped $3.19! Yikes!! 21 times
the price of what cheapbatteries.com wants. And like I'm gonna pay over
$13 for just the 4 batteries, when I can get the whole blinkie for less,
even including shipping and handling? No Way! I don't think so!!
So I ended up doing a search on Ebay for LR44 button cells, and I got a
bunch of auctions. Some of them were for a hundred cells for $4.95, but
they're from a Hong Kong seller and with the five bucks shipping, the
cost is about $11, so they're not all that cheap. And they take a
couple weeks to get here. So I chose another seller from Mississippi,
selling 50 cells for $7, with a dollar shipping. I had to do the "Em,
Eye, crooked letter, crooked letter eye," etc, ditty to get that one
right!
In a few days or a week, I'll get a more reasonable quantity for about
the same price each as from cheapbatteries.com. And shopping around
paid off very well for me - I learned that there is such a thing as a
free lunch.
--
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###Got a Question about ELECTRONICS? Check HERE First:###
http://users.pandora.be/educypedia/electronics/databank.htm
My email address is whitelisted. *All* email sent to it
goes directly to the trash unless you add NOSPAM in the
Subject: line with other stuff. alondra101 <at> hotmail.com
Don't be ripped off by the big book dealers. Go to the URL
that will give you a choice and save you money(up to half).
http://www.everybookstore.com You'll be glad you did!
Just when you thought you had all this figured out, the gov't
changed it: http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html
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