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Subject: Re: [OM] f*** you, loyal customer
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 13 May 2012 12:08:47 -0400
And if you're adventurous there's a million alternative choices on ebay.

Chuck Norcutt


On 5/13/2012 12:07 PM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> Here's a for real Olympus BLM-1. Oly doesn't have it anymore but there's
> probably lots of left over stock in retailer's stores
> <http://www.amazon.com/Olympus-Lithium-ion-Rechargeable-Battery-Packaging/dp/B0000TU7IG/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1336924410&sr=8-2>
>
>
> I'm always a little nervous about 3rd party lithium-ion batteries but
> manufacturers prices are so high that I've been buying them anyhow. What
> I do if I can is find an equivalent battery produced by a major battery
> manufacturer such as Duracell. From their website
> <http://www.duracelldirect.com/olympus_evolt-e-500_digital-camera_accessories.aspx>
> I wasn't sure if this was a BLM-1 compatible of BLM-5 compatible but
> there is a comment by one of the reviewers that it's fine in his C-8080
> which uses a BLM-1.
>
> Finally, I suspect the "incompatibility" between the chargers for BLM-1
> and BLM-5 is that the BLM-5 probably has higher capacity. I'll bet that
> if you stuck a BLM-5 into the BLM-1 charger that it would charge OK but
> maybe not to full capacity.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
>
>
> On 5/13/2012 11:25 AM, William Sommerwerck wrote:
>> This is technically OT, as it's about digital cameras.
>>
>> Tomorrow is my birfday. Olympus sent a marvelous "gift", a $10
>> discount on a
>> $40 purchase. (How about a free lens? God knows, I've owned enough OM
>> Zuikos
>> to justify two or three.)
>>
>> Browsing the accessories, a spare battery for my E-500 seemed a wise
>> purchase. The BLM-05 is $50, $40 after discount. Plus shipping, of
>> course,
>> and Olympus will likely find a way to tack sales tax onto that, even
>> if it
>> doesn't have a Washington business presence.
>>
>> Then I look closer. The BLM-05 requires the BLC-05 charger. Well, I
>> already
>> have a charger, right? Uh, no. "This battery can only be charged in the
>> Lithium Ion Battery Charger (BCM-5). ... it cannot be charged in the
>> Li-Ion
>> Battery Charger BCM-01..."
>>
>> So, if I buy a new battery, I also have to get the charger. The kit of
>> both
>> is $80, $70 after the birthday "present".
>>
>> This is exactly the sort of thing that should be illegal. There's no
>> //good// reason for it, so it's not only unfair to the customer, but it
>> wastes the materials needed to build an unnecessary charger.
>>
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