As I have said before, surprisingly, we really don't sell a lot of batteries for a battery backup company.
If you need replacement batteries or RBC packs, there are lots of good businesses that specialize in that work. Our friend Anton at ExcessUPS delivers a high quality RBC type product with fast shipping, cute boxes, and good quality control. We are electricians and our techs are better at unit repair and refurbishment. We also sell batteries as well, but our standards are a bit different.
If you buy units or batteries from us you will get the highest quality and freshest product.
Why?
because we don't stock many batteries at all.. We get our batteries from the Southeast regional Powersonic distributor down the street. When we go, we always pick the freshest batteries.
But Store X has the same Powersonic battery for 1/2 the price...
Here could be some reasons:
- In order to get really good prices, you must buy containers of batteries and make annual commitments. So in many cases, just like car dealers, the actual sale is done for a loss or break even, but you make your "profit" through incentives or increased access to another product.
- A vendor is selling off stock from distributors or other vendors. In that case you may be getting older batteries. After 6 months the batteries aren't new anymore according to APC. After a year, they are essentially scrap. But to a large eCommerce vendor, they expect their customers wont notice or care and can pass the savings on.
