February 1st, 2009 | 
Author: saolaoane asked:
I need to buy a new laptop battery for my Dell Inspiron 9300 and the batteries on the Dell website are expensive and was wondering if there was another reliable website where I can purchase a new battery and adapter. And how do you know if a website really does sell OEM parts?
I've had my laptop for about 4-5 years now so the warranty on my laptop has expired. Dell only covers batteries for 1 year.
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Don’t you have a warranty on it still? The batteries should be free.
tigerdirect.com is a good site for all your computer needs. Hope thias helps!
If you have a warranty then the batteries should be free!
The Dell web site.
Aftermarket batteries have a tendency of catching fire because they are made cheaper and with less attention paid to safety so stay the f*** away from them.
Even well made batteries have been known to catch fire but the batteries that Dell recalled were pretty damn safe compared with aftermarket junk.
You’ll also run the risk of buying a dead battery no matter where you buy it from since a lot of ‘new’ batteries are ‘new’ old stock and Li-Ion batteries age even when they are in storage.
Look for UpStart Battery. They have a lifetime warranty. To read about how the battery industry works, go check out their website. In a nutshell, almost all laptop batteries for original OEMs come from a few factories in china that are NOT owned by the brands – they are their own companies with production contracts. It is the same for Sony, HP, especially Dell – they outsource everything.
So, this isn’t a problem, but the lowest rent replacement batteries are made by the other thousands of tiny battery companies in China that fill battery packs with poor quality cells that have usually been rejects from the big cell makers. These are the batteries that sell on ebay for $40. A real, quality battery, whether it is an original Dell, an UpStart, or some other quality brand will cost you about double that, depending upon the size of the battery (number of cells inside the pack)
UpStart is the only replacement brand that buys exclusivly from OEM factories. They don’t brand it Dell, so they don’t pay royalties.
But personally, I just like not having to worry about warranties.