...Pay about 10 cents a cell from Samsung or LG, and turn around and sell it for $16, and all you've done is re-wrapped the insulator....
Wow - as cheap as that?
And are the big manufacturers cool with selling their 'b-grade' products onto the grey market, or does this just happen 'out the back door'?
It doesn't represent *that* much money to a multi-billion dollar manufacturer, surely - there can't be that many reject cells, and wouldn't they be better of recycling the fresh materials that went into making them?
Maybe the big manufacturers *do* sell their rejects to 'recycling' companies, but instead of taking the batteries apart for their valuable materials, they just sell them on to the rewrappers.
Knowing 'China business', this seems to me like a likely scenario.
Oh, I buggered up the last paragraph on my last post - it was supposed to read:
Do some of these rewrappers sell their stuff to the public cheaper than the manufacturers whos batteries they're rewrapping?