Originally Posted by
ItsJustMe
Also consider that they're complete idiots if they actually replace the battery. The cost of the blinkie without the battery shouldn't be more than about $3 (I actually have done small run development of LED based gadgets, and even in quantity 50 I can hit $2.50 with stuff of a comparable complexity).
If they have any sense, they just chuck it and ship you a new one. You can't afford the labor to crack a blinkie open just to put a new $3 battery into a $3 device when it's probably RF welded anyway.
Agree. Even if it's normal life cycle it's probably easier and cheaper to just replace it than to spend $25 on each correspondence back and forth that far outweighs the cost of the light even at retail prices.
J