Sold out everywhere cos every greedy get buys 10 lots, stuff everyone else getting a good deal. EXPIRED as far as I am concerned.

Stop spreading misinformation.
GP recyko brand is well regarded, and in many cases beat eneloop in tests.
http://www.lightandmatter.org/2014/tech-photography-articles/best-rechargeable-aa-nimh-batteries-for-your-flash-dont-buy-eneloops/
http://michaelbluejay.com/batteries/nimh-brands.html

I have about 40 eneloops but am picking up 20 recyko from various halfords tomorrow. I'll run them through my Maha C9000 to test, but I'm fairly confident they'll be great.

​sorry mate, but in stock in my nearest store & that's 20 mile away from me in rural Devon (we've only got 2 cities in the whole county!) I appreciate your frustration cus I often can't get deals, even in Tesco & asda cus ours are so small, but hey that's life, as unfair as it is :neutral_face: But don't knock someone for posting a deal that others can get, that's the reason for this site.

​Get a grip, nor sure if you're trolling. Must admit though, having read all your comments, I am finding your predicament quite funny

Got the PB420 incl. 4 x EkoPower AA (NiMH 1300mAh) for £3.
Also picked up a pack of 4 x ReCyko+ AA 2000mAh for £3.

Occasional AA/AAA user so pleased enough with that.

Please report after 50 charge cycles. These tend too loose capacity very quickly. Mine went to 1381mAh after just 37 charge cycles....

Be interesting to see if my set come back with similar values..

If anyone is interested, I did a full break-in cycle of these 2000mAh recyko batteries. Each reported between 2040 and 2090mAh 'real' - which isn't bad at all. :smiley:

How could they possibly know if it's faulty or not, did they open it to test it? :confused:

What a surprise had a voice mail off them (cost me 30p) to say the one they had reserved for me was faulty.

i wonder what your reading will be one those pound land batteries.

I've been living off those for years, I cannot remember buying Duracell/energiser since my 5 year old was born.

Even though I imagine £L battery don't last as long...on the long run I probably spent the same as someone paying for charging units/batteries/electricity/replacement cost/the effort/loss of mah/etc ....unfortunately no data recorded to back this claim - but I like to think so... Prevents sleepless nights :confused:

Had it. Nothing magic about it; few more buttons and lcd. Charges same as other smart chargers. If you are technicaly minded,just disassemble it and you will see that it is not worth the money they ask.

If you want the king of chargers, go for the PowerEx / Maha C9000 (pic above). Expensive tho... but worth it if you have lots of recharging to do.

Same here.
Even worse,they woke me up to tell me at 10am from my nightshift sleep. :disappointed:
They offered me an Energizer charger (£13 on shelf) for the same £5 price but when I checked it later that was charger only.
At least I have some good info re better chargers from some of the posts in the thread.

"Not available to collect from Halfords Milton Keynes"

Bloody typical!

You should probably get your money back. Batteries in the PB310 aren't even LSD ones. Not even worth £5 (imo).

Ordered today but got different one instead. They told me that they didn't have GP PB570 at all in stock and gave me GP PB310 for the same price :disappointed:

nearest stock to me is 22.74 miles away think ill leave it

Btw - halfords.com is still showing stock from London right through to Scotland. Please don't expire just because your local halfords has none left.

Just picked up last 3 packs from Lisburn. Wife got last 2 packs from Downpatrick. :smiley: Thanks OP.
And so begins the long 30+ hours of break in


Then I found CPC failed to cancel my order of 24 recykos I'd placed last night..... dang....

​thank you, my phone only showed car batteries :confused:

​thank you, my phone only came up with car batteries :confused:

just popped into Dagenham store and they had 1 on the shelf (none shown online) which scanned at 3 quid, happy days :smile:

Just had a call from Halfords Romford to say half the things I'd order were actually out of stock (mismatch between computer and physical stock levels) so told them to forget it.

Still one left in didcot halfords.

I bought one today, but the sticker on the front says Which best buy 2011, so I don't don't if thats means the batteries are already past their best.

They said I'm ok to try them and take it back if they do not hold charge though

I can't see the 2000mah ones on the website but will check when go in later

h**p://www.halfords.com/kids-zone/toys-games/household-batteries?brand=GP+Batteries

How annoying, noting remotely close. Good find though..

I want this.

No mate, Halford priced them as the same, the followings items are priced at £3 there:
1. GP EkoPower AA 1300 mAh
2. GP Recyko+ AA 2000 mAh
3. GP EkoPower AAA 650 mAh
4. GP Recyko+ AAA 800 mAh
5. GP EkoPower charger + 4 batteries (which has only 1 left and taken out in front of me as someone has reserved it)

Ordered AA and AAAs thanks

Aye...

Got the usual phone call saying sorry not got them after reserving. What a rubbish company. The amount of times this has happened.

They appear to be the lower power 1300mAh still good price though

FYI, gecko recyco+ 2000 mah x4 is also on sale for £3 (RRP 9.99). quite a lot available on sutton Coldfield

I'm a big fan of the VC4 (also) by XTAR, as a user, it isn't perfect but for a family friendly, capable unit (you just need to know which channels to use for speed & power draw if in a hurry) ..runs very cool, I had it running 24/7 for 5 days the batteries were as cool as can be, very reassuring, combined with a decent power adapter to give best power it is very versatile, best I've encountered, (charges Ni-mhs & Li-ion variants).

Where I am truly bowled over is that the uk distributor is very knowledgeable rather than a re-seller (ok there are those around too) ..however it comes with a genuine warranty for use in the uk & the master distributor is very effective answering battery queries.

Worth £18.30 of my money any day.
Having churned through 3 of 5 battery chargers we own the Xtar VC4 is a really well credited bit of kit, batteries are safe to be left in connected, it will merely boost them periodically at low levels, not cook your batteries.

Some of my best batteries were 7day shop own brand, (as well as my worst) li-tronic actually held up well for the c cells we tried (aldi) ..duracell D cells were dead upon purchase, (never again)

Moving primarily to lithium-ion now, (bike batteries etc).

My worst (& shortest lived / most tetchy chargers are still on sale via 7-day shop, ...the Xtar positiviely stamps all over anything i've used before, I just need to find a good source for li-ion batteries of quality if anyone can give me pointers please.

For the money though this is a great deal, but don't rest on your laurels we are so used to portable power these days a slow charger along these lines aint going to cut it, but for those who can live with slow ((warm)) charge .."from 6 hours" ..sheesh.

ok to get you out of a fix though & free batteries, so perhaps ideal for little monsters who steal all your charged ones for xbox controllers, ...in their room 4 batteries, sorted!

Loads still available near me. Just ordered in my local town (population 8,000).
Also plenty of 4 pack batteries.

also available/:

http://www.halfords.com/kids-zone/toys-games/household-batteries/gp-smart-energy-usb-charger

None within 20 miles of Southampton.

reserved thanks

Always found rechargeables lasted about a sixth of the time of ordinary batteries, were massively more expensive in short run an double cost in long run. Just personal experience. Haven't bothered for donkeys years. Maybe they've improved.

I was wondering when I was instorem how much these were, but none of their clearance stock was priced up, very annoying!

Don't bother.
These are good for couple of months and then looses capacity dramatically.
Used so know well. After only 7 months use and 50-55 charges they can keep only 847 mAh max instead of 2000...
Using Eneloops now in same equipment and they keeps same 1889 of 1900 mAh after 18 months of use and 200-220 charge cycles.

nice, ordered 2 lots from Doncaster, came up OOS at first then I went for a coffee came back refreshed page and hey presto, £10 for two lots is a bargain cheers OP heat added

Also AAA 4 packs available for £3
http://www.halfords.com/kids-zone/toys-games/household-batteries/gp-recyko--nimh-aaa-4-pack

Availability seems to be reasonable- in stock in at least three stores nearby

Sold out everywhere cos every greedy get buys 10 lots, stuff everyone else getting a good deal. EXPIRED as far as I am concerned.

duracell alkaline are about twice as bad as other alkaline batteries i.e GP
they cost twice as much yet have the same capacity, that makes them twice as bad in my opinion.
ive also had some duracell nimh cells in the past, they leaked and killed my torch.

i just got a floureon bt c2000 charger the other day from ebay for 15 quid.
thing is amazing you can see the voltage of each cell.
each cell is charged individually, you can change the charge rate, see how long each has been charging for.
worth the extra to get a charger that tells you what your battery is doing.
i.e you can do a test on each battery and see the capacity.
if you have 2 in a device, when you put them in to charge if one cell has a much lower voltage than the other you know its bad.
im using 4 lidl tronic batteries for 2.99 will see how they go

Just reserved in Galashiels - no idea how many they have but definitely in stock here

Ta OP, reserved 1 in Putney.

None in Northampton but Wellingborough, Daventry, Kettering and Corby have stock

2000 mAh in year one, 650 mAh by year two.

And for that reason, I only buy Eneloops. :man:

Plenty in Derby at the Wyvern :smiley: Thanks OP.

Just type "GP" in search bar.

They also have 4 packs of AA and AAA rechargeable batteries for £3.

​sorry mate, but in stock in my nearest store & that's 20 mile away from me in rural Devon (we've only got 2 cities in the whole county!) I appreciate your frustration cus I often can't get deals, even in Tesco & asda cus ours are so small, but hey that's life, as unfair as it is :neutral_face: But don't knock someone for posting a deal that others can get, that's the reason for this site.

no way! was looking for battery charger for the whole day and eventually bought duracell and this deal comes up afterwards. typical!

​to be fair looking up the vc4 people stating chargers not turning off no safety setting and batteries actually exploding with two young kids baby on the way and a dog it was a genuine question will this work or should I leave it at work and hope it burns the building down

non in my local, but stock in the next nearest 5 stores, however to far for me, but have some heat as this is a good price and a good find

Just ordered one from my local store

In stock in Kingston, Sutton, New Malden, Epsom, Croydon, Balham, Purley Way, Putney, Dorking, Wandsworth.....

There massive cities, of course ther have stock cos they have 50 halfrods, guess what,some people little in TOWNS you know with ONE halfords!!!

Eh? I bought 11 packs for testing..

And bet you bought every last pack in your 3 closest stores! Point made!!!!

Thanks. reserved one.

I just bought a vc4 charger thought these batteries and a spare charger to put at work would be good but I don't like the look of Safety Timer does that mean it stops charging after a while. thanks for stating the batteries are fatter and shorter I was going to put them in C batterie adapters but they might not work now

Looks good too me. Could possibly be rebadged Kodak Pre Charged according to Candlepower..

Thanks. Reserved one

Thanks, reserved and voted hot.

Thank you reserved one :smiley: