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I have an older Dell Latitude laptop that has a worn battery (it was tooling along just fine w/ about two thirds of it's maximum total watt/hours...) but it seems the 'counter' in the thing decided it was time to buy a new one.

I'm still investigating scrambling the odometer in that built-in chip, but I knew a replacement was on the horizon, surely before the end of this year any way.
(Despite that, I had thought to upgrade to an SSD, solid-state hard drive first.)

In any case, I'm looking at (what seems like over priced, but OEM ) Dell batteries vs the stuff I can get for cheaper on the eBay and Amazon sites.

I know its important to avoid being penny-wise and pound-foolish, but I'm going to go ahead and ask if anyone has had experience with either:

SiKER and/or NinjaBatt companies.

(uh, oops-) ? (forgot I was asking a question...)

The crazy thing was, I was watching the screen and fell asleep, with it plugged into the wall, and awoke to find the battery light flashing orange-
and no more battery action.

It's a real pain to have the cord get slightly pulled out and have the whole OS session just up and wink out of existence.

I bought a Ninja battery recently for my several-years-old Dell laptop (which I had bought from Dell's refurbishment department).

The Ninja has been working fine for some weeks... no trouble noted. Not a long period of experience, but at least it didn't catch fire so far

I'd have to go back and check on the brands I've bought. In general, I've found that ebay batteries are a crapshoot, but generally worth what you pay for them. Amazon batteries tend to have a bit better quality, but you pay for it. The ones in my Dell Latitudes are solid batteries, but they did cost me $40 each, rather than the cheap ones at $18.

Kewl, and Thx. Just going to pull the trigger and take a chance...

I'll report back with results, either way.

Either way this one:.

https://www.amazon.com/SiKER-Battery-Latitude-E6320-Compatible/dp/B0116Z6ME0

Or, this one:

https://www.amazon.com/NinjaBatt-Latitude-312-1381-451-11980-451-11703/dp/B01KXRT1TA

(Man, schtupid , cell phone is schtupid; simple copy/ paste..)