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Sky Rocketing battery price - 4/28/2008 2:17:04 AM   
Wheelnut



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From: Annandale, VA, USA
Status: offline 		Not to long ago I used to buy the Ultralast AA NIMH batteries for like $8.99 for a pack of eight. Now they are $11.99 for a pack of 4. What the heck is going on. Is this another byproduct of oil price increases?? Or was this an old case of the teaser prices of a new product?
I would love some suggestions on where to get the cheapest NIMH AA Batteries. I am mainly using them for my radio which takes 8 of them.

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RE: Sky Rocketing battery price - 4/28/2008 8:55:49 PM   
redgiki


 

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Status: offline 		Blame it on the US exchange rate and our reliance on imports. We hardly manufacture any of our own batteries in the USA now, and the dollar has lost 50% of its value over the past 2 years. Another way of looking at it is that imported goods now cost 50% more than they did two years ago. If you bought a $1,000 airplane setup from Europe in 2004, ignoring taxes and inflation, it costs you $1,611 today (EUR/USD is 1.61/1 today). If you factor inflation along with the devaluation of the dollar, the picture is bleaker.

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