With a name like Batteries Plus and a whole display of car batteries greeting you just inside the door, one would expect to get good, knowledgeable service when you bring a CAR BATTERY to them to have checked...but sadly, such is not the case. I stepped in with a battery today to have tested. A young clerk puts down his cellphone in the back room and comes out to see what I need. I would like to have this battery tested I tell him. He puts his meter on it and tells me the voltage. He gets an okay reading...I belive he said 12.6v. I ask if he can put a load tester on it. He's stumped. He goes to the back and asks if they have a load tester. Its been my experience that a battery can give a good reading on the volt meter and still be bad--the load tester can give you a better answer. From the back I hear, "We don't have a load tester." Ah, well, that's surprising...seeing as how this is a BATTERY STORE that sells CAR BATTERIES. I need a pair of battery clips, too--the spring-loaded kind that you see on battery chargers. They don't carry those--or at least the clerk can't find them...alright, no problem.
But now the good part and the reason for the bad review-- As I pick up the battery from the counter and head toward the door, I see a large battery load tester sitting in the floor next to a charger and a smaller handheld battery tester sitting on a shelf next to them. I turned and asked if that wasn't a battery load tester...young guy comes back and says no...that's a charger. Right...there's a charger sitting there...and next to it sits a large battery load tester. Then I hear a voice from the back tell that it's broken. It looked nice and new. And so I ask if the little thing there on the shelf is a tester...no is the reply I get from the clerk. The thing was marked "battery tester." So there I stand in Batteries Plus, having been told that they don't have a tester...then told it's a tester but it doesn't work...and then told no--the thing that says tester is most definitely not a tester.
I'm really put off by this kind of lazy attitude displayed by employees who have no knowledge of the store where they collect their paychecks. My advice would be to go a little farther down the road and get your battery checked at the car part store ( like I ended up doing today) where they are happy to wait on customers. Or, go to amazon and order the stuff you need. I like going to the brick and mortar local guys, but when I have this kind of experience, they get side - stepped for the Internet folks.
Bottom line-- Not interested in trying to spend money in Batteries Plus anymore. read more