I had the same experience. The batteries were loose inside a small cardboard box. I am hesitant to use these batteries. Do they have a charge?
1883284
I bought these batteries for my camera flash before christmas...They were tightly packed and have been awesome batteries. I will reorder again in a few months....
1883285
Yes I have had great luck with these batteries I have a game camera that has been out in the northeast cold since the first week of December. My camers still shows full battery level. Great product.
1805086
I usually charge them overnight so I don't have an exact time to "full charge".You may have one or more wornout batteries.
876454
I had to charge mine. I put them in my charger and it noted them at the bottom of the "charge bar" on the display and it took several hours to get them to full charge. Based on my experience I would say they are not "pre-charged" at all.
280647
The included batteries say "precharged" so I measured the voltage on mine and they indeed were already charged. Some people have said they ruined their batteries by charging them for 14 hours or so before using.
343634
I did not have this issue. Other have recommended checking to make sure you have the batteries in the charger correctly (+/-). If this does not help your issue I would contact Amazon and arrange a return/exchange since they are most likely defective. I recommend an exchange since these are otherwise decent batteries.
1575380
They are not rechargeables. Not sure if they're used. I don't remember. It's been a while. I checked them on a battery tester and they have a full charge.
329937
There did not appear to be a problem with the batteries and so far these have worked as expected. The packaging was a light weight paper board box which came apart in shipping allowing the batteries to spill into the shipping envelope. The box was less substantial than a cereal box and the closure of the box was all fold and hold, no adheasive etc. I am accustomed to good batteries being well packaged, this truely looked to be way less than commercial packaging.
293716
When I hold them firm even the dead batteries show full. Maybe it's defective??
697430
I haven't tried to recharge them. But there isn't anything on the batteries that indicate they are rechargeable.
2134901
No. Batteries under charge should not get hot. When mine did, they held almost no charge.
1683261
I have received two separate orders and the batteries are all fine. I have been using them in my Camera for quite a while. the first time I charged them they took about 24 hrs but since then overnight seems to be all they need. I am afraid that is all I know about them.
1847095
Did you buy batteries that were pre charged and try to stick them in right out of the package?
882249
We have never had issues with the batteries in the past and these have worked well. I can't even give a time frame on the batteries for these but if you shop on Ebay or Amazon you can usually find better prices. Sorry no battery problems so far.
2040417
Yes, exactly the same issue. I have not tried new batteries as the set I just put in was new and we only did one charge off of them. I agree that's pretty poor. If that's consistent, I think we'll return it for another one and see if the next is better.
1959249
I have two of the batteries and have had no problems. I suspect your battery is defective and should be returned for a replacement.
292436
No, you might want to try a different type of battery first. Make sure they are fresh and new too.
876452
Honestly, I can't remember for sure whether they were charged prior to using or not. I think they were, but it's been a couple years since we purchased these so I can't say for sure. I do know that they don't ever hold their charge for a very long period of time.