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I recently bought a really cool looking Coast brand LED "tackle box" flashlight at Wal-Mart. This flashlight comes with 4 small watch batteries (AG5) included.
Not considering anything being wrong with it, I threw away the receipt. I only paid $5 and change for it, and, I have a similar one that uses UV light to light-up my sight pins on my bow. It is also a Coast brand flashlight and it works flawlessly.
Anyway, I get this new flashlight home, unwrap the packaging and find out it doesn't work. I took the end-cap off and discovered why. The batteries were dead and had slightly leaked that sticky crap inside the tube. After beating the table top with the flashlight end-cap off, I finally got the 4 tiny batteries out.
Well, since I threw away the receipt, I thought I'd just run back to Wally World, bite the bullet and buy some replacement batteries for it.
WRONG!! Wal-Mart carries every battery imaginable, except of course, the batteries that this flashlight requires. Now, why in the hell would a company like Wal-Mart carry a product line of flashlights and NOT carry replacement batteries for it? It may be that this is an isolated case, or just the fact this is the Winslow Wal-Mart, which IMO, has always been poorly managed.
Given the mood I'm in, I'd like to take this flashlight back to Wal-Mart and insert it into a certain bodily orifice of the store Manager. My better senses tell me not to do it, but I sure feel like it!
And before anyone suggests shopping elsewhere, there are no "other" alternatives here in Winslow. Wal-Mart is the ONLY place in the dreary village of Winslow to shop.
I have found where I can buy replacement batteries online, but I must buy a 10-pack of them. Add shipping and handling, and the cost will triple the original cost of the flashlight.
Aaaargh!
Not considering anything being wrong with it, I threw away the receipt. I only paid $5 and change for it, and, I have a similar one that uses UV light to light-up my sight pins on my bow. It is also a Coast brand flashlight and it works flawlessly.
Anyway, I get this new flashlight home, unwrap the packaging and find out it doesn't work. I took the end-cap off and discovered why. The batteries were dead and had slightly leaked that sticky crap inside the tube. After beating the table top with the flashlight end-cap off, I finally got the 4 tiny batteries out.
Well, since I threw away the receipt, I thought I'd just run back to Wally World, bite the bullet and buy some replacement batteries for it.
WRONG!! Wal-Mart carries every battery imaginable, except of course, the batteries that this flashlight requires. Now, why in the hell would a company like Wal-Mart carry a product line of flashlights and NOT carry replacement batteries for it? It may be that this is an isolated case, or just the fact this is the Winslow Wal-Mart, which IMO, has always been poorly managed.
Given the mood I'm in, I'd like to take this flashlight back to Wal-Mart and insert it into a certain bodily orifice of the store Manager. My better senses tell me not to do it, but I sure feel like it!
And before anyone suggests shopping elsewhere, there are no "other" alternatives here in Winslow. Wal-Mart is the ONLY place in the dreary village of Winslow to shop.
I have found where I can buy replacement batteries online, but I must buy a 10-pack of them. Add shipping and handling, and the cost will triple the original cost of the flashlight.
Aaaargh!
