laptop came without battery

Sniipe

Just wondering if this is at all possible. A friend of mine bought a laptop from the sony center 3 years ago. He asked me to fix his DVD rom (all it needed was a firmware upgrade). I ask him where his battery is and he told me it never came with one.

Could that possibly be the case? He said that they told him that he would have to buy one. On the bottom the model says its a Sony Vaio PCG-9U1M. But just above the power button it says PCG-K415B.

It looks to be 3 years old. The user manual here: ftp://ftp.vaio-link.com/pub/Manuals/Notebooks/A3_K4/A3_K4_H_EN.pdf says nothing about optional battery.

I worked in compustore and never remember having a laptop without a battery.

I guess at this stage he has utterly no come back?

O'Coonassa

I've heard of them being shipped without batteries but that's not meant to happen at all. What was your mate thinking?

Sleipnir

3 years ago? No, no comeback.

Overheal

tough luck tbh. hes a damn fool for buying into that. sure did he not check the product description and notice the clear label for a 4/6/12 cell battery?

AlmightyCushion

The only thing I can think of is that it was a display model and they lost the battery so sold it off at a reduced price. Hence why he was told he'd have to buy one. As said above, he has no comeback at this stage. I don't think he'd have any comeback if he bought it today. They told him it had no battery when he bought it so it wasn't missold.

majiktripp

3rd Party Replacement Battery

May as well invest in a new battery, get his mobilty back

*Kol*

majiktripp wrote: »

3rd Party Replacement Battery

May as well invest in a new battery, get his mobilty back

Why bother after 3 years if he hasn't had it up to now!:)