Posted by Rob Drinkwater on July 18, 2003, 7:47 pm, in reply to "bosch batteries"
I'd be interested to see if it is exactly the same type of battery, i.e. Silver Calcium etc as that which you would expect to see from AP. We are also a Bosch Battery distributor so therefore have a vested interest in this case, although we don't have so many Costco's down here, but I thought you had to be a member to buy from Costco, but you may be able to enlighten me there. It is entirely possible that Costco have bought a job lot of these batteries from Germany or elsewhere, and then they are flooding the UK market. Us poor soles who do it by the book then but through the UK arm of Bosch and we can't sell at the price that the cash & carry do. We had exactly that scenario last year with Bosch wiper blades, whereby a local cash & carry were selling the blades dirt cheap. Turned out that after Bosch investigated the papertrail they had come from South Africa. Guess none of us can odds that going on.
Regards, Rob Drinkwater. Business Development Manager - CAFTEC Division. Camberley Auto Factors Ltd.