Core charge for a battery is absurd

You own your battery. You just get paid if you don't want to keep it.

The little battery place I go to gives me a few bucks off the new one if I trade my old one in. Plus he’s about 40% cheaper on his batteries than Walmart.

What are you planning on doing with your battery collection?

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If you don’t a $10 fee

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It's not worth the $10 for me to bring it back, so I just Yard-A-Pult them onto the neighbor's property 4 or 5 houses down, depending on how hard I crank it that day.

You, have no idea what you’re talking about. The core charge is charged to the retailer when they buy the battery and they only pass that cost on to the buyer with no markup. You return or exchange your core, the retailer makes 0 profit off the core. As a matter of fact, we would prefer you pay the core charge and keep your damn core. We have to do a metric ton of paperwork to return cores. So, in closing, frick you.

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So, in closing, frick you.

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Yikes.

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Ridiculous law.

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Exactly what law?

I don't know why I always have sticker shock when buying a battery but for some reason in my head they are still $50-60. I know they haven't been in a long time but every time I buy one I'm like wtf?

I’ve found Costco to be by far the cheapest.

There’s a separate non-refundable charge if they catch you questioning the core charge, fyi. Go easy.