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Old 09-30-2009, 12:48 AM   #105 (permalink)
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Get to know the proprietors at your local tractor shop, AutoZone, and Wal-Mart. Often, they'll let you exchange bad batteries for the cores they've taken from other customers.

I have contacts with a few stores around here that let me swap out car batteries if they go bad, and I just drop it off and take one of the cores, run that one dead, swap it out again, etc. Just have to make sure the "big boss" isn't around.
All the local guys will have nothing to do with me! They rarely see a deep cycle customer anyway. The place I got these was a boat dealer, next town over, and they were happy to get rid of them. I'm happy to take 'em. Works out well for everyone....
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