Think About This!!

[TWR]

You look to buy a Battery powered toy, the toy looks good / safe but no Batteries Included! WHY, I have often wondered why, to me you do not know that Toy is operational until YOU BUY THE BATTERIES, Why?

[ummmm]

Decent batteries are not cheap.

[AlwaysConfused]

Maybe incase the batteries leak?

[Graham-W]

The toy may be in storage that long that the "included" batteries could be flat or partially flat.

[Prudie]

Batteries often leak etc, there's no telling how long they may have been in the toy plus wouldn't you rather buy new Duracell than accept some obscure battery put in from Hong Kong ;-)

[bhg481]

You might already have batteries (I buy mine in bulk) or you may wish to use rechargables or etc etc. If they were supplied they wouldn't really be "free", they'd be included in the price.
I once knew someone who complained when he bought a watch that he already had a strap, so he wanted to buy one without strap.

[EcclesCake]

You still wouldn't know if the toy was operational until you had unpacked it and inserted the batteries.

[TWR]

The point of this is, why should YOU have to buy the batteries, to me, when you see the toy in the shop It's not working, do you follow, in other words would you buy a watch that has no Hand on the face?

[jennyjoan]

the real reason is truly if batteries were to lie a long time in the toy - they would leak - perhaps they could attach the batteries ON to the toy

[TWR]

I think they should or have them in store Jenny.

[2sp_]

I think more toys would be damaged by batteries sitting in them for a long time on the shop shelf, than you would find not to work once you got them home and put batteries in.

If that makes sense...

[trt]

I would have thought that most good toys are tested before they are sent out or come off the conveyor belt.

[Maydup]

The first toy shop to offer free batteries at the till will be very popular, although they will have to soak up the cost somewhere, I'm sure it could be done even if just fo Christmas.

[mikey4444]

There is a little man in China, who's sole job is to put his AA into every toy that China makes, see if it works, and then take it out again, before wrapping them up and putting them on that 2 mile long container ship.