Optima Red Top Batteries, who's got em?

[VX KAT]

There were a couple comments like this from people who have bought batteries from Amazon. BEWARE:

My D51R went bad after a month. Optima says take it back to whom you purchased it from. I said Amazon, they said "oh no." Optima will not honor the 36 Month Warranty and Amazon said I'm stuck because I can't ship it back -it's hazardous material and it's beyond the 30 day return policy. "We are real sorry, but there's nothing we can do." So if you are going to buy a battery from Amazon - you will be stuck - without any remedy. Join the suckers club with me.

I bought a BlueTop for our RV from Amazon with free shipping. It got damaged in shipping because the packaging was insufficient. One corner was cracked and the blue plastic had a white streak in it (you know when you bend plastic). True, Amazon's policy is they will not take them back because they're hazardous. but I contacted Optima, asked if the damage could shorten the life, they confirmed it could. So I contacted Amazon Cust Serv with this info, they gave me full credit AND shipped me another one. 2nd one had proper packaging, everything was OK.

My situation was different I realize, but I can't understand why Optima wouldn't honor the warranty in the example above? Amazon must sell a gazillion of them so this had to come up over and over...

[etlsport]

I have had an optima blue top group 34 In my vx since 06 with no problems. I tested it a few months ago it was still over 1000 cca after being drained at least 30 times

Afaik the yellow and blue tops are identical except for the terminals.. The blue top has extra 1/4" threaded terminals that I use for my audio

[Marlin]

I bought a BlueTop for our RV from Amazon with free shipping. It got damaged in shipping because the packaging was insufficient. One corner was cracked and the blue plastic had a white streak in it (you know when you bend plastic). True, Amazon's policy is they will not take them back because they're hazardous. but I contacted Optima, asked if the damage could shorten the life, they confirmed it could. So I contacted Amazon Cust Serv with this info, they gave me full credit AND shipped me another one. 2nd one had proper packaging, everything was OK.

My situation was different I realize, but I can't understand why Optima wouldn't honor the warranty in the example above? Amazon must sell a gazillion of them so this had to come up over and over...

Did you get to keep the original "damaged" one?
I would guess this is a case of the squeaky wheel gets the grease.