Home Depot Cordless Tool Batteries Failing Repeatedly
A customer reports six dead 18V cordless tool batteries purchased from Home Depot over a few years with no explanation or recourse offered; this is a physical hardware/retail quality complaint outside the scope of a software problem.
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