{"id":20836,"date":"2020-03-07T14:27:43","date_gmt":"2020-03-07T19:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/?p=20836"},"modified":"2020-03-07T14:27:44","modified_gmt":"2020-03-07T19:27:44","slug":"a-battery-mooch-post-samsungs-illegal-battery-use-letter-to-gregory-conley-president-of-the-ava","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/archives\/20836","title":{"rendered":"A BATTERY MOOCH POST: Samsung\u2019s \u201cillegal\u201d battery use letter to Gregory Conley, president of the AVA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shared with permission: <a href=\"https:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/gQgwvDD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/gQgwvDD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You might have heard about LG\u2019s and Samsung\u2019s efforts to get vendors to stop selling their batteries. This letter was sent to Gregory Conley by Samsung\u2019s attorneys as part of that.<\/p>\n<p>Samsung claims these sales are illegal and asks the AVA to help them prevent injuries (a good thing) and to help stop sales of Samsung batteries (not a good thing). The attorneys also have a long list of things they say the AVA could do.<\/p>\n<p>Let that sink in&#8230;Samsung, a multi-billion dollar company, is asking the AVA to start a safety campaign, add warnings to their newsletter and web site, send a blast e-mail to all their members, send separate notices to all AVA shops and employees, make announcements at all AVA events, meetings, etc., and post an AVA press release.<\/p>\n<p>Gregory Conley\u2019s response to the letter on Twitter was awesome: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GregTHR\/status\/1235383737623498754\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/GregTHR\/status\/1235383737623498754<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/dot.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Reddit\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"A%20BATTERY%20MOOCH%20POST%3A%20Samsung%E2%80%99s%20%E2%80%9Cillegal%E2%80%9D%20battery%20use%20letter%20to%20Gregory%20Conley%2C%20president%20of%20the%20AVA\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shared with permission: https:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/gQgwvDD You might have heard about LG\u2019s and Samsung\u2019s efforts to get vendors to stop selling their batteries. This letter was sent&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-battery-mooch","category-recent_news","wpcat-139-id","wpcat-15-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20836"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20839,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20836\/revisions\/20839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}