Samsung Repair not that bad
The fact Samsung has its own repair centre's is actually a selling point for me. It's the only flagship phone manufacturer that provides genuine replacement batteries at a reasonable price. If you buy a 2nd hand battery anywhere else it will be fake and have nowhere near the storage capacity of a genuine one (you might as well have stuck with the dud one). I used to repair phones myself and gave up on genuine replacement batteries bought from third parties.
I recently had my Samsung S8+ battery replaced in the Kingston store for £50 all inclusive. It's made my phone like the day I bought it. Looks like I'll get another couple of years out of it now, which is quite clearly why other manufacturers don't want to sell replacement batteries.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
