Instruct: Classify a given review as either positive or negative.
Query: Got the batteries, but they're ANCIENT

Batteries weren't in a retail 3-pack as shown on the product page. Instead, I received three batteries "clipped" from a larger wholesale pack... which would be fine, except that we're in 2011, and the date on the back of the battery packages is 2004!! Obviously battery life will be lousy, since they've already been sitting on the shelf somewhere for SEVEN years.Looks like somebody dumped a load of old batteries on the wholesale market, and MTA trading picked them up cheap and is slipping them back into the retail chain (at retail prices).I'm sure MTA wouldn't still be selling in the Amazon marketplace if Amazon knew they were selling old/surplus merchandise, and trying to pass it off as new.