So I picked this battery up tonight (pictured below) from a local Walmart here in MA.  From what I read, these sealed battery are good to go out of the box (is this correct?).  I believe I have killed my old battery from a time I left my tail lights on.  When I first got the bike (4 weeks ago) it held a charge for a week without driving, then I left the parking lights on.  I charged the old battery over night, drove it the next day, parked for 4 days, and barely has juice to crank and ends up clicking.  I wanted to get a new battery to rule that out of the equation when I investigate a possible charging/stator/RR issue.  Anyways, back to the Walmart battery.  So I decided to check the voltage before fitting it to the bike, reading >8 V and dropping mV by the second...  I connect it to my trickle charger and that reports the battery is charged...  I check voltage when connected to the charger and its sitting at 13.24 V steady.  Is this what a "Walmart" battery looks like?  Or did I get screwed by an unlawful customer and/or Walmart's extremely liberal return policy?  This is my first post, thanks for the help!

Receipt says ES12BS (and box, sorry no pic), but its looking like I got someone's YUASA YTX12BS core...

http://picasaweb.google.com/mckinleykevin/1993GS500#5338451380696652706

(sorry, couldn't figure out how to put the photo inline)

Yes, I think it is a returned ('core') battery. Go take advantage of their generous return policy.   

Yep... You got Powned by Wally World 

Take that back and get the battery you paid for 

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that's actually what a stock yuasa battery looks like that comes with the bike.  the "walmart" battery is white and should run you about $35.

yeah, i don't think i have seen a walmart battery without everstart somewhere on the battery.  You got screwed, take that thing back and get the battery you paid for. 

Yeah be careful with walmart.  I've bought an item that had originally been returned and not returned to the manufacturer and it turns out the previous buyer returned a BRICK and they gave them the money back!  Needless to say I was VERY upset but they are awesome with returns and had it replaced in about a minute and gave me 20% off for my troubles!

recently there was article on Yahoo about a woman who bought a Nintento DS for a son, in Walmart, and when he opened it there was a brick inside...
after a hassle with customer service and managers she finally got her money back and a $20 gift card

maybe you should ask for a gift card too?? 

I had a similar problem when I bought an xbox game. I unwrapped it and open the box and no game in it. i was upset i had to go through like 2 or 3 managers about my money back.