In the past 6 months, I've had more bad Elan remotes than I think I've had since the HR2 came out. I suspect they had a bad run and didn't say anything.
I had one that after turning the switch off under the battery cap, a few days later when I tried it again, it came back on and has been fine. But the others didn't do that.
Civil War reenactment is LARPing for people with no imagination.