Who still ships 18650 rechargable batteries to Australia?

Must be fairly recent, because I got 26350s from banggood last month. My favourite is still Fasttech Australian registered line shipping, Gearbest offers something similar but they ages to pack and send.

Yep Fasttech $2 shipping is amazing it cost us like a $1 just to send a letter now! If i chose that option it usually arrives in like 10 days.

BG have been making me sweat this out, but all good now

I placed an order for 4 NCR18650B’s (about $23.82AUD) some 10 days ago and was getting the run around but today I just got confirmation that they have been shipped out.

Hopefully they get here this year

Might as well swim there and grab them it would be faster lol

+1 again on supersports600. Great service, good range of cells, and delivery only takes a few days.

A few months back I bought a couple of 14500 Keepowers from supersports600 (approx. $20AU) - fast only took 2 or 3 days from memory

Just a quick heads up:

I’ve bought 3 sets of batteries from banggood last month (10th September, 10th September and 16th September), as of today all have arrived to me in Sydney. It took an average of 20 days for them to come to me (or 3 weeks), which is worth it considering the vast savings over buying from eBay.

I do notice that Fasttech and Gearbest are no longer shipping to Australia, but as far as I know Banggood is still doing it somehow. Buy up as many as you can now, next year the prices will increase when the restrictions come in place that totally ban batteries on airplanes.

With the recent increase in Li-ion shipping costs by the Chinese retailers, there isn’t much of a saving compared to buying from the above mentioned Australian retailer.

Banggood still has free shipping to Australia though. I just ordered a few weeks ago as I mentioned previously, and i saw they still have free shipping now.

The seller mentioned on this thread, “supersports600”, is selling 2 Samsung 30Qs for $26. From banggood I can buy 2 Samsung 30Q for 8.49USD or ~11.5AUD. At 44% of the price, it’s worth waiting 2 weeks extra for me IMO.

Not sure how long Banggood will keep shipping free though, thats why I’m getting a bunch of batteries right now.

In another topic a few weeks ago I mentioned that I placed an order for Sanyo NCR18650GAs (re wrapped as KDLIGHT) from Kaidomain

Well they arrived so I can say that KD ships batts to AUS

I just recently purchased a few sets of batteries from Banggood, no problems order went through and order is now saying shipped.

yesterday i saw there was some good deals on the 30Q’s so was going to purchase some more and now its saying ‘not in stock’ checked for some other batteries and same thing ‘not in stock’.

have the shipping circumstances changed again in the last few days? or as aussies are we only able to purchase 4 batteries from china? lol

Not helping with the question really, but those panasonics were pretty famous but with the newer SANYO GA's , or if you prefer longer cycle life (like the panasonics) the LG MJ1, is there still a reason to prefer the panasonics?

or maybe next year :wink:

no i tried to but this means that they don’t ship down under no more?

Just sharing what I experienced (my location: Philippines, which is quite near China, and Canton/Guangzhou, which seems to be Banggood and possibly Gearbest main offices).

Ordered some 18650s (with plastic case) from Banggood around mid-August, order didn’t arrive and upon inquiry, their shipping company has disallowed shipping 18650s (even in protective plastic cases) to the Philippines, so the order got cancelled and refunded. (This is my first time to order 18650s online, as I’m new to these types of batteries…)

I tried ordering from AliExpress early September (one order from LiitoKala store [18650s] and another order from PKCell store [18350s]). Both were shipped using Turkey Post. I’ve already received the Liitokala order, while the other PKCell order has also arrived in my country (haven’t gotten them, but they’re already at the local post office).

But now, I’d like to reorder a few more batteries. The LiitoKala store has removed Turkey Post as a shipping method (upon my inquiry, they say Turkey Post disallows batteries now, or something like that) and now they’re using their own method (“BPost”). The PKCell store in AliExpress has also removed Turkey Post as a shipping method, and now only has Fedex/DHL (with $30-50 shipping fees! whereas the Turkey Post before was only something like $3-5).

So it does seem there are fewer and fewer shipping methods nowadays… :cry:

There’s merit in what you say.

But while I own GA’s too, generally Panny-B’s are my go to battery for when I’m gifting a light that draws less than 3 amp (eg. stock C8).

Regardless of whether or not the light has LVP I still give out protected cells (gives me piece of mind)

And in keeping with the BLF mantra, I like the fact you can get 4x Panny-B’s reasonably cheap these days.

Banggood are saying they can ship and KD are shipping but three orders I’ve had with them take around two months for delivery.
My last shipment was opened by customs and let through. The batteries were shipped in cheap lights.

Sure, it wasn't a point as much as a question. You can certainly find cells that claim to be protected GA's and protected MJ1's though. I didn't think price is that different either, but I could be wrong. The pannies are still good cells.

Well banggood is up to the normal tricks,

a week or so ago they cancelled and refunded an order for 4 button top 30Q cells.

a couple of days later I tried to order again but this time the 4 pack with the plastic case.

I got a shipped notification last night,

So we will see but they seem to be on the way.

also, which protected cells do you guys get? it might be worth me grabbing some.

Much easier just to order from Aussie eBay seller supersports600. Received my button top VTC6s in 3 days!