Massive post on where to get lithium-ion batteries everywhere in the world! Look at Post 2-5 for info, And Canada Post 123

There are a few more choices for US people. Mountain Electronics and Vruzend and Orbtronic for example. Pretty much every major 18650 distributor in the US is in my battery database.

I’ve bought from Aliya’s Battery Store (AliExpress) more than once and was all good!
Thanks for the effort of putting this info together :+1:

Thanks for this thread BlueSwordM.

Here are three Australian suppliers I’ve had good experiences with:

Tech Around You

LANplus

supersports600

Banggood and Fasttech - at this time - don’t ship to Greece, I don’t know about other EU countries.

Another EU supplier - which I haven’t tried yet - but looks promising and has directly contacted BLF is https://18650.uk/

+1
I am also a returning customer there. (/store/1382210)

Also add Lucky Electronics Store, it is very similar. (/store/1191644)

BlueSwordM, when you use AliExpress URLs, please remove the part right from the ? mark, including the ? as well. That spm labeled stuff is for handling some user preferences (probably language settings as well).

GearBest, BangGood and Fasttech do not ship batteries to the UK.

Just an FYI, VapeCell just released a 1000mah 14500.

www.torchy.co.uk

In the UK and probably europe
Serving and endorsed by vaping communities for years and probably cheapest.

Thanks for doing that BlueSwordM ! :+1:

Illumn can also ship to Canada.

For Canadian based store, CANVAPE.CA have quite a good selection, (30Q, VTC6 and 1100mAh INR 18350 and more…). I saw some 26650 for 5-6$ CAD.

I remember that Liitokala thread and appreciate all your input there as well as taking the time to put this together for us. It’s so hard to find trustworthy sites these days and it’s people like you and forums like BLF that make the internet a better place.

OK.

I’ll include all of your suggestions once I come back home.

I love to help out, especially since even people not on BLF will see this thread.

...because size matters!

@raccoon city, nice relation you’ve got there. Size does matter when looking at capacity, marketability, and such.

I’ve done the modifications you guys/gals provided me with.

Thanks for compiling these lists. As I venture out into new types of cells and am buying more high-performance lights, it’s good to have reputable sources out there to choose from.

Thanks BlueSwordM. Nevertheless, a couple remarks:

Europe is a multitude of nations, this means there's little consensus in this shipping thing. Customers from nations like Spain, France, Germany and others can buy from FastTech or other asian sources because of railway shipping and TNT-PostNL. However, if we are to name each country and list all possible sources this can really become hard to maintain and turn out into a mess. This can be alternatively done by making a listing of sellers/retailers/sources and specify where they do ship, and please allow all of you to amend here with your contributions.

Wellp…

^:)

Nice thread Blue! That VRUZEND site is very interesting & it looks like they are INTERNATIONAL also. :+1:
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Edit: This appears to me to be an excellent resource of places to buy from. Barkuti mentioned that it my or may not apply to some countries in Europe. But as he also stated, it would be a huge undertaking to list each country individually.

That, as far as I am concerned; is where the individual buyer does his or her homework for their particular country. While you have provided the basic list of suppliers, it will be up to the buyer to determine if they do indeed ship to their particular country.

Then hopefully they will share that info here & you can add it where appropiate, if you so desire. :+1:

:partying_face: on…… :wink:

Yep. For some reason, I forgot about Micah and his shop.

Why did I order cells from Chinese sellers again?

Oh yeah. To see if they actually get to me. If not, I’ll just buy 18650s from Vruzend now.

I will add bto (battery trade office). Honestly I don’t know they are sending in Europe, but since they have an English version of the site they probably send.
https://www.bto.pl/en/default.b2c.aspx

I get my fix from a supplier in Alibaba. szvbatt,y
Usually, buy in bulk 30-40pcs of 18650/26650/26350 for myself and my friends.

!Leaking 18650 Leaking 18650 - Album on Imgur!

Most posts here suggest where to buy from.
There are many sellers out there pretending to sell original batteries.
Beware!!
Bought 4 ncr18650b from aliexpress. (https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4PCS-Original-LiitoKala-18650-Battery-3400-mAh-PCB-Protegido-bateria-3-7-V-Rechargebale-Li-ion/32819895203.html?spm=a2g0s.9042311.0.0.27424c4d96Jx8r) Price was about 10$ for 4 pieces. I knew that the price was very low, got the risk. Charged only once. Used for a flashlight. Unfortunately 2 cells started leaking after 2 months. Has anyone seen something like this? Very disappointed !!!