Fair enough, but this is a fairly old forum platform and merely requires some user interaction when posting images and such. There are fancier and more modern forums available, but they tend to cost money. This is a free forum, after all, and doesn’t even have advertising :+1: .
Nothing wrong with being honest, but we’re getting our money’s worth here :partying_face: .
Your 30Q’s are fake, though, as the terminal has too many legs. I seriously doubt that anyone has received genuine 30Q’s (or any other name brand) from any Liitokala seller (yes, there are many). Your measured capacity does seem quite close to the genuine cells and the voltage curve and figures even appear close to the real thing (bump at first 500mAh, drop-off at 2300mAh). However, testing them with a 5-10A load would likely differentiate them.
The ones in the pictures on the item page appear to be genuine Samsungs, so you can tell these are fakes by comparing them to LiitoKala’s own photos :person_facepalming: . Regardless, they seem like good 3000mAh cells for low-drain applications and I’d like to know how these cells perform at 5A or more. Has anyone tested them at high currents?
I personally won’t buy these, though, as I don’t want to support LiitoKalas’ (plural) fakery. If people know what they’re getting (3000mAh cells that happen to be pink), then it’s understandable that they buy these, but the stores should somehow be punished for their fraud . It’s fine to sell 3000mAh Chinese cells and even claim that they are similar to Samsung 30Q’s if they wish, but they should be labelled honestly.
Looking at the item page, I find it odd that they don’t mention Samsung in the tag line, images, or most of the text, yet they eventually state “100% Samsung Brand New and High quality” in the bullet points under “Features”. It almost appears that they’ve purposefully avoided including “Samsung” in the images and item name, perhaps so that it would be fast and easy to simply remove the single line stating “100% Samsung…” if it became necessary to do so for some reason. Hmmm…