Chinese e-shops Batterry Shipping Policy per Country

I've done a lot of talking lately at GearBest's thread (#1925 to #1937 and #2032 to #2041), regarding it's extremely expensive shipping policy for batteries, as also for not offering free tracking nr for orders over a certain amount (as they used to for orders over $40) as most of GB's competitors stil do (usually over $20-$25).

I'm opening this thread in order to post which of the known online Chinese e-shops (e.g. BangGood, DealsMachine, DX, FastTech, GearBest, KaiDomainm, Tmart) still offer Free Batterry Shipping to BLF member's country.

In addition to the well known online Chinese e-shops, I believe we could also inform which reliable Aliexpress stores (with high ranking score that we have bought from -or know others that bought- and had no problems) and other (than BG-DM-DX-FT-GB-KD-Tmart) reliable e-shops we know with competitive prices that ship batteries for free to our country, since (because of GB's and other known e-shops shipping policy or for any other reason) many of us (myself among those) have turned to other sellers in order to find cheap and good batteries.

Our country should be visible at our post (seen at our signature or posted), as each e-shop's shipping policy may be different per country (e.g. I know that GB doesn't offer free shipping for batteries to Greece, but offers it to Germany; strange, since they're both EU members and air-mail shipping legistlation for Li batteries must be the same for all countries).

Note:

As I'm always trying to be perfectly honest, I must inform you that it was GB's representative at BLF who PM'd me the idea to start a thread like this, saying that "if it could work (meaning free shipping for batteries) on GearBest too, then I will give you a $40 gift card as a thanks".

I don't know if that's true or if that's a way to make me stop saying the truth regarding their shipping policy, but I hope it's obvious that GB's offer for "a $40 gift card"... "if it could work" isn't the reason for I start this thread.

What I'm really hoping is that the feedback from this thread will be the reason to make the known Chinese e-shops that don't offer free shipping for batteries to our country understand that their shipping policy is wrong. They must find the way that some of their competitors already know, in order to offer competitive prices for good batteries and free shipping (or/and $0 to small charge for tracking nr) at the same time, as I'm sure we're not buying from them only batteries/flashlights/chargers, but many items.

I'm also hoping that this thread could be useful for BLF members, in order to get ideas where to buy batteries from (and why).

After some feedback posts I intend to make a table with e-shops/countries and what kind of shipping they provide for batteries. Don't ask me when I'm gonna make this table, cause it depends by my available time and the data we're gonna have. I'm not in a rush for "a $40 gift card"... "if it could work"!

  • Evan

PS (edit) :

The reason why the thread's title is "Chinese e-shops", is because they ship all over the world. Posting local e-shops that ship batteries for free in a member's country might be interesting for some, but not for all BLF members. So please avoid posting domestic e-shops that you know they don't ship abroad. If they do you could post them, but you should have in mind that even if I could buy a battery like this from international.mtnelectronics, the extra shipping cost to Greece for a $4 simple part like this is $13.25, so... imagine what would it be for batteries!

Gearbest had 0.19$ tracking option , also available for batteries . So , i assume they don’t work with that company anymore ?

Offering free shipping for batteries to Greece (checked 2016-12-06) :

  1. KaiDomain.com
    • Free Registered Shipping if order value over $15 USD
  2. Tmart.com
    • Free Registered Shipping if order value over $30 USD (could be less)
  3. DealsMachine
    • Free Shipping but batteries need tracking number for normal extra charge (e.g. $1.99 for 1 to 3 4-lots of NCR18650B)
  4. AliExpress Store No.1120058 (5254 - 97.7%)
    • Free Registered Shipping
  5. AliExpress Store No.2133078 (2155 - 97.5%)
    • Free Registered Shipping
  6. Many more AliExpress Stores that I can't say from personal experience if they're reliable.
  7. [2017-01-14 edit] YoShop
    • Free Shipping (normal charge for Tracking Number +$1.99, not obligatory)

Note:

I don't care about buyers complaints regarding capacity of xxxFire/noname batteries they bought. They should of known better!

@giorgoskok:

You're right about GB. Then it became about $2.80 and today there’s different shipping cost for similar items! [2017-01-14 edit] It's been somedays now that GB doesn't ship to Greece...

Fasttech.
Ordered a flashlight that included 1 AAA alkaline battery. I was told to choose between

  1. Cancel order. or,
  2. Receive the light without the battery and get a $1 refund.

I picked number 2.
This was with free unregistered shipping.

The one issue is. free shipping comes at a price. The batteries are not declared so I have now had customs seize some. Some times they not even leave port. It depends on luck I guess.

Might be as you say, but IMO “the one issue is” being able to get (with safety) good and cheap batteries for our flashlights! :sunglasses:

Before Samsung’s fiasco nobody was talking about danger from batteries, now (because of the media) everybody is. The fact is that their package can be really good if the seller wants to do it (see what dw911 informs here). So, as long as we’re talking about good batteries well packed, there’s no more danger than the one it used to be before everyone starts talking about exploding bad batteries. Guys, guns & ammo is being air-transfered every day!

Living in Europe (Sweden) I have stopped buying cells from China.
I now get all my batteries/accumulators from https://eu.nkon.nl
Prices are comparable with Chinese sites.
Shipping is not free, but very reasonable.
Best of all: delivery is fast and I don’t have to worry about fakes nor customs inspections or fees/taxes.

It’s true that eu.nkon.nl is a good solution (for EU at least), but it’s not a Chinese e-shop :stuck_out_tongue: and fast shipping to Greece is very expensive: e.g. for a pair of 30Q, normal shipping (up to 4 weeks delivery) costs the reasonable amount of €2.83, but fast (with full tracking) costs €22.39. :frowning:

Is there any shop that ships 18650 to the Philippines? Im seeing that kaidomain offers to ship some but i have nit tried it.

Banggood, Gearbest and fasttech CANNOT ship batteries to Singapore.

The normal (cheap) shipping to Sweden only takes about 4 days and tracking isn’t really necessary within EU.

Only 4 days for delivery with normal (cheap) shipping is a great delivery time! :+1:
You’re lucky… Sweden is near to the Netherlands.

I usually prefer tracking even for domestic mail, but that’s up to everyone’s choice. I’d certainely not pay €22.39 for a pair of 30Q that cost half that amount! :sunglasses:

Don’t any Chinese vendors have EU warehouses? I thought Gearbest did?

For some reason they don’t seem to stock batteries in the EU warehouse.

But they do have some in their US warehouses.
VTC5, 30Q, 25R, NCR18650B and HE2 can be ordered from the US-LA warehouse; only in quad packs though and the prices are 10-20% higher than from China.

Maybe make a request for them to stock cells at the EU warehouse? But i guess no point because then the price will equal out?

As I wrote, my goal “is that the feedback from this thread will be the reason to make the known Chinese e-shops that don’t offer free shipping for batteries to our country understand that their shipping policy is wrong. They must find the way that some of their competitors already know, in order to offer competitive prices for good batteries and free shipping (or/and $0 to small charge for tracking nr) at the same time, as I’m sure we’re not buying from them only batteries/flashlights/chargers, but many items”.

I don’t aim for a solution to the shipping cost only for my country, that’s why I’m asking feedback regarding BAT’s free shipping from various e-shops and as many countries as possible. This thread could be a way to put some pressure on those e-shops, making them understand that “where there’s a will, there’s a way”.

Unfortunately, so far the feedback is under my expectations. I don’t believe that BLF members (most of them flashaholics with big battery needs :stuck_out_tongue: ) don’t care about BAT’s shipping cost. Maybe the thread is in the wrong place, maybe I didn’t express the right way what’s it’s purpose, maybe I was aiming high and expecting too much, maybe most members are buying batteries cheap and with free shipping, maybe… who knows what else…

Yea i also have to pay extra shipping so i understand. But batteries i only buy every so often and i usually buy a lot at once. Either way it will always be cheaper to buy from China then From an Australian seller. Plus i always pay for extra fast shipping usually only a few dollars maybe $4 dollars.

I don´t believe there is a lot these shops can do. They don´t make the rules for air shipping.

I ordered some batteries from DX, they emailed me saying they “cannot be shipped lonely in one package” and to order something else with them. So I did. Then I got the message my order “has failed to pass the airline security check as it contains lithium batteries/knives” and they “switched it to another delivery channel”. I didn’t pay anything for shipping.

The other items arrived separately from the batteries. The batteries eventually arrived in two separate shipments.