Thatâs what my eBay guy does he gets new brand name packs, from dewalt,kobalt,snapper,hoverboard batteries and strips them out and sells them.
Usually cheaper around 4 dollars a cell because a lot of people donât like to buy cells with tab marks ke dremal marks grinding them off. The namebrands get the best batteries. The middle men who supply 99.9 percent of the market the grade flucatutes. Minding Your mAhs â Ep001 â Battery Mooch - YouTube
Mooch has some on it there around the 5 minute mark. He has other videos explain how all true a grades go directly to oems. If anyones interested. You see it in his test every few months he will rerun new samples from illumn,imr, and others sellers. Like hg2 was originally a 20 amp cell to him. The last test months back it now reached its cdc at 19 amps now. Without his government equipment or hjks canât really tell a difference.
Tool packs are the best way if you truly want best of batch. And when you can get them. A good sale or clearance on them you can rack up on cells. When they change out the displays they have to recycle the batteries with it. Doesnât hurt to look. I found 2 new Milwaukee packs with 10 brand new 20r each a few ago.
Thanks for the advice, but I will pass. I enjoy taking part in some of these "too good to be true deals". Not trying to stop you from giving obvious advice to folks. It might save some newbies from making a mistake. But for the vast majority of us, we know exactly what we are doing and enjoy the wins and losses. This case is definitely not a loss no matter which way AE rules.
I have a dispute in progress and previously mentioned the comment from seller about false pictures for evidence (like others here) so I doubled down and found I could add 1 more photo making for a total of four.
I then sent a message, presumably to the seller. Lin Zhang answered and I had just asked who the manufacturer of the batts are. One name was the response: Liitokala.
I haven't read every post in the forum but I'm a little confused what Liitokala is... an original manufacturer name (relatively new), a reseller, in this case for batteries, a rewrapper?
As far as my wisdom goes LiitoKala doesn't manufacture batteries/cells, they just rewrap. Thus, the âDongGuan battery factoryâ isn't a real battery factory but just a rewrapping center of some sort plus God knows what else, because their contact there âZhangNiâ is by no means this girl found depicted in their liitokala Official Store (link to this store can be found in their site at the bottom left LiitoKalaÂź banner):
It seems this people needs a nice deal of speaking truth ethics. Their lies and slip-ups are blatantly noticed from this side of the Great Firewall. Their particular beliefs in these matters need a good fix.
And you got the keep the cells. So not bad all in all. It sucks to not get 30qs but from the rough test Iâve seen they are worth 2.50 a cell. Would be good for powerbanks. Or lights around 5 or 6 amps. Definitely usable.
Well, Iâm done with liitokala. I ordered a 26650 on 1 Jan, and theyâve repeatedly told me that itâs almost here, in spite of the fact that the tracking number was bogus. I finally demanded a refund, and now theyâre just shovelling all this crap at me in messages on aliexpress about how theyâve proved to me that I received the package (they havenât) and weâve talked on the phone (we havenât).
This was the Official Store (217753). Iâm never ordering anything from any Liitokala store on aliexpress again. I can overlook selling new batteries as 30Qs, even if they donât look exactly like them, but have pretty similar capacity and max current. That might not even be the storeâs fault. But when their customer service (Ashley Zhang) thinks I have no capacity to tell her lies from the truth, Iâm done. With the whole brand. When my Lii-500s need replacing, Iâm not buying Liitokala chargers.
