I'm not in the least bit worried. These batteries are sold by the tens of thousands with only a few occurrences of failures (and none of them catastrophic that I could find). The seller has a good rating and ALL of my PayPal purchases are guaranteed by my credit card. Its a process but I've filed chargebacks a number of times and have always gotten my money returned through my credit card company (American Express). Like many, I will pursue a refund until it is returned just based upon principle and I have NEVER lost. PayPal, on the other hand, is a total scam that follows the same trashy evasive practices of its parent company (eBay) when filing disputes. NEVER have your PayPal account paid for by your bank account. PayPal offers an incentive to do this because they know you will lose any recourse through laws that govern credit card purchases if you do. So always pay your PayPal through your credit card to have maximum protection.
I always keep a balance in my PayPal account and have never had a problem. PayPal still honors their terms.
The 3000mAh cells should work well in low drain devices up to 1A and might actually exceed the run times of typical 2400-2650mAh cells under these circumstances. Your TR-1200 (if one with a good driver) when ran in 3 x 18650 configuration is a demanding light of its batteries, pulling hard on them while the light blazes away in full regulation till the protection PCB disengages the current at the time of cell depletion. Damn I LOVE THAT LIGHT, especially when showing off in front of others with very expensive P7's/ MCE's or SST-50's! Definitely don't use your 3000ma cells in your 1200. Nothing at all geeky about tracking your batteries, and Id call that a very good responsible practice. Most flashaholics measure voltage before and after each usage and carefully monitor their performance and health. Kudos to you for doing this.
I've received 6 emails so far from americanstorexx reassuring me of a positive transaction. The latest message states that the items were already shipped today.
Mine also has shipped today.
I've sent a message to the seller twice asking about PCB and dimension. They didn't respond in a almost two days now.
I'm worried about them being low quality batteries.
2buy or not 2buy / or it's better 2buy 2beers 
I've sent a message to the seller twice asking about PCB and dimension. They didn't respond in a almost two days now.
I'm worried about them being low quality batteries.
2buy or not 2buy / or it's better 2buy 2beers
Yes, I have not purchased them because probably I will get different ones, or fake ones. Paypal someday will stop protecting the buyer as normal. Too much money spent in protecting customers or not? If all chinese sellers starts lying and paypal will have to protect all the customers....... paypal will stop protecting.... so I will not purchase them
There is something strange in that product, I can feel it but can not say what exactly......
These ones are fakes as far as I know... There are also fake Ultrafire 3000 out there. This is what happened to Paul who used these fake Ultrafire 3000: http://www.candlepowerforums.com/vb/showthread.php?280909-Ultrafire-18650-3000mA-exploded
These cells are of a different chemistry. The Ultrafire ones are limn hybrid cells. They offer a higher discharge rate (due to the chemistry) and lower capacity -> 1200-1600mAh.
I do not think these are fake as they also sell the GTL 18650 for $18.80 for 10. These are rubbish, Seller's don't know much about batteries, they just buy and sell them.
Don't forget the cheaper items are usually marked up the greatest. Like for exmaple 18650 plastic cases are sold for $1 when the wholesale price is $0.19 each. Maybe this seller is not marking up as high. Maybe he has purchased in bulk and wants to sell quickly to make a profit.
I bought 4 for the sake of not missing a good deal. If they turns out to be total junk, then paypal dispute...
illl wait til someone gets theres lol
i need to know they are legit first
Would these cells be ok to use in a laptop battery?
Maybe if you could modify them. But because they have protection circuitry and a button positive end, they probably are too long for a laptop battery pack as is.
I was thinking the same thing. I guess I will skip this deal...
I thought about it for a while and then ordered 4. I'm not expecting them this year - probably just about everyone else on the planet will get them before me 
I'm not impressed that a former colony can ship stuff faster to anywhere on the planet that isn't here....
Might have to remind the US of A and HK about their roots.....
;)
People in HK are native. They were not a british colonies like UK used to have in the USA but british enforced there power to their territory. I can't beleive that Cyprus people think of themselves as british rather than Greek just because for some years British possesed the island. If so then the whole world has Greek roots because Great Alexander made the first world empire (as a payback to the Persians for there wars against Greece) which evolved to the Roman which was a latin-greek civilization empire.
On the otherhand USA consisted in the begining of british,french,german,irish,spanish,dutch..colonies. You guys enforced power upon all other colonies but in the end they became indipendent.
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Hong Kong were a British colony from 1842 until Japan invaded it during the second world war but lost it again to Great Britain after having lost the war. Hong Kong was finally handed over to China as a special province in 1997.
Most of the colonies became independent because of one ideology that the colonists brought with them from Europe: nationalism. Is true for the US, India and Mexico to name a few.
Wasn't the seeds for the roman empire sown way before Alexander the great?
i have got an answer from americanstorexx that these batteries are protected
Wiiiee! Even better deal then : ) Now lets just hope that they are all from a good batch.