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

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 !!!

Thanks for this thread !

Now to find legit NCR18650B or GA at the lowest price

Not sure about the absolute lowest price……
………… but absolutely sure they are 100% legit.

My go to place to buy batteries…… Liion Wholesale . :+1:

Fixed your messy post before quoting gzoom. In the simple post editor only the image link is to be set between exclamation marks, and you need a direct link to the image file. You may also want to resize to fit the image somehow, as lots of people do not care and just upload monster sized images which would screw up the forum layout. My recommendation is for you to learn and use the advanced post editor, which can also apply the simple post editor's emojis as they're just character strings:

You bought “LiitoKala batteries”, not genuine NCR18650Bs. This is key.

Check the international post above. If you wanna buy from AliExpress in my wise opinion stick to Aliya's or Lucky's. Sunway's is known to be good but is now calling their cells “Aerdu”, this already is twisting and can make your life harder if going dispute thus I do not like.

To finish this off, someone comments there on imgur “you shouldn't keep your batteries more than 6 months anyway”. You can tell that not so bright fellow cells can be used for years or even decades when properly taken care of.

Cheers ^:)

Thanks a lot Barkuti for the information about posting images properly!!
Quality batteries last for a long time. I can’t tell about li-ion, but i have some Sanyo and Eneloops Ninh for more than 10 years and still work fine!

Found 10 GA batteries on ebay, 58.99 shipped,from US

Any tips on authenticating these?

That’s not too good of a deal of 10x NCR18650GAs.

Here’s one at 4,99$US/cell:

Slightly cheaper MJ1 at Liion Wholesale:
https://liionwholesale.com/collections/batteries/products/lg-mj1-18650-battery-genuine-tested-10a-3500mah-flat-top-wholesale-discount?variant=12514888122462

Thanks for that !.. I had a cart at Liion for about the same as the ebay guy , with shipping…
At Ilumn, I can get two more for that price !
Thanks!

Erg
Forgot I wanted to toss a 21700 in there …Hope they can do it after the fact