One stupid question: hobbyking is from hongkong? They are in china or UK? (I never have purchased there). Where are the warehouses? where are the items stored and from where they are shipped? From china?
I ordered 4 about 1-2 weeks ago for my brother, it was shipped the next day which is surprising for Hobby King. I have 14 orders with them but didn't buy from them for a long time (about 6 months) because of how slow they are but I think they might have stepped up their game now.
They will ship from the main warehouse in Hong Kong. China is a "back warehouse" for big items that take up too much room in their Hong Kong warehouse, Germany and Australia and USA have their own pages where you can search for things, it usually costs more than coming from Hong Kong but its faster. But they don't have those batteries in any of them.
They appear to be genuine; at least they have the date code stamped as described in this thread: https://budgetlightforum.com/t/-/1070. I haven't had them long enough to say anything about their performance except that they're working well in my Canon PowerShot 650 on the initial charge (there are other batteries getting conditioned in my charger at the moment). Flash recycle time is good.
I am also curious about these Camelion AlwaysReady LSDs:
They seem to have the same specs as Eneloop XX for less $$$. I know that Camelion makes decent flashlights, so maybe they have good batteries too. I don't know anything about their chargers.
Look again - the eBay ad is for 8 Camelion batteries, so the price for four comes out to less than $14, which is over $4 less than the Eneloop XX I bought.
I suppose I won't know if the Eneloop XX I bought are genuine until I've used them for a while. They do have the date code impression stamped on each battery, which is supposed to be a good sign. Impression stamping is more trouble than printing so I am hopeful.
OK, however I have paid less than 10$ for 4x Btone 2100 and 11.99$ for 4x Btone 2500. So there is a significant difference in price, and you must to buy the pack of 8.... what happens if you only need 2 or 4?
However, thanks for the heads up. I am searching not very expensive ones to test. Still nothing found except for the Turnigy
Thanks to God (at least for me) I already own 18 Btone batteries (6 AA and 8 AAA). And no need to buy more Btones, but more other brands specially in the 2200-2500 range.