@ picrthis
Thanks for your help with my questions.
here are links to best prices on rakuten. I think they are considerably better than what you have found. I hope these links help people get the best deal that I have found so far on 4th Gen eneloops.
Regarding the term bulk:
Please refer the Chloe’s post #237 in this thread. She mentions here that “you can bulk buy 3rd gen cheaper domestically” to which I respond requesting a link to a reliable merchant to make such a bulk purchase.
I have no idea how to define “bulk”. I was just wanting to know what deal she was referring to. Unless she just meant it as a general statement and had no specific “bulk” deal in mind.
To you, I would say that if the bulk deal you are referring to is that good and there are too many for me to use, I would attempt to put together a group order depending on the minimum quantity required to get the “bulk” deal that you are referring to.
Lastly, I would like to emphasise that everything after the word [Products] in my original post is a direct quote sent to me from rakuten with the exact shipping charges
Thanks again,
Scott
Thank you, I don’t know why a search on the same site produced different results with much higher prices, but as they say It-Is-What-It-Is I hope you enjoy them.
Update:
Well that is very interesting, they are not using a forwarding service like I found it to be before which made it too expensive I think they might be like Amazon MarketPlace that’s why the differences, domestically rakuten does the same thing, some items are direct from them some items a vendors listing selling from rakuten……….very good find Scott.
Scott, did you get shipping notice yet from the Rakuten store? I ask because I have tried to buy some things before (different sellers) only to get a follow up email saying they can’t ship, without explanation why, even though I had used the global portal instead of the JP site.
That is interesting didn’t know that happened, with the JP site it looks like the order would go through because of the freight forwarder but that really make it too expensive to go that route. I placed an order about 10 mins ago and I’ll report if they will actually ship to the USA too as soon as I hear back from them.
It should also be noted that as Chole said you shouldn’t worry about these being fakes because they a so brand new, But in the future you will need to be careful with Rakuten too, as your still not buying directly from Panasonic/Sanyo, rather a vendor/seller much like Amazon MarketPlace.
This could be a good short term solution until Domestics bring them online too, by then fakes will be found in some place or another.
Hi Chloe,
yes, it took about 24 hours to receive the shipping notice from the vendor. I have not placed my order yet as I am unsure of how many i need or if i wil get the regular or XX
Other than Amazon and buying in person from some stores I don’t know of any specifically. A lot of the deals are for 2nd gen (e.g. the rainbow 8 packs).
First off buying the ones on Amazon from “mybatterysupplier” are certainly not fakes, can’t speak for other sellers on there, but his are the real deal and are 3rd gen…
I can probably sell the 8 packs AA for around $33, including sending ($5), paypal fees ($1.50), currency exchange loss ($0.5) and waste of my spare time ($20) ;)
so you basically get them almost for free ;)
Please talk about these things in my other thread to not get this thread too filled up with prices and off topic chatter
My luck the batteries arrived today at my place, However I went out to lunch as I didn’t realize you had to actually sign for an Express package, don’t have to do that for Airmail just registered packages……bummer, even the online tracking doesn’t say Signature required; it does say “No Authorized Recipient Available” that’s a first for me.
I called the Post Office and was told because it’s an Express package they could redeliver on Monday for me, but couldn’t give me a time-frame, or I could pick it up myself starting @ 8:30am; so rather than have to sit around all day and wait on it I’ll pick it up first thing Monday morning. Oh well at-least it is actually here, 2 days door to door from Japan for a reasonable price………I’m still happy
I hope you enjoy them.
