Notice - Buying Li-ion cells from FastTech; SGP temporarily unavailable

Ah, tks for posting that, thats where this is coming from I guess. Interesting, they do seem to be saying they think an explosion is preferable to just venting/fire too. That does seem to follow that enclosed in a flashlight is preferable to them and may stop a fire from spreading.

Are you both stu*** and d**?

:open_mouth: :stuck_out_tongue: :zipper_mouth_face: :smiley: 0:)

I had to register with homeland insecurity for buying 500 battery boxes and chargers and a thousand 14500 batteries for e-cig mods. They got stopped at customs and I had to fill out the Homeland insecurity paperwork before they would release them. It was about ten pages of gobbledy gook and took about two weeks. I think Fed Ex might have actually tipped them off. That was who I got the first round of paperwork from anyway. I still had a security clearance active from when I was in S2 which is battalion level (infantry) Army Intelligence. I honestly don’t know if that helped or hurt? :davie:

I am surprised you don’t get onto a list for buying high capacity Ni-MH packs after the Boston bombings. Or maybe you do… :ghost:

Woowee, my order that got halted in its tracks contained…lithium batteries, a laser, [gulp] a digital pocket scale…it’s a wonder “homeland insecurity” hasn’t come after me!! :open_mouth:

That’s a point. Cells nicely inserted in a powerful torch. Handling staff lobbing around the packages and manage to switch on the torch/knock out insulation pads? :~

If they don’t make some allowances, we won’t have laptop computers, cell phones, ipads, kindles, everything that is powered by li-ion and is made in China. It’s not just the li-ion market that will crash around them, but electronics of all kinds. So they allow the proprietary power supply in the device, but not a loose cannon. Battery packs for laptops have built in protection through circuitry, as do most all devices. So there is some safety by being installed.

The cells we have all been buying were never supposed to ship like they have. Hasn’t anyone noticed the merchants lying on the customs forms? Gift? Toy? Parts? Really? Don’t you think if they’d put Li-ion batteries on the customs forms we’d all have been out of batteries a long time ago? The lies are catching up, that’s all. And now we’re in the middle of it, used to getting what we want and used to ignoring the rules.

Looks like we will be getting used to something else.

Does any of you know how to read and also understand the things you’ve read?

Factoring in human error and laziness, I suspect quite a few(read:most) will not have insulation pads included.

Also the visual of someone walking around stabbing and smashing packages is hilarious and probably accurate as well.

Kind of related: My poor subwoofer (50 pounder) was basically in pieces the first 2 they sent. The second to last one I saw the guy kick it out the truck into the gravel and give it a few more kicks. Then he brought it to my doorstep and left. Really wish I had the phone I have now, back then.

Are you purposefully fishing, or did you just bring your trolling equipment by accident?Undecided

It’s called functional illiteracy.

Clhoe what happened that jasmine has an entire new staff and I ordered some Panasonic 18650's and just received a message stating my my order originally ordered on 9/3 has been received so I have no idea what that means.

I think that their biggest worry is flammable liquids (also banned) packed in an unsafe manner, leaking and shorting the batteries, also packed in an unsafe manner,

  • the shorted batteries vent flames,
  • the package is soaked in a flamable liquid,
  • you can guess the rest.

The above happened on a cargo plane, thankfully it made an emergency landing, nobody was hurt,
and because nobody was hurt it was only a short article on about page 8~9 of the papers.

If those batteries were in a host then the liquid would probably not get in the host, but if it did, and the battery vented flames they would be confined in the host body, so no fire.

Thats the thing about all of this, it is only when somebody is killed that it gets big coverage, but if you go digging this has been a problem for years, only lately with the growth of the ecig has it become to serious to let continue.

When we buy stuff from China (or anywhere else) we should insist that the seller declares exactly what is inside, then the postal system knows the safe way to handle it, and if that means paying more for postage then so be it.

Cheers David

Why does you ask such a question Old Lumens? :wink:

FastTech selling e-cigarette products happened… Did you get any tracking info for the 9/3 order? Was it shipped by SG Post or HK Post? It could be that it was held up at Hong Kong Post due to the x-ray scanning and received back by FastTech which means they’ll offer you a choice to refund or resend.

Did you receive actual packages through an actual postal carrier?

If you did then you should know that there are lots of packages crushed, pierced and damaged without any sledge hammers involved.

But juding from the number of packages I have received with totally inadequate packaging, many people must have the picture that the postal service is transporting just their package only and it’s laying on a bed of feathers.

Iam waiting for Jessica respond back to my support ticket . As USPS locates or track.

For the people who cannot imagine that packages could actually get damaged during transport.

Hasn’t USPS been unable to track for days?

For my FT package that 17track has said for 3 days has been accepted, USPS keeps reading, “”“Sorry, the tracking system is having technical difficulties. Please try your search again later.”“”