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

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.”“”

...tracking# says cannot locate darn phone is impossible to edit.

New update from Jasmine. Singapore Post will refuse all packages that containing lithium batteries. :frowning:

Great. :_(

Well, this is bad... I got this email from Jasmine this morning:

This order contained NO batteries! Only these three items:

keltex78, maybe it was the knife? Jasmine updated her notice to include knives.

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In this case, it's just as well though. That's the knife that FT changed the .sku item; it was originally the Boker clone and now it's just another cheap/trash knife. This just saves me the RMA and return process.

I guess I'll just by a NiMH charger at Wal Mart now. All I'm missing is the voltage detector.

I just made four separate orders of 18650s from FT, totaling 16 cells. Three orders have been shipped via HKPost. Let’s see if they make it out of the country.

Good luck! My 3 packs arrived in just 5 days, Shipped on 4.10., all containing liions and vis Singapore post. 8)

I had a package “shipped” with Singapore Post on 4/10 too, but it’s not even trackable (as in “The following Item(s) is/are not found”). No li-ions though, maybe I should have ordered some?

Mine were despatched on 4th :stuck_out_tongue:

I think this is how I will order future cells, in small quantities.