Massive fraud on 18650s in the Littokala Aliexpress stores!

Now that’s funny … but buddy fluttering vis hands and screaming
“DO NOT GIVE THEM ANY MONEY!”

Barkuti, you are quick to scorn us for thinking store 133859 is legitimate. You mentioned ‘all those’, but chose to pick a fight with me.

You try to convince us of your great knowledge that only store 217753 is real. Seems scrolling around some ‘official’ AlieExpress site linked you to the one-and-only Liitokala store. That is your ‘trustworthy information’ suitable for trolling.

I’m going to go with Liitokala English home-site link to their store 133859
Y’know, the one they call LiitoKala Official Flagship Store. They have a right to call it whatever they want. Too bad that upsets you.

I’m sure you will not admit being wrong.

Today, I received my blue-wrapped 26650 cells from AlieExpress store 133859.
I’m charging them, and intend to try a couple out in my Cometa tonight.

Newb here.

Need help

too many options.

need 8 18650 and a charger.

Just got my GT70 yesterday, thought it would take a month. I don’t need the absolute best deal ever and don’t want to wait a month to try this thing out.

If anyone can shoot me a link PM or reply to this I would love you forever. Not trying to hijack thread.

Sorry forgot I am in the USA have prime if there is anything good on amazon, don’t mind buying on ebay, gear best or what not.

Maybe a pack of button top Samsung 30Q cells from Liion Wholesale Batteries?

With regards to charger the Gyrfalcon All-88 is very appealing, though you can also do with one or two cheaper 4-bay units.

Cheers ^:)

30q Samsung, Sony vtc6, LG makes a couple high amp high cap also. You cant go wrong with any of these options. Just get the 30q’s with button tops like the other member mentioned. :slight_smile:

TY I dragged my feet a bit in case someone offered up an alternative. Finally put my order in, TY for your help.

Unfortunately there are really no good options on Amazon, wish there was that would be awesome!! You can find authentic Samsung 30q from Liion Wholesale and MTN Electronics in the US, both of them ship very fast and usually have it to ya in a few days.

I just received liitokala 21700 4000mAh cell and to be honest I wasn’t aware of the issues with their store on aliexpress. I did test it in li-500 charger and it gave me result around 3790mAh mark.
Do you recon it is a good cell as tested in by HKJ or is it just random crap with the old wrapper?

I have the yellow wrapped 21700s and the capacity seems correct to spec. The internal resistance is approximately 30 mOhms. They seem to be of good quality.

Now, if they would sell the 18650s without trying to con the buyer into thinking it was a Sanyo, Samsung, Panasonic authentic cell inside.

Good to hear that. All I was hoping for was cheap, decent quality cell :slight_smile:

I agree with Fate0n3. Don’t do Amazon. They are a bin pick warehouse company. Even if they had genuine cells, they will be mixed with fake and it’s a crap shoot.
However, other than prime shipping, good deals can be had from Li-Ion wholesale, Illumn (which I like a lot) and MTN Electronics just to name a few. US based and reputable shipping from USA, no drop shipping from China and threat of fakes.

The Sony VTC6 barely edges out the Samsung 30q in testing and the Sony has the benefit of a slightly raised positive so no need for button top rewraps. Just my $0.02, go with the Sonys

Sony is living its own overpriced hype. Versus Samsung 30Q and LG HG2 cells the Murata/Sony VTC6 demonstrated the lowest endurance of them all in this test: Bench Test Results: Which lasts longer? VTC6, 30Q, or HG2? @ E-CigaretteForum

I like for my stuff to last and cost me a fair price.

Cheers ^:)

So, any good legit options for the Samsung 30Q on aliexpress?

The VTC6 on Sunway store on ali is pretty ok priced and supposed to be legit, which is inclusive of shipping. At least ok for countries in the asia pacific region.

Aren’t you glad you started the thread? lol

No, not really.

If these were legit cells at slightly higher prices when buying 10x cells, I would have been sleeping well these days.

Otherwise, I’m not too happy a company is pulling a bait and switch.

It’s all good and useful info.

Don’t feel like the lone ranger. I’ve recommended things before and it turned to S…t. But, at least this bogus company is out in the open now. You might want to change the header from “Massive Sale” to “Massive Fraud”

Now that we're here and for the sake of correctness, let me suggest fixing the title's orthography:

Massive fraud on 18650s in the LiitoKala AliExpress stores!

Problems like this seem to be common in china because they copy their stuff quite unrestrictedly and to the point of making hard for people to tell the difference from the outside, albeit not from the crappy inside.

They make good chargers but end up selling fake batteries... Really SAD ending.

The store linked in the OP is a fake Liitokala store. The sad part is Aliexpress doesn’t seem to care.