Recommended batteries for this Teslacom 4-cell 18650 light?

Wellp, that’s pretty much normal for any supplier in China. Their holidays are week-long, country-wide, and pretty much the whole world is supposed to know that.

They’re basically a drop-shipper, as they don’t have a FT warehouse here or there or anywhere, which is why you can get everything from plant-seeds to vape equipment to unmentionables. That’s also why there are so many issues with things being listed as “in stock” or “ready to ship” and then it takes 2wks for it to actually be shipped. What they’re told by the actual supplier is what they put in the listing. If the supplier lies or is clueless, then the info’s wrong. “It is what it is.”

My cells already shipped, I saw the pic of the actual package, etc., so they’re on the way.

Anyway, the point is, they ain’t Amazon. That’s why you can get things dirt-cheap halfway across the planet with free or at least close-to-free shipping, but you wait, and you take your chances. And I played the same game, “ETA 2 days”, then 2 days later, “ETA 4 days”, then 4 days later, “ETA 1 day”, etc., but they do eventually ship.

Btw, just because a cell clocks in at 3000mAh doesn’t mean it’s a 30Q, even if it’s in a pink wrapper. I got those cheepcheepcheep “LK”s that clocked in pretty close to that, but they ain’t high-drain.

Take close-up pix of the cells and send ’em to Barkuti. He’ll let you know if they’re legit. :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

I know, I buy lots of small stuff from China but usually I don’t mind waiting. This time I minded.

This is something else I did not know, along with the fact that they are a Hong Kong outfit.

Normally I buy from China suppliers on eBay, and if I fail to get a shipment confirmation in a day or two I cancel. This time I believed their claim that delivery should be on the 10th. Hah! My fault again for trusting what it said on my checkout page.

I ordered on September 29. You ordered after me, didn’t you? If so, I think they may have just screwed up my order. Or maybe they set is aside for a few days to punish me for creating a ticket asking them when they would ship!?

Will do, thanks Lightbringer.



Wellp, you could’ve/should’ve ordered from a domestic supplier, then, and paid extra for shipping.

That’s not intended as being snarky, just understanding/highlighting the differences between Business Here and Business There.

I got flattops and you got buttontops, 2 different types and possibly suppliers. I got the “ETA” thingy, too, for 3-4 days. Didn’t mind because I knew of the holiday and potential hangovers hangups.

No one would single out a particular package to “punish” anyone, anymore that someone at a mail hub would sit on your mail for a few days just for spite.

Hey, if I absolutely positively needed some 30Qs by the end of the week, I’d check out one of the domestic suppliers, one who guarantees next-day shipping (“order before 3pm and it goes out same-day!”), and possibly even pay for having it expedited. It’d co$t, make no mistake.

Don’t think I ever ever “needed” that, so I’m fine with ordering it at my leisure from across the planet and getting it cheap.

Worst case a nearby vape shop could supply a coupla 18650s. If you needed it, literally, same-day, that’d be an option. Expensive option possibly, but an option.

If you’ve been around here long enough, you’d see plenty of comments from people ordering from China and expecting Amazon-like service. Doesn’t happen, not at those prices. You want a-to-z, you gotta pay for it.

Their website fooled me. I thought it was a domestic company because most Chinese websites SOUND and FEEL like Chinese websites, but for some reason the fasttech.com site did not strike me as Chinese (or foreign in any other way) so I mistakenly assumed they were a US supplier. My bad.

I think I was 5 days in before I realized it’s a Hong Kong seller and the entire country was on holiday since the day before I ordered … :frowning:

Maybe a pissed off employee who got sick of reading all the “When will you ship my order?” tickets they’ve been swamped with and decided to take revenge? I know this is unlikely, but stranger things have happened.

I never even thought of this possibility. Good thinking! But now that I ordered from an eBay seller I’ll just wait. The frustration of not being able to use the light when it arrived has long gone, so it’s not as big a deal as it felt like earlier.



Battery’s.
For all my general. NOT high output torches.
I just use the old Panansonic B’s.
Good capacity not high output. reliable.
Not exxy.
I’ve used them for yrs. never had a problem.
Usually the 30q”s for everything else. Coupla LG’s.
It’s hard to get much variety here in Aust
with our pricing.
specially with our 60ish c to your $$.
Everything near twice your price for same item.

You’ll get used th the 30ish day wait after a while.

You buy. you wait, wait. Forget…
Oh shit, I’d forgotten that one.

Just put it in drawer, they’ll get there quicker.

Usually it makes me happy to order stuff on eBay because it almost always gets shipped promptly. For example, the battery order I placed yesterday morning was shipped yesterday afternoon — and the USPS delivery estimate is early-mid next week because it’s a USA seller.

:slight_smile:

Regarding my FastTech issues, today I received a response to this ticket I sent them one week ago:

As Lightbringer pointed out earlier, this company is a drop-shipper … or perhaps a retailer that forwards our orders to their suppliers and then re-ships to us when they receive the stuff we ordered. Either way, this explains why the “stock” information on their website often cannot be trusted.

No big deal if you know all this in advance, which I did not. But now that I finally have a better understanding of what’s going on at FastTech, I may order from them again some day. Nevertheless I will be sure to avoid ordering the week before, or during, one of their holidays.