Hi Trisky,
Would you please let me know the shipping cost to Turkey?
Thanks
Rusted, dented, damaged cells that are hardly cheaper taking shipping into account?
Really, people want to buy this without knowing what has happened to these in the many years it took them to get into these states just to save a few cents?
I am surprised this thread is not deleted already
Miller if you remember GearBest used to have few hundred of 30Q with bad wraps and slightly dents on body. They sold out them for about 2$ per cell and many members still using them, now I regret not ordering more then 4pcs….
Don’t remember that did they asked $16-$25 for shipping too?
Even if I would have asked what happened to them and would have objected them being sold or promoted here on BLF.
Yeah shipping is big problem now days, anything above 5$ brings the total close to some good deals for new cells…
I see old cells with rust mentioned here, I don’t care if 999 out of 1000 are good , it only takes 1 to be bad and enormous physical and material damage can be the result, BLF should not allow such thing.
20K+ members with different awareness and caution level.
OP ought to make a website with cells for sale, and there make a section for these.
For cheapest they offer:
“Belgian packet shipping cost USD 28.5
samsung 25r ：30*0.5=15USD
Total Amount(:money_mouth_face::：43.5 paypal fee(:money_mouth_face:：2
Total paypal Payment(:money_mouth_face::45.5”
that means 1.5 USD / cell
I bought on Alie better cell brand new ,undamaged with 2.11USD /cell free shipping ( LG M26) .
In my opinion no worth to take the risk buying here.
With free shipping ,maybe, but with such big shipping rate NO WAY.
Have to agree. Li-ions are not things to be taking a risk with, just to save a few $.
- OP is being up front about the various levels of blemishes and/or damage on the cells. They are also attempting to answer all the questions that arise, and are even taking out cells and measuring their voltage for people. I don’t see any attempt at deception here. Potential buyers are responsible for their own level of education. We do have the li-ion safety thread linked in your signature, right?
- OP is counting shipping separately because that’s how shipping cost actually works. There is always going to be an ideal package size/cost ratio. Some people will buy that exact amount in order to get the best deal overall. If you combine a standard shipping amount into the price of each cell, then you are rewarding those who buy in non-ideal quantities and subsidizing that by charging the difference to those who buy in the ideal quantity or close to it. That would be less than fair, don’t you think? Shipping is never free.
Dear Miller
Thanks very much for your query
The original battery can withstand a lot of harsh tests
And there is explosion-proof valve protection
If it's fragile, it can't be used in all kinds of fields
Some tiny traces, we pick them out
The reason why we don't sell, we are mainly China's lithium battery wholesalers, many traders purchase batteries sold all over the world. Genuine batteries, because of wet reasons, may be positive rust. Especially the
positive pole of Sony,lg . you can draw conclusions from your own observations.
Many battery factories in China buy these rusty batteries, even batteries that have been used, for batteries
But the number of batteries here is too small for them to ignore
They polished away the rust and made batteries pack or single 18650 pcb, button top
We can only sell it for personal use
Here millions of brand 18650 batteries are sold, and the battery of these traces is a small percentage
We use a dehumidifier to ensure a dry environment
Personally believe that in addition to the green 25R shell sag there is security risk
Everything else is safe to use
The following is the interception of Samsung 25R specification of the harsh environment test content, please check
So any cheap shipping option?
Yes, freight is a problem
Only bulk procurement, so that each battery transport costs will be reduced a lot
I'll probably sell a lot of it in China's retail market
My Taobao store didn't spend a lot of energy, so sell is terrible
Thank you very much for your understanding,
Each battery ,sale after qualified inspection
I didn't do well in the retail market
Give you a taobao link:
Here, Chinese individual users, a lot of people use the batteries used or rust, disassembled from the battery packs
But at least it's genuine, and the owner is getting a lot of praise
The LG M26 amostly out of stock in Shenzhen ,price will rise
2.11 dollars, can you send me a link?Because the market price in Shenzhen is about 10 RMB
It's incredible
I find the aliexpress link(best lg m26 seller)
It's more than usd 3/pc
hi trisky how much for these
https://item.taobao.com/item.htm?spm=a1z10.5-c.w4002-16354978309.42.17b641f3P6Cc8M&id=532004268757
the offer is no longer available , but i bought 1 month ago 6 pcs for 12.63,still on the way.
Thanks you very much, i know liitokala.we're selling their chargers
The cost price of samsung 25r&sony vtc4 exceeds the LG m26 cost price of 0.5 US dollars,even more
thanks
I guess the LG M26 is a cost effective low drain cell, much like the Samsung 26F/26H/26J. Got a 4-pack of protected 26F cells on sale for less than $9 a few days ago in AliExpress, still on sale for just a tad more (with S&H to Spain, of course).
Still undecided here, my friend said nothing yet. The quoted shipping and handling charges to some other members previously scared me somehow. If S&H is under or at ≈$1 per cell to where I live I may bite, I see FastTech only adds ≈$0.60 per cell to ship via Sweden Post to my country but of course I understand FT is FT. Maybe a dozen for us but as I said this is undecided yet. 
Cheers 
P.S.: the above links to the LG M26 cells are so freaking long that it really messes up with the way this page is shown to me in my browser. The amount of crap in the links sometimes freaks me out, nothing is required after the “.html” extension. Look: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Free-shipping-10PCS-LOT-Original-3-6V-ICR18650-M26-2600mAh-Max-10A-Discharge-battery-for-LG/32509352018.html
I’m on the fence with the shipping charges as well. Trisky, is it possible to give us an idea where the steps are in the shipping charges?
level 1 price - 1 to x cells
level 2 price - (x+1) to y cells
and so on.
You gave me a price via PM for 20 cells as I asked, thank you. I’m not sure how many cells I can add to that without bumping up to the ‘next’ shipping charge. This may help sell more cells.
M26 have 10A discharge current , 26F just 5A.