Where to buy 18650Bs

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I am looking to buy a 4 pack of unprotected, flat top NCR18650Bs. I cannot checkout with fastech, as it is not giving me any shipping options.

Does anyone have other recommendations for a place to buy them at a good price?

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How about mnt electronics? USA based, fast shipping.

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Mtn or Illumn.com, both ships really quick. And while you’re at it, check the new gen high capacity 18650s: Sanyo GA and LG MJ1.

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yeah, for the USA? MTN elecrinics is the best game in town… i only do the china thing for big selection… MTN has a limited line of hosts and flashlights… but, the battery selection is pretty good…

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I was witnessing that same shipping restrictions problem about a month ago. They more or less sorted it out.
Yesterday, however, I put a 9V zinc-carbon battery on the cart and… :–5 the same crap as with li-ions! It jacked up the battery cost from a reasonable $1’45 to a stupidly ludicrous $5’57 amount!
Just checked it out with a pack of button cells, they’re putting any battery on the same boat. :–5
Ridiculous.

Try here: 4-pack of unprotected NCR18650Bs at GearBest

Cheers

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Anyone but gearbest! Rating: Gearbest.com [AVOID]

Transposon is in the usa, so a usa store would avoid the shipping issues.

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I bought my cells from IMR recently they have large inventory, reasonable shipping, and US based.
FWIW there was a coupon code a couple of weeks back. I’m not sure if it would still be valid.

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Why not gearbest? I recently recieved 2x4NCR18650B without any problems. Also ordered 2x4PCS few days ago and it was shipped no problem.

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See the BLF thread I linked?

[QUOTE=Rating: Gearbest.com AVOID]

  • Multiple reports of offering bribes for positive reviews
  • Negative product reviews often not published
  • On at least one occasion GearBest customer service told a user to delete a negative comment in order to receive a refund.
  • Extremely slow refunds
  • Extremely slow turnaround times to fulfill orders
  • Frequently incorrect stock status of items, often sells unavailable items and accepts payment without notifying customer
  • Frequent issues with orders
  • Extremely poor customer service
  • Many reports of much slower than average delivery and missing orders
  • Requires paying extra for tracking and order insurance, and won't offer full compensation on uninsured items
  • Problems caused by splitting orders into multiple shipments
  • Some grossly inflated lumens claims

[/QUOTE]

If a site has a BLF [AVOID] rating it's because they have absolutely earned it.

Even if you have been lucky with your GB orders, why support such a bad company? Give your money to a more honest site.

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With “more honest” you mean banggood or fasttech or wallbuys? Theey’re all the same…

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You can have your Gearbest and Wallbuys.

I'll stick to Banggood and Fasttech.

They're not all the same to me.

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Not really.

I would skip wallbuys though, they are also rated [AVOID].

You will notice I was careful to say more honest. Meaning simply more than GB. Not straight “honest”, there are very very few companies that I could say are straight honest.

~ edit ~

Damn ninja Raccoons. I’ll have to pick up some traps at fasttech. O:-)

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Bought 4 wth the deal seen here: 4-Pack 3400mAh Panasonic NCR18650B $17.60 or Less + FS

verycheap and well protectd during shipment (my protective box survived and is in use now.

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Does anyone check the seller rating? :-/

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Last 4 orders banggood was amazing for me
Orders shipped in 48hrs after ordering and i got them all in 10 days from order date

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Well I was stuck with gearbest after troubles over a $73 order.
Paypal left me hanging but gearbest resolved it. Have ordered more after that, it all came or is in transit and another issue over a $50 light was resolved fast.
So gearbest had won me over and is a place I look first with AliExpress.
I also like their involvement here on BLF and when I asked for details about a light recently via pm we had a nice conversation. On top of things they offered me a flashlight for review, Darktort not really known here so cool to be able to add to the knowledge base!

But Everbuying was good, read the thread I linked to, you get points for registering an account and subscribe to newsletter making the first order a low payment.

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Same here, ordered 2 x 4 packs about a week apart, one pack took 12 days from ordering to arrive with me here in the UK the other 10 days iirc.
Cheap, genuine cells, well packaged, fast delivery & arrived well packaged & intact (including the plastic storage box).