Who still ships 18650 rechargable batteries to Australia?

Batteries and Chargers Rechargeable Batteries
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IN the past 2 years I’ve bought 18650 cells from Banggood, FastTech and Gearbest.

Around June Gearbest and FastTech stopped shipping them to Australia.

I placed my last Banggood order on 18 August.

Today when I tried to reorder the identical batteries from Banggood again (Panasonic 3400Mah protected button tops) they tell me they can no longer ship to Australia.

Ouch.

I read the IATA regulations on shipping, it prohibits Lithium Metal, but not Lithium Ion batteries from what I can see. These rechargables are Lithium Ion so what is the fuss??

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They still send, but you need to pay their price: http://www.international.mtnelectronics.com/

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Or some aliexpress seller, like this one: https://www.aliexpress.com/store/product/2PCS-2016-New-Original-NCR18650B-battery-3-7V-3400mah-18650-rechargeable-lithium-battery-free-shopping/2188137_32690754402.html

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I also find difficulties buying batteries, and only find aliexpress that sell batteries with reasonable price.

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This guys in your neck of the woods.

http://stores.ebay.com.au/supersports600/\_i.html?\_nkw=blazar&submit=Search&\_sid=113870678

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i ordered 3 sets of these from banggood on the 11th,

they arrived early this week, but buying the 3 sets i got the free tracking so i dont know if that changed anything. i would say maybe try again with the order if you still need them

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Banggood is shipping to Australia (I checked just now).

I ordered 30Q Button tops about 10 days ago, they left China 6 days ago, & should be delivered in the next 2-3 days.

Btw, it could be that their shipping to Aus depends on which warehouse (or drop shipper) the particular batteries are coming from.

Best Regards,

George

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Something wierd is going on.

Banggood will ship these (8 pieces)

But not these (4 pieces)

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I checked them, & both will ship to me.

Best Regards,

George

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Hey lads!
Where you been George? You haven’t been active as much?

I just checked they should ship? But only certain shipping methods work.

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Interesting, as they only offer me 1 shipping method, with the choice of with/without tracking/registered.

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+1
Yass will be a little more expensive than the Chinese vendors but he sells top quality stuff. Any problems will be made right and you won’t have a long wait.

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Yep i just checked Gearbest to get HE2 you can only shipping using UAE registered air. $10 extra. I always try and ship with Aussie post any ways. Its funny because it will still be an Australian post delivery no matter who you ship with. So depending on what port it lands in it could still be shipped via air either way?

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Don't forget we are talking about Banggood....

Or at least, I am....

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Yea both shops work out the same price right now i think either way it doesn’t matter.

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Yeah me too UAE registered. Each battery has different shipping fee, not based on their weight. for example :
4 HE2 around $10
4 HE4 around $17

As far as I know gearbest also calculate profit from shipping fee. for example, SWM T25C discounted at $19.99 but shipping was close to $6 while other items with the same weight and same shipping method cost only around $2 or $3 shipping fee.

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Must be fairly recent, because I got 26350s from banggood last month. My favourite is still Fasttech Australian registered line shipping, Gearbest offers something similar but they ages to pack and send.

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Yep Fasttech $2 shipping is amazing it cost us like a $1 just to send a letter now! If i chose that option it usually arrives in like 10 days.

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BG have been making me sweat this out, but all good now

I placed an order for 4 NCR18650B’s (about $23.82AUD) some 10 days ago and was getting the run around but today I just got confirmation that they have been shipped out.

Hopefully they get here this year

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Might as well swim there and grab them it would be faster lol