Will you review our batteries?
I got that question from a battery shop and as usual I say yes. After some discussion about what batteries to review and sending my address, there was a couple of hours without emails.
Then I got one about how they planned to send the invoice and how to pay for the batteries. :person_facepalming:
I am fairly low on batteries to review, but that is not they way to get me to review batteries!
They tried to drop a quick on on you with a switcharoo. What happens to the batteries you’ve previously reviewed? You must have hundreds if not thousands by now?
That is hilarious.
lol!! Trying to make you pay for the batteries? Right?! You are doing them a favor.
Pretty sad..
What country were they from? I doubt if they were from USA. If they were, I will be embarrassed! 
Yes and no, they used way to much time discussing with me first for a simple bait-and-switch.
Some are given away, but I do have a large pile A few of them are cut open or used for for other tests.
Maybe they’ll give you 30% off if you post a verified purchaser five star review? 
You do not need to be embarrased It was a Chinese shop.
I would like to get batteries from some Chinese shops (there is, of course, a higher risk that they the sold batteries are not the same as the ones they send for review).
Even a 100% off would not work for me and my reviews do not go on the sellers shops (They are welcome to post links and excerpts from my review).
I was kidding – they are lucky if you review their cells when they send them for free.
BTW Thank you for all of your reviews – they are the best on the net!
Do you just write back ’ LOL’ in response to the invoice or are you more courteous than me?
Slight more courteous:
Payment?
Sorry, but no.
And I also had to do an email more explaining it a bit more detailed.
I more see it as somebody that do not know how this kind of things works. I doubt it is the owner I was writing with, more likely some sort of marketing manager and it may well be a young person on his first job.
They were Xtar people?
What kind of a company can’t afford to send $10 worth of batteries to the most well-known Li-ion battery reviewer on the internet?! I already know what the results from the test were gonna be…
Definitely not. Xtar may not send batteries for review (They have recently), they have never asked for money.
I will not say who it was, as long as there is a possible excuse that they guy I was talking with was naive.
I believe the test would have shown good batteries, as I wrote above I believe the problem is a guy not knowing how the world works (or maybe not confirming his decision with his boss).
But even if that is the case, it is a big fail. Asking people to promote their store and their product and expect people to pay for it (Reviews of good batteries is promotion when the store/etc. is mentioned, I am aware of that).
After my first few posts on BLF with some light reviews,
I was contacted by a manufacturer about reviewing their stuff.
They said they liked my style. (it’s true, I am clearly too cool fro my own good)
I said I was flattered, but I would have to publish the good along with the bad of anything I reviewed.
Asked how to go about the next step.
And… Silence.
Oh well, I (almost) have enough stuff to play with anyway.
All the Best,
Jeff
PS. I always check HKJs reviews first for battery and charger info.
Best on the Web.
Hey HKJ, do you review knives?
I have some for you to review.
You'll have to pay for them, and shipping will be astronomical because you're not in the U.S., but if you're interested, check out my signature! 
(I'm kidding by the way...
I won't even ship outside the U.S. for starters.)
Anyway, knives is something I stay far away from, a lot of them are illegal around here. If you order one on ebay you risk getting a criminal record (The custom office reports it to the police).