I wonder if i'm going to get burnt, ordered 24 of these $35cad ea shipped to Canada, supposedly NOS.
This video says he saw similar but used cells seen for sale in thailand for $23us on "lazada"...
Feedback looks ok-ish... they are supposed to take a looooong time to get here via boat, but tracking number is moving on both parcels. Hope I don't get bent over on customs fees!
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I also just ordered from them a week ago.
I am prepared to be scammed: I ordered 4 280Ah cells at around $400 shipping included. It sounded too good to be true, and I'm pretty sure that I will be getting Grade B and/or used cells. But at that price I don't really mind.
My problem is that none of the respectable sellers are willing to ship to my region (Middle-East), as shipping prices are currently sky high, not to mention logistics problems.
The sellers that were willing to ship to me, were reluctant to ship via sea, and quoted air shipping prices even higher than the battery cost ($600 and up, just for shipping of 4 280ah cells ! )
I contacted this seller and they were very responsive. They said that they can ship by sea, but only if I'm willing to wait 3-5 months without opening a dispute.
So I agreed, payed with PayPal of course.
I begged the seller to properly box and protect these cells. They said "no worries".
To my surprise they gave a valid tracking number, which seems to progress. The strange thing is that the tracking shows its sent by air!
Is this the beginning of the scam, or was I just lucky (maybe they had a large shipment to my country and had a bit of space on the plane ? I dunno...) ?
According to the tracking, it's already in my country and has cleared customs (they promised customs would be handled by them). So if all goes well, I should receive them in a few days I guess.
Again, ordering from this seller was gamble/risk I was willing to take.
As long as I receive decent Grade B cells without damage, I will be happy.
I'll keep you updated.
For now, here is the status of the tracking:
I purposely didn't show the number or destination country for privacy reasons. But the tracking does show that the destination is to my country.