Found Real Sony VTC5 Retailer

[millsy102]

Hi there,
(firstly if this is not the right section my apologies)

I managed to get some VTC5's of ebay the other day there,
I tried to cancel after well people saying fake, fake, fake but the seller ignored me and sent me them out anyway
It came by a shock to me to find out after lots of research to spot a between a fake and a genuine that they are actually genuine.
everything looks right about them. 
the right QR codes. the right shade of Numbers the right to and bottoms the glue line is Straights the top and bottom button is perfect.
After me spending quite some time checking out every little detail that shows you real vs fake and it points towards it being Authentic every time.
Not failed a part of spotting a fake so ive gave up and came to the conclusion there Authentic

Link to Ebay seller i bought them off : Here
(the pic on ebay link looks fake but as you can see by below that well you know)

(in the pictures i assure you i was using my phone camera and in reality its a much lighter shade of green but i done the best i could. the closer pictures you can see it lighter but most pics are dark green for some reason even though its the same battery)
(Also as you can see most of the pics are blurry but well i dont have the steadiest hands in the world. Sorry)











Thank Reading Looking

[VapingBad]

Sorry, they look fake to me, VTC5 have a double crimp mark around the top link.

[Roger]

Feb 4, 2015 14:35:11 GMT VapingBad said:

Sorry, they look fake to me, VTC5 have a double crimp mark around the top link.

VapingBad  Your link comes back to this thread 

[millsy102]

Mines looks like the Left looking close up

[Ripshod]

He's right - OP has been duped. Sorry, but they are fakes, for the reason stated by VapingBad.

Genuine is on the left here. 2 fine crimp lines Vs one fat one.

[VapingBad]

Feb 4, 2015 14:37:24 GMT Roger said:

Feb 4, 2015 14:35:11 GMT VapingBad said:

Sorry, they look fake to me, VTC5 have a double crimp mark around the top link.

VapingBad  Your link comes back to this thread 

Thanks, my lunch was ready and in a rush now fixed.

[VapingBad]

Feb 4, 2015 14:38:21 GMT millsy102 said:

Mines looks like the Left looking close up

The sleeve is wrong at the bottom too, but if there real ones back in circulation why haven't the wholesalers like XTar who supply a lot of e-cig stores and Torchy got them, but this one eBay seller has, the old saying if it sounds too good to be true it is.

[Ripshod]

Did you check the vendor's feedback at all? feedback.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewFeedback2&userid=super_cheap_city001&myworld=true&items=25&iid=-1&de=off&which=negative&interval=365

[-V-]

Plenty of stuff to read
feedback.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewFeedback2&userid=super_cheap_city001&iid=-1&de=off&items=25&which=negative&interval=180&_trkparms=negative_180

[millsy102]

Feb 4, 2015 15:02:43 GMT -V- said:

Plenty of stuff to read
feedback.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewFeedback2&userid=super_cheap_city001&iid=-1&de=off&items=25&which=negative&interval=180&_trkparms=negative_180

Very good read, Thanks guys. on the phone to ebay reporting the member.
also bad feedback opened case.

Getting sorted just now thanks for the help
didnt notice for all the other things they looked legit but mind you looking at the QR code there exactly the same. 

thanks community

[Get Off My Cloud]

Feb 4, 2015 14:59:13 GMT Ripshod said:

Did you check the vendor's feedback at all? feedback.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewFeedback2&userid=super_cheap_city001&myworld=true&items=25&iid=-1&de=off&which=negative&interval=365

By his replies to negative feedback comments it sounds like Cloupor needs to snatch him up for their PR department.

millsy102 it's a good thing you did some looking about and looked for visual cues but you can't really tell by visual cues alone what the battery is, the only way you're ever going to discover the true performance of the battery is to hook it up to some diagnostic equipment and even then you can't be sure if it's the legit manufacturer only that the battery you have matches the spec of the genuine article.
Battery safety is number one, the best thing you can do is buy from trusted vendors in future.
Even in those cases i still think it's a bit of a crapshoot, i personally hope in the near future a respectable legit company starts producing retail batteries for vapers so we can all easily avoid these fakes or batteries with dangerous chemistry.