Gearbest

[Dave]

Ordered some allegedly authentic SAMSUNG 18650 batteries

Came today Buzzin

Charged them up and...............

straight away "weak battery"

Back to torchy then "buy cheap - buy twice"

just sayin

Cheers Dave 

[buggritt]

I've only used FT for batteries abroad and never heard of anyone having problems with them. If I need them quickly, Torchy is a great vendor.

[Dave]

Nov 21, 2015 6:47:33 GMT buggritt said:

I've only used FT for batteries abroad and never heard of anyone having problems with them. If I need them quickly, Torchy is a great vendor.

Never bought batteries  from china before so its a lesson learned for me

3 out of 4 are showing weak battery all in different mods

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Nov 21, 2015 9:21:02 GMT Dave said:

Nov 21, 2015 6:47:33 GMT buggritt said:

I've only used FT for batteries abroad and never heard of anyone having problems with them. If I need them quickly, Torchy is a great vendor.

Never bought batteries  from china before so its a lesson learned for me

3 out of 4 are showing weak battery all in different mods

Have you gone back to them - there were a couple of questions about authenticity on the gearbest website and they reiterated they were genuine, If they are not that is disgraceful 

[dalealan]

Bought some green 25r's from them and so far so good

[Deleted]

Me too dalealan .....8 of them.

No probs with mine.......all perform as you would expect

[MrDJ]

thanks for the heads up Dave
ordered on the 10th with new mod. mod turned up on thursday but no batteries.
as far as i know they were meant to of been ordered from the uk but at checkout it changed to $ so i guess now coming from china. last check it said sweden post.
i only need 1 for my new istick60 so will go out and buy one today.

[Dave]

Nov 21, 2015 13:38:28 GMT dalealan said:

Bought some green 25r's from them and so far so good

Just got unlucky I suppose, but hey a cheap lesson learned 

[Dave]

Nov 21, 2015 13:46:36 GMT kreed said:

Me too dalealan .....8 of them.

No probs with mine.......all perform as you would expect

I expected mine to work but unfortunately not 

[Greg]

If you buy cheap fron China there's always a chance you'll receive trash, that's not to say it's always the case but there's always the chance.

[Dave]

Nov 21, 2015 15:24:51 GMT Greg said:

If you buy cheap fron China there's always a chance you'll receive trash, that's not to say it's always the case but there's always the chance.

Totally agree mate, only lost a couple of quid so I'll put it down to experience 

[Perpetua]

Nov 21, 2015 15:24:51 GMT Greg said:

If you buy cheap fron China there's always a chance you'll receive trash, that's not say it's always the case but there's always the chance.

Ditto my feelings Greg - despite knowing that not all are iffy - I prefer to pay a little extra and buy my batteries from Torchy or Ecolux.

It gives me peace of mind, which is worth that little bit extra when I'm saving so much buying overseas for other equipment.

[drunkenbum]

I've been buying my 25r's from fasttech at about 12 quid for 4. All performing well and I'm sure they are genuine

[goofy]

I got 4 of the green 25r's from GB, arrived on thursday, stuck them in the charger, all 4 needed charging but they seem ok to me, using 2 in the xcube atm

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Nov 21, 2015 15:56:07 GMT drunkenbum said:

I've been buying my 25r's from fasttech at about 12 quid for 4. All performing well and I'm sure they are genuine

Bought 8 25r's from fasttech and all performing as you would expect. Waiting on 4 from Gearbest, so will see how they perform when they turn up.