My both of my normal suppliers are out of stock when it comes to vtc5a 18650 batteries so i went with heavengifts while they are expensive I am fairly confident I would actually get vtc5a - it helped that I ordered while they were having a 30% sale which brought to price down to a more acceptable level.
Well the package arrived today and I have never been as shocked as I was when i opened this particular box
Holy shit wtf are you thinking shipping 30 little bombs like this you imbeciles - all i can say is never will I order batteries from them again, this is just dangerous, if they exploded and bought the plane down I would most likely be the caged bunny if they could id the package.
Pretty much. Editorial… I hate, not strong enough… HATE… better… Guberment regulation. They touch something, they fuck it up. Always. Uniformly. But… Then there is stupid as demonstrated here. Seemingly no cure. Kinda like Heavens Gifts just sent you the gift from hell!
They have not responded at all either publically or by email or pm- it is the weekend so I will excuse it - we will see if they say anything during the week - i suspect they won’t
I think what I find most interesting, will be whether or not they are allowed to remain a vendor at ELR.
I don’t know what kind of “set-up” (arrangements) Lars has in place with the hardware vendors… (I know he makes a little something if folks do a purchase via the “click-through” links on flavors) but, to me, if the site were mine, whatever little is made wouldn’t be worth it if HG fails to respond and rectify the current practice.
Giveaways or not, whatever little additional traffic or revenue is generated is NOT WORTH having a vendor that’s willing to put people etc at risk, over a minor extra expense of packing such things properly.
YMMV. But that’s my opinion.
Yeah, it’d pretty much have to be a “perfect storm” scenario. But given the history/reality that there’ve already been incidents documented and reported on, in just shipping li-ion batteries… You’d think every retailer would want to exercise proper handling and shipping procedures, to ensure they aren’t going to lose their ASSets (meaning their entire business)!
I guess things are not nearly “as at risk” in China, as what it is for a business in the US/Aus/UK/EU etc.
i haven’t made any comment about this yet, obviously I’m well affiliated with HG but I can’t for the life of me understand why these were taken out of the boxes and on which planet this would ever be seen as an acceptable way to ship batteries, personally I would of sent these back if it was only 2 batteries in a bag but this many is fucking unfathomable, yes…the chances of any shorting or venting are slim but being damaged in someway is not, someone needs a fucking slap is my oppinion…
I’m curious… Have they offered to replace the ones you received? (I expect that they’d want the old ones back of course) Or did they just leave it at “oops! Our bad”?
I’m envisioning a huge barrel full of batteries and a guy with a shovel scooping them out and dumping them in bags… Wonder if that’s how it went down?
