Top Battery Co

[3930dave]

Has anybody dealt with these guys ?

Laptop Battery, Laptop Charger, Batteries & Chargers Online Shop

I never have, went to order a battery there..... their Payment information presentation and Page is odd - listing credit card options, then trying to force you to use Paypal.

They have a particular battery that I haven't found elsewhere yet, but I'm not fixated enough on that to ignore my spidey-sense.....

Rgds, D.

 

[WM75Guy]

Their fine print. I don't do business with a company that doesn't have a physical address or at least a phone number to contact them.

 

[3930dave]

Their fine print. I don't do business with a company that doesn't have a physical address or at least a phone number to contact them.
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Likewise.... plenty of super-sketchy factors on this one....

(attempting to use their payment page @ first, I kept landing on a Paypal page, in Spanish. Not a language I'm familiar with (but, would like to be.... another story altogether.....) , but it's the first time in all the decades I've been kicking that my surname may have been interpreted as a Spanish one).

Rgds, D.

 

[oosik]

I just completed my dealings with a sketchy operation. Thank God - my credit card company saved my bacon.

My suggestion - drop them like a hot potato and keep looking.

 

[3930dave]

I just completed my dealings with a sketchy operation. Thank God - my credit card company saved my bacon.

My suggestion - drop them like a hot potato and keep looking.

Yep, not going there anytime soon. I have no particular hate-on for paypal, but it has been forever since I used it, and I have no idea what their fraud handling process is today.

One of the reasons for my other recent thread is there is an American ham who did a video short of the exact battery I'm after on his HT, so I'd like to contact him to find out where he purchased.

At least snail-mail still works.

Rgds, D.

 

[Oaktree]

Their fine print. I don't do business with a company that doesn't have a physical address or at least a phone number to contact them.

Of course, that eliminates half the sellers on Ebay...

Lots of sketchy "merchants" out there, if something doesn't look right it's best to look elsewhere.

 

[Alan W.]

Ive used laptopbatteryexpress.com with good results.
Dont know if they have what your looking for.

 

[3930dave]

Ive used laptopbatteryexpress.com with good results.
Dont know if they have what your looking for.

Thanks for the suggestion, I will check.

Rgds, D.

 

[ponytug]

Thanks for the suggestion, I will check.

Rgds, D.

What is the battery that you are trying to find?

All the best, Peter

 

[3930dave]

What is the battery that you are trying to find?

All the best, Peter

Thanks for asking Peter....

Battery for YAESU SBR-15Li 3800mAh,replacement YAESU SBR-15Li Walkie Talkie Battery

(^^^ Super Sketchy Link in Question ^^^^^ >>>> Do NOT Use <<<<<<<)

Yaesu has some digital HTs, that chew through batteries, so I'm seeking to upsize from the Stock Battery. (Think cell phones, from about 15 years ago, before they shrunk the process-geometries......).

Rgds, D.

 

[ponytug]

Got it!

Have you thought of carefully cracking open the battery case that you have now and replacing the cells? It seems as if the Sbr-15 batteries with added capacity look pretty marginal. (To my decidedly amateur eyes.)

All the best, Peter

 

[jyoutz]

Yep, not going there anytime soon. I have no particular hate-on for paypal, but it has been forever since I used it, and I have no idea what their fraud handling process is today.

One of the reasons for my other recent thread is there is an American ham who did a video short of the exact battery I'm after on his HT, so I'd like to contact him to find out where he purchased.

At least snail-mail still works.

Rgds, D.

I occasionally use pay pal. Last year I bought a product online and paid with pay pal. The product turned out the be defective and I tried getting the seller to refund. After no success, I contacted pay pal and opened a case. Within one week, pay pal refunded my money.

 

[3930dave]

Got it!

Have you thought of carefully cracking open the battery case that you have now and replacing the cells? It seems as if the Sbr-15 batteries with added capacity look pretty marginal. (To my decidedly amateur eyes.)

All the best, Peter

Always an option, but not quite there yet....

HT and pack are a recent new purchase, so pack is OK (actually coming up a bit in capacity, several cycles-in). I want a second pack, ideally at higher capacity than what Yaesu offers.

The pack itself in the link I posted may actually be legit. I've seen 1 or 2 Ytube short vids from American hams.... just typical "Hey, put this on my ______ this month, much better capacity" you'd expect.... call-sign only listed, but I may track them down eventually.

I'm actually chasing a custom-built (3d printed case) option..... sent a snail-mail off this week, to see if that source will ship-to the People's Republik of Kanada..... that one is much higher capacity - what I'm after for Emcomm, and extended portable APRS use.

Rgds, D.

 

[3930dave]

I occasionally use pay pal. Last year I bought a product online and paid with pay pal. The product turned out the be defective and I tried getting the seller to refund. After no success, I contacted pay pal and opened a case. Within one week, pay pal refunded my money.

Thanks for the 411.... that's what I'd expect from Paypal, but i've no recent exposure to relate to.

Knock wood, no reason to use recourse with Ccard purchases myself, but have reasonable confidence that major cards should deal with fraudsters appropriately. A buddy got skimmed for 4 figures on a Ccard - there is a process to go through of course, but he got his money refunded in the end - after signing a legal document agreeing that CardCo could come back at him if he himself was scamming - not in his case, but I'm sure CardCos deal with plenty of people trying to run scams on their own cards....

Rgds, D.

 

[3930dave]

This made-in-America solution worked out perfectly.... and Kevin is great to deal with.

Yaesu FTxD high capacity battery-pack

Rgds, D.