About 30% more cost for the same cell.
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Honestly I’ll take that hit for getting cells at an ok price from a US based vendor.
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IMR has been great. I can get the 30Q for less than $4 shipped and they have been very dependable. 
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queen battery has one ridiculous house brand cell in the price list:
26800(30A) 26800!!
6800mAh
3.7V
2.70$
If it can come anywhere close to meeting specs, price to performance is wow. But I guess you’d need 4p maybe 5p for what we like to do, which would be very difficult to fit under a deck.
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A 3p would be adequate. I’m very sceptical abiut those specs. Seems to good to be true.
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More tests can be found here
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Depends on the application but for my eBike with battery in a backpack I might test this one.
20% more weight, but Cycle life is 2-3x more !
If those cells are legit and they look like they might be from the review below these are a absolute insane value! You could build a 12s 20.4ah battery @ 90amps for $130($97 in cells) that is crazy. Did they send you a custom quote?
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I think I read somewhere that you can get on their mailing list, and they periodically blast out a price sheet. You should email them, the sheet is fun to look at. 
Their house brand cells look pretty good for the money. They have a 26650 LiFePo4 that compares favorably with A123 for 1/3 the price, at least when new. that thunderheart guy did a lot of reviews, but it’s hard to do cycle tests to 1000 or 2000 cycles.
Yeah the 26800 cells look nutzo. IR looks same as 30q. I think they’ll do 20a without too much issue. 30a I’m not sure. Probably costs more to ship than 18650
Ya I ended up sending them a email. I will definitely give the cells a shot if they are 2.70 a cell.
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suck it usa
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Dude…
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I want to build a 13s2p now 
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I put 100 x 30T in my cart just to check. They have United States in the Country dropdown. Is that just a tease?
VAT?
$3.81/cell shipped
No way they’ll ship this, right?
Hmm!!
From here:
We ship worldwide
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Just over a year ago they only shipped only to the UK, a few months later they ship to Europe and now I guess its worldwide.
They are legit people
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I thought I checked shipping like a week ago. Those prices…
I found the thread on builders. Alan didn’t follow up. I’ll send them email asking about VAT.
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Yeah I can confirm It wants to let me pay for an order shipped to the USA.
This is exciting stuff. How much better are the prices than IMR? Seems good enough to wait for international shipping.
IMO not even in the same ballpark, especially if buying cells for more than 1 pack.
if VAT is removed, it’s $3.16/cell shipped for 30T. A bit more for 40T. IIRC it’s like $5/cell from any US source. IMR is $5/cell at qty:1000, plus shipping.
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I was disappointed when I found them before and it was eu only, ewwwww.
Hopefully they stick around and become the new Nkon, but not end up like nkon. I bet they are much easier to communicate with as well.
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