Doug, The guy from Robofest never responded to any of my emails.(I sent two)
Will -----Original Message----- From: Doug Conn <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Fri, 22 May 2009 9:33 am Subject: [TANKS] Re: WARNING - Bad eBay Battery Vendor Good to know. Thanks, Steve. Did you get ahold of Al, the battery guy from the RobotFest ? - Doug -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Steve Tyng Sent: Friday, May 22, 2009 7:43 AM To: R/C Tank Combat Subject: [TANKS] WARNING - Bad eBay Battery Vendor FYI: If your in the market for SLA's do yourself a favor and avoid purchasing them from eBay vendor Ptron2. I bought four 20AH batteries from them and had several issues: - Packaged poorly which resulted in damage to one of the batteries. - Batteries were over a year old when seller stated fresh stock, less than 30 days old. - Date codes and model numbers did not match. - Arrived in a discharged state though advertised as being fully charged before shipping. - Did not ship in "factory sealed box" as seller advertised, instead arrived shoehorned into two small USPS Priority Mail flat-rate boxes. - Unresponsive to emails and calls. Deletes emails unread. - Like pulling teeth to get a refund. I did a little research and Ptron2 does business under the following names so avoid these sellers also. - Battery Marketing Associates - EBC battery - Sunn Battery - PDC Furniture Pass the word, cross post, lets put a dent into this guys cashflow! BTW, eBay seller SLABATTERY (whom I purchased 18AH SLA's from after dealing with above) sent fresh stock with date codes as advertised. Though they were also shipped in flat-rate USPS Priority Mail boxes, they were larger boxes and the battery's were better packaged and arrived undamaged. Steve Tyng --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You are currently subscribed to the "R/C Tank Combat" group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] Visit the group at http://groups.google.com/group/rctankcombat -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
