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KENSY Posted at 2017-2-16 17:30
Hello RedHotPoker,
Took your advice (glad I did) and purchased a GENUINE DJI Battery. It took some doing and here is why. I like yourself like to save money so I looked on EBAY and found a genuine P3 Battery for $38.00 but coming from china and about a month and a half before delivery. What the heck, I am protected by Ebay and Paypal and it shows "GENUINE DJI BATTERY", I made the purchase, and thought that was it. About 3 days later I get a refund to my pay pal account that the order was cancelled by seller. Checked it out and found that this seller was doing that to a lot of buyers with NO EXPLAINATION!. I am thinking this was a phishing type of scam to see if people pay with other than PAY PAL etc. So on to the next purchase. Bought a P3 also from EBAY GENUINE DJI BATTERY, paid for it and it was delivered in 3 days. cool right?, opened the package and a genuine NEW DJI battery in factory sealed box, but it's for a Phantom 2. Contacted the seller and he apologized and with in the hour refunded my full purchase including shipping and told me to keep the battery did not want it returned, even though I asked him to send me a label and would send it back, "no keep it and you have my permission to do with it as you please", and said he didn't want to waste any more of my time. Again on EBAY for $99.66 finally got the Genuine DJI P3 battery delivered and all is well, factory sealed genuine. 3 times a charm so to speak. Yes only the genuine batteries I will use. Don't know if I can post sellers name here but he is worth it. Battery works fine and had 0 times charged, I charged it to 3 bars just to try it. All cells even, very happy. I have a Yuneec Typhoon H and I bought 3 batteries (genuine) and was very happy with those sellers as well. Just wanted to pass this along. You are an asset to this Forum! Thank You!
Yes, you are wise to not buy an unknown brand of intelligent flight battery.
There are plenty of ways to save money, but unfortunately this isn't one of them.
The OEM DJI batteries are rather pricey, for good reason, there is a lot of technology packed into them.
There is no way to judge an inferior battery, Except buying it, but then if anything unfortold happens, the bad outcome is on you, so it's always been advised to use only the preferred brand, DJI.
In other RC models, it can be great to experiment and try different brands, but in the case of the intelligent flight battery, thst concept is strongly advised against, wisely suggested to avoid.
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