Follow up. After two days my order is still shown as "processing" and the phone goes unanswered even during prime time. I have not left a msg, but will today. Oobvious this is not a brick and mortar lhs, but an internet store that did not have them in stock. I need to find out what kind of wait I'm looking at for them to actually get the batts.

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Its been 5 days and my order is still shown as "processing". What is even less encouraging is I called and left message in response to their recorded msg that said they would call back last Fri about 4:30pm. Today I emailed them and asked what kind of wait they thought I was looking at to get the batteries.

So far, no reply of any kind.

I went back to FP site and they do show links to places selling their batts. It must be out of date cause the wide majority of shops sites listed as hobby shops that sell their products, don't show them anywhere on their site, not any FP products at all. The few that do have FP batts never have these 1600s.

Are these that new??

Meanwhile the DS are in stock. I'm giving them another week - to get in touch, if no contact, I'll cancel the order and start looking elsewhere.

A guy on one18th just picked up some from here:

http://www.rchobbysports.com/index.p...oducts_id=2856

They may be a shop you can actually get a hold of on the phone.

skellyo - Thanks Looks like I got their last 1600 2s.

I still want a 1600 in 3S, so I'm still looking. I don't understand why TH doesn't have these?

I'm not sure why Tower doesn't have them. For a long time, they never showed the new Trakpower packs on their site either and the answer I got was that they don't carry every product from each manufacturer. I thought this was really strange since they are supposed to be the US distributor for Flightpower.

I'm going to ask them if they can get the 3S for me and point out this is potentially the best/biggest batt that you can put in some of their most popular 18th scales. I can understand not carrying everything, but at least make informed decisions on what to carry.

RCHOBBYSPORTS - much better to deal with, I've already gotten 3 emails from them, thanks for registering, order acknowledgement and an order update. I'll ask them about the 3S version.