Bye bye HobbyKing??
 

Don't know if there is already a thread about this, if so than lock this one and throw it into the ocean.

Hongkong Post bans airmailing of lipos

A friend of mine ordered a LiPo like 1.5 week back and the item was returned to sender. Bad news for all who liked Zippy/Turnigy ??

Wow,maybe it wasn't such a great time to convert my revo after all if this is really going to happen--Josh

I just got my lipos in the mail this week that I ordered about the same time. Wonder how I got so lucky? I never get lucky...

That sucks ballz.

Does mention thats HK only so far, hopefully Hobbyking & the like will have a mainland base warehouse to get around this eventually....

rest assuredly boyz, those scrupulous asians will find a way to sell us their wares

@ vader, there's a first time for everything ;)

@ neil, yeah I was hoping they will stock LiPo's roof high in the DE warehouse!

@ para, lol ... LOST voice : ''if there's a way, they will find it''

EDIT: update from the friend of mine who ordered the LiPo :

HK : ''yes, once we receive the returned package, we can cancel the order for you and issue refund.Please check your hobbyking account for updates later.''

Made an order yesterday. No suggestions of any issue

Well, this sucks. Blue Lipo anyone?

Well that sucks.

There will be a loop hole somewhere somehow.

So there's one piece of information and nothing else. I think it's a little early for hand ringing.

I was about to say the same, I can not find anything else anywhere on this subject. Made up?

Found this:

http://sc.hongkongpost.com/gb/www.ho...229b/index.htm

http://hobbyking.com/hobbyking/forum...=shipping&PN=1

FYI, they now have a UPS International shipping option. It's only good for up to 2kg, but at least it's an option now.

This might come into play as well, posted on the Hyperion website: "Recent changes in international shipping regulations limit single cells to 20Wh, and packs to 100Wh." It's supposedly for all international shipping, not just HK Post.

Basically, for international shipping a single lipo cell can only be 5400mah max capacity, and the biggest pack can be a 5S 5400mah. Anything bigger than that will need to be split into two packs (still wrapped together in same heatshrink, but as far as the circuit/wiring is concerned they are separate) that will need to use a jumper wire to combine them back into one pack when it arrives at the destination.

There is a thread about this in the "General Electric" section of the forum.

Made an order monday, guess I'll see what happens.

What is the point of this new regulation? Was there some kind of accident, or are the old people running the world just getting power hungry again?

So your saying if we order a 4s 5000 or a 5s 5000 . There should be no problem with them shipping it.

The packs you listed meet the requirement of being less than 100Wh and less than 20Wh for a single cell so they can be shipped internationally, but Hong Kong Post is saying they won't ship any lipos anymore, so you'd need to use another carrier still.

More than likely it's some gov't agency trying to protect us from ourselves because you know people in general are stupid and need big brother to think for us...

If it just applies to airmail & EMS, then it doesn't affect the regular HobbyCity shipping method at all (by boat), it will just take longer to get our batteries.

I just ordered 2 6s 5000mah batteries last week and got the EMS shipping

Am i going to end up getting screwed over because of this?

No. They are working on rerouting those packages by other means. It may take longer, but you should still get your order.

I hope so...cause if these bateries don't get to me my lst probobly wont get run at all :O

Hopfully they figure out away around this

I told everyone to rest assuredly, that things would be figured out in post #5.

Quite frankly I don't understand why there were any questions or discussions after I spoke.:intello:

HEY NOW.
What's wrong with scrupulous asians?


:rofl:

:intello::yipi:

It's those damned nitro people got together and done this!!! :whip:

Hmm, $18 for ~2lbs aint too bad, thats a pair of 4s lipos I'd say..

Eh, nitro people can't get nitro shipped unless its by expensive hazmat shipping. Thankful its not that.

Looks like they will work around the guidelines easily enough. At my company we have to ship chemicals all over the world, and there are quite a few regs how things get packaged, allowable amts and types of classifications and labelling.

I know of a particular idiot at another company who put a highly toxic chemotherapy drug (pure active ingredient, fatal in parts per billion amts) into a metal container, filled it w/ dry ice, and sealed it air tight, and left it in a shipping dept w/ a note to be sent out overseas for some reason. Basically he unwittingly built a large pipe bomb filled w/ poisonous biological agents, and he wanted to put in on a plane for a trip over the atlantic. Terrorists would be pissing in their pants to get a hold of something like this.

Fortunately it was found first by someone w/ a f'ing clue before it blew up, and somehow the guy still got his promotion that year. 0_o

Priceless!

I am not too concerned over all of this. They will find a way to keep their customers. They must make a boat load of profit from outside sells. Cutting that off is like kicking a man in the balls. They WILL find a way.

Someone from Hong Kong Post by the name of "Jason" just called.

What did he call about?.

I haven't gotten any calls yet :neutral:

Thats a joke in relation to Jason from Maxamps...

My quattro charger and lipo order was nuked after 4 days and returned to Hobbyking - They have re-shipped apparently but no tracking number now so I have limited hope.

Its been 36 days since my order was placed so Im just going to file a paypal claim on monday - if that fails I can hit up AMEX for part of it at least...

wow i'm an idiot lol

I got shipping confermation on monday or tuesday but i got 2 different emails with 2 totally different tracking numbers, neither or which works

I guess i'll just hope for the best and if it's not here by next friday(i payed for EMS) i'll hit up HK and see if anything happen to it

Wow, I'm glad I popped in on this thread as I was about to order some new zippy's :oh:

Guess I'm not ordering tonight after all. Going to wait for the dust to settle. Thanks guys.

.dk

I ordered some batts over a week ago and received today a second notice of them just shipping out. ugh!

i still havent been able to get a refund from hobby king for my $180 worth of lipos

I got 2 different shipping confermation emails with 2 different tracking numbers in them....neither of which work so far

Only $180?..the order i'm waiting for that i ordered on the 25th was $260:na:

But yea this really sucks...i was expecting my battereis by next tuesday(i got EMS) but now it looks like i'll be lucky to have tehm by the end of the month :(

Hello,

Ordered a 5S 5000 Lipo from hobbyking on the 20th, shipped on 27th and got here on June 3rd. No problems for this one.

Loa