Ebay member "hopmeup"

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Originally Posted by JThiessen

They were 49.95 for a 6.6V/4600 2S2P pack, plus only 7 bucks for shipping. Very cheap.

Ok, let me make some speculations here as to what happened. I was building/selling home made A123 packs on Ebay for awhile in the beginning. I robbed these cells from the original round of 36 volt Dewalt tool packs.

Even built and used a few myself. They performed well and sold well too since I was able to undercut most people on price. (including hopmeup)

Hopmeup had the 6.6v 4600 mah packs set at the suggested retail of $119.95 I believe it was. They were NOT moving any. I watched them for ages as long as I was selling them. That's what I do when I'm working with a product. It pays to know what the competition is doing.

Well, a LONG period of time went by. I stopped selling the custom packs when the price of the Dewalt Packs went up alot. It became hard to compete pricewise.

I would still check in on hopmeup from time to time. They began to drop their price, but they still weren't moving any product.

A couple of months ago, Lincpimp was looking for A123 packs. So I decided to sell him the packs that I had on hand. They only had a few cycles on each, but had set on the shelf for a few months. I made a deal with him and he wanted them.

Before I shipped them, I decided to check their status with a volt meter. They were Dead! 9 out of 10 cells were bad. I don't know what happened! What happened to the ever tough, never dying A123 cell?

In my Opinion, what you purchased was Hopmeup's OLD original stock that they couldn't move at $119.95 a pack. Agewise, If I were to take a guess, I would guess they are about 2 years old.