Anker techie bargains - Amazon.co.uk

dodzy

Some nice bits at really good prices today....

linky

charlie_says

They make great stuff.

Although even though the prices are good for the powerbanks I think Amazon are taking the piss with the price it was was discounted from.

Sappy404

In my experience, a lot of their power banks wont ship to Ireland, even using Parcel Motel/Wizard.

Hococop

With the powerbank is there much risk with customs if I collect by parcel motel as they don't send to Ireland?

Sappy404

Hococop wrote: »

With the powerbank is there much risk with customs if I collect by parcel motel as they don't send to Ireland?

Customs isn't an issue unless you're importing from outside the EU. However, Anker won't ship to NI either, so PM isn't really an option.

Basq

Yeah, ran into the same issue with Powerbanks on Amazon a week before going to Glastonbury this year.

You could use something like AddressPal to get a Powerbank as they have an address in London (Herts or Slough.. or something).. but I did read on their Facebook that they refused to deliver or collect for someone who ordered a Powerbank from Amazon as it indicated something about it on the Amazon label.

I did eventually find a Powerbank which Amazon shipped (after a lot of digging) but wasn't great to be honest.. from my e-mail receipt, it was this one!

grogi

Sappy404 wrote: »

In my experience, a lot of their power banks wont ship to Ireland, even using Parcel Motel/Wizard.

It comes down to shipping LiOn batteries above certain capacity. That's what AdressPal is for

mrcheez

Looking for some cheap speakers to pair with my Amazon Echo Dot, are the speakers for £20.99 worth it?

Considering this or just splashing out for a UE Roll 2 for £80

adox

Just on a side note, Ankers customer service is second to none.

Alanstrainor

I've had the Anker bluetooth speaker in my cart for the last while. I guess its time to take the plunge.

GY A1

What's difference in
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/s/ref=is_s_ss_i_2_2?k=lightning+cable&sprefix=li
Item 10 & 11
Anker lightning cable 6.99
Anker Powerline + lightning cable 8.99
Both 6 foot

Sappy404

grogi wrote: »

It comes down to shipping LiOn batteries above certain capacity. That's what AdressPal is for

Any experience shipping batteries using these guys? As Basq said, they may refuse based on the Amazon label.

grogi

Sappy404 wrote: »

Any experience shipping batteries using these guys? As Basq said, they may refuse based on the Amazon label.

No, unfortunately no personal experience...

Fuzzy_Dunlop

Sappy404 wrote: »

Any experience shipping batteries using these guys? As Basq said, they may refuse based on the Amazon label.

Addresspal worked for me a couple of months ago. Although officially they say they won't ship batteries.

dodzy

Fuzzy_Dunlop wrote: »

Addresspal worked for me a couple of months ago. Although officially they say they won't ship batteries.

Same here. Address pal twice without issue.

Skerries

mrcheez wrote: »

Looking for some cheap speakers to pair with my Amazon Echo Dot, are the speakers for £20.99 worth it?

Considering this or just splashing out for a UE Roll 2 for £80

gets great reviews for the price

Hmm_Messiah

Basq wrote: »

I did eventually find a Powerbank which Amazon shipped (after a lot of digging) but wasn't great to be honest.. from my e-mail receipt, it was this one!

I don't want to go off thread but I got this one on banggood. Have bought a few more since for others - if you can wait worked out around 12 Euro

it is listed on their site as
Original XIAOMI 5.1V 2.1A 10000mAh Power Bank For Smartphone

1 x Original XIAOMI 5.1V 2.1A 10000mAh Power Bank For Smartphone (SKU236908) €10.65

Basq

Hmm_Messiah wrote: »

I don't want to go off thread but I got this one on banggood. Have bought a few more since for others - if you can wait worked out around 12 Euro

it is listed on their site as
Original XIAOMI 5.1V 2.1A 10000mAh Power Bank For Smartphone

1 x Original XIAOMI 5.1V 2.1A 10000mAh Power Bank For Smartphone (SKU236908) €10.65

Yeah, cheers, but as I mentioned.. it was a week before I was going to Glastonbury so really couldn't wait.

robnet77

Hmm_Messiah wrote: »

I don't want to go off thread but I got this one on banggood. Have bought a few more since for others - if you can wait worked out around 12 Euro

it is listed on their site as
Original XIAOMI 5.1V 2.1A 10000mAh Power Bank For Smartphone

1 x Original XIAOMI 5.1V 2.1A 10000mAh Power Bank For Smartphone (SKU236908) €10.65

Some time ago I wanted to buy a power bank from one of those Chinese shops... eventually I didn't, as I wasn't convinced the advertised power was true.

I think it was Aliexpress or Dhgate, anyway a power bank being described as 20.000 mAh seemed to be 10.000 mAh in reality, based on the product weight (I compared it to Ankers, which are usually the lightest ones, and it was much lighter than the Anker, meaning probably the battery was smaller than claimed), notes in the reviews and the claimed number of charges for a particular phone (e.g. "it will charge your iPhone 6 four times").

Always do your homework before buying.

This Xiaomi on banggood claims "up to 93% conversion rate" but then says "minimum 6.250mAh actual output capacity", so I'm puzzled as to why it's not closer to the advertised 10.000mAh figure.

Also, my next power bank will likely be Qualcomm compatible (not sure if the Xiaomi is, it claims to be intelligent and to have a good output, but it's not the same as far as I know), as they're much faster to recharge your device: my old juice pack is rather slow and new phones come with large batteries which take a while to charge fully.

mrcheez

Skerries wrote: »

gets great reviews for the price

Yeah might go for it and then get a UE or JBL in the Black Friday sales

brianorourke

GY A1 wrote: »

What's difference in
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/s/ref=is_s_ss_i_2_2?k=lightning+cable&sprefix=li
Item 10 & 11
Anker lightning cable 6.99
Anker Powerline + lightning cable 8.99
Both 6 foot

The powerline+ is a pretty strong cable, great tough quality. I got 3 a few months ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSb6D4F1PIs

A pouch comes with the 6ft cables and theres velcro straps for the 10ft.

banchang

Seems to be a new thing with Amazon not shipping batteries

I've got 1000mAh shipped by them in the past (EasyAcc - excellent quality)

huddlejonny

robnet77 wrote: »

Some time ago I wanted to buy a power bank from one of those Chinese shops... eventually I didn't, as I wasn't convinced the advertised power was true.

I think it was Aliexpress or Dhgate, anyway a power bank being described as 20.000 mAh seemed to be 10.000 mAh in reality, based on the product weight (I compared it to Ankers, which are usually the lightest ones, and it was much lighter than the Anker, meaning probably the battery was smaller than claimed), notes in the reviews and the claimed number of charges for a particular phone (e.g. "it will charge your iPhone 6 four times").

Always do your homework before buying.

This Xiaomi on banggood claims "up to 93% conversion rate" but then says "minimum 6.250mAh actual output capacity", so I'm puzzled as to why it's not closer to the advertised 10.000mAh figure.

Also, my next power bank will likely be Qualcomm compatible (not sure if the Xiaomi is, it claims to be intelligent and to have a good output, but it's not the same as far as I know), as they're much faster to recharge your device: my old juice pack is rather slow and new phones come with large batteries which take a while to charge fully.

I bought an Anker Qualcomm 20100 mah recently from Amazon UK via Addresspal - excellent company to deal with and true to word I was able to charge numerous phones & tablets over a 3 day period without recharging the battery.

The cheap unbranded chinese knock offs are nowhere near the decent build or inner chip quality on offer from the top brands like Anker. Some of these chinese versions are offering upto 50000mah - which if true would be a seriously heavy powerbank. The 20100mah that I have is quite heavy as it is but one of the best bits of kit if you are away from electricity for any length of time.

tallaghtfornia

adox wrote: »

Just on a side note, Ankers customer service is second to none.

I second that - even for the smallest of items..

Hococop

I see one of the power banks can deliver to Ireland so might take a punt on it

Edit added it but now it says it can't deliver

What way does address pal work?

FanadMan

Why is it this happens the week I have no money

dawidnowak2005

I just yesterday recived anker battery from Amazon , used adresspal no issues at all, adrespal is like parcel motel just from post i.e.:-)

Hococop

dawidnowak2005 wrote: »

I just yesterday recived anker battery from Amazon , used adresspal no issues at all, adrespal is like parcel motel just from post i.e.:-)

Perfect just registered, I'll chance the power bank, also just wondering I'm ordering something form another seller on amazon, I'll buy together, will they be packaged together or separate just need to know will I need to add more money to the account

Edit I see I pay at the office

Slunk

How did yius enter your addresspal address. Amazon is telling me to enter the correct street name, correct city and correct postcode

jakdublin

robnet77 wrote: »

Some time ago I wanted to buy a power bank from one of those Chinese shops... eventually I didn't, as I wasn't convinced the advertised power was true.

I think it was Aliexpress or Dhgate, anyway a power bank being described as 20.000 mAh seemed to be 10.000 mAh in reality, based on the product weight (I compared it to Ankers, which are usually the lightest ones, and it was much lighter than the Anker, meaning probably the battery was smaller than claimed), notes in the reviews and the claimed number of charges for a particular phone (e.g. "it will charge your iPhone 6 four times").

Always do your homework before buying.

This Xiaomi on banggood claims "up to 93% conversion rate" but then says "minimum 6.250mAh actual output capacity", so I'm puzzled as to why it's not closer to the advertised 10.000mAh figure.

Also, my next power bank will likely be Qualcomm compatible (not sure if the Xiaomi is, it claims to be intelligent and to have a good output, but it's not the same as far as I know), as they're much faster to recharge your device: my old juice pack is rather slow and new phones come with large batteries which take a while to charge fully.

I have Xiaomi 10,000 and 20,000 power banks and highly recommend them. I have other Xiaomi products and while not that we'll known outside Asia yet, they're a very reputable company.

RDM_83 again

It seems to be a real pain on Amazon recently about this, tried to order I think 4,000ma battery packs recently and they wouldn't ship to NI. Some phones have that capacity so the safety thing doesn't make much sense.

dodzy

RDM_83 again wrote: »

It seems to be a real pain on Amazon recently about this, tried to order I think 4,000ma battery packs recently and they wouldn't ship to NI. Some phones have that capacity so the safety thing doesn't make much sense.

Just use Address Pal. Problem solved.

https://addresspal.anpost.ie/?gclid=COjG0s66nc8CFWau2wodsX0CNw



Syncwire have jumped on the wagon today. 25% off. Not as established or as well known as Anker but very good stuff nonetheless.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/b/ref=lp_11264079031_gbps_img_s-3_8647_19b69628?rh=i%3Aelectronics%2Cn%3A11264079031%2Cn%3A11264079031&ie=UTF8&smid=A2DGIQMFD2NGBK&node=11264079031

grogi

RDM_83 again wrote: »

It seems to be a real pain on Amazon recently about this, tried to order I think 4,000ma battery packs recently and they wouldn't ship to NI. Some phones have that capacity so the safety thing doesn't make much sense.

Majority of couriers have clauses that they don't ship stand-alone batteries. Address Pal has the same...

dodzy

grogi wrote: »

Majority of couriers have clauses that they don't ship stand-alone batteries. Address Pal has the same...

Twice here, no issues. And another poster above confirmed same.

grogi

dodzy wrote: »

Twice here, no issues. And another poster above confirmed same.

I am not saying they don't ship it. They say they don't allow it to be shipped. That's a small difference.

Slunk

Slunk wrote: »

How did yius enter your addresspal address. Amazon is telling me to enter the correct street name, correct city and correct postcode

For some reason the address wouldn't enter on mobile. All sorted now. How long does it usually take to get from address pal to local PO? I need the item by next Wednesday

mel123

I was going to order this via DPD, but it wont let me just order one, if i order two it will deliver. I cant figure out why, can anyone else?

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00P8SY7HQ/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A2PGPJL0BBLHLX

Actually no, it wont even let me buy two for delivery there. I will try addresspal

RDM_83 again

dodzy wrote: »

Just use Address Pal. Problem solved.

Ah I gathered it in the thread, thing is actually in NI for a brief spell so there would be an irony in paying to use a service that sends to a ROI when in the UK itself.

My main complaint is that it doesn't seem like its an issue that is in anyway created by logic, so much stuff they will ship has Li batteries of larger capacity than this stuff. In general I've been finding amazon is getting worse at delivering random stuff to Northern Ireland. Its a pain because if you had the option of using Royal Mail they consider NI as the same cost as the rest of the UK.
TLDR: Pissed of it seems to be easier to order from China than from one part of the UK to another.

Newtown90

Collected my Anker speaker today! Great bang for my buck! Much better than any of the cheap ones I've had so far.

MMiskella

Ordered a PowerCore+ 26800 Premium through addresspal on Monday (when it was £38.24, Thanks) and it was available for pickup today. No issues.

First time using addresspal as I've been using parcel motel for such a long time without issue. Parcel motel has some stiff competition I think.

bk

MMiskella wrote: »

First time using addresspal as I've been using parcel motel for such a long time without issue. Parcel motel has some stiff competition I think.

Not really, you have been lucky, but in my experience Address Pal is a disaster in comparison.

- No tracking, so if something goes missing it just disappears into a black hole
- You only get notified of the package has arrived at the post office when the post office staff remember to scan it. I've had packages that turned out were in the post office for 3 days, they had just forgot to scan it!
- The Address Pal ID is far too long, often ends up getting cut off by label printers, thus causing delivery problems.
- Post offices have terrible opening hours for anyone wih a job, even close during lunch! ParcelMotel open 24/7
- Don't go to the post office on a Friday, you'll end up there for at least 30 minutes behind a massive queue of pensioners.

I mostly use ParcelWizard for most packages from UK, delivered right to your door and DPD are superb.

I use ParcelMotel for returns and sending packages (much cheaper then An Post).

I only use Address Pal where the above two won't work, won't deliver to Northern Ireland, etc.

blackplum123

bk wrote: »

Not really, you have been lucky, but in my experience Address Pal is a disaster in comparison.



- No tracking, so if something goes missing it just disappears into a black hole
- You only get notified of the package has arrived at the post office when the post office staff remember to scan it. I've had packages that turned out were in the post office for 3 days, they had just forgot to scan it!
- The Address Pal ID is far too long, often ends up getting cut off by label printers, thus causing delivery problems.
- Post offices have terrible opening hours for anyone wih a job, even close during lunch! ParcelMotel open 24/7
- Don't go to the post office on a Friday, you'll end up there for at least 30 minutes behind a massive queue of pensioners.

I mostly use ParcelWizard for most packages from UK, delivered right to your door and DPD are superb.

I use ParcelMotel for returns and sending packages (much cheaper then An Post).

I only use Address Pal where the above two won't work, won't deliver to Northern Ireland, etc.

I agree completely. I use addresspal as a last resort as you don't know where your item is from the time they receive it , to the time they have it at the local post office. If they could improve on tracking , it would improve the service big Time.....
An example of great service.... I had an item dispatched from Amazon.co.uk to parcel motel , Antrim on a Thursday evening. it arrived in Antrim at 2pm next day and was in my parcel motel box, Clontarf , Dublin at 10.30. pm that night....
I was very impressed

Reati

banchang wrote: »

Seems to be a new thing with Amazon not shipping batteries

They stopped a good while back. Some 3rd party reseller still will ship it but Amazon got themselves in trouble over it.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2016/09/23/amazon-fined-65000-for-attempting-to-deliver-hazardous-goods-by/

It's really stupid though. If you buy a device which comes with the battery in the package they will send it but try ship a spare battery they won't.

Slunk

Got my power bank via address pal this morning. Order last Tuesday I think. Delivered to AP Thursday and my local PO this morning. There's a hugr sticker on the pack saying contains lithium ion batteries but still got it. Maybe they didn't send by air over the weekend?

Hococop

Slunk wrote: »

Got my power bank via address pal this morning. Order last Tuesday I think. Delivered to AP Thursday and my local PO this morning. There's a hugr sticker on the pack saying contains lithium ion batteries but still got it. Maybe they didn't send by air over the weekend?

You get a message or you just checked in the post office?

og2k7

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B016KEO7M6/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Shipping is from the US - but the price is 11.99GBP, so seems like a good deal especially for sports bluetooth headphones

sweetie

og2k7 wrote: »

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B016KEO7M6/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Shipping is from the US - but the price is 11.99GBP, so seems like a good deal especially for sports bluetooth headphones

US seller has two ratings; one of them terrible. I'd pay the extra £5 and get them direct from amazon.

Slunk

Hococop wrote: »

You get a message or you just checked in the post office?

Got an email to say it was at the PO

AmberGold

Ordered a few Anker bits, mains apple chargers, cables etc. Quality kit for certain.

Hococop

Yep got my message for address pal, yeah I see the massive warning on the front of the package of the lithium ion for the power bank, also got a few bits off anker yesterday, love their stuff and I'm sure they love my money ha

bk

I assume Address Pal are shipping it across by ferry, which I don't think has an issue with Lithium Batteries. Amazon got in trouble for shipping batteries by airplane.

http://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-policy/2016/09/amazon-fined-shipping-dangerous-goods-by-air-caa/