If you have been floating around of the website you will see we have a few batteries on offer.
Batteries are the heart of most solar installations and its essential that they work. But prices in the wild tend to vary to what people will pay for them and also with the higher end marketing or popularity just amounts to short stock higher prices.
What many of you will not know is that I have been internationally trading for decades, I know cultures and I'm a aerospace engineer and have 40+ years in Electronics and software. This skill set allows me to buy, barter and demand what I want, and I have high standards when it comes to investments and materials that represent me or rather any of my businesses.
It pretty easy to get cheap stuff, but it is a matter of actually getting down to a price point. if you try to go too low, you cut corners and quality drops but you have to be at the little sweet spot that gives the lowest price and everyone is happy, it s a bit communistic but I think it works.
when we started bringing in batteries, they had to be tested, and the whole chain had to be tested to ensure reliability, the problem was that we were able to bring in batteries that were a massive 70% lower cost that any one else.
You should know what that means, and if you don't, that is were you hit the "too good to be true".
One of the things that did happen was the price points became known across the whole sales company network and this thankfully drove down prices and for a good year to two we were still 50% less, the gaps is getting smaller and this only works when there are a good number of turn over. (high volume low profit).
The next big issue was that we could never hold stock.
When you have a great product they tend to sell out, so for a long time we would order stock. but that stock would sell even before it arrived in the UK.
One of the benefits was that it freed cash and lowered costs, so we had to address the short coming and do a little compromise. this let us push down the costs.
For example Frogstar 15kWh came behind us, there price point was £2500 ours has been £2200. I think the extra cost is in the sales and marketing as well as the storage, which is how they operate, but we managed to save £300 on the battery price and the delivery time is very slightly effected. - A week to 10 days.
Buying our batteries, you will always find quality hardware and configurations. if you do find a issue, you should be on us like wasps on honey.. as we will bee on the suppliers for a full explanation and you may find yourself getting some money back if not all your money back..
When you save money, you should keep in mind that you are buying the same thing as anyone else is selling - but I know ours are a little better. You are not paying less and getting less, unless you want to be less taken advantage of, we certainly do less of that..
New Suppliers.
New supply chains are difficult as a lot goes into the products that we sell. we have to buy them and then test them, which is a little more than what you think. we mystery shop, and check up, so this means that we have to invest time and money into getting the hardware and specs as well as a good supplier, it can take a lot of negotiations.
We almost abuse the hardware so that it is the same as some users to ensure that the thing will take normal use and a little more. I do this so people do not call me because there are issues. With the small margin it is not worth problems happening. So no problems for you, is no problems for me. That means we all win.
While we have a lot of contact from sellers, we actually have 3 suppliers of all our batteries.
We do take a review of what is on offer and see if any seller causes themselves to be of interest and then the quality and then demands start over. We have not had any issues from any of our batteries, and people who see the test results cant believe the data. ( lets say the results make all those videos look like children playing in rubbish)