i wont lie, i bought my friend a 4900 3s lipo for about 100 shipped.

....thats about the price i paid for my maxamps 2s...that btw SUCK. Cant get any punch outa em and run times have seemed to have fallen dramatically...went form about 20-25 mins to 10:no:

Neu have definitely come down in price, as lipo in general as a whole. I still don't understand why FP and TP packs have not followed, as they use the same enerland cells.

I like my FP packs for sure, but any further purchases will be neu.

I've seen prices on the PolyRC packs come down in price as well. A 25C, 4S, 4350mAh pack is ~$138 shipped these days. That's not far off from the Neu prices, and the PolyRC is readily available. If the Neu's sell out at the prices they're currently at, they will not backorder packs for you at those prices. I'm guessing they're replacing their entire line with their "5C charge" packs.

Enerland may be clearing out old cells, or realizing that they have stiff competition from a few of the China battery manufacturers. I just bought 8x 3s 25c 2200 poly rc packs to use on my Ebike. Gonna run a total of 12s2p, and will give a lot better performance than the 12s2p a123 M1 cells I am currently running. Size and weight will be reduced quite a bit too.

hey those nue packs look nice! what taps do those use? i have a blinky can i use that? and i think im going to get a zippy 5s and a Nue 5s and test them out! plus nue is in california isnt it? that means fast shipping for me!

The neus have kokam taps and will work with a blinky (everything works with a blinky :) )
The Neus are in CA, but they get cells/packs from China. If its not on the shelf it gets ordered and takes a few weeks to get in. None of this they tell you unless you call them tho. I bought the 4S pack mentioned above, waited a week+, then called wondering what was going on. They then told me it was coming and it would be another 2-3 weeks.
don't expect informative emails, you have to call Neu to figure out what is going on.
Conversely, the zips I ordered came from HC within 4 days via EMS, and they do have a nice ordering system, that is assuming what you want IS in stock. No one's got it all figured out yet. lol.

sweet I didn't know the blinky worked with everything! I guess I made a good choice