Just got a warning about this from Amazon via email earlier today. I know these are often recommended in synth circles to people looking for power supply options for portable setups. I thought I would share it here for anyone who might not have gotten the recall info.
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Same. I just submitted my claim.
I know they say not to dispose of it until I get confirmation of the replacement, but I’m not fond of keeping it in the home.
I also need to see the proper way to dispose of them.
We keep seeing battery fires in NYC, so it’s a bit unnerving.
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thanks for the heads up!
It’s bit crazy finding a place to dispose of these properly. Hopefully others find it easier where they live.
For NYC: Special Waste Disposal · NYC311
check near your local inner city neighborhood, should be a facility near by
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If there’s a Staples store near you, I believe you can recycle it there
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DAMN!
After uploading the invoice and a picture you have to enter your address etc. BUT you can only choose between USA, Canada or Mexico as your home country.
WTF???
I have one of these, but I don’t think there is a recall form for Europe yet. Have not been able to contact support.
Saved by the airlines’ restrictions on battery power. I bought one that was only 20000mAh.
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Yep… mine falls under the recall. About 3 years old, but the screen was uselessly hard to read and it does spin when placed on a table, meaning some swelling. Hopefully Baseus get the rest of the world situation sorted with recall path, as otherwise one might suspect these were designed to explode in America only. 
Serious question… which airlines was this?
I was trying to find info on international flying and I’m likely not looking in the right place?
Domestic US, this is still allowed and I brought mine with a couple years ago, but I know things are always changing.
Here is a recent article. It’s a random search hit, so I would not regard it as authoritative, but it tracks with what I remember when I was purchasing, and has some helpful calculation details.
According to this article, a 30000mAh bank would fall into the category of “requires permission from the airline”, for both TSA (US) and IATA (international). I chose to buy one under the limit because I travel all over the place on a number of airlines and didn’t want to risk refusal. I have not actually taken the 20000mAh bank on a flight or trip yet. It is pretty heavy, and not something to casually toss into a carry-on. The last time I flew Lufthansa, we were told that we could neither charge nor discharge (ie use) power banks while in flight, of any size (I guess the ones inside our phones were considered all right). This is the same airline that once told me I couldn’t use my portable CD player (powered by rechargeable AAAs and using headphones, of course) in flight.
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Thank you for that. In digging around I did see that South Korea instituted a similar rule of not using or charging the battery in-flight after a recent onboard fire.
There have been so many apartment fires that it does worry me. Mostly, its been fires from electric bikes and their faulty batteries, but these types of rechargeable batteries have been issues too.
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Hrm, I’ve got their charger because it was reasonably priced. Guess this can be why…