FireFrog said:
Unfortunately my area has no places to get batteries for me anymore
All shops tell me no
That just means you haven't tried enough places yet.
Trust me, there is always SOMEONE, SOMEWHERE willing to sell you laptop batteries (you have offered to pay for them right?). you just haven't celled enough places. Also, there are other places you haven't considered like:
Scrap yards
Computer recycling centers
Lowes
Home Depot
BAtteries plus
Computer repair stores
Radioshack
Craigslist
Freecycle
Security offices
Large officebusinesses
Ask around, ask everywhere you can and anywhere you can get them from. You need to get the word out.
First, try being nice. Call up the shop and offer to pay for it. If they refuse add their name to a spreadsheet and call up the next shop. Keep doing this until you run out of places to call.
For you next job, it's time to stop being nice...
If a shop tells you they won't sell to you. Ask them why. Because if they won't sell them to you, you have absolutely nothing to lose. Keep poking, prodding, and generally annoying them until they either tell you who they send their laptop batteries to (so you can then go to them and try to buy them) or until they ask you to leave.
Because most of the places I go to I would never go there to buy anything for any other reason, so my attitude is I might as well have a "no more mister nice guy" and come off sounding that I WILL get my hands on these batteries from either you or somebody else whether you like it or not. If they won't sell to you, it's time to get nosy and pushy, just like a salesman trying to meet a quota...
By using this method, I talked my way into getting two very large recycling centers who now sell me laptop batteries for $1.5 a pound. The only downside is I have been banished from a small computer repair store and asked never to come back. But again, I really don't care. I was never going to go to that computer repair store for any other reason other than to collect laptop batteries anyway, so to me it isn't a loss.
Also here is something else you could do...
Go onto google and leave a bad review on their business stating they are an awful company that won't sell you things. Then rant about them on social media, facebook twitter. Make sure to get the word out that they are a terrible company and nobody should do business withthem ever.
This is how I get three other computer repair shops to work with me. I left a bad review on google about them and tweeted about them on twitter and they bended to me. I now have found another source of laptop batteries who sell them to me for $1 a pound.
The most important part here is to make it VERY ABUNDANTLY CLEAR that you WILL get ahold of laptop batteries from them whether they like it or not. And if they refuse to sell them to you, tarnish their reputation as a business and they will be forced to bend to you.
Just a reminder. Your entire goal in building a powerwall is to get ahold of as many cells as possible. Only be nice to the guys who are supplying you with cells as you may be able to get better deals later on. But the guys who you have celled up that refuse to sell to you, turn into a pushy salesman to get your way.