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[Dueller]

Did a search on the forum but nothing came up.

Has anyone heard of or tried this system? it seems to have good reviews.

http://www.hobbycity.com/hobbycity/store/uh_viewItem.asp?idProduct=8338

Lee

[Flying Sparks]

Lee

Not heard of this one but £20 for a 4ch set including receiver it must be worth a punt. How much is shipping though?

Phil.

[Dueller]

I checked the shipping and as far as i can tell, using the most expensive registered shipping the whole lot comes to about £38 + servo's but still not bad.

[Dueller]

Oooh, just looked at the rest of the range including their own brand speed controllers.

[justboatonic]

I bought a lipo, brushless motor, esc, motor mount, watt meter and charger from HK and saved myself a fortune. Literally half price as the UK suppliers were selling each item at more than the pound equivalent price ie HK 30 dollars, UK price was £50.

Watch out for the import duty charge though. Although HK will ship with a package valuation less than the price you pay (so your import duty is less than it should be), the PO will stiff you with a handling charge plus import duty. I think I ended up paying handling and import duty of about £18 so still saved a load of cash.

You also need to watch the dollar exchange rate too!

[dodgy geezer]

If you ship in a package with its contents worth more that £18 customs charges apply on the item AND the cost of shipping.

Giant Cod do a similar product (Tx+Rx) at £25.48 + £3.39 post = £28.87 total cost. And they are in this country, so you get rapid return services....

http://www.giantcod.co.uk/parts-systems-c-40.html?page=2&sort=2a&showAll=1

[HS93 (RIP)]

have a read of there own web site and decide if you want to join the Queue of unhappy customers.


http://www.hobbyking.com/hobbyking/forum/forum_topics.asp?FID=2

Peter

[red181]

me bring one of the unhappy customers, very cheap, great website, but nil customer service, check out their own forum, full of complaints, if the product you buy is good, you have bought a bargain, but if its duff be prepared for the risk and expect to throw it away unfortunately.
Chinese customer service, and eurpopean/USA customer service are very different things

[Dueller]

Thanks,

This is the information i wanted to make an informed choice. I have checked out Giant Cod and they to look good on price as well, plus they/I have the purchase contract/ statutary rights to fall back on...

At the moment i do have to watch the pennies so making them count involves feedback from the forum

Many thanks

Lee

[dodgy geezer]

I have returned stuff to GC in the past, and found them helpful and approachable.

They do, however, try to run a tight ship and won't replace your stuff if you, say, mis-connect a battery and blow an ESC. They argue that they are cutting prices as far as they can go, and haven't got any slack to replace goods as a kindness to the customers. If anything is their fault, of course they will sort it out....

[Martin (Admin)]

I've found Giantcod to be excellent service ... but they don't answer the phone or emails.

[justboatonic]

I've found Giantcod to be excellent service ... but they don't answer the phone or emails.

And he gets all his stuff from Hong Kong!!

I contacted him about the items I eventually bought from Hobby King. After about 5 days he replied stating he was in HK buying up stuff yet his prices were more than the pound equivalent for the same item from Hobby King.

Oh and you only pay shipping costs once. not twice as appears to be suggested in a post below. You pay a PO handling charge and import charges. You only pay postage \ carriage once and that is to Hobby King.

Each to their own. I know the admin of RCM&E's Electric Fly forum heartily recommends Hobby King.