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Originally Posted by Chris56
And for the record - HK do not smuggle their goods into the UK, if they did you would only be able to buy them through the window of a blacked out car in a back alley using the code word "dead nimh geeza"!!!!. I too have an opinion on this as I am sick of being ripped off. Why pay £80 + for a 120A esc when I can get a Turnigy one from HK, from their uk warehouse with all taxes paid, that is the same quality for £30. It is sad when UK businesses struggle, but the fact is that the market is are changing. Also also, when you refer to people who don't buy from you as criminals, or refer to far-east retailers as "Charlie Chan", it kinda puts people off buying from you.
I've probably just upset every uk retailer by saying this!
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No, I disagree, you do NOT get the same quality as most of the more expensive ones, I have been involved in testing and trust me, there is a BIG difference, also, when you buy Turnigy, what you are buying is technology developed by others and paid for by them, then, hopefully, Turnigy are buying their prodcut from HobbWing etc under their spec but you are NOT getting the same 'quality' as others. This is esc (so spec of the FETS and other components), motors (gause rating of the rotor for starters, how compressed the material is on the rotor etc), batteries (density of the polymer layer, quality control etc).
What you do see now though is that the electronics you are now buying is SO GOOD that even the cheap stuff is sufficient for 95% of RC owners, whereas even 5 years ago you had no choice but to buy the good stuff to go racing.
As for buying from Hong Kong, you take your risk, I bought most of my Tamiya stuff from there in the past, paid import duty on most of it to. The main reason being that the local distributor was and still is SHIT, prohibitively over expensive and never had stock, it got better when the exchange rate dropped and Tamiya put in place a Global Pricing Policy.
And Neil Skull, most definitely the worst is being likened to Mark Christopher
