Buying from HobbkyKing UK Warehouse????

[trillian]

Like I said: buying on price!

If it wasn't for inexpensive LiPos I simply wouldn't be able to fly electric helis. Whether that's a good or bad thing I don't know.

I actually make very few purchases from Hobbyking though, so the vast majority of my heli spending is distributed among the various UK shops.

[wadders]

Buying from HobbkyKing UK Warehouse????

Nothing wrong with that at all but everyone says the same, the only reason they are prepared to take risks, tolerate long delivery and poor service is due to the fact they cheap! All I'm saying is I would personally pay a bit more and get exceptional service and after service while supporting British suppliers!

[trillian]

Nothing wrong with that at all but everyone says the same, the only reason they are prepared to take risks, tolerate long delivery and poor service is due to the fact they cheap! All I'm saying is I would personally pay a bit more and get exceptional service and after service while supporting British suppliers!

Basically the only thing I buy from HK is LiPos. If there was a comparable product for a bit more then it might be different but that's just not the case, the closest other brand in price that the big UK shops carry is usually Align and they are double the price, Thunderpower are 3 to 4 times the price! So unfortunately when it comes to LiPos 'a bit more' simply doesn't exist. There is now Haiyin brand from shops like Electriflyer so I might try those at some point but we shall see.

But for anything else I have bought stuff from almost every online shop in the UK. It would be easier to name the shops that I haven't bought from

If you'd like you can look at it this way; it is cheap LiPos from HK that make it viable for me to spend money on things like the Beam kit and spares from FL, Rave ENV parts, blades, canopies etc. etc. for those electric helis.

[Reality Bites]

I don't look at it like that. If I save 50% by buying from HK then I can afford to have a problem now and then and still come out financially up. If I buy something like a lipo and I have a problem then I can afford to just throw it away and forget about it and just buy another and I would still think it worth the hassle for what I had saved. If it happened often though I would start to question whether it was worth the hassle and the money but while it is very much the exception then I shall continue to use them.

I don't understand the mentality of this. You're not saving money as such by buying from HK, you're simply buying a cheaper product. This is no excuse for poor service nor should it be a reason for anyone to accept a poor product or even failed product.

[Guest]

The lipos are not necessarily inferior to some of the UK brands,its just you are not paying the massive markup the retailer places onto them,take Opti as just an example,remove the retail markup and you are at Turnigy prices,take the importers markup out too and ex works i doubt they are any better or cost any more.

You only have to browse HKs UK stock amd compare it to like for like or same from home grown retailers to see somebodys being shafted.

[VOLT]

some of those Inferior cheaper wasted money spent on lipos powering these flights!!!!!

some more shyte turnigy inferior rubbish packs in this flight! hahahaha huh??? hmmm luckily I dont stand on the preverbial little tea chest and shout out my "Higher Holyier than thou C spec get bent over the bar stool priced packs are better" than the cheap ones...well actually I do have some and the flights arnt any different except the packs come down cooler!hmm worth the extra 3 times more ...I think not! the 2 year warranty and the 50% crash replacement makes it worth it thats about it

[ChrisB]

Turnigy for me also,have tried several brands and none of them are worth a penny more than what the Turnigys cost.

In fact i have killed every other brand pack apart from those and Gens Ace which also seem to hold up well to my poor lipo care.

That tag line should be ......just fashion

[450man]

I don't understand the mentality of this. You're not saving money as such by buying from HK, you're simply buying a cheaper product. This is no excuse for poor service nor should it be a reason for anyone to accept a poor product or even failed product.

Does the fact that the product might not be quite as good always matter? Take lipos for example... I am still just flying circuits and I don't suppose I will ever be doing smack 3D, it just isn't my thing, so if I were to buy the cheapest lipos from my hobby store or Fast Lads then the cheapest I could get 6S 5000mah 35C is about £98 each. A similar battery from HK - £45. Now, if I were doing hard 3D or pushing my batteries then perhaps, and it is only a perhaps, the Optipower might be better. In my case I am flying quite happily on 40C lipos from HK at under half the price. Are Turnigy batteries a sub-standard product... I don't think so. Thousands use them every week. Most of my fellow club members use Turnigy and I don't see them falling out of the sky because of failed batteries.

HK has brought the cost of flying way down and I accept that to do that they sometimes have to save on materials but for many modellers, me included, we don't need the best available to fly and enjoy the hobby.

I am not directing this at anyone specific here because I see it at my club too but I do feel that there might be a degree of snobbery regarding HK. Almost everywhere I go I see and hear it. All the time I am saving as much money as I do buying HK I am proud to do so and I am not embarrased to do so.

[Reality Bites]

It's not the price of the product I'm getting at its the misguided thought that just because you bought a cheaper product from hk, you seem to accept that it's ok to have poor service and the odd throwaway because you have saved money in the long run. That to me is madness. You pay money for a service and a product and should expect to get your money's worth each and everytime!

[Gixxer]

Nothing wrong with that at all but everyone says the same, the only reason they are prepared to take risks, tolerate long delivery and poor service is due to the fact they cheap! All I'm saying is I would personally pay a bit more and get exceptional service and after service while supporting British suppliers!

I'd rather save money and support my love of Remy XO

I don't understand the mentality of this. You're not saving money as such by buying from HK, you're simply buying a cheaper product. This is no excuse for poor service nor should it be a reason for anyone to accept a poor product or even failed product.

I've spent a few grand on a few hundred items from Hobbyking and I've never received a poor product.

Almost everything we buy for our helis is probably made in China... Are Chinese products somehow better once they've been shipped to UK suppliers?

I don't understand the mentality of paying two or three times the price for a similar product, just because it's being sold by a UK shop.

[Reality Bites]

like I said, I'm not arguing that the prices are cheaper than uk suppliers, sometimes the products are better. It's still no excuse to live with poor service and accept that sometimes you will get a dodgy product which can be binned because you feel you have saved in the long run. Surely you can see thats just daft?

[Gixxer]

like I said, I'm not arguing that the prices are cheaper than uk suppliers, sometimes the products are better. It's still no excuse to live with poor service and accept that sometimes you will get a dodgy product which can be binned because you feel you have saved in the long run. Surely you can see thats just daft?

I see the customer service thing the same as if I chose to fly with a budget airline like Ryanair. I wouldn't expect a first class seat with a supermodel serving me glasses of Bollinger for a tenner. I'd expect exactly what Ryanair provide for that tenner, and what they provide is a barely acceptable service but with the same end result.

I've never had a problem with anything I've bought from HK, and I've saved a fortune compared to buying it locally... How on earth can that be construed as 'daft'?

[wadders]

Buying from HobbkyKing UK Warehouse????

like I said, I'm not arguing that the prices are cheaper than uk suppliers, sometimes the products are better. It's still no excuse to live with poor service and accept that sometimes you will get a dodgy product which can be binned because you feel you have saved in the long run. Surely you can see thats just daft?

Don't think some guys are getting the point about the crap service! Lol

[Reality Bites]

I see the customer service thing the same as if I chose to fly with a budget airline like Ryanair. I wouldn't expect a first class seat with a supermodel serving me glasses of Bollinger for a tenner. I'd expect exactly what Ryanair provide for that tenner, and what they provide is a barely acceptable service but with the same end result.

I've never had a problem with anything I've bought from HK, and I've saved a fortune compared to buying it locally... How on earth can that be construed as 'daft'?

The analogies are getting worse. Just because you fly cheaper, you'd still expect to get there? Or would you settle for the odd crash due to saving loads in the past. Getting tiring this discussion now. Some have good service, some have never had anything like service.

the fact remains, you shouldn't accept the odd dead pack for example and bin it just because you have saved in the past against uk suppliers!

[Reality Bites]

Don't think some guys are getting the point about the crap service! Lol

Tell me about t. Seems some are ok binning the odd crap product due to saving in the past.....madness!