Blade 700 is out

[Ross Northcott]

Alees Rush £579 or blade 700x £675
What would you choose?

[Jamin_00]

Huge discount here!!!!!!!

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[debrooker]

$1000 discount shows confidence in their pricing strategy

[p4ddy]

Best thing from HH was the DX7, Blade CX2, And the AR7000/6100

[TheDarkPassenger]

$1000 discount shows confidence in their pricing strategy

These fake prices making it look like a good deal.

It's like DFS with their "sale" prices

[tomatwalden]

Blade 700 is out

Alees Rush £579 or blade 700x £675
What would you choose?

Honestly? Probably a Gaui x7 for £35 more than the 700x ....

[buzzbird]

Having seen how Twister and Blade are both made from the same eflight/Twister parts bin, I wouldn't buy any Blade bigger than a tiny co-axial. It's still a Twister in all but name.
Someone in HH's marketing is seriously deluded if they a) think a Blade 700 is even in the same league as any other 700 and b) think it's worth more than £200 for the kit - having the name "Blade" on your heli is not going to make you a chick-magnet.
I foresee a marketing exec vacancy there soon, while they get the current one back to reality.

[one life fly it]

I will keep an eye on Kings Lynn for when they discount it like the 450 3 d , now that was worth the 130 quid I paid for it.

[Gixxer]

Having seen how Twister and Blade are both made from the same eflight/Twister parts bin, I wouldn't buy any Blade bigger than a tiny co-axial. It's still a Twister in all but name.
Someone in HH's marketing is seriously deluded if they a) think a Blade 700 is even in the same league as any other 700 and b) think it's worth more than £200 for the kit - having the name "Blade" on your heli is not going to make you a chick-magnet.
I foresee a marketing exec vacancy there soon, while they get the current one back to reality.

I pretty much agree...

I know it's not a popular standpoint, but I stand by my opinion... I think the Blade helis are overpriced crap. Admittedly, the 450X was probably a fairly decent 'bang-for-buck' heli but you only have to google the model name of any of their heils and add 'problem' to the end of the search to realise how problematic they can be.

I've only had one personal experience of a blade heli. It was a 450 3d that I received as a present. A already owned an Align 450 pro and a Chinese clone 450 pro, and compared to the Align offering and even the Align clone, the Blade resembled a plastic toy that someone had built from a napkin doodle they'd retrieved from a litter bin at the Fisher Price R+D department. It was the first present I have ever respectfully declined to accept and suggested that a refund was sought.

Like I say, I know the 450 X was better than the 450 3d but there's no way on earth I would own a 700 Blade, if only for the simple reason that I'd value a couple of batteries more than I'd value the heli.

Each to their own but I personally wouldn't commit to putting electronics in this and flying it, even if it was free.

[Jamin_00]

It seems on HF the few replys I got they are happy to pay the price for it bizarrely?

Surely the best idea would have been to introduce this fairly cheap as an introduction offer like some have done for a month to get them out there then charge more as if you got some out there then your one step in front but now they are always gonna be 2 steps behind.

[tomatwalden]

Blade 700 is out

It seems on HF the few replys I got they are happy to pay the price for it bizarrely?
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It's not bizarre to the Americans. They see HH as a local firm, and Align as Chinese. It doesn't matter that most parts will be fabricated overseas. They have HH local, who provide excellent support.

To a yank, the blade is a local built machine, from a local firm with easy/good support. Align are foreign, support isn't local and it just isn't from the good old US of A.

What HH need to realise is that what works over there doesn't necessarily work elsewhere.

[rachel]

Just to throw my slant in,.....
i saw the 700 at helimasters and it's certainly not a plastic toy, very well designed , sort of a raid of other people's heli's good points , not dfc , so that's a plus ;-) and looked very tough , I liked it .

now the price ,...... Agreed its expensive , but so it the Raptor G4 , Rrp £749.99 but go to any flyin and you can't move for G4's and 720's.
i am sure at a more reasonable £599.99 say , they will sell and they looked great to me .

rachel

[Gixxer]

It's not bizarre to the Americans. They see HH as a local firm, and Align as Chinese. It doesn't matter that most parts will be fabricated overseas. They have HH local, who provide excellent support.

To a yank, the blade is a local built machine, from a local firm with easy/good support. Align are foreign, support isn't local and it just isn't from the good old US of A.

What HH need to realise is that what works over there doesn't necessarily work elsewhere.

Spot on... Just like Harleys... One of the worst bikes in the world but they're loved in America because they're 'All American' (even though 99% of it is made in China).

Very patriotic those 'merry cans.

[tomatwalden]

It seems on HF the few replys I got they are happy to pay the price for it bizarrely?

Surely the best idea would have been to introduce this fairly cheap as an introduction offer like some have done for a month to get them out there then charge more as if you got some out there then your one step in front but now they are always gonna be 2 steps behind.

Ben - if you check your thread on HF, you can see I finally managed to get something out of Blade themselves Not much, but the undertone I read is that the UK pricing isn't really supported by the US parent company. Strikes me though that if they wanted to do something about it, they could. Time will tell if they do or not ....

[Planehazza]

Alees Rush £579 or blade 700x £675
What would you choose?

Exactly. I can't honestly say I'd ever buy a Blade heli over the ALeeS.