What what WHAT????!!!
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What what WHAT????!!!
Ummm..... TeamOrion, you have GOT to be kidding. Its the EXACT SAME charger, specs and all and your making peeps pay a 100%+ price markup? Wow, talk about highway robbery here folks.
We have the well known Thunder AC6 charger for a very nice price of $55
http://www.hobbypartz.com/thac6smbachw.html
But wait, whats this? Team Orion has something that looks......very familiar
http://www.teamorion.com/Products/Ad...dvantage+IQ605
The SAME thing for $120??!!
http://www.amainhobbies.com/product_...rger-6S-5A-50W
Oh but it gets even better! After some more looking around, what do we have here??
http://www.hobbypartz.com/skychb6chdup.html
My goodness, I think someone is making a killing in China for selling "cloned" chargers to a variety of companies and then passing on some insane and plain unfair markups to consumers. Just change the color and a nice, new sh in lable and wallah, instant rip off!
Do your research folks, companies like Team Orion just love to prey on the uninformed consumer.
EDIT:
Here's an even closer look at how even the innards are exactly the same for the most part
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uF9e6xPLGyw[/youtube]
We have the well known Thunder AC6 charger for a very nice price of $55
http://www.hobbypartz.com/thac6smbachw.html
But wait, whats this? Team Orion has something that looks......very familiar
http://www.teamorion.com/Products/Ad...dvantage+IQ605
The SAME thing for $120??!!
http://www.amainhobbies.com/product_...rger-6S-5A-50W
Oh but it gets even better! After some more looking around, what do we have here??
http://www.hobbypartz.com/skychb6chdup.html
My goodness, I think someone is making a killing in China for selling "cloned" chargers to a variety of companies and then passing on some insane and plain unfair markups to consumers. Just change the color and a nice, new sh in lable and wallah, instant rip off!
Do your research folks, companies like Team Orion just love to prey on the uninformed consumer.
EDIT:
Here's an even closer look at how even the innards are exactly the same for the most part
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uF9e6xPLGyw[/youtube]