ORIGINAL: captinjohn
Man am I glad...no more T Hobbies adds showing up on my computer any more. No more of the junk fuel line they sell either. The plan they have is max out on profit...period! I have found any good Local Hobby Shop Worth its salt (and some that are not local) will order the same items for you and match & even beat T.H. prices. Must be they have a lot of adds to get rid of...if you order a little part...it comes in a box big enough to ship 2 engines. Nuff said I guess, the mods may end my welcome forever. so I will not harp any more. Honest! Capt,n
Profit?
i won't defend Tower, but through club member discounts i did get the DLE 30 for less than 240 bucks plus free shipping.
personally i don't think there is any real honesty in their "2 year warranty" as they will first try to find something wrong to say it was the users fault, so there is really no warranty at all.
if it weren't for my knowledge of engines and how to rework and repair them, i'd be flying electric................no wait, rubber powered is more like it
now one thing Tower does do though that i haven't had happen is to replace an item when the value is 35 bucks or less without making you return the defective item first, or same goes for when they screwup and send the wrong item.
only problem i had recently though was a rusted looking screw on the carb of the DLE in which they wanted me to send the engine back foir replacement............at the time they were out of stock, so downtime on my build forced me to buy another carb............that one incident left a bitter taste in my mouth.
straight up prices though are fair, but only when buying enough to take advantage of the discount codes.
otherwise, the LHS matches them all day long.