Hi Dick,
I believe I have the sister ship to the one you bought and my experience has also been negative. I bought the plane from Marcelo and found out the plane was still in USA with Chip. After a fair bit of emailng with Marcelo the plane finally ended up at my house. After I unpacked it I found the right hand wing was totalled. There was no sign of damage to the box it was shipped in or any other components of the plane. Sent further emails to Marcelo who replied telling me the aircraft was fine when he left the U.S. He said if I wanted a new wing he could get me one for $700.Couldn't really argue it was buy the wing or have no aircraft at all. At this stage I still assumed Chip and CA were a team. Sent my money to Marcelo and heard nothing back for weeks not even an update. I then decided to try a different avenue and got in touch with Chip. This is the point where everything got interesting. Chip informed me that had he had my number he would have warned me from buying the plane and asked me to desrcibe the damage to the wing. Once I described the damage Chip told me that the damage was not from freight it was in actual fact a wing the had failed in flight which he and others witnessed due to poor set up. I beleive the wing failed during practice flights. This also explained why the wings didn't fit the fuz and none of the adjusters lined up. It wasn't even the wing for the plane. Didn't make much sense to me why someone would attend a WC with a No2 model that didn't even fit together.
Anyway all the pieces to the puzzle have now come together my new wing (which after I found what really happened to it I shouldn't be paying for but no refund will follow) is on the way but not finished by Chip so we will see about quality and weight. Like you Dick this has all been enough for me to not deal with CA ever again!!
I am sure alot of people have had positives with this company before and this is only my personal experience. Everyone in this game is big enough to make their own decisions.