ORIGINAL: scale only 4 me
Funny thing is I too have shied away from HK, to many horror stories, I've been trying to use Value Hobby when ever possible,, good service, good prices,, fast low fee shipping,, no accepting payment for back ordered items.. when you factor in the shipping price differential it's very close what you end up paying
So far So good
I am currently using 2 1.6 motors from Nitroplanes in my giant scale electrics. At $47 each in December why not? I use HK controllers the 100A Sentilon and the Turningy 85 are both excellent. Yes, there are local suppliers that have good prices on some stuff. The stuff is Chinese,
nevertheless:-)
Both HK and Nitroplanes are local because they have warehouses in the US (for the batteries). But even when they came out of mainland china, the batteries necer took over 3 weeks. The fastest was one week...
All I can say is Buyer Beware applies to all your purchases, local and from abroad...
Gerry