I'm gonna go out on a limb here. The "Big Name" companies that have been around for a while and have faithful customers and stand a chance of getting new customers, do depend on their name,quality,performance, and reliability to sell their products. And they strive on word of mouth from their happy customers and provide really good customer service which in some cases, like mine, is gotten from a distributor of that big name company. BUT (this may shock a lot of you) there are companies out there that don't care about any of that! There are companies that have a meeting and say, "The big guys are selling a lot of this type of car,truck,buggy etc... and they are selling them for $$$ much money. What can we build similar to it, how cheap can we build it, and how many can we push out for a lower dollar just to get a cut of the market"? PRICE sells everything! Some guy/gal has $150.00 to spend and to him/her that's a lot of money and he/she is going to spend it to get something. And these companies are there to take it, they are there to get the quick buck! We all think it's wrong and gives the hobby a bad name but it's legal. And why are these companies still around? Because every day there are 100's of people buying the products. It's not only R/C... It's how the business world goes round! Heck, I almost bought a clone after everything I had read on these forums and all the woe's I heard and blah blah blah. You really think Yugo wanted to build reliable cars and have great customer service? Nope, sell millions of cars under $10,000, break down, throw'em away, make tons of money, and go away!