ORIGINAL: jollyroger One has to wonder why it is that companies such as Hyperion and Hacker charge so much for their motors if they're buying them from the same OEM manufacturer as the others
<span style="font-size: large">Quite so ...
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Perhaps the answer might be... profit, and money ...? and possibly greed ...?
Hyperion are not as expensive as as Hacker and Torque; see
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=11432098 posts 20to25
If you buy Hyperion-Z motors from Aircraft World in Japan, they are
<span style="font-size: medium">much less than half the price of the identical same-size Hacker motor ...
</span> -see
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=11465414