Hi,
This kind of thing stinks to high heaven. It's our collective fault, though, right? Once we ceded our entire hobby to the Chinese ARF industry, this business model came with it. 'Pay up front and cross your fingers.' What if every one of us just made a collective pact to never again pay more than a 50% deposit and even then, totally refundable if the company misses a mutually agreed-upon deadline? Let THAT be the industry standard instead of this nonsense we have now??