ORIGINAL: Jacked69
Ok, as you know just recently picked up my P-51 from being built at my hobby shop, not only did they rip me off on the fee to build it so I will be going to a new local hobby shop I found on hangar 9s site that also has a outdoor and indoor dirt track for rc cars nitro. But anyway I noticed on my p51 fuel on the left wing and a slight amount of dirt on the tires, WHICH means that plane was flown. They had no reason to start that plane, that is my job to tune it, and lets say he said he started it to tune it up, was it really needed to taxi it to get the wheels dirty??? NO...So now technically I have a USED P-51 and the top flite with a knight 100 and all of the electronics was NOT cheap, they charged me 300$ too build it and the other new hobby shop said it would of costed me 100$ and had it back the next day, well it took the other hobby shop 2 WEEKS, yes 2 weeks to build it, I think it took them MUCH less but instead he was being so kind to fly it for me without me knowing. What should I do? I am totally FUMING and need advice before I go in there. Thank you all.
What should you do? Send the hobby store that charged you only $300 to assemble, tune, trim, and test fly a Top Flite P51 Mustang a "thank you" note.
The .60~.90-size Top Flite Mustang P-51D ARF should take 18 to 25 hours minimum just for basic assembly. Add in the time it took for adjusting the control surface and throttle trims, basic radio setup and testing, basic engine break-in and setup, and any time actually spent flying the plane, and they probably collected $8 per hour for expert assembly and tuning.
You got a bargain, so show a little gratitude.