When i first came across this website,, i jumped a little inside, excited about all the people with the same interest, then I saw the classifieds and i was sold, it appeared like a more personal ebay, without all the BS. .. Needless to say, I grabbed the opportunity to try and sell / trade my Blade CX3 electric heli, simply because the heli world is not for me!. I promptly recieved a trade offer for a CEN nitro truck, I thought, sure! why not!, I knew i had no feedback on here, and this fellow had about 5 good, and 2 "ok",, So I had no problem shipping first.
We talked on the phone and worked out a deal, I would ship mine friday afternoon, send him the tracking #, then he would get the truck out saturday morning. .. Well friday came, about 8 AM, i sent out my heli, all packed up extremely well (spent about 10 bucks in bubble wrap and tape), shipped priority mail, insured, with delivery confirmation, the works ya know, like i'd expect. I quickly emailed the gentlemen and told him it was shipped gave him the info, and he assured me the truck would be out saturday...
..., Saturday came.. no email... no call.. nothing.. I assumed he was busy and gave him a day.. Sunday came and still no contact by sunday night, so I called him, he appologized he didnt get it out, explained he didnt have any money to ship the truck, but it would go out, ect ect.. He even told me "its going out later today once my sister gives me the money" ... I explained to him its SUNDAY... he was completely dumbfounded and replied it would go out first thing monday...
..Monday came.. no contact again, I called him, he explained to me he didnt make it to the post office in time, and it would go out the next day,., now this is when i started getting a bit irritated, i explained to him that this was not what we agreed on and i really didnt appreciate how he was treating me in this deal.. He didnt understand the problem and had no clue why i was upset.
Tuesday came.. I recieved a voicemail from him stating he was getting the money to ship the truck today and he would call me back with the tracking number when he shipped it later that day..
Again.. no contact after that voicemail.. I called him up,,. again,.. it wasnt shipped. I stayed calm and talked to him, played the nice guy because i really didnt want to get shafted you know...
The next day, i recieved a voicemail, stating that he has shipped my heli back to me "because he didnt want to deal with this"
...NOW.. MIND you my heli tracking # reported it being picked up at 6 AM monday morning, that means it was picked up, signed by him, scanned, etc. !!!!!!
I got over it, stopped contacting him and just waiting for my heli to get back here and hoped it was in one piece..
...When i came home from work today.. there was my package... i was disgusted, the box was torn, ripped, tape to hell... I regretfully opened it.. only to find.. NO PACKING. my heli and all its parts just thrown in this box.. both bodies to it completey smashed and useless due to the no packaging, none of the parts in bags, just thrown in the box, two of the blades on the heli broke, almost all of the screws on the heli loose, one of the LIPO packs scuffed up. ..
I havent even bothered to contact him, he acted so arrogant and cocky and clueless I would only get angry ... its just sad.
Someone like that ruins this site for me..
A trip to the hobby shop, 35 bucks and the heli is flyable again and back up for sale.. I havent even bothered leaving him feedback because i know he will just do retalliation feedback and make my first one horrible.. it just sucks man.. its really discouraging.
