It depends on your aircraft, foamies and electric toys
are ok for cheap.
Had a guy in the club paying $400 for electric motors and burnt 2 of them up, bent the shaft in another, he is using 10 cell packs in the aircraft (2mtr pattern), got him to replace the motors with $30 motors from Hobbycity and has not had a fault with them in over 200 flights, he flys pattern and is good at it and he uses batteries from the same place.
Cheers