Do you guys know how much is the mark up in hobbies? 700%. That is because is not a need.
Well maybe is not a need for normal people, but for us sick, addicted airplane people is a need as eating and sleeping.
Most if not all ARFs are made in China. They prodeced them by the thousands, quick and with low labor wages, so of course some of them are not right.
I recently finished a P51D Mustang and the retracts did not fit at all, it was like it was from a different plane. But for us, all thumbs people, bulding from kids is not an alternative. I better learn to read and speak chinesse.