Is this site a scam?
06-23-2010, 02:00 PM
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Is this site a scam?
Is it me or is this site dodge as it seems to be too good to be true http://www.remote-island.co.uk/Categ..._Boats_uk.html
06-23-2010, 02:15 PM
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RE: Is this site a scam?
I know the aircraft carrier and the jap battleship goes for about the same price on ebay. these are cheaply made. other then that i don't know. 
06-24-2010, 06:41 AM
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RE: Is this site a scam?
Never heard of them before. They do seem to specialise in cheap RTR sold at around the prices you would have found from other retailers. They know very little about their products, going off their product descriptions, which are simply reprints from the manufacturers with all of the usual low-end oriental howlers. Check out the Yamato. I always thought that the superstructure was the other way round, and I never knew that it carried a Russian helicopter.
If legit, they are just box shifters. There is a postal address (in Sunderland) on the website, a check with google earth might show whether its a warehouse, a lock-up garage or a vacant lot. A couple of years ago there was a "trader" who didn't, who moved about a bit in the south east, claiming a huge stock, and showing, as his "warehouse" an old rural telephone exchange building with a sign on. From personal experience, I know that to fill that type of building floor to ceiling, wall to wall, would take one long wheelbase transit van. This website style looks familiar, and the address is about 250 miles up the A1.
If you ask again on modelboatmayhem, there are several members local to Sunderland, who might be able to eyeball them for you.
