I just ordered a redcat tornado bb and it has been about 11 days then I got a email today saying redcat doesnt ship to canada and this just started last week. The company who sold me the car just said it should be ariving to them tomorow or monday and they will ship it to canada them selfs. Any one else have this problem? Anyone else own a red cat in canada? Is this going to screw my chances of winning a free car from the game?

it sounds like the guy you bought it off of was having it drop shipped from redcat directly and they may not ship to canada or may charge more so he had to have redcat ship it to him then he will ship it to you.

Yeh thats what it sounds like to me too. And the way he does it is he must sell a bunch get paid then place an order with redcat. Wow nice way to do buisness never have to front the money in the first place! Nothing but profit! But I don't worry about that I like the price 125 for a rtr tornado bb! hopefully it works out.

They don't drop ship out of the US. They guy you got it from should have checked into it before selling it to you.

They do have a 100% trader rating. And he said this was an anouncement that happened this week. What does "drop ship" meen?

Drop shipping means he's not a real dealer or anything, matter of fact he's probablly never laid hands on one, other than to take it from the incoming mail to the outgoing mail to ship it out of country and then tell you this a new thing, they just stopped drop shipping out of the US. He stocks nothing and cares not about what happens after you get it as long as you get it. Redcat has never drop shipped out side the US. Drop Ship means that you pay for it and he orders it from redcat and uses your address as the ship to address. It's kind of a boggus deal and not fair to actual dealers that stock product and have over head. He has no over head no warehouse no bills no nothing and he drives the prices into the ground and *****s out products on Ebay or where ever. Hope that helps define the preverbial drop shipper. The only good thing about the drop shipping is if an ACTUAL dealer is short on a part and they have a customer that has to have it now and can't wait for a restock order an ACTUAL dealer can have it shipped immediatly to that customer. Personally I try to discourage customers from takeing a product on drop ship the end cost is higher, because the shipping from Redcat is kind of high for one or two small parts.

Wow thanks for the input I am realy interested in all of this. I am building my own buisness as we speek I do performance mods, tuning, and repairs on motorcycles. I am always building things (like a megasquirt fuel injection system for my 69 road runner) and thinking this could be marketed or maybe becoming a redcat dealer my self. Always good to learn!

I have been emailing back and fourth with my seller (which I did not rat out because It may all be speculation) He said the cars come from the us either NC or Arizona. The funniest thing is I bet he will read this post They seem to sell alot of these cars.

They come from Arizona.

So did my X wife but I don't hold that against them. Don't know exactly whats going on with canada I've shipped there 5 times last year and 2 of them took forever to get there. Like 4 weeks +

I am just used to the customs holding stuff on me Its normal for things to take 3 weeks to get here But the price is almost always worth it!

arlo...sorry to hijack the thread...but how do you like the Megasquirt system? I've been thinking about snagging one and using it for my old Ford 360

Its a relay cool system! It is definatly for someone who has the time, and mechanical aptitude to tune, but gives you the most control and versatily of preaty much all the systems out there. As for mine I built the ms2 v3 system and have programed it to run 16 injectors 8 all the time spraying on the valve (for emitions and milage) and 8 down the throught of the runners that turn on at 3000 rpm+ and high load (for power). I just last night welded my intake together and just need to weld the second set of bungs in and some finnishing touches. So I have not run it yeat, but programed it off of calculations and tested it on the kitchen table with a drill to verify it all works. Then you bring the price into effect I will have a 700 hp efi system for a hp 440 all said and done for about 1000$ cdn the megasquirt it self was 189$

just move to the united states, bam, no shipping problems

I like it here and we have paid health care! I think redcat should move to canada!