That is AWESOME John! I love it because Ive been a prime member since 2007. This way you can get extremely low cost to you shipping, and that translates to us prime members as well. Im also a very active reviewer there, and love how easy it is to check reviews on purchases through their platform.
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HobbiCo / Great Planes / Tower Hobbies
- Thread starter JatoTheRipper
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That is AWESOME John! I love it because Ive been a prime member since 2007. This way you can get extremely low cost to you shipping, and that translates to us prime members as well. Im also a very active reviewer there, and love how easy it is to check reviews on purchases through their platform.
I just ordered a bunch of stuff from RPPHobbys amazon store. It wasnt Prime, but it was free shipping with prime. Sure I have to wait 4 days instead of 2, but shipping was free. Sure they roll the shipping cost into the item, but I dont mind as long as its reasonable. Even when you sell through Amazon in this way as a seller you still get access to the cheaper shipping rates.
I’ll probably have it all prime. It will be through amazon fulfillment for sure. I already have my own fulfillment pretty streamlined, but a second or third warehouse location would be better.
Glad to hear it brother! Get those servos on there too heh, and some of the swag!
2mtech
RCC Addict
+1 servos & swag lol.
Going FBA is pretty nice since Amazon then handles all the shipping and customer service. You are likely to incur some loss on there though as Amazon makes it really easy for customers to screw over sellers with false return reasons or returning used items that Amazon warehouse employees don't catch. However, it's usually more than made up for by the quantity of sales the platform brings. I also highly suggest you look into brand registration on there if you want to keep it so you're the only 3P seller that can sell your stuff on there.
Ditchrat
RCC Addict
Does this suprise you?
They are cutting the fat. I would expect to see stock being run down by doing sales then more discountinued products until theu getbto their new product lineup.
At some point it will be either the ascender or the scx10ii. There is no need for competing products. In fact it is costly to file the same niche with two products. It takes twice thr marketing and inventory to start.
Now that Axial has the Losi Baja Rey and Rock Rey there's no need for the Yetis which are, by pretty much all acounts, lesser vehicles.
STANG KILLA SS
~THE SCALE SHOP~
owning a yeti, and not even owning the losi, i would still agree.
Yeti Jr. Trophy Truck and Yeti XL RTR are both gone as well
soze
I wanna be Dave
Going to be strange if all they have left is a Wraith and Bomber.
Calm yourself... :shock:
Doesn't surprise me at all, merely reporting news that is directly related to the thread title.
"thumbsup"
Ditchrat
RCC Addict
What makes you think that axial will even survive? I hate traxxas, but they are kicking axials ars all over the place. The new people buying rigs are not buying scx10II, they are buying TRX-4's. With the new sport at lower pricing, axial isn't even a consideration.
After market is booming, there isn't even a reason to buy an axial kit or rtr for parts.
The deadbolt and Honcho are an abominations, they cheapened the product without substantially decreasing the cost.
soze
I wanna be Dave
Just saying it's a pity. I wonder how much is their own doing, and how much of it was being hampered by Hobbico.
Ditchrat
RCC Addict
They did it to themselves. I like my scx10ii but it had so much potential that was just ignored.
I guess everyone will be running portals now. Cheater rigs for all.
mikemcE
I wanna be Dave
Sounds like a cop out excuse. I drove portals on my R1, I don’t have portals on my Wraith. They both need different lines, What the R1 can, the Wraith can’t and vice versa. So please explain why we have “cheater rigs for all “
Hang up and Drive
I got my SCX10.2 2 months ago, I got it instead of the trx-4 because it was 80$ less and had more aftermarket part options at the time.
We'll see. Portals are a trade off. More clearance but higher center of gravity. Our local comp series had a few running and they didnt do very well.
I'm hoping that Horizon can get Axial back on track. The price of the Deadbolt and Honcho definitely does not reflect what you get.
Why do you hate Traxxas? I may have asked you that before. If so, please forgive me. I have a horrible memory. I bet a TRX-4 would change your mind though. They have the quality that Axial has never had and still doesn't have.
There's never been an SCX10 that has felt solid. I never had the first release SCX10. I waited until the Jeep Wrangler Unlimited. That was a rubbery mess and the reason, in my opinion, that people upgraded everything on those trucks. The same can be said for the Wraith, Yeti, etc. The SCX10 II is similar. Some parts are better, but some parts IMO are worse.
The Ascender and TRX-4 are solid trucks. You feel like you're getting a high quality product and your money's worth.
Axial had the RC world by the balls when they blew us away with the original SCX10. It was awesome. But they played the game like they were the only game in town thinking no competition would come around. They got complacent, started cutting costs in the wrong areas, and the quality of their materials and their vehicles suffered greatly.
Then they delayed the release of the SCX10 II much too long. Even when that was released they delayed some of the parts, like the 2-speed kit, an unacceptably long time. And by this time competition was already on the market.
It's a good question. Axial wasn't owned by HobbiCo originally which some people forget. They operated independently, what, 4 years before HobbiCo acquired them?
Axial got complacent and now they are paying the consequences. Some of this might be due to HobbiCo's financial difficulties, but I wouldn't bet this is the main reason. When you have a high moving product you focus your resources on it. But you have to pay your vendors or they stop shipping parts. Isn't that what happened when everything Axial suddenly became a unicorn?
Axial's mismanagement 100% got themselves into this situation.
I don't think portal rigs are cheaters. You gain ground clearance, but also lose out with a higher center of gravity.
That's not the case now with the release of the TRX-4 Sport. It's $30 cheaper than the Cherokee RTR.