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Since it has been so quiet, I want to stir the pot and ask everyone why <br>it is that we as a group accept lots of poor quality kits and just shrug <br>it off? I spoke with 2 people this weekend who are building different <br>planes and both are unhappy with the quality of the kits. Pieces are <br>warped and twisted and tubes misaligned and we just say..."oh well, I'll <br>fix it". One guy said something to the effect that well, it was ONLY <br>$1,000.00!!!! We are way too lenient on accepting cruddy quality and <br>just fixing it. I know there are not a lot of vendors out there, but we <br>are happy to pay just $1,000 and get a twisted plane in return?? I was <br>told one popular plane that many guys now have has 5 DEGREES of down <br>thrust mistakenly molded into the fuse and everyone just says, oh well, <br>I'll fix it. Don't know about you, but $1,000 is a lot of dough to me, <br>and to happily pay for a cruddy product in return is just wrong. I <br>still remember that famous email from one mfg that basically said that <br>the person complaining about his wing was twisted should be HAPPY that <br>it was twisted because famous pilot XX flew the plane too and he won the <br>NATS with it. The problem is that we don't as a group send the junk back <br>and demand that we get our money's worth. Nobody expects a perfect kit <br>without any problems at all, but aren't we too lenient? Maybe we need <br>to just buy kits like Mike's Black Magic and then we can only blame <br>ourselves if it comes out crooked.<br>Sorry, but I really feel that we are being taken advantage of due to the <br>limited supply of planes available and we are told to take it or leave it.<br><br>Ok, I feel better now.<br><br>Chris<br><br><br /><hr />Get the power of Windows + Web with the new Windows Live. <a href='http://www.windowslive.com?ocid=TXT_TAGHM_Wave2_powerofwindows_012008' target='_new'>Get it now!</a></body>
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