Attack me all you want but its this simple...
If someone sells something it should be everything they said it is. And that means it shouldn't be a piece of crap out of the box and parts shouldn't fail under normal use in the first hour. Beyond that ya RC stuff alway breaks and you just have to deal with it, its the way it is.
As far as all the complaints about products you see on the board about misc. products, most of those complaints have some merit but there are those that will always have something to complain about.
Many of the members here are in and out, its not a full time hobby and they don't want to spend 3 hours or more a day researching for a $30 product. So they ask a question after they spend a few minutes looking for the answer. They then get a huge amount of grief by the members that know all the answers and spend 5+ hours a day on the board. Maybee you need a pro section of the board so they don't have to be bothered by the more average folks.
Seriously not trying to be an ass but that is my point of view. Pretty sure some internet tough / cool guy will now have a smart ass comment / insult for me now. I'm sure 99% of those people wouldn't be able to look me in the eye face to face but thats the internet.
So let me see if I got all of your whining straight...
You want 100% accuracy on everything, and no blame what so ever to fall on you as the user? No wonders you got pissed when Kami hit the entitlement button.
No company can EVER guarantee 100% perfect parts, 100% of the time. That is just not possible in this thing we call the real world, maybe it happens in your dream land. Even the role model for business, Toyota, makes mistakes. Why do you think industries use ISO Certifications, Six Sigma, and other Lean process control models? It's not because the paperwork helps, it is there to track the failure rate (and define failure) and to mitigate failure to a realistic level. If you can find a way to mass produce a product with a 100% pass rate, and 0% failure rate you need to be a consultant because every major business would want to know that.
The Losi CVD issue was a machining Q&A mistake and Losi is working on making it right. Wow, imagine that a company making a honest mistake right for their customers. I'd call that customer service, not sure what you would call it though. Sure we'd all like to have it perfect out of the box, but this is life. So far all I have had fail is 1 spur, but I am not going to complain just go out and find a longer nosed pinion so I get better engagement on the spur. I know why it failed, but with your logic I should be calling Losi out and that helps no one in the long run.
As for not saying it to your face, ask anyone that knows me personally, there is no difference between the net and real life. If you're wrong and I can prove it I will call you out no matter who you are. There is a reason why I am in charge of the jobs I am at my job, and why I get sent into the field to supervise installations. Can't have a pushover letting a contractor making mistakes that will cost us big cash.
This is a hobby yes, but one I do enjoy. I research and buy what I need or design it and have it made or I will make it myself. Some of us were born with plastic sporks in our mouths and not silver spoons so we know how to be creative and find solutions to problems without having our hand held. Being creative and inventive is part of why I prefer crawling of racing. Trail and error combined with learning new things and reading up on all that is going on so that I can pull ideas for different places helps me out to build crawlers that suite me and my driving style. As it needs to work for me, I can't expect a 1 size fits all Roller to do that, now can I? That is what made crawling great a few years ago, people thought for themselves, and you know what? Most of the hand holding entitlement people ran off some great assets to this site. Not too many of them post on here anymore, and I know a lot of people like myself think long and hard before we post up. It is a sad state of affairs when a great site like this can sustain such a childish and IQ lowering thread like this. Even worse is when I read that people really do believe that they are owed something. Nothing is free, so sack up and get to building or find a hobby that doesn't require free thinking.
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