I've looked into them a lot, I was considering buying one. But I've seen the smaller scale stuff these companies build, and once you see the abuse that something this powerful and this heavy takes, you will understand that nothing except top of the line material will hold up. The problem you will have is it's going to break, and instead of going to the LHS, you will have to order parts from them, at their price, and it will be breaking a lot. I would buy a 100 T-Maxx knockoff on ebay and feel more comfortable with it than one of these knockoffs, because I've seen how different they handle and how much the large scale gets abused, simply because of the weight issue. If you roll over a T-Maxx, it usually wont hurt it unless you're going really fast or hit something. With these large scales, a simple roll over can be catastrophic because of the thirty pounds of weight and inertia.