E-Savage Rolling Chassis - worth it?

[Webbage]

I've been offered a E-Savage rolling chassis (no motors, ESC, receiver etc.) for a very good price (provided it's in good condition). You guys think it's worth grabbing even if it's missing the electrics? Am I gonna get legged up by the electrics being really expensive to buy?

 

[savon]

Well, how much is he/she asking for it

 

[h8z2luze]

you can get both motors on ebay for around 50 and the esc for about the same then whatever radio gar you ant i guess. i just got new motors for mine.

 

[Webbage]

GBP 55.00 posted to me.

UK Retail is GBP 224.00

A new ESC and motors is gonna cost me about 80.00 GBP

Oh and I'd need another 4500 mAh pack at 38.00 GBP

That's 46.00 GBP cheaper than new... Hmmmmm

 

[alpinehyperlite]

So how much is a pound in Dollars?

 

[Webbage]

It's about 1.8 USD to 1 GBP.

I deliberately priced everything in *GBP* to give you an idea what it'd cost to make one up from the parts. It's starting to look like a less-good deal to me...

 

[frickenjoey]

Right now a British Pound is about $2.08, so a good bit stronger than the dollar.

 

[alpinehyperlite]

ahh, so it would be about $100 cheaper than new.

 

[Webbage]

Aye, somewhere along those lines. It's not a whole lot when I do the math, compared to the retail price, and I really wanted a Nitro not an electric. If it'd had motors and ESC but no bats or receiver I'd have jumped on it but I'\m not so sure it's worth it now.