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WickedFog said:
That would have been when I turned around and left. That's just dumb. You can't drive both cars at one time. Our local track is free to play, 24/7. The track before that was $4/day. I'd be leaving them a few reviews around the internet. Google maps reviews get a lot of hits.
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Yea. Next time I go for a practice day and it's the same charge of "per car" ill bring something up. Or just don't do a practice day at that track no more. Even though some of my buddies go there all the time for racing.

Kinda just like the time at the other HS when I got my HW programmer. Online from HW direct it was priced at 40 bucks but she had it set at for 70 bucks. Hopefully that extra 30 went for track and building repair/maintenance and nothing else.
 
Suburban_Hooligan said:
i would never go to that track again, that's bull💩 you can only drive 1 car at a time. you can only charge 1 maybe 2 batterys at a time. it's not like you're getting 💩 loads of extra track time having more than one car. :finger: that guy
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I'm not real surprised to hear that something in a mall location is overpriced.
It must be in a good location. Decent parking, proximity to food and other things to do... I'm sure it offers a lot.
It costs more to rent space at mall locations.
Is there something else this track offers that could justify a high price?
Charging extra for extra cars is dumb. Per driver makes sense or maybe sell a monthly pass or membership type thing.
Is the place busy/popular? Is there some 'hype' about racing here? Is it s 'big' track?
I can't see how building an overpriced track to drive customers away from the hobby shop could be a successful business plan.
Unlikely you'll see many ppl there drooling over the 5 'rich kids' cars for long too. The internet sort of locked that nonsense down. Watch racing on the internet in your pj's eating bacon in your cozy chair, right?
I feel like I'm missing parts of this story still.
The fees just sound out of line I guess.
Double charging a driver as if multi car control were a thing... I don't understand how this makes sense.
1 pit area, 1 electrical hook up for you for everything, right?
Like you don't go in and take over 1/4 or the pit area for your cars, right???
Keeping that track full of ppl 24/7 should be a BIG focus for the owners. WAY easier to sell parts to ppl who are actually breaking things. WAY easier to keep ppl coming back by keeping it fun (lots of ppl to race with) and cheap.
Maybe you can get a job there??? Maybe a 5% discount per car? 😎
EVERY rc track needs a bacon vendor! Bacon wrapped in newspaper so you can sell both at the same time!!! 🤔🤣
 
DavidB1126 said:
Yea. Next time I go for a practice day and it's the same charge of "per car" ill bring something up. Or just don't do a practice day at that track no more. Even though some of my buddies go there all the time for racing.

Kinda just like the time at the other HS when I got my HW programmer. Online from HW direct it was priced at 40 bucks but she had it set at for 70 bucks. Hopefully that extra 30 went for track and building repair/maintenance and nothing else.
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The only reason I could come up with is that the owner figures the more cars you bring, the longer you're going to be there taking up space. Space = revenue.
Still, I agree with you on the cost being per vehicle. If anything, it should be cost for time on track usage.
 
Xraycer said:
The only reason I could come up with is that the owner figures the more cars you bring, the longer you're going to be there taking up space. Space = revenue.
Still, I agree with you on the cost being per vehicle. If anything, it should be cost for time on track usage.
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Yeah, it's not like they can't monitor your on-track time with the transponders. That would be totally fair.
 
any one want to trade jobs for the next week?

my boss just walked in the door with his hair on fire, we've got an order for 30 coils but only have enough parts to make 18. i have to make the damn parts we're short on. that's going to be an all day job on the injection molder. then after they're wound, i have to finish them. a tedious time consuming job that will probably take a good 6 hours. I'm currently waiting to see if the boss wants to rush them out the door like Wednesday cause that would just be par the course around here. come to think of it i don't think we have enough hardware to assemble them...

we're out of these encapsulated coils, i have to pour the damn things. and we can't just do 5 at a time which is the norm, and doable, and easy., we have to try to do 10 at once. it's a 2 part process that involves a first pour then baking them, then letting them cool off then doing a second pour and letting them sit out over night. and apparently 5 for some unknown magical mythical reason have to be in final pour today. even though there's no order for the F'n things.
oh, and it's 55 degrees in here and the damn epoxy is the consistency of pudding. it's going to pour like 💩. which will cause the boss to becoming overly obsessed with why and how do fix it/make it not do that. which is going to involve me answering a bunch of dumbass questions iv already answered 50 times. read the damn tech sheet. best results use between 65 and 85 degrees. :rolleyes:

oh, and the encapsulated parts we don't have an order for, yeah, those take priority.

plus all the other 💩 that gets ordered. and i 💩 you not, the boss is currently on the phone calling customers asking if they're going to be ordering today or this week. like how much F'n chaos can you introduce to F'n chaos?

and it's only 9 o'clock Monday. :mad:
 
Suburban_Hooligan said:
any one want to trade jobs for the next week?

my boss just walked in the door with his hair on fire, we've got an order for 30 coils but only have enough parts to make 18. i have to make the damn parts we're short on. that's going to be an all day job on the injection molder. then after they're wound, i have to finish them. a tedious time consuming job that will probably take a good 6 hours. I'm currently waiting to see if the boss wants to rush them out the door like Wednesday cause that would just be par the course around here. come to think of it i don't think we have enough hardware to assemble them...

we're out of these encapsulated coils, i have to pour the damn things. and we can't just do 5 at a time which is the norm, and doable, and easy., we have to try to do 10 at once. it's a 2 part process that involves a first pour then baking them, then letting them cool off then doing a second pour and letting them sit out over night. and apparently 5 for some unknown magical mythical reason have to be in final pour today. even though there's no order for the F'n things.
oh, and it's 55 degrees in here and the damn epoxy is the consistency of pudding. it's going to pour like 💩. which will cause the boss to becoming overly obsessed with why and how do fix it/make it not do that. which is going to involve me answering a bunch of dumbass questions iv already answered 50 times. read the damn tech sheet. best results use between 65 and 85 degrees. :rolleyes:

oh, and the encapsulated parts we don't have an order for, yeah, those take priority.

plus all the other 💩 that gets ordered. and i 💩 you not, the boss is currently on the phone calling customers asking if they're going to be ordering today or this week. like how much F'n chaos can you introduce to F'n chaos?

and it's only 9 o'clock Monday. :mad:
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Do you remember the story about the Emporer's New Clothes? Seems to keep coming up here! 🤣
Blow your boss' mind when you show them the 'ultra light' coils you built with the wire that isn't there! 👍🤣
 
Suburban_Hooligan said:
any one want to trade jobs for the next week?

my boss just walked in the door with his hair on fire, we've got an order for 30 coils but only have enough parts to make 18. i have to make the damn parts we're short on. that's going to be an all day job on the injection molder. then after they're wound, i have to finish them. a tedious time consuming job that will probably take a good 6 hours. I'm currently waiting to see if the boss wants to rush them out the door like Wednesday cause that would just be par the course around here. come to think of it i don't think we have enough hardware to assemble them...

we're out of these encapsulated coils, i have to pour the damn things. and we can't just do 5 at a time which is the norm, and doable, and easy., we have to try to do 10 at once. it's a 2 part process that involves a first pour then baking them, then letting them cool off then doing a second pour and letting them sit out over night. and apparently 5 for some unknown magical mythical reason have to be in final pour today. even though there's no order for the F'n things.
oh, and it's 55 degrees in here and the damn epoxy is the consistency of pudding. it's going to pour like 💩. which will cause the boss to becoming overly obsessed with why and how do fix it/make it not do that. which is going to involve me answering a bunch of dumbass questions iv already answered 50 times. read the damn tech sheet. best results use between 65 and 85 degrees. :rolleyes:

oh, and the encapsulated parts we don't have an order for, yeah, those take priority.

plus all the other 💩 that gets ordered. and i 💩 you not, the boss is currently on the phone calling customers asking if they're going to be ordering today or this week. like how much F'n chaos can you introduce to F'n chaos?

and it's only 9 o'clock Monday. :mad:
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Sometimes production jobs can be ridiculously unreasonable, I feel ya.
 
ok, remembering my its to damn cold to pour our epoxy and encapsulate properly rant from this morning.
do you.
A. send a finished coil from stock the day the customer orders it. (we have 4 in stock)
or
B. wind, bake, prep, encapsulate, bake, patch, and paint a new one. and send it to them Wednesday. (maybe Thursday)
????

if you said B you are 1000% correct!
 
I was wondering the same thing. But the latest update says the Blackhawk helicopter was on a training mission, and was on a designated flight path. Sounds like it may be an air traffic control mistake.
 
DavidB1126 said:
RANT:

New jato 4x4 vxl Traxxas is 530 bucks. You can get a typhon 6s blx for the same price, performs better, faster and more durable. 🤦
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I saw one today at Atlanta Hobbies. I'd say it's better than the 223 Typhon, & agreed, the 6s Typhon would definitely be a better choice. I don't know how it compares to the 4s Corally 1/8 buggy tho.

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