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Well put, M
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If you do a Yahoo!/Google search of Traxxas vs. Hobbico, or Traxxas Boycotting you'll find a great deal of info on why some RC enthusiasts feel the way they do. Lots of threads on the subject.Hi there i have many traxxas cars and just wandering why do so many people hate traxxas
That’s not an RC issue thouhNow I'm scared..... I know a kid whose father ran over his son's Rustler and broke a front control arm. Replaced them with blue RPMs. Bent the camber link too.
Thank you, you just saved me a lot of typing, keep up the good vibes.?I personally love Traxxas. I use their Dual Live charger (which is awesome using the app), their lipos (have 2 2s 5800 and 2 4s 6700 ID batteries), have a Modded 2wd Stampede, a stock Unlimited Desert Racer, and picking up a 4x4 slash ultimate today. Personally, I enjoy their innovation, but that's also what is ruffling some feathers especially with enforcing MSRP and their ID connectors.
As stated before, do what you enjoy - after all you're the one enjoying it. I don't let others tell me how to think, but I may consider their opinions and experience heavily when looking into a brand or product I'm not yet familiar with. At the end of the day, it's the internet - some people are salty at everything for no good reason.
My wife and I both laugh at the videos where someone takes a new kit to the skate park on the highest cell lipo they can run it and immediately break it and bash on the brand of truck. Number one, inspect your kit before each run. It's your investment. You don't immediately build a race car and run it without some shakedown passes first ... kind of the same thing. The best people make mistakes.
Personally, I got an entire year of racing out of my first slash nearly 10 years ago and it still ran like a new one when I sold it. I replaced a bearing carrier when I clipped a corner at full speed. Outside of that, lots of shock rebuilds because I was meticulous in my suspension since it was spec racing, and about 2 or 3 replacement 12T titan motors due to a slight degradation in performance. I raced hard and on a track with big jumps and practiced with 1/8 buggies and truggies while holding my line which sometimes cost me. I never once thought my kit was junk out of the box. Same with my 2wd stampede and my new UDR. They do exceptionally well out of the box for what they are. If you want better performance you have to go to rigid CF or Metal chassis and parts which cost more money and less flex / more prone to breaking if you bash. People just look for videos to back their preconceptions, then ignore anything to the contrary. The internet is great for that.
I don't hate Traxxas, They're an innovative and supportive Co. I Like most allHi there i have many traxxas cars and just wandering why do so many people hate traxxas
I don't hate Traxxas, They're an innovative and supportive Co. I Like most all
the RC manufacturers save a few who take liberty to steal patents and violate
copyright laws. That's not playing fair. Crooks should be run out of business.
Nobody on here would like it if they spent big money on designers and
developers on a product and someone else profited from it. jmo. ?
Very good points, I agree with you 1000000%.If you are a small hobby shop traxxas dealer, you are not allowed to sell their products online through your store because they want you to order through them directly or they will pull their products entirely from your store and other "nuances" in the fine print. That's not being supportive at all to the hobby. if you are an "authorized traxxas dealer" you have to sell at least 70% of your total store's sales in traxxas products alone, and cannot sell any online, all in-store. Our local track literally had a day called "traxxas fun day." Our track is located at a drag raceway. Traxxas was at the dragstrip doing a promotion. When our track owner walked over and asked them if they were interested in coming to check out the event we were doing literally 50 feet away, they wouldn't even talk to him. They also are the only company our track owner has reached out to numerous times for event sponsorship that would never even bother to respond. Meanwhile companies like Tekno, associated, TLR, Mugen, Proline, etc were all happy to be involved. Real "supportive" of them.
Also making stuff proprietary like ID plugs so you can't solder your own connections or use other brand batteries for example is not "innovative" at all. It's also not innovative to be selling the same products they made almost 20 years ago, and slapping a new color body on it every few years. The only new thing they've come out with lately that's "new" is that god awful clipless body mount system which makes your body fly off in even the smallest of impacts or rollovers until it flat out breaks in typical traxxas fashion.
Also do you agree with them issuing a video removal order for youtubers who even mention their product name without featuring the product? How are they "stealing" or 'being a crook" by saying "this car is similar to the traxxas slash" in their video.is that being supportive of the hobby or supportive of traxxas.
Was hobby fever "stealing" from traxxas?
https://hobbyfever.com/
Just one of many who fell victim to their practices. Again, this is NOT being supportive of the hobby, it's being supportive of traxxas.
Always seems the people who are super supportive of the company have never owned anything but. I was one of them as well but then I learned better. If you've been exposed to other companies/developers through their products, representatives, track owners who run events with company sponsoring, and shop owners like I have, you would see what a load of crap they are.
The patient that they sued Arrma over is for a steering assembly widely used among many many manufacturers of RC and on some commercial little machinery too might I add (though they don’t hold the patent in those other industries). Therefor I doubt they actually developed that particular technology however they do selectively use it against some but not all competitors. Sadly this means we won’t see incremental evolution of that design.....so in that particular case they didn’t spend big money at all but simply trade marked an existing design that either had no trade mark or the trade mark expired.I don't hate Traxxas, They're an innovative and supportive Co. I Like most all
the RC manufacturers save a few who take liberty to steal patents and violate
copyright laws. That's not playing fair. Crooks should be run out of business.
Nobody on here would like it if they spent big money on designers and
developers on a product and someone else profited from it. jmo. ?
Sledge, did you know Jason from Hobby Fever?