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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue'">Don.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue'">This is why I always shop local first.<span>
</span>Ryan can usually get you stuff in a week.<span> </span>If that doesn’t work, I have found it really pays to shop for the best deals ie: shipping.<span>
</span>There can be a VAST difference in rates depending of the size of the vendor. Sometimes small vendors work with the customer better than the larger “Horizons”. Sometimes…….you have no choice.<span> </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue'">Was looking at some Thunderpower batteries (2S325mah) to replace my old ones.<span>
</span>The batteries are about 10$ each.<span> </span>Was going to order 6 but they wanted $90 for shipping!<span>
</span>$140 for 6 batteries makes em over 23 bucks a pop.<span> </span>I think I will check with Ryan on those but LiPo orders at AHH tends to be slow.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue'">The Microaces guy ships his kits, from England,<span>
</span>for under $24 US but he takes his orders each day to the post office on a bike.<span>
</span>That kind of service is unheard of in the USA.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue'">Looking forward to seeing that P-40 on Wednesday .<span>
</span>Thanks for helping score at the Scale contest</p>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size:11pt"><b>From:</b> AlaskaRC <alaskarc-bounces@lists.alaskarc.org> on behalf of Don Fuller via AlaskaRC <alaskarc@lists.alaskarc.org><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, November 26, 2019 4:54 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> ARCS mailing list <alaskarc@lists.alaskarc.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [AlaskaRC] Horizon Hobby & Tower Hobbies seem to be one in the same.</font>
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<div dir="ltr">Maybe this is already known by most of you, I new to the hobby but thought it was interesting. I ordered a cheap part from Horizon (prop shaft for my PT-17) paid 10.99 shipping for 4 to 9 days but the FedEx Number shows it arriving 12/11. 13
days excluding holidays and weekends. So I complained via email as I am sure many of you have with them. The interesting thing I'm getting to is the reply I received indicating that I had already received my order (which I did from Tower Hobbies) different
part, order and company. See Below:
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<div class="x_gmail-moz-cite-prefix">On 11/25/2019 9:31 AM, Horizon Hobby Sales wrote:<br>
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Our apologies for the delay receiving the Tower Hobbies shipment and the last order you were charged $1.99 for postage. We do offer different types of shipping for more money and the packages would arrive quicker.<br>
Expedited USPS $4.99 <br>
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Thank you for the purchase and your order shipped on 10-31-19 Via Fedex Smartpost and they will deliver the package to a local USPS facility in your area. Tracking number Via USPS is 9274899992207771817624. Delivered on Friday 11/15/2019 at 12:13 pm.<br>
<a href="https://www.fedex.com/apps/fedextrack/?action=track&tracknumbers=9274899992207771817624&locale=en_US&cntry_code=fcl" target="_blank">https://www.fedex.com/apps/fedextrack/?action=track&tracknumbers=9274899992207771817624&locale=en_US&cntry_code=fcl</a><br>
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Thank you for contacting Horizon Hobby and have a great day.<br>
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Sincerely,<br>
Robyn<br>
Horizon Hobby, LLC<br>
<a href="http://www.horizonhobby.com" target="_blank">www.horizonhobby.com</a><br>
1-800-338-4639<br>
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<div><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica">So I replied back as below:</font></div>
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<p>Someone is confused on this, I ordered on 11/21 and paid 10.99 shipping. See below: This order could have been shipped in an envelope for 52 cents and been here within 5 days not a month.</p>
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<div>Thanks to EBAY I should have a new prop shaft Friday for 2.99 shipping I ordered yesterday..</div>
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<div>I guess the Moral of this Story is check EBAY first.</div>
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