NitroStar
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I've enjoyed (hate this is an actual subject, but it is) reading all the posts and the counter posts. Good honest feedback and I'm in the same boat (really like RC's) as verybody here but see 2015GTRBE's explanation as the real truth. I really hate lhs's closing but my first "over an hour away" shop closed because it was the small "race only" type shop. Heck, remember the paved oval guys? They had an actual Daytona shaped in ground oval track. Awesome, but there was nobody racing on that track for a few years before the entire place shut down. Wasn't any fault of Traxxas.@ScaleJunkie
Take no offense to anything I said that does not apply to you, or anyone for that matter.
You have to understand that any business is not in business to keep others in business. I know you know that. This hobby is just another business till the day these guys make RCs for free.
You may not see it this way, but our hobby is very over saturated given it’s small size and the hobby is killing itself way more than Traxxas is. If everyone cared about tomorrow they wouldn’t buy cheap china LiPos, chargers, tires, kits, or hop up parts. The hobby would down size again and the companies worth staying would reap more profit. If anything, I think China is doing more harm than Traxxas
I got into the hobby in 91 with an Associated RC10 Championship Edition car (with the mechanical speed control) that was on the shelf at Hobbytown. (I couldn't afford a full kit race setup at the race track shop across town). I felt I had let the race shop down but couldn't help it. I later bought a full set of bearings for it at the race shop for $50!!! Can get a set now for $20 LOL. I've raced on and off for years and brought my son up racing with Associated and Losi but we both went and bought a Traxxas Slash a week after they came out (he was about out of school by then) and we had a BLAST running these on our home made track! And let anybody that walked up have the radio to beat the crap out of them and only broke a couple sets of servo gears ($3). We would not dare let anybody run our racing vehicles. Would have broken then in half! LOL.
I have bought Losi, Associated, Traxxas X-Maxx, and a Kraton in the past few years and REALLY like them all. Hey I'm stingy and bought the X-Maxx only because I felt that parts would be available for it 10 years later (maybe). I still race randomly but enjoy bashing because of my work schedule and hate the way turnmarshals have always gotten talked to every since I've been in this hobby (by biggest pet peeve of ALL TIME)! I really like trail riding and bashing due to the relaxed nature of these vs racing.
I've not mentioned anything about shops closing and people losing their jobs due to Traxxas because I've not experienced it locally but I had a LOT of friends in the past have due to government and corporations and don't watch news media because of all the people losing jobs since the Free trade agreement back in early Clinton days. Local clothes manufacture plants all over closed up and left the country. Been that way ever since.
Oh, I'm stingy so I hope that Traxxas stays in business and I can buy X-Maxx parts in 10 years AND I hope Arrma still sells Kraton parts in 10 years also!!! I still can find parts for my Associated T4 sometimes! Love RC y'all ???
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