Recent Promotions from Vendors

[colemn615]

When I first got into this hobby (4 years ago) the promotions that vendors ran really catered to my interest. As of late sites that are supposed to be catered to helis mostly have quad and fpv gear on sale and little to no heli items.

What's up with that?

/endRant
/sorry

[FR4-Pilot]

They're simply following the money. It's been happening a lot, unfortunately. Some abandoning their heli customers all together for multi-rotors. Major bummer ...

[Corvette & Copter Guy]

Not my favorite vendor...MikadoUSA

[Rudy]

Originally Posted by Corvette & Copter Guy

Not my favorite vendor...MikadoUSA

Spelling error?

[Jason Bell]

With Memorial Day upon us, sales are already popping up. Hope you find something you're looking for!

[TheBum]

Originally Posted by Rudy

Spelling error?

I don't think so. I took it as a response to a previous poster saying that vendors are gravitating toward multirotors.

[evosix]

Originally Posted by Jason Bell

With Memorial Day upon us, sales are already popping up. Hope you find something you're looking for!

Same here. Newsletter goes out after dinner.

Jason

[Colin Broughton]

I unsubscribed to the Helidirect spam as of late, I don't see the quad sale flyers anymore

[etherbatxx]

what is the sales ratio?
for every heli sold, 20x quads are sold?

[Bigpops]

Originally Posted by etherbatxx

what is the sales ratio?
for every heli sold, 20x quads are sold?

I bet it's much higher than that, even from DJI sales alone.

Just look at Youtube/Facebook followings. DJI have 3.7 million Facebook "likes", where the likes of SAB and Align have about 40K each. That's a 92:1 ratio of interest if you say those 40K like both companies, which is likely.

[gimbleguy]

Originally Posted by FR4-Pilot

They're simply following the money. It's been happening a lot, unfortunately. Some abandoning their heli customers all together for multi-rotors. Major bummer ...

Yep i've seen this happen. I use to buy heaps in one heli hobby shop online, now they are just selling quad crap.

[evosix]

Originally Posted by gimbleguy

Yep i've seen this happen. I use to buy heaps in one heli hobby shop online, now they are just selling quad crap.

Don't be suprised when million dollar companies drop us heli guys like dead inventory. They position paid reps to interact with the community which I guess is fine, but this market isnt exactly booming and the companies no longer consider us important to their plans. Its capitalism. Nuff said

Support companies who's PRIMARY MISSION support the HELI hobby.

AnythingHeli
LowerHeli
OnlyFineHelis
sactowhobby

There are more, forgive me these are just off the top of my noggin.
(Not adding my own store because that looks tacky as heck.)

Jason

[HAL9KPCM]

Maybe it's time that we all "upgrade" to multi-rotors.

[learnedthehardway]

If retailers sell 20+ quads for every heli or plank sale, they must be selling nothing but truggys around here.. lol All the people I saw flying quads when they first took off have vanished.

There were quite a few but one is now flying a 230s, another is flying a small foamie plank and the rest have disappeared.

Glad to see them go to be honest. They were flying at a few of the public areas I fly at quite often and was afraid they would piss some ppl off with a camera wielding quad or something else to get rc flight prohibited in those areas.

Good thing multis are boring and they all lost interest in a month or less...lol

[krauley]

Originally Posted by Colin Broughton

I unsubscribed to the Helidirect spam as of late, I don't see the quad sale flyers anymore

All the online stores have to pay the bills and if the multirotor sales keep their doors open so i can buy my helis and parts thats fine with me.

[PTFlyer]

heli pilots are once again the "redheaded stepchild" of the r/c world....


what with the new DJI "spark' quad a radio isn't even necessary...in fact it is an "option".....now isn't that something that makes you go hmmmmm


yet we all tend to use the best and most expensive gear ....