Is it the Lipo Effect..China stores and bare shelves!

[Quadcopter102]

As some guess after my Syma Saga with, mmmm a well known online store in China....I am not a fan. Used mainly because Aussie has no stores with a choice of quads...and those that are for sale seem to be older models and higher in cost. Add to that that very few..if any sellers on Amazon (USA) will ship to Aussie.
Looking at the China stores...there seems to be fewer sales pages and those they have are carrying the nano and mini quad types. Inless I was suffering quad blindness, no Syma X8, No Tarantula or its clones...none of the 450 size types flooding the pages.
Also...more and more seem to be sold "battery not included". A similar observation was made on another "RC" forum...

My dislike of the cavalier attitude beamed out to customers parting with$$$ - wilted a little after ordering some ESCs off BangGood. After a couple of days, got an email apologising that " ....because no stock ...we need to make refund to your PayPal....is that OK?".
Today the refund was back in PayPal?
Duty bound now to order something else!
BangGood also seems to be a bit thinner on their sales pages and and they like the others seem to be getting involved in kits and frames, motors etc.

Anybody else noticed this...or is it just me?

 

[HDtallrider]

I just did a quick look thru on Banggood, Gearbest and HK. There seems to be an almost overwhelming number of choices. I don't know if they have a different web page for you Aussies. The reason for not sending LiPo's to you may involve Aussie regulations or tarriffs that make it difficult.
Maybe you could form a co-op with other RC hobbyists there and combine your purchases. The larger volume may be the incentive needed to make it more profitable to send out orders and perhaps LiPo's. I don't understand the communist mind. It may just be their struggling economy.

 

[Quadcopter102]

Strange!! I had noticed this during the week on EB and I wondered if I was not the only one p$$$ed off with them and moved to buying elsewhere, when I was looking yesterday EverBuying showed only 8 pages ( at 48 items for page) today its 53! I was beginning to think with all the aggravation I have given them - that they were restricting my IP. Strange also was that of the 8 pages they went from the Nano/mini to kit parts frames etc. It was seeing only 8 pages that prompted my post - alongside the fact that my search for 450 frame parts on Foxtech, HK et al all want around $45 for shipping Lipo's via DHL/UPS - ( not just to Aussie most of users on HK appear to be worldwide - ditto FoxTech) - which are kitted to have lipo protection containers or whatever is used for safe transportation. It was seeing this on an order I was making up on HK that I scrubbed it and went onto BG and EB. Although I would not use EB again - one order still not arrived 42 days - they wont refund to PayPal and have offered $43 "wallet" - which gives the quandary - walk away or just order anything to use it up and hope!
Looking today the EB home page seems different so maybe they were recoding the website. That may seem to fit with why - when I was going through - all the Phantom clone type like the Syma X8 range and other similar sized quads - were not showing. Depends on the web management team/person - some rebuild the website on a remote server or like me have a testing domain name which blocks off Google and the others from indexing the content- when everything is debugged and OK... upload to the main server and replace the old version.
I ended up getting a battery and lipo balance charger on eBay from an Aussie seller in Sydney, its sent by road and I ordered ESCs from Bangood and they went out last night!

I don't understand the communist mind. It may just be their struggling economy ..or a combination of growing anti-drone publicity and restrictions being imposed every where. Yesterday all London Parks have put up NO FLYING type notices and there is not much grass growing in or around London where "free flying" would be possible.
Add to that that while it seems the quad sellers online all have a reputation for sending out defective and fake products and bad generally poor quality control .... if any.
There does seem to be a rise in the nano and mini quads for sale - which may suit the back garden flyer and as they look more like kids toys... will not get the strong arm of the law drawn in by irate idiots banging on about privacy.