Originally Posted by
Team Grid RC
Hello Justin,
You yourself would probably get one if it was available while the rest sits on the fence. After talking to racers, the only difference between Sanwa and Futaba is branding, since both radios compete with each other and have similar features.
Racers like yourself bought the 4PL or MT4 for budget reasons, so many won't buy a aftermarket drop down even it was available. We have also been told by many MT4 owners they prefer a back light or radio skins. They want a drop down for $30 or less because that is what they paid for the radio skins. It takes a lot less time and money to print decals than it is to machine aluminum.
One racer told us he had no intentions of buying a drop down but had to lie to us so that we can make one up so he can see what it looks like.
So please understand why we can not just jump and mill up 4PL drop downs. If people are not willing to prepaid, then it is obvious they don't really want it. Pre-orders don't mean a thing when the time comes, everyone back out, and we are stuck with hundreds of drop down that will never get sold.
Ron
Team GRID
Have you guys looked at Kickstarter? This would be a perfect platform to get the word out of future projects and get the confidence in finance and lower risk.
I have ordered already the DD for the MT-4 and was reading this thread.
I would suggest also doing some marketing or at least putting press-releases out with good pictures and generally keeping the interested people up-to-date with what's happening to this and future projects. And what the procedure is for getting DDs made. When you ask of interest on the interweb there will always be differently motivated people and some that were initially interested lost on the way to production.
I think I read about the DD for the MT4 a year ago? And started to follow anxiously of what will come of it, but nothing happened for a long time or at least nothing was communicated so I lost interest as I thought you are not doing the DD for the mt-4. Then one day I just browsed around and found the thread active and it was the day before you put up the ordering. So Kickstarter and the whole philosophy of building something when there is enough interest removes the need to make an educated guess of the potential market and the trip to the bank.
The pics you have now aren't that good, even though they were good enough to buy. I took a leap of faith even though I didn't see one pic of the internals or indication of the smoothness of the DD.
