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Coelacanth wrote: ↑Thu Oct 21, 2021 4:53 pm I'd take advantage of that if I was in USA. Here in Canada, Walmart sells that buggy for much more, $153 CAD:

https://www.walmart.ca/en/ip/Wltoys-XKS-144001-RC-Car-60km-h-High-Speed-1-14-2-4GHz-RC-4WD-Racing-Off-Road-Drift-Car-RTR/2HZ469ZZ5048

What if someone's willing to get one at the $37 sale price and ship it to Canada? Not sure if it would be worth it, as I have no clue how much shipping would be to our friends to the north...? I've never shipped anything internationally.

The deal is over, unless someone wants to give one up anyway

Odd... when I click the link I am still seeing them available

Indeed, I just clicked the links and both are still on sale, $37 and $40.

Wow! Nice. Last I saw the one on sale went back up. Hope to see mine Monday

I ordered one. Figured wth.

We are gonna need a sub forum

Mine shows its at the UPS facility 15 miles down the road. Should have it tomorrow
Hot jam that's some fast shipping. When I placed the order 3 days ago it said expected delivery date was Nov. 2

GoMachV wrote: ↑Thu Oct 21, 2021 11:44 pm We are gonna need a sub forum

I foresee the idea coming to fruition

THEYTOOKMYTHUMB wrote: ↑Thu Oct 21, 2021 11:08 pm I ordered one. Figured wth.

Sh*ts, meet giggles.....

R6cowboy wrote: ↑Thu Oct 21, 2021 9:07 pm

Coelacanth wrote: ↑Thu Oct 21, 2021 4:53 pm I'd take advantage of that if I was in USA. Here in Canada, Walmart sells that buggy for much more, $153 CAD:

https://www.walmart.ca/en/ip/Wltoys-XKS-144001-RC-Car-60km-h-High-Speed-1-14-2-4GHz-RC-4WD-Racing-Off-Road-Drift-Car-RTR/2HZ469ZZ5048

What if someone's willing to get one at the $37 sale price and ship it to Canada? Not sure if it would be worth it, as I have no clue how much shipping would be to our friends to the north...? I've never shipped anything internationally.

Unfortunately with the USD-to-CAD exchange and outrageous shipping costs from US to Canada, it would probably end up not saving us much from the $153 price from Walmart Canada. It's almost guaranteed to be a lot cheaper on AliExpress. I'm lucky I got mine along with a bunch of motors, batteries and electronics for $80 plus shipping from a seller on eBay. A second one for parts would be nice, but I'm sure you'll see these popping up all over eBay pretty soon.

https://www.rc10talk.com/viewtopic.php?f=114&t=45819

Your thread was actually what put them on my radar. Until then, I had written them off as toy grade.

I knew that people were talking about them but never gave it any more thought.

WLtoys have been around for quite a while , over 10 years at least , to the best of my knowledge they started by cloning micro RC helicopters , thing was the clones they made were more robust than the originals , the V911 was an entry level fixed pitch flybar micro Heli that was the trainer Heli for a generation , then they clones another CP Heli and called it the V977 , again more robust and cheaper than the original it became the CP trainer of its day , after that they started making their own stuff and the quality went up again ! Their micro Heli's are still very good , when they moved to cars they used the same model by cloning the Vatarra Twin Hammers , they made a virtually perfect clone with the exception of the electronics , they are fixed on a combo RX/ESC and 5 wire servo's across the range but otherwise the plastics are very good , certainly way better quality than the price suggests. After that they moved on to designing their own stuff , I've got one of their 1/18th cars the V959b , it's bonkers ! It's 1/18th with a 540 motor !

WLtoys have been around for quite a while , over 10 years at least , to the best of my knowledge they started by cloning micro RC helicopters , thing was the clones they made were more robust than the originals , the V911 was an entry level fixed pitch flybar micro Heli that was the trainer Heli for a generation , then they clones another CP Heli and called it the V922 , again more robust and cheaper than the original it became the CP trainer of its day , after that they started making their own stuff and the quality went up again ! Their own design the V977 was way better as a Micro CP trainer , super robust and another company even started using the airframe under licence with a better electronics package ! Their micro Heli's are still very good , when they moved to cars they used the same model by cloning the Vatarra Twin Hammers , they made a virtually perfect clone with the exception of the electronics , they are fixed on a combo RX/ESC and 5 wire servo's across the range but otherwise the plastics are very good , certainly way better quality than the price suggests. After that they moved on to designing their own stuff , I've got one of their 1/18th cars the V959b , it's bonkers ! It's 1/18th with a 540 motor ! parts support is not dismal either with most parts on eBay or Banggood , there are usually tons of bling after market CNC parts for their cars as they are pretty popular bashers .

Dadio wrote: ↑Fri Oct 22, 2021 4:27 pm , I've got one of their 1/18th cars the V959b , it's bonkers ! It's 1/18th with a 540 motor !

Those have a 50% off coupon on Amazon… makes them around $42!