![]() The package is sitting somewhere in a PO in. Quote from: Mike Griffin on April 14, 2022, 07:37:47 PM The following is an e mail from Horizon Hobby in regard to an email I sent them about customer service. The ONLY way to contact them is through email on their website and they finally responded by email this morning. I dropped Amazon Prime for this very reason and the fact it is a crapshoot if I am going to get my merchandise when they say I will. Horizon is buying Hobbico’s Great Planes and Tower Hobbies divisions, along with its Axial and Arrma brands. 1 It currently manufactures various hobby-grade radio-controlled (RC) models, as well as Athearn model trains and die-cast models, which it sells direct to consumers as well as to hobby retailers. Good luck with this and I hope it works for you. is an American international hobby product distributor, headquartered in Champaign, Illinois, United States. HH Customer Support you for the reply Sam, but I will not do business with anyone or any company that makes it impossible for me to pick up the phone and initiate the call. Please reply back with a brief description of what your needing help with and I'll route your request to the right department. If you would like a call back I can assist with that. We found that we can help about 5 times as many people doing commutating through email and chat. I consider them dead In a short time, Horizon Hobbies has already destroyed the once great Tower name. ![]() We shut our inbound phone lines down last July but we do honor call back requests. Geeze, call your programmers and tell them to add a decimal point fer cryin out loud.The following is an e mail from Horizon Hobby in regard to an email I sent them about customer service. Now, many years later, hobbyists around the world come to us every day for the best produc. In 1971, founder Bruce Holecek started Tower Hobbies with little more than a passion for RC and 800 savings. ![]() Yes, I see exactly what you are talking about"īut nothing was ever DONE about it. 2904 Research Rd., Champaign, Illinois, United States. would want to own Horizon Hobby in its present condition. Back in the 70s there was only Tower but as they expanded Hobbico was formed as the parent corp. True, they are scale planes, but aren't the Goldberg planes scale too?īut what really bugs me is that about a year or two ago, I filled out a survey about their site, and I recieved a phone call from Tower asking what the problem was (There was no place to list the exact problem on the survey). Tower Hobbies has always been owned by Great Planes Dist. Now, looking under "Scale Planes" you see the GP Skybolt and Extra 300. Ill be continuing to use Tower Hobbies for all future online orders. Clint brought considerable strengths to Tower Hobbies that enabled it to provide even better prices, products and services than ever before. In 1984 Clint Atkins, a local Champaign businessman joined Tower Hobbies in an ownership capacity. Tower Hobbies has been serving R/C modelers since 1971 and is widely known for its professional, premium. CHAMPAIGN A bankruptcy court judge approved Horizon Hobbys 18.8 million purchase of Hobbicos remote-control business Monday, which means Hobbico employees must reapply for their jobs at Horizon before the purchase is completed Friday. Id HIGHLY recommend Tower Hobbies to anyone into RC. In the mid-'70s, Mark left Tower Hobbies to start a different business on his own. the Ultimate, and the Extra 300, but they list only list two Great Planes items. The worlds premier supplier of radio control models. Next, When browsing by "Sport Planes", they list the Goldberg Chipmunk. Hobbico 60 Mk III - Tower Hobbies Trainer 60 or Tower Hobbies trainer 40: Charlescd: Beginner Training Area (Fuel) 11: 01:26 AM: Discussion: Tower Hobbies Kaos 40 ARF Conversion: slammer1: Glow to Electric Conversions: 4: 05:54 AM: For Sale: SOLDTower Hobbies 40 trainer with TT Pro. You can see in the first pic that because they left out the "Dot" in the front of "0-.19" It appears out of order in all 3 places (There's a similar mistake on the engines page) This first thing is trivial, but it's annoying. As we here on RCG, talked about their bankruptcy filing, and the possible outcomes, for weeks. Someone apparently does NOT, read the RCG articles posted on our suppliers problems/issues. Like almost two years ago, after Hobbico went bankrupt. As someone who works for a company that does websites, I have to say that Tower's is not bad, but there are a few places that needs improvement. RealFlight 2023 Distributed by Horizon Hobby & Tower Hobbies. The street addresses for both companies are in Champaign, IL.
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