ESKY is "junk"! (According to my local Hobby Shop!)

According to a local hobby shop. I don't think they should say stuff like that just to push their brands. I mentioned having a HBFPV2 and was looking at a 4 channel coax to help "bridge the gap" and he says of the ESKY, "That copter is junk. We don't carry toys in here". Everything I have is junk. FPS? Junk.Clearview sim? Junk. The harbor freight yellow bee I have? Total garbage (though they have another plane almost like it). They deal in Eflight, TREX, and Helimax, and anything from xheli is "Chinese crap".

Don't you hate self righteous hobby shops like that? I wish I had one I could go to that was interested in the HOBBY, not the name.

Sounds like and elitist BASTAGE to me!

lonstar70 wrote:

According to a local hobby shop. says of the ESKY, "That copter is junk. We don't carry toys in here".

I wanted to get parts for my HBFP and called all the local hobby shops. They too said ESKY is not a good quality Heli and they don't like to carry that line of products.


I disagree! Especially if you are just learning the HBFP can take a mean beating. I learned a lot from flying my HBFP.

Well, what do I know, I'm still new in this hobby and own 4 esky Helis and I'm happy with them.

Also, Nutcazze and Nyteflyyer endorse ESKY, so that's enough for me!

Dont get mad at me because this forum is opinion based.....My only experience
with esky was the esmart...After all the problems I have had with getting a kit
full of bad parts and buying bad part after bad part to replace bad parts, I agree
that esky is a bad brand. At least for me and I will not be telling any one I know to
buy Esky brand. If they were not garbage I would be able to contact someone in the
company that would fix this mess. But guess what, there is nobody to contact. Esky
doesnt care about you and the fact that your heli has sh!tty parts and wont fly and
now they discontinued parts and says we dont care if you bought a product from us and
now we dont care if you dont get parts for what you did buy........

With my experience with esky, I wont buy or endorse there helicopters. Sometimes I dont know why nuttcaze does. There is so many other helis that are better and brands that will back there product.

Just my opinion guys. If you can state yours I can state mine. I am not say'n you guys should stop
buy'n them. Just that I am............And others should think about the lack of support that you are
pay'n for.........

I agree with you that the company and the management are a joke, but I have 4 of their helicopters, and "so far" I love all 4 of them. Of course, I don't have anything else to compare them to, except one Colco and two Walkera coax helis I had for awhile. Maybe when I get my Century Bell flying I will have more perspective. But you are absolutely right Suriano, they treat their customers like crap, and customer service is really more important than the product itself.

Donnie D

Since I'm new to this hobby I think the more feed back from experienced fliers is a benefit to all. I have 4 Esky helis and like them all. I would eventually like to get a different brand but don't know where to start.

The main reason I chose esky was Nuttcaze's websites and information available for the HBFP, belt cp, etc.

What other brand of 6 channel helis do people recommend?

Thunder Tiger, Align off the top......

I think those who learned to fly on ESky helis appreciate them the most, without that I really can't explain why I endorse them BUT thats not to say I'm endorsing them as a company but rather that they make awesome beginner helis that I will always recommend to those looking to get into this hobby.

I understand more then most people about the problems surrounding ESky's customer service. But with the exception of the ES600, I've really never had a reason to contact them asking for their help so even though their CS is bad I don't think its really THAT bad, theres alot worse out there.

Sometimes I wonder if I have such low expectations for these companies and their products that this is the reason I am never really disappointed with bad service or products. But I've actually had nothing but success with ESky helis, there are some I don't like but really I have yet to find any ESky heli that is complete junk.

One thing about expectations is that all my ES600's have surpassed every expectation I had, even though Suriano has had alot of bad experiences with ESky and the ES600, I've had soo much fun with mine it should be illegal. They are the best flying ESky heli ever and even compare with T-Rex's, Raptors and Swifts. ESky is the one ruining the ES600. When I had my ES600's at the funfly this past weekend, I was amazed at the responses I got from people, people who own all the better brands of helis, they all thought the ES600 was a really nice heli and most agreed that is flew really good, at least with my skills. A few people were surprised they had never heard of the ES600 before, especially after seeing mine fly.

To clear it up some, Its not that my es600 doesnt work right for me its the fact that it came with so many bad parts. Then I had to order more parts that were also bad to try and replace the bad parts it came with. My Esmart was junk from the start in the box when they sent it to me and then all the parts I ordered were junk.

I can go on for a while about the amount of crappy parts I got from them. I could be the exception
being the only one that had a kit come in with so many bad parts. The fact that my kit never flew with
the parts it came with and I spent hundreds in parts of which 90% were all bad and now esky wont
make any new parts I feel very robbed by this company. I think if Nuttcaze or anyone else had experienced what I have gone through with this company they wouldnt buy or recomend esky to anyone.

Other than that nuttcaze is right as usual about leaning on this brand. I can tell you that if esky would have been able to step up and replace my kit or even the bad parts from the begining, I might have a bettert story to tell also.

sorry, I guess that came out wrong so I edited my post to what I meant. I was just trying to say that even though you had bad luck with ESky and the ES600, I have had great luck with ESky and thats why I recommend their helis.

No problem.......I just wanted to voice that maybe there is a reason why they say
esky's are junk. Because of my experience I think they are junk. My opinion doesnt
go to far though so dont get mad guys. I am sure thare are tons of great esky's out there.
I wouldnt tell you to get rid of the ones you have. Only that there must be a reason why
so many places dont sell them or stock parts and say they are junk.

I am not a huge eflite fan i.e. the Blade but my local shop sells them. Even Nuttcaze talks about
people see'n his and mention they never heard of it. There is a reason...but it is all in
your perspective anyway.

I am to say wishing that esky would become better than they are and not be branded as junk.
They have a lot of potential. I even think the word (junk) might be a little strong. Well for now
I am disapointed in esky but I will watch them and see if they can get there sh!t together.

Its good to get Nuttcaze's voice on here again.......Where's your wireless laptop buddy??????

lol, laptop is always with me but wireless internet isn't been thinking of adding it to my phone but I'm really interested in getting one of the wireless cards for my laptop so that anywhere I can get cell phone service I can get wireless on my laptop too, that will be awesome

i had a wireless card for my laptop from verizon lasted 3 days then they shut mee off saying i violated every term and condition

What???????????

How do you do that........24 hour porn????

OK, then what is considered "THE" quality chopper? And by that, I mean good, ENGLISH manuals, parts made in USA, (Maybe the whole company is US based, that would be nice), lots of good support, good history, etc.

I'm not to deep into this hobby yet, so haven't had a problem spending tons of money on parts and stuff. The Honey Bee is my first "real" chopper, and at $100 bucks and the endless support on this particular product on this forum, I don;t think I did too bad.

http://www.centuryheli.com/

You might want to check these heli's out. This is the company that made the Bell 47 scale heli that I'm building. I'm still in process of building it, so I'm a ways away from flying it. It is my first experience with Century products, but from looking the kit over, it seems to be of very high quality and the manuel is written very well and in english. Much easier to understand than the Esky manuels I have seen and is very detailed. As for customer support, I don't know as I have not had to call them with anything yet. I think they are a US company, but I don't know for sure.

Donnie D

I've actually heard from numerous Swift owners the Century has some of the same CS issues as ESky. But they all really like their helis, I like the 620E myself, one day I'll prob buy one.

Do you know if they are a US company? The manuel is very well written.

Donnie D

I was told at my LHS (Hobbytown USA) not to waste my time with other helis (read: not align or e-flight). My first heli was a Walkera 22e. The guy told me when he saw it, "that's what we say when someone crashes their helicopter. You Walkera'd it!" But, I took my EXI in there and they were all very impressed.

I found another hobby shop in the area that's about 30 min away called Hobby Hut. They carry esky parts, every align part you can think of, all kinds of batteries, upgrades, and tons of other heli stuff. It was awesome.


SO..... Hobbytown only carries align and eflight. That's what they sell, and in their minds, it's the only thing worth buying. Their support (at least for the Horizon [eflite] stuff) is excellent. The gave me a new DX6i because the used one I bought had a factory defect.


I guess it just comes down to... how important is CS and local parts availability to you?

I like esky. They're great for beginners, because they're cheap and they work.