Jaime O.
Do not buy from RCmart if you are not located in Hong Kong (their HQ)
Bought a Sanwa M17 transmitter combo from them for 530 USD and various other things in one order, the bill was a bit over 1000USD. First up it was my bad forgetting Australia has an import tax for anything over 1000AUD bought overseas. So I ended up paying 200AUD in taxes alone. Which already made it about 150AUD more than I could have paid for a Sanwa M17 locally. I had just recently finished building the RC car that I intend to use the M17 with after 8 months of the purchase, because it is a hobby and I didn't plan on completing it day 1 and could potentially find out what the M17 transmitter had problems with. Problems with Sanwa M17: It fails to bind with the RX-493 receiver that came with it, however I have tried with other person's M17, it binds with no issues. Mine just keeps on flashing the LED light with no successful pairing results for more than 5 minutes which I gave up eventually. The touch screen is very glitchy, I tried accessing the main menu in the M17 and it will move on it's own from time to time rendering it completely unusable. Bare in mind that it is a brand new item and I had never used it and kept it in the box until I decided to plug in my completed RC car build. I had since contacted rcmart email support, and advised me to update the firmware, but the firmware that came with it was already the latest. They were not too helpful and just tells me that I am out of warranty period, when I asked them how long it is, they say Sanwa didn't have an exact date for this period but its was 6 months which they provided themselves, I find it ridiculous and something they just made it up on the spot as RCmart website has no clear warranty period information provided as well. It would be impossible that a big manufacturing company like Sanwa would have no warranty on their product. End result I would have to pay for the fee that costs to fixing the problem, no returns accepted and shipping costs would have to be at my expense. Will never buy from RCmart again, reasons being vague warranty information, customer supports are bad.
