TowerhobbiesReviews of towerhobbies.com

Horrible customer service. They do not care about inform customer about orders placed and paid.

I have spent many hours trying to buy RC aircraft. Their system would go on hold and not conclude the transaction. I recently ordered an RC sailplane. It arrived with a component problem [bad spar insert] after some hours on the computer, I got a replacement. When it arrived it had the exact same problem. Hours later I am told to return everything that there will be no more replacements. I felt like I was treated as some chiesler scamming them. I wanted to alert them that there was a problem and how many others would suffer the same experience.

Received a damaged plane. Tried to contact customer service via email and automated service but never got any response. I will never purchase anything else from Tower Hobbies again. Definitely not the same company from the 80s and 90s

No one home! If you shop (and I hope you don't) at Tower Hobbies, Do Not expect customer service if you need it. - They offer robot online chat. - Their customer support page responds that they are overwhelmed and provides you a useless case number. - Shipping is SLOOOOW - Tower Hobbies is NO MORE! I have two open cases with NO response from Tower Hobbies

I’ve used Tower/Horizon since the 80s they used to have thirst customer service in the business. Sadly it’s no longer true! I don’t call much anymore but after 2 years I have a lost shipment and I find out Tower/Horizon no longer offer a voice line for anything! As long as you never need support you’re ok. But everyone will need support at some time …,Avoid Tower/Horizon there are other RC Hobby stores that still answer and support their products! I’m not advertising so look it up and enjoy peace of mind knowing your products and money will be well spent and CUSTOMER SERVICE AVAILABLE

Terrible company never do business with them or horizon Hobby going to Traxxas there maggots... Stealing people's money!!!My package didn't have a signature and they put it on front door and someone apparently stole it!! Never buying anything off them or horizon Hobby !!Traxxas is way better business anyway!!

If you enjoy a 1-way shopping experience, rude staff, no consideration for customer support, etc. then this is your company. They won't even let you make minor changes to your order before it ships. Every interaction with them over the past two years has been horrible. Received damaged products, wrong products, etc. and I had to fight each time and often get stuck with fees and return shipping even if not my fault. I've been a customer for over 20 years but never again. Do NOT buy from this company! Horrible...

I have requested multiple times and multiple ways for upper management/ director level contact information but I was unable to receive them from Tower Hobbies so I am posting this information here and other places online. Tower Hobbies was my go to Hobby Shop for decades. It will be no more. I pre-ordered quite a few AFX slot cars (4 GT40 Mk IIb, 2 Corvette LT1, 4 GT 40 Mk 4, and a single 70 Chevelle and single 71 Chevelle) way back on May 19 just as soon as they posted them on their site. The initial ship date on their site said July 15. After countless shipping delays, we fast forward to first week of September and they finally receive them. These slot cars immediately began hitting Ebay and other stores around the country. I was excited to finally get my slot cars after waiting for FOUR months and being one of the very first to pre-order from Tower Hobbies. So I waited for shipping confirmation for several days (again after seeing other stores post them as available and seeing them appear on Ebay. One small vendor in NY sold 26 of the MK 2b's) But no word from my very, very pre-order from Tower Hobbies. So I sent a message requesting info through their online "customer service" form. Someone replied saying that I would only be getting one car, the 71 Chevelle!! After several rounds of emails, the customer service person "Sam R" said they were only able to ship 12% of the outstanding orders because that was all the product they were shipped. I could understand that IF I had just pre-ordered a few weeks or month or two ago. But I pre-ordered as soon as they listed these available back in May 19, FOUR months prior. There is ZERO chance that all 12% of these fulfilled orders were placed before May 19. Zero chance. So the question is, who at Tower Hobbies placed later orders before legitimate early pre-orders and why? The why is easy. These slot cars are hot ticket items and were already selling at 2-4X markups on Ebay within hours after their release. So PROFIT is the why. The question is who did this. I believe there needs to be an audit. Again, there is NO WAY orders were shipped in the order received as Tower Hobbies promises. Otherwise, I would have received all the GT40 Mk IIb's and Corvettes I pre-ordered. Tower Hobbies is no longer my go to Hobby Store. And I will NEVER pre-order from them again as there are games being played somewhere along the line.