Whatever happened to maxamps cut throat pricing?

[BP-Revo]

My friends and I make a trip out to the desert every once in a while. One of my friends shoots off model rockets, I drive my RC's, and the other ones just chill and watch us. We also usually cart a laptop out there to watch a movie on, and the plan this year is to bring a small TV with an Xbox or PS3 and run it off a (powerful) inverter hooked up to my truck. We also bring a second car and jumper cables, so no worries about draining out the battery).

The biggest point of the trip is just to be a bunch of guys 5+ miles from any type of thing that represents civilization (and usually the only people at all within a 5 mile radius). We still get cell reception out there though so its not like we go off the face of the planet into a 3rd dimension.

Anyway, since it is a dry lake and all and there are no plants and therefore nothing to catch fire, we were thinking of pitching in to buy a lipo and wire it to create a little show in a cheap model rocket after it takes off (aka, short the lipo and then shoot the rocket off right away).

We were going to do maxamps but even their small stuff is super expensive, so I found some really cheap FlightPower packs, but couldn't bring myself to buy such great packs to just destroy them. Looks like we are saving up for the maxamps ones.