Castle moving sale

[Semi Pro]

Originally Posted by Semi Pro

im still waiting on my outrunner any idea when the will ship?

here is my order number 2142-1189-4010

it must be bad news because i keep getting skipped by thomas

[Semi Pro]

any news for me thomas?

[Arct1k]

Thomas - Thanks for all the effort - What a PITA for you...

[KniteWulfe]

Thanks, it's no big deal on that outrunner, he decided to go with one of the hong kong cheapo ones. It will be fine for him since he's just starting out with helis... Until it fails and he drops out of the sky anyway.

[George16]

I still have to received any emails from Castle or a reply on my pm to Thomas.

[tashpop]

i got my 1717 in. all looks good to me. i did think it was going to be larger, but its just barely larger than my kb45 10xl which is a good thing for my project. its a close fit.

[phatmonk]

Thanks Thomas,Patrick everyone at CC.70 bucks for a 200$ motor, that is priceless.Here is my SC8E with a 1520

[Big House]

I have a 1520 going into a muggy roller I am working on. The motor is to long, in my opinion, to just be mounted by the front mounting plate. I am looking at the Tekno RC 42mm motor mount and position it in the stock nitro motor location. That way I have more support along the motor.

[RC toy]

Hi, how many 1518 and 1520 left?

[Klausen]

Anybody know if you recieve an email with track and trace from castle, when they ship the order?

I ordered 2 x 1520 motors saturday, so I know I am not that pacient

Jesper Klausen
Denmark

[Bmr4life]

Originally Posted by Klausen

Anybody know if you recieve an email with track and trace from castle, when they ship the order?

I ordered 2 x 1520 motors saturday, so I know I am not that pacient

Jesper Klausen
Denmark

Yup. At this point, you'll get an email when they invoice it and another when they mail it out.

I didnt get a shipment notice when mine shipped out

[Thomas Porfert]

1520's have been added back to the motor sale page. Turns out we had more stock than we had previously realized. Plenty of motors left over after the initial rush; I can't give out exact numbers, but at current rates I would expect them to last until at least the end of the month.

Thomas Porfert
Castle Tech Support

[Mmirage]

Originally Posted by Thomas Porfert

1520's have been added back to the motor sale page. Turns out we had more stock than we had previously realized. Plenty of motors left over after the initial rush; I can't give out exact numbers, but at current rates I would expect them to last until at least the end of the month.

Thomas Porfert
Castle Tech Support

First of all let me say that I'm just as happy with this sale as you guys, but something IS going on for sure....

I just find it pretty hard to believe that out of the blue they just found a box full of 1520's sitting in a dark corner of the warehouse...
On numerous USA and European RC-forums big and busy topics are active about this Castle-sale. Some of these guys ordered pretty serious. So regarding this info Castle already must have shipped hundreds and hundreds of motors all over the world.

Did you hear on CNN the popemobil in the Vatican is now powered by a a couple of castle 1717's ?

Seriously, probably lots of (overseas) LHShops before the sale not stocking Castle bought big time as well.

When the sale started I just thought nice deal from Castle, but now that "overstock" seems to be far from vapourized after about two weeks there just must be more behind this sale !

Add the fact that the RC-market and ebay will be absolutely flooded with quality motors for a long time now and no living human being on this planet is going to pay 200 bucks for a 1515 anymore, EVER!
So these will join the sale soon or stock were low already before the sale.

Castle mentioned the word moving-sale a couple of times, but thats not a very good reason eitherl. If you stack up 1000 motors in their (correct;) boxes you would need a room of maybe 10 by 10 feet and i know for a fact that prices per square feet in Kansas are not that high... Moving them can be done with a mini-van. No big deal as well.

So, whats happening here???
Are they making a statement towards sites resellers like Hobbyking?
Fighting out a big conflict with Mr Neu?
Increasing brand popularity big time? They have made just HUGE profits on the motors the last couple of years and now decided to pump up sales volumes?

OR.......

They need unlimited R&D money for something BIG that is gonna come in the RC world ? Some Chinese guy perhaps showed up at Castle's CEO desk and offered him a design of a revolutionary (brushless) motor with 99.9% efficiency and 10% of the production costs of a NEU/Lehner/Pletti ???

Who knows....

What are your ideas?

Let me finish this post with stating that this post is obviously NOT intended to criticise Castle's sale by any means. They are doing just an excellent job in providing RC enthousiastic people like me very nice goodies for a descent price and providing just excellent after sales service as well.
Just wanted to speculate a bit.....

[pinkpanda3310]

They wanted to flood the market with big motors ready for a big esc (aka hvmmm)

;)