Why is hobbytron.com bad?

i have had a few people tell me that hobbytron.com is a bad place to buy airsoft guns. one of my freinds bought a perfectly good sniper for usd65. and many other people i know use it to. so please tell me why it is so bad...

Well, i can't speak for the others who say its bad, but i have just had no luck with them at all. I ordered a gun on there and when it got here it was the completely wrong gun. I ordered an Echo 1 M16 and got a CYMA AK 47....big difference. When i contacted them, they said that they shipped the right gun and actually accused me of lying, so i just said the heck with it and hung up. I sold it for $80, which is more than i thought id get, but i was out like another 50 bucks. Thats just my story.

And many of my friends have had simular experiences with them.





~JTK~

did you try telling them that you would ship it back if they sent out the right one?

Yup...but they insisted that they sent the m16....the aruging went on for about a week....then i just got fed up.

did they say that they would give you a refund??

Nope. Eventually we bickered so much i said, "fine....ill just keep the AK." So i kept ift and sold it.

I'm moving this thread to our Online Retailers section.

Anyway, Hobbytron is thought to be so poor of an airsoft retailer because of several reasons. They typically have poor customer service, they overprice their guns (usually), they sell a ton of junk, and they're what can be referred to as a noob-retailer. This means they sell really cheap replicas, throw out big numbers like a "450 FPS sniper rifle for only $65" but fail to mention it's with .12g BBs and the rifle is terribly cheap and inaccurate. They don't sell guns the more experienced airsofters use, and sometimes it can get annoying hearing people brag about their $50 rifles they purchased from places like Hobbytron when they're saying this to people who've been playing for several years that have spent upwards of $300-$600+ on their gun and loadout. I'm definitely not talking about you, please don't get me wrong. I'm just stating why places like these are often despised as well as those who purchase from them. And I'm also not bashing people who buy cheap replicas - as my first gun was a clear plastic shotgun I bought for $35 (around there, anyway). We all start somewhere. I recommend, though, for someone who's serious about airsoft that they purchase a nicer gun from a more trusted site.

The sight always freezes up on me whenever I go to it .

ya one of my friends bought a 450 fps sniper from hobbytron.com and the only real problem he has with it is that it gets jamed fairly fast but other than that no real problems

LOL, everyone read the end of this thread...LINK EDITED

Oh and btw, this is not forum advertisement.

Link was edited out:
- led to a site that did not relate to thread.
- advertised a low-populated forum (i.e. competition )

If you want to refer to the link, please copy and paste the text itself into the thread.

Hey, Lone Wolf, it may be my computer just being dumb, but that link you posted didnt take me to a thread. It just looked like a main menu/home page for a forum and said: "UPDATES AND NEWS"

Thats weird
It was a link to that thread alone. Sorry, oh yea there still trying to get the URL's in place.

But they had a funny thread of like marching off to war against hobbytron. It was quite hilarious.