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How to save money when ordering at Aloft Hobbies. :)

Wayne

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I thought it might be handy to point out some of the simple ways you can save money on your next order at Aloft Hobbies.

1) ALWAYS make sure you are logged in for your very best pricing!
We see a lot of people check out as a guest, the issue is that we can't give you your custom pricing unless you log in. Not saying everything will have a lower price, but you might be surprised how much does. We will be using this more and more in the future!

2) Buying a plane? Be sure to buy servos, motors batteries, etc at the same time as we discount most things that can go into a plane when you buy the plane.
This discount is only available with the purchase of a plane.

3) Pay for your order with Zelle if you live in the USA.
Zelle charges us nothing to receive your payment where all other methods charge us. This allows us to share the savings with you! Zelle is free for you and free for us, and it is available to most everyone in the USA via their bank or credit union using a banking app or web site. If your bank does not offer it and you would like to use it, I'm told it is easy to use it via their web site. We make sure Zelle orders are not slowed down, if anything they get special treatment here.

4) Sign up for our newsletters.
While we really hate to bug you all with emails, we also get complaints as we do not email often enough. LOL We will be doing more with our email list in the near future and will probably start popping in some coupons into them and other specials.

These are a few things we offer to help lower our already low prices even more for you. Perhaps a couple of the invisible things we also do to save you money is we do our best to avoid problem products. We have all done it, bought something to find out it was junk. Well, we help avoid that by testing our products and keeping in contact with our manufacturers to improve the products should an issue surface. Often times we simply will not sell an item. Should you buy something you don't like, let us know! We stand behind what we sell. This again can be a huge money saver for you.

Hope this helps!

We do not use scammy methods like paying people to share our links. Can your really trust a product review if the reviewer is getting paid?
We hope that if you like our products you will be happy to share them with your friends.

Many thanks!
 
Yes, I also noticed that if I don't log in, purchases are more expensive than when I log in to my account. It seems that stores use this loophole, and customers unknowingly spend more money than they could spend. I also liked that you wrote that you need to subscribe to the site's news. It helps. I subscribe to all the websites where I make purchases to be aware of the best prices. You will be surprised, but not all areas have a week of discounts at the same time. On https://www.dontpayfull.com/explore, they set the link dates on different sites, so I even subscribed there.
 
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Yeah, in many cases we are not allowed to offer lower price unless we know who you are. This is a requirement for many manufacturers to protect the product valuation. Kind of silly, but those are the rules.
 
It's great to know that logging in can help us get better pricing, and that there are discounts available when buying a plane along with other components. It's also good to know about using Zelle to pay for orders, and signing up for newsletters to stay up-to-date on any specials or coupons. I appreciate the transparency about avoiding problem products and standing behind what you sell.
 
As a heads up, since we changed to our new website some of these discounts are not longer available. I wanted to have them all, but the current site does not yet allow us this flexibility. Hopefully soon, and we may add some other options.. Just need some spare time to work on this project.
 
As a heads up, since we changed to our new website some of these discounts are not longer available. I wanted to have them all, but the current site does not yet allow us this flexibility. Hopefully soon, and we may add some other options.. Just need some spare time to work on this project.
Has this feature been added to the new sales site?
 
Yipe!!!

I see that the Combo deals are back!

I assume that the aircraft need not be the one you are buying all the support equipment for.
 
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I just looked at the banner. I hadn't seen it. I could be wrong. But that is how it worked last time.
 
Almost any RC model can be combined with almost any receiver, servo, ESC, motor, spinner or prop and get discounts. We have tried to be very generous.

Due to some limitations on the website discounting, you are limited to the value of the discounted items related to the cost of the plane. So if you buy a cheaper plane and then try to buy a bunch of high dollar gear you may not be able to discount it all.

We do not care if the products being ordered are even going to go into that model, feel free abuse this as much as possible. :) We wanted to give our customer's the best deals possible. Some other shops give a discount on just the servos, we wanted to do a lot more.

If you run into any issues, just let us know. Not EVERYTHING is eligible, some brands do not like their products discounted.
 
OK, so it is load up the shopping cart and see how far you have stress tested the wallet. If there is more head room keep adding items to the cart.;)

The wife is going to love this!:eek:
 
Well, it is an option.

We have already seen a number of orders where people are buying combos now. In the past typically people would buy the plane one day, and the gear later on. Walk in customer's usually buy the gear at the same time as the plane.
 
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