cochesalido
Member
Hello, I am opening this thread to alert users wanting tobuy or make business with Airfoil aerial systems, or Airfoilskycam or JohnOhnemus.. They are not an honest business!
I made contact with them early July to buy from them one ofhis t copters for aerial photography, as soon as they received my email Johnwas very interested on selling.. As almost every business! Happy assist me withmy order… after that when he give me the estimate (more than $3,200 dlls) heonly give me one payment method.. Wire transfer! he didn’t want to accept pay pal or creditcards (now I know why) but as they looked like a serious business I went aheadand made the money transfer.. That’s the end of the happy story! After thetransfer he started to ignore my emails.. After 10 days I only received oneshort email from him saying that he was waiting for the flight controllers asthey had some problems with customs!
Ok, I waited 10 more days for him to solve the “issue” andthen tried to contact him again with no luck!
After some days and a lot of emails he send me another emailrequesting my shipping address.. Same I provided with my order… I reply to himgiving him my address again and also asking him to let me know when they shipmy package.. Once again… no reply from him…
I started asking him via email, calling with no reply andthey didn’t pick up the phone!
After 40 days the package arrived… well at least I receivedthe package! But once I opened I noticed the big scam!
They quote me a t copter with top of the line equipment,thunder power batteries, lawmate video downlink, with a special spotter cam to installat the view finder of the camera, a canon remote trigger with autofocus etc!
Well I received only hobbyking equipment! I am not trying tosay that hobbyking sells crap, but that´s not what I bought!
Instead of the thunder power batteries I received turnigybatteries, instead of the lawmate video downlink I received the lowest costvideo downlink that hobbyking sells USED, instead of the big money specialspotter cam for the view finder I received a fpv wide angle very low cost andlow quality cam that I was suppose to glue to the view finder.. if you arefamiliar with photography you will know that that does not work! The t coptersESC are the most low quality esc that money can buy! The flight controllerboard was different than the one with the instructions and had no info of thebrand.. After a lot of research I found it is one that sells hobbyking as well!The canon remote trigger wasn’t at the package! The tilt servo was a standardservo that wasn’t able to move the camera!
As John wasn’t responding to my mails and had a job that Ihad to finish I put 3 days of work on the t copter having it flying to able toshoot some pictures.. I changed theservo, I had to rewire all esc as they where soldered backwards, the flightcontroller was installed backwards, but at least I was able to shoot.. Afterthat John replied to my telling me that he did send everything as described atmy order.. and as I already used the t copter he wasn’t going to changeanything!
Well, that’s ok I told him.. no problem.. just send me thecanon remote trigger… and I am still waiting for it! I already bought anothertrigger from another company… so I just sent him an email telling him stick theshutter up………
This thread has no intention of him returning money orsending me anything.. I just want to aware everyone of the kind of businessJohn Ohnemus have!
Regards
Jose Salido
I made contact with them early July to buy from them one ofhis t copters for aerial photography, as soon as they received my email Johnwas very interested on selling.. As almost every business! Happy assist me withmy order… after that when he give me the estimate (more than $3,200 dlls) heonly give me one payment method.. Wire transfer! he didn’t want to accept pay pal or creditcards (now I know why) but as they looked like a serious business I went aheadand made the money transfer.. That’s the end of the happy story! After thetransfer he started to ignore my emails.. After 10 days I only received oneshort email from him saying that he was waiting for the flight controllers asthey had some problems with customs!
Ok, I waited 10 more days for him to solve the “issue” andthen tried to contact him again with no luck!
After some days and a lot of emails he send me another emailrequesting my shipping address.. Same I provided with my order… I reply to himgiving him my address again and also asking him to let me know when they shipmy package.. Once again… no reply from him…
I started asking him via email, calling with no reply andthey didn’t pick up the phone!
After 40 days the package arrived… well at least I receivedthe package! But once I opened I noticed the big scam!
They quote me a t copter with top of the line equipment,thunder power batteries, lawmate video downlink, with a special spotter cam to installat the view finder of the camera, a canon remote trigger with autofocus etc!
Well I received only hobbyking equipment! I am not trying tosay that hobbyking sells crap, but that´s not what I bought!
Instead of the thunder power batteries I received turnigybatteries, instead of the lawmate video downlink I received the lowest costvideo downlink that hobbyking sells USED, instead of the big money specialspotter cam for the view finder I received a fpv wide angle very low cost andlow quality cam that I was suppose to glue to the view finder.. if you arefamiliar with photography you will know that that does not work! The t coptersESC are the most low quality esc that money can buy! The flight controllerboard was different than the one with the instructions and had no info of thebrand.. After a lot of research I found it is one that sells hobbyking as well!The canon remote trigger wasn’t at the package! The tilt servo was a standardservo that wasn’t able to move the camera!
As John wasn’t responding to my mails and had a job that Ihad to finish I put 3 days of work on the t copter having it flying to able toshoot some pictures.. I changed theservo, I had to rewire all esc as they where soldered backwards, the flightcontroller was installed backwards, but at least I was able to shoot.. Afterthat John replied to my telling me that he did send everything as described atmy order.. and as I already used the t copter he wasn’t going to changeanything!
Well, that’s ok I told him.. no problem.. just send me thecanon remote trigger… and I am still waiting for it! I already bought anothertrigger from another company… so I just sent him an email telling him stick theshutter up………
This thread has no intention of him returning money orsending me anything.. I just want to aware everyone of the kind of businessJohn Ohnemus have!
Regards
Jose Salido