Affordaplane E-plans

I saw this post and just wanted to share my experience. I ordered
Affordapane plans this spring and never received them.

This summer I e-mailed the vendor and complained. I was told my "check was
in the mail," a refund for the plans I had never received. The problem was
blamed on some sort of "computer problem." Of course the refund check never
arrived either. I just wrote him another letter and I intend to make my
situation known to the EAA, Kitplanes, etc. I have ordered many plans in my
20 plus years as a pilot/builder and I have never had a problem. Beware of
this one!




"BeaglePig" wrote in message
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Mark Smith wrote in :

BeaglePig wrote:

"W P Dixon" wrote in
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"BeaglePig" wrote in message
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"W P Dixon" wrote in
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Thanks for the info, I was considering getting the plans
myself....I won't now.



Don't make a judgement based on one person's internet posted
opinion.
If you were interested before, join the "cheapaircraft" yahoo
group,
and "Fly5k" yahoo group at groups.yahoo.com. Much discussion on
both lists about this plane, enough to "cut though the chaff" so
to speak.

BeaglePig



Well Beagle I do know what you are saying..but look at it this way.
If one person told you he went into a store and spent 45 bucks for
something and then the store would not give the item to him and
kept his money...I bet you would think reallllllly hard before
giving away 45 bucks yourself, right? Not to mention here on the
net it is very very easy to rip people off. So you must take even
one bad example of a internet company pretty serious. I would be
more than happy to hear from happy customers as well though. I do
like the little ultralight. I don't know of anyone who has built it
in my neck of the woods, so what comes out on the net is all I have
to go by.

Patrick

Yup, but it's also real easy for ONE idiot to slander someone after
he had a bad experience not the falt of the business in question.

Now, the following may be contrary to the opinion you may have
thought I had but after researching this plane myself, (more than
just one post from one guy though grin) I decided like you not to
order plans.

Many discussions on the above groups mention plans paid for and not
delivered (didn't seem like fraud as much as poor business
practices); and my biggest concern was that no one could site a copy
of the plane currently flying and many folks had started to build
one, even got to the taxi testing phase, then decided it was too
unsafe to fly and scrapped the whole project. The consensus is the
designers plane flew once or twice and may or may not have wrecked
but is not now currently flying.

So, my motivations to getting you to dig a bit deaper were perhaps
opposite of what some people might think grin.

Still all hearsay. I've never actually met any of these people, but
enough info for this aviation newbie to look elsewhere...

Happy Building!!

BeaglePig


the guy posted details, a copy of the cancelled check,

what more do you want,

send him 45 of your bucks or be quiet !!!!!!!!

then send the plans to the guy who posted !

Anyone can sign a name on the back of a check that kind of looks like
it might be the signature of the intended person.

I'm not saying it was the OP, not at all. It's quite possible the check
was stolen from Dave's mail etc.....

But however it happened, IMHO he did the guy a favor, and could have
saved his life (not sending the plans....)

BeaglePig