Butterfly don't care about their customers

OP, in the words of the great ICE-T: don't hate the player, hate the game.

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Edited by shaun729 - 10/06/2016 at 9:01am

Sometimes the only solution is friends on TT forums.  There is a guy I know in Sweden who wants a couple of Btfly blades he can't get there.  This is Sweden we are talking about, not some table tennis backwater.  Why can't he get what he wants there of all places?  Who knows.  But he can't.

So I ordered two blades for him from Btfly USA and he pays me back.  Maybe sends me a t-shirt or something for my efforts. 

Btfly is defeated.

AndySmith wrote: Butterfly's products are good but their business practices suck.  Take your money elsewhere.  Problem solved.

I bought a flarestorm 2 and died in 3 months now theymake it with a different crappy sponge.I played with a japanese taksim and way deader than the old version

You are absolutely right. Nobody put gun on your head to buy Butterfly . Those want yo buy but unwill to pay its premium is vrying wolf. No need to yell or show you are B fans.

Shop around you definitely gotta valued products that fit your playing style.

I gave up BTY a long time ago. Never used a blade or rubbers from the Tamasu company since 2009.
Their prices are too much for me. I went to Yasaka, Donic and Xiom and I´m pretty satisfied.
I really don´t understand the need some people have to stick to BTY when there are so many other good rubbers and blades around. And I say more: for my style of play I doubt BTY has better stuff than the one I´m using now.

Exactly my experience also with Donic True Carbon. .

Joker

Just replaced Shunsaku Yamada(below) on the 6th of this month.




Edited by zeio - 10/07/2016 at 3:06pm

Say the guys with everything Stiga, lol. Of all of the more expensive tt brands, Stiga QC is probably the worst, while Butterfly near the very top, if not the top one. I've seen some Emeralds with top ply coming off the blade. I get that you hate Butterfly, but don't hate for the sake of it. I'm not using any of Butterfly stuff but I have to admit that their more expensive blades and rubbers are really really good.

I got my whole paddle for under 100 pounds (around 80 GBP, actually). A grad student on a budget, I would say. If I have the money, I would get a Viscaria with 2 sheets of Tenergy 05, lol. I can get whatever Butterfly stuff I really want (if I have the money), either from the UK or Asia, so I really don't have any problem with them.

Edited by The soul of rock - 10/07/2016 at 9:10pm

Although I hate Butterfly's outrageous prices I still say it has one of the best quality control of the high end brands. Yasaka being the most reliable in my personal experience both bladewise and rubberwise(Rakza 7 never failed me). You may have had a bad experience with butterfly but there are many ways to get around the butterfly block. Like Baal said the forum is a great place to get butterfly products. For example I got my viscaria from ProSpin on the forum for way less then what I would have paid in the US and I got to choose my weight. I believe you could do the same if you really wanted a butterfly blade. Yes I know you are talking about how butterfly is more business minded and have started to distance themselves from their customers but I don't think it is as bad as you say because there are so many alternatives for theirproducts now their prices don't really bother me. If I want an 05 clone i'll just buy mxp, If I want a viscaria clone i'll get a DOTC. This is really a good thread tho because the only way to change something is to raise awareness

Yes, because I find it's pretty amusing talking to you  You expect a $55 Grubba to be at top notch quality then it's pretty unfair to Butterfly. I'm not a fan boy of any brand, I'm not gonna cry if I cannot get some limited Stiga blades for China or Japanese market, and I won't cry if someday I have the money but cannot find a Viscaria neither. Also their is something called package fowarding if you decide you want something that badly that don't sell in your country. It's unpleasant, but that's just how the market works.

Stiga makes limited edition blades for china and japan? Which ones? And yes there shouldn't be a block but ultimately its a company and maybe they would lose money if they opened up sales to your region. I'm no buisness major so I don't really claim to know reasoning, but I do know if they can't make money from it they won't do it. No matter whose feelings they trample on. On the other hand SCREW 75$ TENERGY IN THE US. BRING BACK $50 TENERGY!!!!!!!! OOOOH RAHHHH

In some countries Tenergy is $100. Butterfly lose sales by not allowing people to buy their products, they get annoyed and buy a different brand. One STIGA example is the offensive CR is available in Asia with a solid handle and it never used to be available anywhere else until recently. Check out