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If you don't want to end up buying from eBay then there is only ONE legitimate source where you can order Butterfly products online:
www.butterfly.tt
Some smaller shops might have some leftovers from old Butterfly gear, but since Butterfly has some very strict sales restrictions the TT-shops are only allowed to sell Butterfly rubbers offline in their TT-stores.
To your second part of the question:
building a large stock doesn't make a lot of sense from my point of view.
Firstly the rubbers aren't vacuum sealed so it's pretty likely there will be some oxidation process.
Secondly i know from a shop owner i know that Butterfly doesn't give any big discounts, even if you order in bulk like twenty or thirty rubbers.
So many shop owners just sell Butterfly rubbers just to satisfy their customers, and they don't make as much profit than from most other TT-companies.
www.butterfly.tt
Some smaller shops might have some leftovers from old Butterfly gear, but since Butterfly has some very strict sales restrictions the TT-shops are only allowed to sell Butterfly rubbers offline in their TT-stores.
To your second part of the question:
building a large stock doesn't make a lot of sense from my point of view.
Firstly the rubbers aren't vacuum sealed so it's pretty likely there will be some oxidation process.
Secondly i know from a shop owner i know that Butterfly doesn't give any big discounts, even if you order in bulk like twenty or thirty rubbers.
So many shop owners just sell Butterfly rubbers just to satisfy their customers, and they don't make as much profit than from most other TT-companies.
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Suga D has given all the important answers.
I will explain what Suga D means by Rubber Oxidization: when a rubber sits around for a while the rubber degrades. So if you bought enough Tenergy to last a few years, the ones that you open a few years from now would be worse than they would have been if you opened them when you bought them.
I will explain what Suga D means by Butterfly sales restrictions: if you see Tenergy being sold for a reasonable price, chances are it is fake. Because if a seller is selling it for a 20% discount, they are not making any money and if the discount is larger than that, they are losing money.
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I will explain what Suga D means by Rubber Oxidization: when a rubber sits around for a while the rubber degrades. So if you bought enough Tenergy to last a few years, the ones that you open a few years from now would be worse than they would have been if you opened them when you bought them.
I will explain what Suga D means by Butterfly sales restrictions: if you see Tenergy being sold for a reasonable price, chances are it is fake. Because if a seller is selling it for a 20% discount, they are not making any money and if the discount is larger than that, they are losing money.
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Thanks. I am asking because in my country these rubbers are more expensive so I buy when I travel to europe. Do you think That 6 months is a long time to stock rubbers?
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That should be ok. With many Butterfly products the storage period shouldn´t be too long, so the products wouldn´t be sitting on the shelf for long already ... And the degradation will be more theoretical than actually noticeable.
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I MO, unless you are leaving the rubbers in the freezer or in the sun, 95% of amateur players will play well with old rubbers that have been reasonably stored. They can't be worse than the used 1 year old Tenergy I can still play with.
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Exactly.
There are shops around here that I wouldn´t buy "exotic" rubbers from, rubbers that were introduced several years ago but never caught on. In those cases it´s almost guaranteed to receive the initial stock from several years ago. But generally, not a big problem.
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Is there a shop there where you can find Nittaku Narucross GS Supersoft in a decent volume (10 sheets, 5 red, 5 black)? I will be willing to play a decent amount per sheet to get that.
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Not near where I am.
I have only found it online: http://nittaku.tt/collections/tischtennis-belaege-material/products/narucross-gs-soft
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Thanks. Their price is decent at current exchange rates. I just wiped out their stock.
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Hahaha... I will give you the blade to play with. And then you will tell me whether I am an EJ or have just discovered something special. It won't last but it will be good while it lasted. LOL.
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The important questions are:
1) how much fun do you have trying different equipment?
2) how much fun do you have coming up with new theories of what will help your game most?
and
3) how many blades and rubbers have you tried in the last 6 months.
I say the Super EJ Award goes to NextLevel. He has taken the art of EJing to a totally different level.
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Not that much fun. I thought I was happy with T80 and only tried Nexy Karis because of the hype. Nexy Karis totally changed my brain when it came to rubbers. I used to think I needed the spinniest rubber, but now my technique has improved enough that I need a consistent rubber that I can rally with and open with. It makes no sense to be losing points just because you can't control your rubber. I started seeing with Karis how many points I was losing because my brain didn't understand Tenergy. Trust me, if I had a choice between Tenergy and Mark V now, I could see myself using Mark V. I now understand what a 2200 player who used Mark V meant when I asked him why he used it on his forehand and he said that he understood it and knew what it was going to do and he couldn't say that about anything else. A point comes when you want that in your technique above all else. As Nexy Prez would say, you don't want "unpredictable ball movement."
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Just an idea: a robot that tracks changes of equipment in the forum member's profiles. The one who gets the most changes during the year gets the "Epic EJ" award at the end of the year with a symbolic prize.
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