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Marketing and sponsorship, there you go... and I don’t believe everything I’m told...

Not Ferrari, Mercedes maybe. I know several Bty users. Most of them have been using Tenergy for a long time...

Oooohhh 😳 TT was invented in Africa 😋

That’s a very good point. Who says they have to be sponsored. Lets stop buying the products and see how many will still be sponsored.

"As I write this column, the current price is $2.46, which is almost twice as much as the April 2020 price of $1.33 at the beginning of the pandemic." Let's say $3 per kg, It takes are approximately 10 sheets to make 1kg. That makes 30 cents per sheet, If it was made of 100% rubber. So the...

It shows a lot. My last batch of Rakza 7 I paid ~30Euros per sheet, will last me the rest of this year.

I'm sorry but I watched the butterfly rubber manufacturing video and it's not that complicated, I don't think the invention process is either. And I have chosen....

Thats why I posted earlier: The proper thing to do would be to use Chinese rubbers made in China so that the Japanese and European manufacturers would have to lower the prices 😀.Unfortunately there are very few "Euro" style non sticky ones made in china....

Actually You are wrong here. To me the price picture matters a lot more on consumables, and I don't think I am different from most people here. I can tell You that I absolutely will not buy anymore Bty rubbers but I may buy another blade. A Cartel or as You call it a duopoly that decides prices...

I hear You, and there in their own little cartel...

Like what I said in an earlier post "corruption" is the only reason it would be so expensive. The Ferrari is not a consumable, You don't get a new one each Year (Well some people do but most of us don't). The tires are kind of like I said.... Tires are of a similar material, but the...

Actually, already when I competed in the mid 70's I remember the equipment being very expensive. Of course I was 12-13 years old then an had a different view on what money was worth. I do remember the whole package as being expensive, but I cant separate the parts...I looked at the ITTF thread...

Don't forget about Mexico (music instruments). Of course, but when the products are for Western companies and exported they are the real thing, when You buy the same product in China it's more often then not a fake, of course much cheaper. Also when You are ordering online from China You expose...

Yea those serves are well masked...

The proper thing to do would be to use Chinese rubbers made in China so that the Japanese and European manufacturers would have to lower the prices 😀. Anybody know of such a rubber? It would have to be no sticky and with Tensor like characteristics.

On order from a Japaneese company...

That's a ridiculous comparison. A Ferrari is not a consumable, at least not where I'm from... A comparison of car tires would have been better. And You are mixing apples and pears this was a discussion about expensive rubbers...

I seriously doubt that there is much difference in that department. They manufacture in the same factory with the same materials and the put on different names ... They have a few varieties of sponges and topsheets, that's the only difference, At least between the ESN rubbers made in...

I'm playing with Rakza 7 now, they last me 6 months to a Year, so Im fine in that department...

"ta KA ta KA ta KA ta KA ta...." That's two beats per bar...., with pronounciation on the second beat.... A very normal warmup beat 😉