Pathetic Stiga quality

[Ravil]

Hi,

I recently ordered Stiga Mantra Pro M.
To my surprise, the rubber had marks on it despite it being in a proper sealed packaging.
I had heard in forums that they have improved their quality from the original Mantra rubbers but sadly it was not to be.
Their distributor in India failed to deliver a new sheet to me before refunding the cost.
I haven’t seen such marks on a new rubber.
I want to know if this is only with the Mantra line or the other ones from the brand too.

 

[SleepyMaster]

Hi,

I recently ordered Stiga Mantra Pro M.
To my surprise, the rubber had marks on it despite it being in a proper sealed packaging.
I had heard in forums that they have improved their quality from the original Mantra rubbers but sadly it was not to be.
Their distributor in India failed to deliver a new sheet to me before refunding the cost.
I haven’t seen such marks on a new rubber.
I want to know if this is only with the Mantra line or the other ones from the brand too.

I had similar story with Nittaku Sieger pk50 from tt11, maybe they were old butch, dunno but all black ones was with some kind of a medium size lighter spots in random part of the rubber. Now when it on discount - it has more sense to me, but when I was buying I have payed full price of 50 € per sheet

 

[Tony's Table Tennis]

I was told by few sample testers that the Made in Japan batches did have this problem.
I never had problems with Mantra (previous version) before. I didn't sell any of the current (Pro) version

 

[Zwill]

Hi,

I recently ordered Stiga Mantra Pro M.
To my surprise, the rubber had marks on it despite it being in a proper sealed packaging.
I had heard in forums that they have improved their quality from the original Mantra rubbers but sadly it was not to be.
Their distributor in India failed to deliver a new sheet to me before refunding the cost.
I haven’t seen such marks on a new rubber.
I want to know if this is only with the Mantra line or the other ones from the brand too.

My first sheet of black Mantra Pro XH had similar marks. My gf bring it from China for around 160RMB... that's like 22USD so for that I thought maybe China got some 2nd grade rubbers for cheap. It played exactly the same as my 2nd sheet from TT-Japan which had no marks. But I agree it shouldn't be like that.

 

[pongfugrasshopper]

My first sheet of black Mantra Pro XH had similar marks. My gf bring it from China for around 160RMB... that's like 22USD so for that I thought maybe China got some 2nd grade rubbers for cheap. It played exactly the same as my 2nd sheet from TT-Japan which had no marks. But I agree it shouldn't be like that.

I got mine from tt-japan.net as well. Brand new, no marks, and plays fantastic. I'm probably going to order for both sides the next time I need to replace. With the extremely favorable Yen/Dollar it's a great deal even with the pricy shipping cost. Sorry OP had to go through it, but I think the title might be a bit misleading ... I think it's a distributor issue rather than a Stiga issue.