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liXiao 
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 Posted: 06/20/2011 at 2:20am |
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Guys, its actually really simple to tell the difference between the real and fake butterfly rubbers. Essentially, all fake butterfly rubbers that I have seen, besides the cheap price, is that there is a 1-2 mm space between where the stamp is placed, and where the end of the rubber is. Real butterfly rubbers begin with the rubber stamp, fakes have a small gap between the bottom of the sheet and the stamp.
Granted, you can only verify this if the seller is selling unpackaged rubbers (which most of them do)
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Imago
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Posted: 06/20/2011 at 4:41am |
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usd 7 to be precise
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bleachfan92
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Posted: 06/20/2011 at 5:53am |
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Untrue. it takes more than that to see if its fake.
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mayuki24
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Posted: 06/20/2011 at 6:19am |
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Maybe one could buy a sheet from them and post a review for the fake tenergy
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ttcyfi
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Posted: 07/19/2011 at 12:53pm |
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Whatever happened to the apparent price drop that was going to take place after July 1st? I was eagerly waiting for the price drop but nothing happened.
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AcudaDave
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Posted: 07/19/2011 at 12:58pm |
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ttcyfi...people are still buying Tenergy like crazy...so BTY would be crazy to drop it's prices. Now the German companies like Donic, Tibhar, and Joola are following suit and are raising their prices. A couple months ago you could buy Donic Acuda S3 for about $42, now it's $50 everywhere. We should all just stop buying this high-priced equip and play with Friendship or some other chinese brand. That would make them take notice...but it ain't gonna happen cause too many people are in love with Tenergy.
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Anton Chigurh
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Posted: 07/19/2011 at 1:22pm |
This may be true where you are, but I recently played a tournament and was surprised to see that out of the 50 or so competitors that I spoke with/competed against, only two of them were using Tenergy, and only one of them was a 2000 level player. In fact, the guy who won the Open division was using regular Sriver.  Most people were using Tensors, the most common of which was Tibhar Genius. Of course, this was just a small snapshot of players in this region but part of me was surprised not to see more players using Tenergy. I suppose I shouldn't be too surprised since at least three times a week someone new posts on this site "seeking a Tenergy replacement". |
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AcudaDave
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Posted: 07/19/2011 at 1:26pm |
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wow...everyone around my area is playing with Tenergy...or at least the majority of players. Other popular rubbers are Donic Acuda/Baracuda, Stiga Boost series, and Gambler/Friendship. Most of the 1900+ loopers however are using Tenergy...but I have converted a lot of people to Baracuda/Acuda.
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bluebucket
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Posted: 07/19/2011 at 1:34pm |
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I see the majority of the high level young gun juniors use Tenergy. I think it's more about following what their coaches tell them to use or they are copying pro players that need a tuned rubber rather than any real reason. Among adults most of the high level players are certainly using Tensors, commonly the Roxon series or one of the Acuda's, Vega pro, Hexer and Baracuda get a bit of a look also, a few people are using Razka 7 / Palio Blitz.
In the more normal levels, the older soft glue sounding tensors are popular like the softer Roxons, the handful of people that are using Chinese rubbers are mostly using one of the Globe 999's or H2. Overall at serious tournaments I would say half the people at the very pointed end are using one of the Tenergys and the other half a Tensor. Immediately below the very top level, then almost everyone is using Tensors, with one or two on 999 or H2. Lower down there's more softer tensors and a few on Sriver and other Chinese stuff like H3 or Red diamond etc
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Anton Chigurh
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Posted: 07/19/2011 at 1:36pm |
I recently revisited Acuda and I agree--it's very nice. I tried some Calibra LT recently too. It's too advanced for me, but I liked it much better than Tenergy. Similar spin but much better speed. Calibra is a beast. |
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Slade
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Posted: 07/19/2011 at 1:56pm |
Still $33 at ttnpp. Blitz is a great deal at $28 pre-shipping as well. |
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pablogilberto
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Posted: 07/19/2011 at 2:00pm |
I think i'm going to try the S1 or S1 Turbo pretty soon, but I agree...Calibra is a BEAST. |
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bluebucket
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Posted: 07/19/2011 at 2:00pm |
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Inside the states the price will be up because of the ever weakening US dollar
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Posted: 07/19/2011 at 2:13pm |
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martian22
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Posted: 08/17/2011 at 6:56pm |
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update. Tenergy prices have gone from £48 to £53 on most uk tt sites. So tenergy now costs $87 in the UK....great
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TSuBaSa
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Posted: 08/18/2011 at 3:00pm |
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I've found a rubber grips well and goes for years and cheaper than tenergy!!!!
http://www.tyre-shopper.co.uk/ts/search/tyredetails.aspx?code=1757013GY9T |
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ejmeser
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Posted: 08/18/2011 at 3:01pm |
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Which blade are you using with these rubbers?
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TSuBaSa
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Posted: 08/18/2011 at 3:12pm |
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I asked the guy on the phone and he says "yeah there is hollow parts in it and there is also aluminium alloy, so I guess its a stiga aluminium wrb.
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Cornilleau pulse rider is quite similar to calibra lt spin, a bit softer. It is not a tenergy like. Very very fast, speed glue effect is very high, the highest I've seen. Older pilot power looked like a stiga boost, new pulse look like stiga calibra.
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Posted: 09/19/2011 at 11:00pm |
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+2 Calibra LT is a beast. To high powered for me to handle. Most mid level tournament players I see are using Acuda S2, Red Diamond, Barracuda, Sriver Series, Mark V, Hurricanes, a few Tenergy's, Friendships, Rakza 7's, various long pips and anti's. For the cost of one sheet of Tenergy you can buy 24 Sport Craft Brand hard bats at Walmart.
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liXiao
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Posted: 09/20/2011 at 12:03am |
its because every currency over the past two-three months (and probably mostly in the last month) took a massive hit against the yen. The japanese are very unhappy about the fact that the yen keeps getting stronger and stronger (fewer people will buy from them because of sky rocketing import prices), and have attempted numerous times to bring down the yen, which have in effect, failed. The yen has really remained the strongest currency through the economic downturn starting in 2008: the japanese were probably the next most affected after the US, although now as we see, Europe is far worse off now than back in 2008. But back to my main point, the USD has gained grounds on almost all currencies EXCEPT the yen. I buy a lot of stuff from japan, including stuff like clothing, but I've had to stop, sadly.
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Posted: 09/20/2011 at 1:00am |
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http://butterfly-world.com/index.php?id=7&L=1
Friends, You all had better to only purchase BTF products from the "reliable" vendors as present in the Butterfly's Partner panel. It is the best possible way for you not to run onto the fakes of China origin. Chinese are famous for reproducing EVERYTHING with a great skill, tt rubbers including. So, you would not tell fake BTF from authentic just by visual inspection. To disclose fabrication an instrumental examination shoul be done on the suspicious rubber, such as Shore's durometer tests for the sponge actual hardness, or comparative weighing of rubber specimens. |
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