Actually, I don't see it happening as the dollar is at a low relative to the yen.

 

This is definitely an authoritative verification.

 

Cornilleau is gonna release PULSE rubbers. Made in Japan, High Arc, Porous Sponge, 90% natural rubber

 

Nittaku will have this one:

 

http://www.nittaku.com/products/rubber/nr8557.html - http://www.nittaku.com/products/rubber/nr8557.html

Speedplay has to also contend with a slightly stiffling 30% sales tax.

Has the Yen to USD or Euro changed much?

You'd think it would be fake, but there are extremely reputable salesman on taobao who sell all rubbers and blades very cheap. You can find H3/H2/TG3/TG2 national rubbers under 50$. Taobao is a gold mine, you'd be shocked at what's there. 

Can one find a gf from there? Some of the guys on this forum certainly needs one 

Its hard to say. I think its always good to check reliability of sellers, that can always be a huge factor when buying from people (from ebay to taobao to even this site). There are millions of sellers, just like ebay, and more often than not, taobao is more like "buy it now" rather than bidding on things. Its so good for finding old rubbers/blades no longer in production (for example, original TSP Spin Pips, the original Samsonov Alpha, Joola Viva, etc). And since its Chinese, they have access to a lot of things you can't find anywhere else like - national team jerseys, custom rubbers and blades (for professionals), signed items. I really like it, if a foreigner wants to buy from them, use taobaofocus.

One thing that i notice a lot, is that many sellers on Taobao don't show images of actual rubber, but just a stock image. I think that this is something to look out for. Some people though, especially if its something rare, will post like a dozen pictures of the rubber showing all the details, I'd say if you're buying from someone like that, its a safer bet. 

P.S. And who can tell for sure that the bad tenergies we are bying here for the price of the real ones are not fakes?

For the prices go down or up,i think this maybe only the currency problems.

Yen is very high this 2,3 years.

Here's a Chinese Tenergy :0

scary......... but

I bet the same as every other $10 Chinese rubber, some people that are up to the skill needed for Tenergy probably wouldn't know the difference other than like the fake one better :)

Granted, you can only verify this if the seller is selling unpackaged rubbers (which most of them do)

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

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.