Dishonourable Butterfly

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Do you have to play with Butterfly equipment?

Even if I love butterfly for their good products, I have many complaints too. From the problem that shaun mentioned, to the VERY high prices.

You can't order from another country. They changed that like 2-3 years ago. Sadly !

Edited by Egghead - 10/09/2017 at 7:01pm

shaun729 wrote: Why do Butterfly not allow people to buy Butterfly equipment from countries other than their own. Butterfly is a company without honour who are ripping off their customers by forcing them to buy lower quality blades from Germany instead of the higher quality blades from Japan. What was once a respected company is respected no more. If your blade breaks and the local distributor is out of stock then you may have to wait months and even then it could be the inferior version from Europe, if your local distributor is out of your rubber another wait that could take months, it's a disgrace. You can't even buy a Viscaria or Primorac off- in Japan but they are available elsewhere.

They didn't always do this.  I used to get Tenergy for less at places like TT-Japan.  Their pricing and marketing are not designed to make us happy, that is for sure.

100niTenis wrote: You can't order from another country. They changed that like 2-3 years ago. Sadly !

I always wonder why canadians can order from usa. Its another country :)

Yes, Butterfly has a North American distributor.  Each distributor has a territory and they are not supposed to sell outside of it.

I emailed Butterfly when they first started this practice and they claimed that they weren't stopping distributors from selling to other countries and that it was a big coincidence that all the distributors made the decision on the same day. Another problem was that if a shop kept distributing Butterfly equipment some idiot would put that information on an open forum, Butterfly would find out and that shop would stop selling it. Think before you post, use private messaging or you might as well just dob the shop in to Butterfly yourself. 

Yes I agree completely , or at the very least the distributor for each region should be forced to stock the complete Butterfly range.

It has been a really long time since BTY raised their prices and  turned into a greedy company with a stupid commercial policy. The solution is quite simple, move away to another brand. The market is loaded with so many different brands&choices from fair quality DHS fiber blades at an affordable prices to more expensive allwood blades from nittaku with even better craftmaship. There´s absolutely nothing special on BTY Blades or rubbers nowadays, Tenergy was the best at 2008 by far but ESN is quite par nowadays that it´s not worth it (Ferenc Karsai also thinks so, a former coach of the last European world champion at Bercy 2003 sponsored by BTY)

Edited by jonyer1980 - 10/10/2017 at 5:11pm

I really don´t understand the reason some players make a tempest about Butterfly policy.

Baal wrote: Basquests wrote: Didn't TT11 start stocking a few blades like the super ZLC etc, on their .com version. Given they differenciate pricing based on location, I'd assume they wouldn't show products you couldn't actually buy. Presports have a few rubbers and blades too. If I order from there, will these sites not fulfil it?<span style="white-space:pre">     </span> <span style="white-space:pre">     </span> Nope.  I am not sure where your distributor would be, though. I think if you tried to buy Bttfly from them in the US or New Zealand they would send you a polite email saying they are not allowed to send it to you.

I emailed presports. I can buy butterfly products from them in nz.

Ive never bought any tenergy and dont see the need to with mxp working well, rozena i might try for the bh though, esp given its competitive price.

Will stick to acoustics for the blade.

Btfly isnt nearly as tempting pre ESN

Baal wrote: I used to buy stuff from Presports on occasion.  Haven't used them in a long time but they were quite reliable.