Butterfly Price Revision???

Baal wrote: eon, I wonder what they mean by "error"?  Did someone go into their website and systematically lower the prices on virtually every product?  Or had they planned on having a sale and then thought better of it and decided not to honor the prices on their website?

fatt wrote: I think a webmaster screwed up; they tried to apply a 25% discount to some item(s); then the discount applied site wide...I remember the MJ SZLC  at $255 or the regular MJ at $153... OOOPS!

I hope its an error, because I'm mad that I didn't hear about the sale and buy something. 

they honor it? Eonblue, i would be annoyed if i were you. you would have saved quite a bit.

Now that I am home I see that I hve received an email from Butterfly indicating that they have shipped the two sheets of T05 that I bought for $51/ea.  I guess I got lucky.

I still have no idea why the price was only for about one day.

kindof99 wrote: Even at $51 for tenergy, they still make a lot of money out of it.

pnachtwey wrote: kindof99 wrote: Even at $51 for tenergy, they still make a lot of money out of it. YES!!!! A LOT OF MONEY!   After the initial development making TT rubber are as good as gold or oil.  It costs little to run an injection molding machine and glue sponge to a top sheet then cut it. The price has nothing to do with the exchange rate or what it costs to make.  The manufacturers charge what the market is willing to pay. Think of software.  Microsoft Office sells for many 100s of dollars.  It doesn't cost that much to print a CD.

Butterfly needs to charge enough to pay for R&D, marketing, employee wages, benefits, rent, utilities etc.  Such things cost money.  Same for Microsoft.  Software maintenance updates aren't free.  Just because a product is finished development doesn't mean there aren't anymore expenses.

Back when the Japanese Yen was better than the dollar (76 JPY = 1 USD ) about two or three years ago, Butterfly North America raised their prices blaming the bad currency exchange rate. Ever since the USD has shot up compared to the JPY in the last year, Butterfly NA never brought the prices back down for the same reasoning. So its all BS anyway. Butterfly NA can charge whatever they want for whatever reason, as long as Tenergy is popular and people are buying it. Just don't believe what they say in those stupid notifications, press releases, etc.

Edited by LOOPMEISTER - 02/24/2015 at 5:17pm

(loopmeister)  Who would actually buy Tenergy for $75 or even $80 USD?

Apparently some players did, at a whopping $89.95 per sheet, which Butterfly graciously reduced to a more modest $69.95 a sheet a while back.

My Winter 2013/2014 Paddle Palace catalog has the various varieties of Tenergy priced at an even more modest $64.95 per sheet.

See, Tassie52 and NoRema and roundrobin and Baal, I can write about something else other than *******.  I've even played a bit with Tenergy on a borrowed racket a few years back (don't remember which type, probably Tenergy 05).  It didn't do a heck of a lot for my fh and bh loopette a la Wang Hao (is he retired now? pity.), because the tables at the Armory Park Recreation Center here in Tuscon (20? year old Stiga Privat rollaways) were restained apparently some time ago, and they no longer take the spin we've all come to love.




Edited by berndt_mann - 02/24/2015 at 6:36pm

I got this today:

Thank you for your order with Butterfly Table Tennis. 

 We wanted to make you aware there was an issue with our website over the weekend where pricing was showing incorrectly.    We will honor this price for the order that was placed but any future orders will have to be at the current price listed.

 Thank you for choosing Butterfly Table Tennis for your table tennis needs.

 Best regards,

 Ken

Baal wrote: Now that I am home I see that I hve received an email from Butterfly indicating that they have shipped the two sheets of T05 that I bought for $51/ea.  I guess I got lucky.

yep (to slevin).

slevin wrote: Baal wrote: Now that I am home I see that I hve received an email from Butterfly indicating that they have shipped the two sheets of T05 that I bought for $51/ea.  I guess I got lucky. Here's the thing: Even at $51, Tenergy rubbers are too expensive. At Dandoy, for instance, one can buy 4 MX-P sheets for about $32 a piece. Comparing that $32 to the current T05 price of $68 per sheet just goes to show how ludicrous BTY pricing is at the moment.

So what we are seeing is that when USD is low, they raise their price in USA because of the exchange rate. That is understandable. Now the yen is low, and it is logical to think that they will lower the USD price to match. But hey, they raised their JPY price from 6k to 8k yen to level with USD pricing instead! Even price in Australia was AUD80 when AUD is on par with USD. And they never give discount over RRP unless they have made a mistake. I must say they are running one of the most successful business in the world.

Edited by TurboZ - 03/01/2015 at 12:35am

VictorK wrote: TurboZ wrote: Unless we start seeing players with rubbers other than Tenergy and DHS National (they are even more expensive and harder to get than Tenergy) winning tournaments, I am afraid the trend of Butterfly domination will never end. Or, unless players, especially at non-professional levels, start realizing that their level of play is not negatively affected by using other, less expensive brands.