Dealperfect.com Item Requests

[Bomber]

As some of you may know it is possible to request items for Deal Perfect to stock. You can do this by searching around a website called TaoBao and posting your requested item on the DealPerfect forum and hoping your item is approved for sale. I have decided to make a specific thread on the forum for the speedsolving community. This way we can all post desirable items in one place and also '+1' other peoples requests thus increasing the likelihood of the item being added.

TaoBao is a primarily Chinese website although it is possible to search in English, the layout is similar to that of eBay so should be relatively easy to navigate. Some companies also have sections on the site, these include Meffert's, Cube4You and V-Cube.

Remember when requesting an item to post a direct link to it in the speedsolving request thread.

For example:

Here I have a link for a SpeedStacks timer on TaoBao. If I would like this item stocking I would post it in the thread. The SpeedStacks timer costs £10 ($17.50) from TaoBao.

[Jake Gouldon]

I think that the knockoff 6x6 should be given infinite -1s.

[Vulosity]

http://item.taobao.com/auction/item_...jhtml?cm_cat=0

JSK DIY kit.

[Bomber]

http://item.taobao.com/auction/item_...jhtml?cm_cat=0

JSK DIY kit.

Quick! Post it in the thread! I think you can do it as a guest although I am not totally sure. I would instantly +1 it, I have been looking for one for ages. I've even been looking today but still only the £27 TriBox and eBay ones to be found. I don't know if it would be viable for Deal Perfect to stock it, I can find it for £26.64 delivered, from TaoBao it is £22 without any profit for Deal Perfect. Of course they buy wholesale but I don't know if they could do it cheaply enough. Let's hope they can!

I managed to find just the JSK Cube for £9.86 ($16).

Here is the best yet. It's the whole kit for only £17.50 ($28.70)!

[Bomber]

Sorry to double post but there appears to be some progression on the collection of cubes at Deal Perfect. If you check my original post you will see that I requested a Black Cube4You cube and they started stocking them! Not only did they stock black C4U cubes but they decided to get just about the whole collection in!

Here is the collection of colours now available for the C4U Cube on Deal Perfect:
Black
White
Transparent
"Noctilucence" Green
"Noctilucence" Blue
Copper
Gold

I don't know if this was a direct influence from me but I hope it gets people at least taking notice of the possibilities, it does seem to be a coincidence that 4 days after making a request they stock it!

Here is the thread to make requests.

Edit:
Not only have they stocked the cubes I requested but the stocked the Stackmat timer! I think this almost proves that the system works and you should get requesting! I'm almost disappointed that I have just ordered a new Megaminx, it means that I can't buy anything else.

[arckuss123]

what type are they? or are they cube4you?

[panyan]

^wow dude, that is really cool, hopefully we can get them to stock loads of really cool puzzles cheap

THANK YOU BOMBER!

UPDATE: can you find an F9? i cant see it on taobao and i was told it was there

[panyan]

what type are they? or are they cube4you?

C4Y

[CharlieCooper]

oh my, this is so awesome. nice work i haven't got time to look right now, so don't flame me for palming off my requests onto somebody else but... gigaminx?

[Bomber]

oh my, this is so awesome. nice work i haven't got time to look right now, so don't flame me for palming off my requests onto somebody else but... gigaminx?

And here is the Gigaminx on TaoBao! All you really have to do is post it in my thread and hope for the best. It's best if a few people post making it known that it is desirable to more than just a few people. What you have to realise before posting is that Deal Perfect wants it to be profitable, we hardly want them to stock something brilliant and then have it turn out to be way too expensive.

Doing some calculations on the Gigaminx I have worked out that buying off Deal Perfect, if they stocked it, would probably end up being a similar price to Cube4You. Buying a single Gigaminx from TaoBao using a middle-man will cost you around $85, that should mean that if Deal Perfect stocked it wholesale it would go down a bit.