See there we go! The first person in possession of it and they justify the price, imo he's the only one who knows if its worth it that posted so far and it'll be interesting to see what happens when more pop upOriginally Posted by Matthew3075
Yes
No
Depends on several reviews
See there we go! The first person in possession of it and they justify the price, imo he's the only one who knows if its worth it that posted so far and it'll be interesting to see what happens when more pop up
It's a lubed tensioned ZhanChi. It's be amazed if anyone said it *wasn't* great. That's not really the point.
Fair enough, The part I guess I should have quoted was the "well worth the money" part
He also compares it to a lubix zhanchi and says that he prefers it more.
He compares it to his *old* lubix ZhanChi. Last ZhanChi I bought, straight out of the box (unlubed and with not tension fiddling) I prefered to my Lubix ZhanChi. It didn't have 6 months of lube and dusk stuffing it up - which I didn't notice at the time, but when compared to a brand new cube it was dramatic.
The real test would be if it was comparable to another new cube that had just 5 mins of tensioning and a touch of lube... would it be $20 better? I dunno, I'm not going to buy them to find out. Thankfully we can use our brains and realise that there is no magical lubing technique that is worth spending more than the cost of the cube to have performed.
Having said that, the stickers look nice, and sometimes I'd prefer to pay someone else to set the tensions for me... I'm just worried about peoples claims/expectations running off to fantasy land.
Last edited by Godmil; 06-12-2012 at 04:22 AM.
I just dont think youre giving enough credit where due, It's not 5 minutes of tensioning and a touch of lube, sure, I dont know that for certain but i definitely trust Cameron enough to believe its not. Its also not just the work that makes the cube worth it, If it feels better and is faster/better in any way for any reason than a lubix ZhanChi or any ZhanChi then a higher price is justified. Expectations can run off to fantasy land sure but if someone buys it and loves it and was happy to pay what they did, I dont see a problem with that
You just have to face the fact that untill he states what his lubing tecneques are, we can only presume it is a stock zanchi with some shock oil squirted at it. Putting stickers on and tentioning may take him a long time, but it's not skilled work. You could train anyone to do it. Unskilled jobs like that pay minimum wage, meaning, what, $7 labour?
Oh, no I didn't mean Cameron was lying about the amount of work he was doing. I was just suggesting that it could be a tough comparsion between this and any other new Zhanchi that was quickly tensioned. I mean there isn't even any modding taking place, it literally is just a ZhanChi that's tensioned and lubed (and restickered).
Ahh k yeah far enough
I have been really happy with my OH zhan chi and zhan chi silk from cubicle for just over 20 each. Those were lubed, tensioned, and modded ....for less than half the original asking price
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