Is Lubix becoming ridiculous?

Is the creator of lubix too ahead of himself

  • Yes

    Votes: 50 42.7%

  • No

    Votes: 67 57.3%
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I mean if I don't like my Lunhai that I ordered (doubtful..but whatever) and I get drunk I'll please you trolls who say its at 100 dollars and bid that, dunno if the guy right now has a max bid over 100 but just sayin. Actualy I have a feeling the guy was a jerk and put the max bid at 100, so I'd do 99 to try and prevent me buying it, though to be honest, locking the alcohol cabinet would probably be more effective.
 
EricReese said:
I mean if I don't like my Lunhai that I ordered (doubtful..but whatever) and I get drunk I'll please you trolls who say its at 100 dollars and bid that, dunno if the guy right now has a max bid over 100 but just sayin. Actualy I have a feeling the guy was a jerk and put the max bid at 100, so I'd do 99 to try and prevent me buying it, though to be honest, locking the alcohol cabinet would probably be more effective.
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Aren't you too young to be drinking legally?
 
i predict this thread getting closed and you getting banned for "spamming", since clearly 4 pages of posts were devoted to meaningless argument about the appropriateness of this thread.
 
Im not reading the above thread guys but i have a little rant for you

rant/ Ok so a small thing of lubix cost $10 not 15. It lasts a long time. I decided to buy a huge one because with a 70+ cube collection i needed alot. It is the most dignified investment i have ever made cube wise it has lasted me forever and is AMAZING! A ultimate is 20 because the DIY is $12 or the assembled is $13 http://bit.ly/huTzrx he put it together lubes it and mods it so with shipping ut only paying $5 more then a regular gu hong. Which isnt really that bad. The mod takes 30 min for this gu hong for Lubix to do himself. It took me 45 min and its not as good as the one i got from him. Yes the home mod is fine but if you want an amazing cube go get a Ultimate. Lubix puts alot of effort into each and every cube so they are the very best! the Lubix ELITE is only worth $35 because it does take him about 3 hours per cube to make each elite PERFECT! which he makes sure they are before shipping them. If you are referring to the Ebay bid you need to stop being a NOOB and look at the starting price which is $0.01 OMG 1 cent!!!! not $100 seriously dude! Now the reason its is at $91 as we speak is because as demand is high and supply is low then the prices rise and some people will od anything to get their hands on a cube that is in limited quantity. Learn you economics already!!! Also i dont know of anything that is the same as lubix at all name one thing for $5 that will not ruin the plastic, is safe to inhale and digust if that happens, and makes the cube spin like lubix does. I DARE YOU!!! i bet you cant find something. Yes there are nice alternatives but nothing is LIKE or SIMILAR or BETTER than lubix its self! Do i think Lubix is worth the little extra money YES do i believe that the owner Donovan is getting ahead of himself NO there isnt even a way for him too. /End Rant

Ok so thats my thoughts guys
 
Ridiculous. Donovan expressed in a recent vlog that he couldn't keep up with demand for Elites and it was tiring to keep up with. I almost posted at the time that he needed to raise the price--it's so obvious. He's not a minimum wage laborer; the market is willing to pay him more for his expertise. If you honestly think you can do as well or better with a home mod, then good for you. Otherwise, more power to him! Duh.
 
Tall5001 said:
Im not reading the above thread guys but i have a little rant for you

rant/ Ok so a small thing of lubix cost $10 not 15. It lasts a long time. I decided to buy a huge one because with a 70+ cube collection i needed alot. It is the most dignified investment i have ever made cube wise it has lasted me forever and is AMAZING! A ultimate is 20 because the DIY is $12 or the assembled is $13 http://bit.ly/huTzrx he put it together lubes it and mods it so with shipping ut only paying $5 more then a regular gu hong. Which isnt really that bad. The mod takes 30 min for this gu hong for Lubix to do himself. It took me 45 min and its not as good as the one i got from him. Yes the home mod is fine but if you want an amazing cube go get a Ultimate. Lubix puts alot of effort into each and every cube so they are the very best! the Lubix ELITE is only worth $35 because it does take him about 3 hours per cube to make each elite PERFECT! which he makes sure they are before shipping them. If you are referring to the Ebay bid you need to stop being a NOOB and look at the starting price which is $0.01 OMG 1 cent!!!! not $100 seriously dude! Now the reason its is at $91 as we speak is because as demand is high and supply is low then the prices rise and some people will od anything to get their hands on a cube that is in limited quantity. Learn you economics already!!! Also i dont know of anything that is the same as lubix at all name one thing for $5 that will not ruin the plastic, is safe to inhale and digust if that happens, and makes the cube spin like lubix does. I DARE YOU!!! i bet you cant find something. Yes there are nice alternatives but nothing is LIKE or SIMILAR or BETTER than lubix its self! Do i think Lubix is worth the little extra money YES do i believe that the owner Donovan is getting ahead of himself NO there isnt even a way for him too. /End Rant

Ok so thats my thoughts guys
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Well if it's in high demand, obviously it's going to start at $0.01. Check any other very popular item, and they all start out at $0.01.
 
I have close to 30 cubes.

After getting 2 Guhongs and a MF8 legend recently, I had an epiphany: I have only 2 hands! And my time improvements creeps rather than leaps regardless of the cubes or lubes.

That said, more power to lubix if he can get away with it. It's a capitalist world. :cool:
And more importantly, it's not my money. ;)
 
JyH said:
Well if it's in high demand, obviously it's going to start at $0.01. Check any other very popular item, and they all start out at $0.01.
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Exactly! so its not him thats asking the huge amount for it. its the people who are willing to spend the huge amount for a cube in small supply right now so dont be hating on donovan its not his choice
 
TBH I think $100 for a 3x3 is totally insane and there's no way I'd pay for one at the current price but I'm also sixteen and jobless for the next few weeks. Do I think I'd buy one for $35? Yeah I probably would. Will I wait for the price to come down? Most definitely.

Do I blame Donovan for anything except providing a great cube for us to use? Nope, not one bit. Like others have said, if you think it's overpriced then don't buy it. I have bought Lubix lube and self modded my GuHong to an Ultimate and it's amazing from my shoddy first attempt at it. After his experience I'm sure a true Ultimate will put mine to shame simply because he has that knowledge.

As previously stated, he's not setting the price. We are. Simple as that. He has no competition so his prices rise. If someone else (maybe you since you find his business so ridiculous) were to open up a business that sold great quality modded cubes for much cheaper then he'd be forced to drop his price. I guess the basics of economics are escaping you.
 
$100 sounds like a lot of money, but is it? I've probably used my Ultimate for hundreds of hours, and I enjoy solving it more than any other cube.
How much is a video game in the US - $60 (if it's not got multiplayer that could only last you 15-20 hours)?
How much is a 11x11? ~$200 How often do you think people solve those things, as much as their main 3x3?
How many rhetorical questions do you think I can put in this post? Too many?
 
I do not agree with the OP, but there are some things in your post that I want to point out.



Tall5001 said:
Ok so a small thing of lubix cost $10 not 15. It lasts a long time. I decided to buy a huge one because with a 70+ cube collection i needed alot. It is the most dignified investment i have ever made cube wise it has lasted me forever and is AMAZING!
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The point is that you can buy High Diff Silicone Oil for much cheaper, and get over 10 times the amount that comes in a Lubix container.
Lubix is just High Differential Silione Oil.



Now the reason its is at $91 as we speak is because as demand is high and supply is low then the prices rise and some people will od anything to get their hands on a cube that is in limited quantity.
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That's one of the points that the OP is trying to make, and you're the one who didn't seem to understand it. He is saying that Lubix is specifically choosing to decrease the supply, as the demand is increasing, so that people will pay huge amounts of money for a cube, through auctions on ebay. He doesn't agree that what Lubix is doing is right, by purposely lowering the amount of Elites in the market, meaning that the prices are more than doubling.



Also i dont know of anything that is the same as lubix at all name one thing for $5 that will not ruin the plastic, is safe to inhale and digust if that happens, and makes the cube spin like lubix does. I DARE YOU!!! i bet you cant find something. Yes there are nice alternatives but nothing is LIKE or SIMILAR or BETTER than lubix its self
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:fp
Yes, actually this isn't a secret. Lubix is just High Differential Silicone Oil.
You "DARE ME?" It's not that hard. Just do some research, lurk, and look through some topics on the forums.

How can you say there is nothing "like, similar, or better," when it's completely obvious you haven't even looked into this?
Do you actually think that Donovan chemically engineers his own lubricant? Lol.




Again, I don't agree with the OP, but just had to point out some things in this post.
If you want to see where I stand, go back and read the thread where I posted my opinion, which is something you already said you didn't do.
 
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