If someone offered to clean/lube your speedcube for you for a small fee + shipping, would you take the offer?
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ender9994
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Couple questions:
Only for 3x3, or including higher order puzzles?
What type of lube?
Able to specify lube type and location?
To me, it would probably be worth $5 for a 3x3 and $10 for other puzzles, but would depend on type of cleaning. Full disassemblely? Because that can take quite a bit of time. Regardless, shipping would probably make it not worth it.
Only for 3x3, or including higher order puzzles?
What type of lube?
Able to specify lube type and location?
To me, it would probably be worth $5 for a 3x3 and $10 for other puzzles, but would depend on type of cleaning. Full disassemblely? Because that can take quite a bit of time. Regardless, shipping would probably make it not worth it.
Thank you for your response
1. Just for 3x3.
2. You would be able to select a lube for the core, and another lube for the pieces, and one more for the hardware.
3. Cleaning would include complete sanitization. You would get to choose between faster cleaning without full assembly or more thorough cleaning with full assembly.
Also, what price would you put on just cleaning, or just lubing? or both together?
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Deleted member 55877
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I personally would never pay for this service because I prefer doing it myself. But I can imagine some people who feel like they are incapable of doing this and/or don't have the materials. I think the fee for cleaning should be around $3, and the fee for lubing also $3. Cleaning takes more time, but lube is consumable; so I think the prices should be about the same.
Yes, that is a reasonable answer. What about repairing dislodged magnets. What price would you pay for that?
qwr
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The biggest cost in these kind of things is shipping.
I personally enjoy setting up my puzzles myself but I know people who really don't like doing that kind of thing. However they would just order a custom cube from Cubicle or SCS which has a known good reputation. If it's a used cube, maybe someone will just buy a new cube.
For higher order puzzles, I think a magnetization service could be worth it. I wouldn't want to magnetize an 10x10 by hand, but you probably wouldn't want to either.
I personally enjoy setting up my puzzles myself but I know people who really don't like doing that kind of thing. However they would just order a custom cube from Cubicle or SCS which has a known good reputation. If it's a used cube, maybe someone will just buy a new cube.
For higher order puzzles, I think a magnetization service could be worth it. I wouldn't want to magnetize an 10x10 by hand, but you probably wouldn't want to either.
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Deleted member 55877
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It depends. Sometimes dislodged magnets are easy to repair, just by sliding them into their slot. Other times it's more tricky and requires something like hot glue. I think $2 per magnet is reasonable
qwr
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$2 per magnet? At that point I would just buy a new cube. It's not economical unless you can get rid of shipping costs.
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True, that's why I never would pay for the service.
Nir1213
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something like fixing the magnets in the valk elite 3 m, which has 96 magnets, could cost alot. Maybe all the magnets were dislodged, in that case it would cost over $100. Even if 15 magnets were dislodged its still $30 dollars.
Maybe like 50 cents for sliding the magnet in, because that is incredibly easy to do (unless either you are super lazy or the cap is hard to take off) and for gluing it, like 3 dollars each cause gluing it takes time and the guy whos fixing the magnets wastes his own glue
Maybe like 50 cents for sliding the magnet in, because that is incredibly easy to do (unless either you are super lazy or the cap is hard to take off) and for gluing it, like 3 dollars each cause gluing it takes time and the guy whos fixing the magnets wastes his own glue
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DNF_Cuber
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I think you could charge $2 for 1 magnet, and 10 cents for each additional one.
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True, I didn't think of that because I usually only ever have 1 or 2 magnets dislocated.
I agree with this idea, but I think it should be $3 for the first magnet
Nir1213
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People are lucky to have cubes with interchangeable magnets. That way, they save $2.50 for each dislodged magnet!
Also I wonder if there is a way for the magnets to not dislodge, it can sometimes happen and in some reviews on 3x3's I saw that some of the magnets got dislodged and they had to glue it back, probably cause of poor maintnence on the cube.
qwr
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The exact pricing isn't important. The shipping both ways is important. It can be profitable to magnetize and setup new cubes but it's much harder if people have to send you stuff. Now some puzzles were never factory magnetized and I would be possibly interested in getting magnetized versions, ex. magnetized chuwen or xinghen 2x2 since I like the feel but the cubicle and SCS versions are discontinued. Even a magnetized shengshou kilominx could be really interesting if you can figure out how to do it.
Nir1213
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I feel like every 3x3 should have systems where you can add magnets, even to ones that arent magnetized in case they want to magnetize it, instead of using glue and stuff.
qwr
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then they can just sell factory magnetic cubes.
DNF_Cuber
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It is usually poor gluing that causes that. Cubes such as the huanglong have bad magnet glue.
SH03L4C3
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I wouldn't do 3x3 but something like a6x6. I'd pay shipping from my side and an additional $5-10
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qwr
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but there are very good factory magnetic 6x6s now
SH03L4C3
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