rubik2005
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The sellers on Amazon only care about profit. Nothing else
DNF_Cuber
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yeah, that's kinda the most important part of business.
SH03L4C3
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yes. I have experience with all of the amazon sellers customer service when I used to buy from there (DFantix, Cuberspeed, liangcuber and others) and I must say, DFantix has the best customer service , the others are trash.
DNF_Cuber
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D-Fantix has the worst puzzles though. Cuberspeed is probably the best. (IMO)
H0BB3
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Yeah but I feel like if you are going to spend the money you may as well just order off of a speed cubing website.
rubik2005
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While it's important, it's not the most important factor. If I had business, I would rather sell products and earn a profit of 10% with a group of 20 loyal customers than sell products and earn a profit of 60% but only two people buy from me. If you don't have a good connection with your audience (speedcubers and Amazon), you won't get them to buy from you, and that's why they target non-cubers/beginners instead (they don't know about other cube stores and shop on Amazon all the time.
The Cubicle is really engaged with the community, and this is seen through the sponsoring of competitions/cubers, Social Media (Twitch, YouTube, Instagram), etc. which is a very influential reason as to why so many of us are drawn to them. They help us, we help them.
SH03L4C3
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I guess it is better for small orders because you are not paying shipping.
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True because I ordered off of cubing out loud for 3 cubes and the 10dollar shipping killed the price..
DNF_Cuber
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I meant total profit not profit margin
Cubing Forever
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I discovered that the 4x4 OLL parity alg is a U ZBLL which looks like this on 3x3:
pyrapyravince
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I just figured something out
Kilominx: Kilobyte
Megaminx: Megabyte
Gigaminx: Gigabyte
And then teraminx (terabyte) examinx (exabyte), and so on and so forth.
So, a 1x1x1 megaminx would be a bytaminx.
I might be dumb and this is obvious for some other people.
Topic change: What the hek does minx mean?
Kilominx: Kilobyte
Megaminx: Megabyte
Gigaminx: Gigabyte
And then teraminx (terabyte) examinx (exabyte), and so on and so forth.
So, a 1x1x1 megaminx would be a bytaminx.
I might be dumb and this is obvious for some other people.
Topic change: What the hek does minx mean?
They're named after SI prefixes. "Mega" and higher aren't in common use outside of science and computers; in colloquial usage, we say "tonne" rather than "megagram", for example. This is probably why your first association to kilo/mega/giga/tera are with computer storage units rather than SI prefixes in general.
(The notation "n×n" minx also bothers me a lot—these things aren't squares or rectangles, so why are we calling them as if they are? The Chinese nomenclature (n-jie wumofang, lit. "n-layered megaminx") is… better, I guess? I still don't really like that either, tbh. Names are weird.)
The "minx" in pyraminx, megaminx, etc. are all thanks to Uwe Meffert, as I understand it. He likes the name, so he used it in a whole bunch of puzzles he was selling.
qwr
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like my friend would say, that's a 3-cube or a 2-cube!
the naming of kilominx doesn't make sense either because if megaminx is 3 layered and gigaminx is 5 layered, then the 1x1 minx should be the kilominx. then someone came up with kibimimx which doesn't make sense really because kibi is only 2.4% bigger than kilo (1000 vs 1024). so the name should be master kilominx since it's like a 2x2 or something equally stupid.
mefferts also used the minx name for pyraminx and I think there's a whole separate naming scheme for those.
DNF_Cuber
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I think that goes master, professor, royal, and emperor
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who else noticed that the corner cutting on the gan air is pretty bad?
Mr. McCubing
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What on earth is this product picture?
This is one of the pictures for the gan i carry on tc
what is it an iphone 1?
This is one of the pictures for the gan i carry on tc
Zain_A24
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I'm being told it's an iPhone 4
GAN i Carry releases 4th April (4/4)
Coincidence? I think not
GAN i Carry releases 4th April (4/4)
Coincidence? I think not
Mr. McCubing
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That's very interesting. It still looks weird to have an ancient phone in the pic lol. And dang gan is really copying apple.
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abunickabhi
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Anyone hyped about master FTO? It is cool, and is finally being mass produced.
carcass
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Rename for CFOP
people don't like calling it fridrich because she didn't make it, she popularized it.
SIngmaster mad the cross
Schoof made F2L
the Dockhorns and Treep made OLL+PLL
Singmaster, Schoof, Dockhorn, Treep
For all the F2L, we have sching-mooster as the mix
for LL we have dreep-horp as the mix of names
As a result, if we want CFOP to be named like Roux, it should be called Sching-Mooster-Dreep-Horp
its science bois
people don't like calling it fridrich because she didn't make it, she popularized it.
SIngmaster mad the cross
Schoof made F2L
the Dockhorns and Treep made OLL+PLL
Singmaster, Schoof, Dockhorn, Treep
For all the F2L, we have sching-mooster as the mix
for LL we have dreep-horp as the mix of names
As a result, if we want CFOP to be named like Roux, it should be called Sching-Mooster-Dreep-Horp
its science bois
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