The Cube Store thread

[SlapShot]

I bought a blade cube from these people on Ebay, and when it arrived today, it also had a business card with their store address. I checked it out, and it looks almost like popbuying, lightake, etc.. They do have some puzzles, and the shipping is free.

http://www.yesfor.com/

 

[taiga]

Hello.

I am a beginner from Turkey and I am looking a cubestore for buying 3x3, 4x4, megaminx and pyraminx.

I have 2 rubik 3x3 cubes and 1 5x5 V-cube.

I found some sites like lightake, cube4you, witeden and magic-puzzle-cube.

I try to looking site that has to with tracking number like UPS or DHL or othermethods, because postal service in my country has some problems.

Some of products may lost that has not tracking number.

Which online store do you advice for my country?

Thanks your help.

 

[koreancuber]

Cube4you offers UPS shipping, but it is a bit pricy. I suggest using cube4you if you can afford over 10 bucks shipping, but if you can't, use either lighttake (has paypal) or popbuying (no paypal). Cube4you, lighttake and popbuying all give you tracking numbers (need to be over 15 dollars on light take and popbuying to get a tracking number, or else you have to pay a dollar for it)

 

[~Phoenix Death~]

Cube4you offers UPS shipping, but it is a bit pricy. I suggest using cube4you if you can afford over 10 bucks shipping, but if you can't, use either lighttake (has paypal) or popbuying (no paypal). Cube4you, lighttake and popbuying all give you tracking numbers (need to be over 15 dollars on light take and popbuying to get a tracking number, or else you have to pay a dollar for it)

He's in Turkey, not the USA.

 

[koreancuber]

UPS to turkey = around 19 bucks for a 10 dollar cube

 

[taiga]

My order will be 50-55$ without shipping cost.
So what shall I do? :confused:

 

[koreancuber]

what cubes are you ordering?

 

[taiga]

I can't able to choose.
But I want to 2 or 3 pieces 3x3 (one of small) , 1 piece 4x4, 1 megaminx, 1 pyraminx, 1 octahedral 4 layer. (maybe some other advice items)
Is it possible to give some advice for this items?

 

[koreancuber]

hmm.. from lighttake, I'd suggest these cubes/puzzles

2x2 : LanLan 2x2 - Black or White

3x3 : Type F-II (shengen) - Black or White

Alpha 5 (type a 5) - Black or White

Dayan I (taiyan) - Black or White or blue or Gray or Transparent green

4x4 : mini Qj (if you have small hands) - Black or White

Regular Qj (if you have big hands) - Black or white
altogether, these cubes total around 37 (all black cubes) dollars, so you can add the pyraminx and whatever else you want (sorry about recommending the pyraminx, I don't have one yet )

 

[taiga]

Thanks your advices. I noticed.

But I can't able to choose the store because of shipping.

 

[koreancuber]

lighttake has free shipping, and has the cheapest prices all around. the only con side is that the shipping may take two weeks or so (13 days for me)

 

[cubedude7]

Nice job!

 

[taiga]

I have to choose that shipping must have tracking number.

 

[dillonbladez]

Popbuying will give you a shipping number, if your order is over 15 dollars, for free. LighTake might not, i'm not too sure. You can ask the customer service people at LighTake if they provide free shipping/tracking number.

 

[clarubik]

They actually sell a good number of cubes on amazon.com as well
They sell QJ products and Lan Lan products and white V cubes

 

[hahahaha]

does anyone know where they sell maru 4x4? They stopped selling in cube depot and speedcubeshop.com. I don't trust mf8 shop (you can search that up koreancuber), since it's too cheap. when you search maru 4x4 on google, you can find a link to the maru 4x4 page on speedcubeshop (old page), and I'm not sure if that works. Can someone tell me a store with maru 4x4s?

 

[David0794]

maybe www.icubik.com

But shipping cost is very high...

Other small packages (1 cube, typically) :

Europe and Mediterranean countries: 11 euros
USA, Canada, Asia, Africa, Japan, South America: 13 euros
Oceania: 18 euros

 

[camcuber]

does anyone know where they sell maru 4x4? They stopped selling in cube depot and speedcubeshop.com. I don't trust mf8 shop (you can search that up koreancuber), since it's too cheap. when you search maru 4x4 on google, you can find a link to the maru 4x4 page on speedcubeshop (old page), and I'm not sure if that works. Can someone tell me a store with maru 4x4s?

you can still buy it from me. Send me an email about it.

 

[ItsJack]

Where to buy Cubes?

So yeah, pretty straight forward, from what website should I buy 3x3x3 cubes? I live in sweden so if there's some good website that gives free shipping or cheaper shipping that'd be swell.

And also what cube should I buy? I bought an F-II about 2 weeks ago and it's alot smother than my previus store bought one, but the problem is that in just 2 weeks the colors have faded to almost beyond recognition...´I bought that cube from "Cube4you" btw. So yeah, I'm fairly new to cubing ( currently learning full PLL) and avging about 35-40 secs so I doubt it matters super much what DIY cube I use, so my only real preference is that it's endurable (and that it's a generally good cube, duh, lol.).

Thanks

 

[Joker]

I order from speedcubeshop.com
You can buy more stickers for your F-II (for instance CubeSmith Bright Set)
If you are averaging what you are, an F-II would do fine. Wait til you get faster, then see what more advanced cubes there will be in the future.