The DaYan ZhanChi at LighTake: quick look into the warehouse where cube is assembled

[kprox1994]

I like buying from lightake for some things when it is cheaper than US stores. But lt's dayan cubes are the same price as US sellers. For example, you can get a Zhanchi from izofire preasemmbled with a tube of lube for the same price as lt's DIY, and it will get to you a lot quicker.

 

[Godmil]

And the difference is: Lightake people aren't cubers, and Dayan people more likely, would be.

correct me someone if I'm wrong but I think its a lot more likelythat the Dayan company only deals with the designing and distribution of the product and a seperate company will be hired to manufacture the cubes. So I'd guess it's still not cubers assembling them.

 

[RaresB]

I guess I'll be buying diy kitsfrom now on.

 

[HumanDude]

The problem is that each time I've ordered DIY kits from Lightake, there has always been a missing part. Maybe it's just bad luck on my part.

 

[Jungleterrain]

I hope there's no human trafficking involved or I'll be pissed.

I lol'd so hard. human trafficking to make cubes?

 

[yockee]

Nah, to be honest I didn't figure that out - and I actually don't think it is funny in this context since I knew it would lead to such comments:

Furthermore people actually catched your comment and started discussing possible child work at lightake in other forums. So, I suggest removing it wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing.

So once more, I highly recommend reading my reply to "xxoxias" comment beneath the video - if someone has thoughts regarding child work.

Wow, I didn't mean to start such a big thing. It just looked like kids in the picture (maybe the children of workers coming to help or something) so I made a joke about it. Didn't mean for it to be taken seriously.

 

[yockee]

correct me someone if I'm wrong but I think its a lot more likelythat the Dayan company only deals with the designing and distribution of the product and a seperate company will be hired to manufacture the cubes. So I'd guess it's still not cubers assembling them.

This is probably true, but even factory workers that MAKE the items doing the assembly, is better than people that more than likely have no idea what they're doing.

Sorry about the double post, but I don't know how to do more than one quote in a post.

 

[Crosshash]

Doesn't look much like a sweat shop to me.

 

[kprox1994]

Sorry about the double post, but I don't know how to do more than one quote in a post.

 

[Eric79]

I like buying from lightake for some things when it is cheaper than US stores. But lt's dayan cubes are the same price as US sellers. For example, you can get a Zhanchi from izofire preasemmbled with a tube of lube for the same price as lt's DIY, and it will get to you a lot quicker.

Actually you may get some DaYans even cheaer from some US-Stores. But that is just because Lightake is forced to set certain prices.

The problem is that each time I've ordered DIY kits from Lightake, there has always been a missing part. Maybe it's just bad luck on my part.

Actually it happend to me too - but only once and I got a spare part. Just contact service using this form for customer service.

Wow, I didn't mean to start such a big thing. It just looked like kids in the picture (maybe the children of workers coming to help or something) so I made a joke about it. Didn't mean for it to be taken seriously.

It's ok buddy, I know that this was not your intention. But still other people got hooked by it... :-/

This is probably true, but even factory workers that MAKE the items doing the assembly, is better than people that more than likely have no idea what they're doing.

Sorry about the double post, but I don't know how to do more than one quote in a post.

Oh... damn... I totally forgot your email regarding that other thread. I guess we should get online again (finally) and I try to explain everything to you.
Regarding the problem of double posting: kprox1994 showed you the nice little picture. Just click that little thing beneath every post that you want to quote and at the end, when you have marked them all (only a certain number is allowed - I think it is 5 but may be wrong with that) just klick on the big "+ Reply to Thread" button after the last post of a thread and your marked posts will be put as quotes in the window where you type your text in. From that on you will find your way I guess ;-)

 

[zenzzzz]

So what is better than DIY or Assembled ?

 

[AustinReed]

So what is better than DIY or Assembled ?

I prefer assembled because usually the tensions are near perfect for me.

 

[Eric79]

I prefer DIY because it is just way more fun to assemble the cube on my own. And since I need to tension every cube anyway - why not doing the complete assembly in the first place?!

 

[Zubon]

By "this" you mean because other people than you assemble them? Anything else wouldn't make any sense... because as Izovire said before: "This is what my table looks like most of the time My wife helps with assembling and stickers."

Yockee pretty much answered this for my but when I said "this", I meant people sitting in a room, all day, doing nothing but assembling cubes. If you had to assemble hundreds of cubes, you would search for ways to make to process more efficient and probably search for a few short cuts. There is no way that some guy in a factory manually assembling cubes would be able to assemble a cube with as much care as I would do at home.

I always make sure the screws are straight, I cut off any excess plastic flash with a knife, I lube inside and adjust the tension until it is perfect.

 

[Eric79]

Well, I only can talk in behalf of german companies: Of course we would look for a way to make assembly as efficient as possible, but quality would not suffer from that. If it would, it wouldn't be accepted as an more efficient way and thus not be done like it. So it does not necessarily mean that a more efficient way is worse than done the standart way. And "care" does not always mean "better". Someone who does something a thousand times a week, can just do that way faster than you - with the same accuracy... not saying it's like this in that case, but... you get what I mean I guess.

But of course, as I myself said before, I too prefer getting DIY-Kits since after assembly the cube is as I like it from the start - and I am also cutting off excessive material and stuff if there is any ;-).

 

[xkevx]

looks tempting!!
i wish i stay near that place (*~*)

 

[Alex13809]

Yay! I should have know there were children assembling my cubes... :/ my last one came without a wadher for one of the centers, had to make one out of a nut.

 

[Eric79]

Have you read any of the comments below the video? Or something in this thread before you posted this? I really reccomend doing so... just saying.