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And the winner is......

Yes. My order arrived all the way from Estonia today. I can let my team mate have his two sheets of Hurricane 8, or to be more exact I'll probably make his bat up for him on Wednesday. I've also got my 802-40 1.8mm in black and Xiom Vega Pro which I'll probably keep for testing at a later date as I've now bought a sheet of the Xiom Vega Asia DF off andysmith.

Excellent service again by tabletennnis11 and I love the DHL tracking. They're quick and deliver when they say they will.

Ironically when I tried to order the Donic Vario Clean from TeeSports in the UK last week they said that delivery for the glue can't be by Royal Mail which means they despatch by Fedex and charge a premium rate of £5.99 for delivery within the UK. Strange how Royal Mail won't deliver an "eco friendly water based glue". I wonder if the ITTF know this and will now consider banning waterbased glue due to the danger imposed on post office workers around the world Sorry, couldn't resist.

As an aside, when I checked my order I found tabletennis11 had actually included two lots of the Donic glue which is great for me as I used up a lot of my own glue making up setups for other people - it's amazing how many players who've played for years either don't know how to or don't feel comfortable or just don't plain want to make up their own bats. I've gone back to them to query this as I don't want to get anyone in trouble there end, or end up getting billed for 2 bottles of glue. I'll keep you updated what tabletennis11 reply.

Update: I received a reply from Dmitry today. I can keep it as a gift Thanks

Tabletennis11.com has announced their ten best-selling rubbers for 2016. 9 inverted and one long pips

10. Tibhar Evolution EL-S
9. NITTAKU Fastarc G-1
8. DHS Hurricane 8 Mid-Hard
7. YASAKA Rakza 7
6. Tibhar Grass D.tecs
5. Xiom Vega Europe
4. Donic Baracuda
3. Xiom Vega Pro
2. DHS Hurricane 3 Neo
1. Tibhar Evolution MX-P

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Note that Tenergy 05 isn't on there. One wonders why... maybe because they can only sell it locally?

Iskandar

Yep, they don't carry Butterfly products, still an interesting list, I find it peculiar that 4 out of top 5 selling rubbers are older generation tensors and plastic ball optimized stuff like Acuda blue series, Maxxx/Rhyzm p, Rakza X etc are nowhere to be found...

I'll bet they do - they're just not allowed to show it to people outside their sales territory. If you're logging in from - where was it - Latvia? - you could probably see and order Butterfly products.

Iskandar

They're running a contest together with Pingskills!



Iskandar

Actually they DO carry Butterfly products, they just aren't allowed to sell them beyond their territory. The BTY products used to show on their site, but they have adjusted their website to not display those products to IPs not located within their territory.

DAMN Butterfly and their price fixing!

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Yup, that's exactly what I said three posts ago..

Incidentally, here's a vendor whose website shows Butterfly stuff outside their "region":

https://www.megaspin.net/store/default. ... =Butterfly

Prices aren't anything to get excited over, though..

Iskandar

Ordered over the weekend and it came today to USA/MA. Really happy - that is two-days shipping and faster than UPS Ground or even Priority Mail had I ordered from CA or Oregon. No customs issues or delay.