Yeah, I’ m in Europe and have been noticing a strong increase in that direction as well. I understand the reasons for this and don’t want to discuss politics or economics behind it.
I want to talk about how this could develop.
At first it was an extra and cheaper option, but if it goes on like this, us, the market outside the USA is gonna have less and less choices.
DLX is a prime example, at first you had both and now even the eagles are epoxy.
(Wasn’t there a rumored promise this would never happen?)
To be fair, this doesn’t seem to be the case with Baker in my country for now. Emailed my local and they said they have a choice between Mexican and Chinese made and they were told it’s gonna stay that way. I hope this is true and doesn’t go the DLX Route.
Right now it looks like it’s going in a bad direction for people that don’t like the epoxy boards. As I said before, I m happy for those that like em, but don’t forget about the people that don’t.
It is just a new option that has pros but also cons like the non epoxy version.
Would be sad to see one version not be available anywhere outside the USA anymore.
So I also get why this topic isn’t interesting to most people living in America, yet.
Because for you it’s just more and cheaper options.
But here, if you don’t like the epoxy boards, your choices are getting slimmer and slimmer. If you like DLX (like I did), there’s no more normal non epoxy choices..
And the shops can’t choose to order any.
And this doesn’t feel good from a customer point of view.
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