crabapillar
Newbie
I think that's part of the problem, when you get a disc of poor quality what do you do? I think most people get their discs from retailer's and not the manufacturer so when that does occur, should it be the retailer that deals with it or the manufacturer? I've reached out a few times and the first response was always, send pictures so we can judge if it's bad or not. To me that's already an issue because it's all subjective, depending on who looks at the picture it may be ok while to someone else it may not be. This just happened to me with a disc I bought from the dynamic discs site. As soon as I picked it up something felt off, there was a decent amount of material missing over half the rim where they appeared to miss when cleaning up the flashing. They agreed to accept it as a return but also at the same time said they don't know if it would affect the flight of the disc. Well any disc that has hit something and took a chunk out of the rim has flown differently afterwards so I would say yeah. And it's a hassle to send a disc back, and today it's unlikely you will be able to get it replaced as there is no supply.
So for me I would consider myself a 3; a bit of both. I don't expect every single disc to fly exactly the same and if a disc I just bought has scratches on it I really don't care. But if it's something obvious or one disc of the same mold is understable out of the box and the other is overstable out of the box, that I would care about.
For example I've bought 3 Teebird's in the last month, all GStar, all orange. One of them is actually Star plastic but stamped Gstar, and the other two are GStar but both have a pretty good sized tooling mark in the rim. And I'm stuck with them because there are no more available, I've waited months for them to become available and really none of them should have made it to a retailer to sell due to quality issues. This is just sloppy manufacturing; it took 30 seconds of holding the discs to know something was off. Am I being too picky, I don't think so. I mean we are paying $15+ for a simple piece of plastic, it isn't multiple parts fitting/working together, it's a singular molded part and they've made it for decades now. Every other industry sees quality improve year after year, there are less defects with basically everything today, even imported parts have outstanding quality these days at very low costs. And if there is an issue with something today; companies seem very willing to make it right in order to maintain their reputation.
So for me I would consider myself a 3; a bit of both. I don't expect every single disc to fly exactly the same and if a disc I just bought has scratches on it I really don't care. But if it's something obvious or one disc of the same mold is understable out of the box and the other is overstable out of the box, that I would care about.
For example I've bought 3 Teebird's in the last month, all GStar, all orange. One of them is actually Star plastic but stamped Gstar, and the other two are GStar but both have a pretty good sized tooling mark in the rim. And I'm stuck with them because there are no more available, I've waited months for them to become available and really none of them should have made it to a retailer to sell due to quality issues. This is just sloppy manufacturing; it took 30 seconds of holding the discs to know something was off. Am I being too picky, I don't think so. I mean we are paying $15+ for a simple piece of plastic, it isn't multiple parts fitting/working together, it's a singular molded part and they've made it for decades now. Every other industry sees quality improve year after year, there are less defects with basically everything today, even imported parts have outstanding quality these days at very low costs. And if there is an issue with something today; companies seem very willing to make it right in order to maintain their reputation.