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pisquee;91493 wrote:Longforte's do come with bumpons, and white boxes which hold four coasters, and come in boxes of 120, rather than 48 that TTPs do ... them being out of stock was our fault, sorry!

I think we will be going out of stock of these as well today

What's your remaining stock level Martin?

E2A - you're already out! Do you know when your next shipment of them is coming in?

pisquee;91499 wrote:What's your remaining stock level Martin?

E2A - you're already out! Do you know when your next shipment of them is coming in?

We've a few containers on the water at the moment and others leaving soon. I think these though are scheduled to leave in ten next 7-10 days so they may be out of stock for around 7-8 weeks now.

I do round glass coasters, the TTP coasters are very different from the other suppliers. TTP have a glossy sub coating...really nice, the other had a dull matt sub surface. Are the squares the same?

I'm returning a big box of the matt coated ones, horrible quality!

The TTP ones are better in terms of vibrancy of colour, but I don't feel the extra cost is justified.
We're selling just as well with switching to the lower cost ones as we did with TTP's.
I'd love to be able to do a custom ICC for them, but can't se it working, in terms of getting an accurate reading through the glass, and the amount of coasters it would use up.

With the dull matt coating coasters, every single coaster in the batch had dust embedded into the coating, it was uneven and really rough around the edges. The price of the TTP coasters are very high and it will be difficult to settle on a suitable RRP, but the others were simply not good enough for customers. Chalk and cheese!

The quality of the TTP press ones are also iffy(we've found more so than the cheaper ones from Longforte) badly cut - not square, rough edges, chipped corners, scratched coating etc. the rough cut ones we filed down, but in the end got fed up of returning faulty ones an budgeted for having to write some off per batch. we haven't seen dust in Longforte's but Admit the colours aren't as vibrant, but the pricepoint works better for us neefng to whistle them 2.5 times less than the RRP we set for them.

These were the budget glass coasters from Longforte, not one of them were printable.

I could show you similar shoddyness on the TTP ones - there is a thread about them from a few years back on here if you search - quality hasn't improved over the years. We see less problems on the Longforte ones compared to the TTP ones though.