Seems a bit expensive from the Aussie distrubtor Mektronics, at their price not sure why you wouldn't just buy the JBC?
Pace ADS200 Station 230 VAC with Instant SetBack Tool Stand 8007-0581
$542.86ex
JBC CD-B Solder Station with Standard Handpiece PLUS ROLL OF MULTICORE SOLDER MC334
SKU: JBC-CD-2BE
$547.00ex
Dave, Personally you really fucked up this review, low cost for bloody Australian, For Retardistan yes, Not Shitsville. Next time look at Australia before fuxking up the cost of these unit. PACE fucked up have to log on for the price. Piss Poor review
All LEDs in the display constantly flashing when you're not using it? How annoying is that?
Dave, Personally you really fucked up this review, low cost for bloody Australian, For Retardistan yes, Not Shitsville. Next time look at Australia before fuxking up the cost of these unit. PACE fucked up have to log on for the price. Piss Poor review
Now I have really heard it. That is officially called Marketing Wank. Who care about the country you live in, maybe you should move to the country you market for (Retardistan)
Quote from: EEVblog on Today at 04:11:45Australia is less than 10% of my audience, I always give prices in US dollars.
You aren't capable of figuring out for yourself if the iron is good value in your own country?
What's wrong with the review apart from not mentioning local prices? What about the 150+ other countries? Is it a crap review because I didn't mention them too?
All LEDs in the display constantly flashing when you're not using it? How annoying is that?
A bit. I wold have preferred that the temp simply go down and the display remains as normal.
Seems a bit expensive from the Aussie distrubtor Mektronics, at their price not sure why you wouldn't just buy the JBC?
Pace ADS200 Station 230 VAC with Instant SetBack Tool Stand 8007-0581
$542.86ex
JBC CD-B Solder Station with Standard Handpiece PLUS ROLL OF MULTICORE SOLDER MC334
SKU: JBC-CD-2BE
$547.00ex
I just got mine today, really impressed with how solidly constructed they are. The iron feels great and the tip to work is perfect. I havn't set them up in place yet but I did some practice flow soldering movements and the iron has got a balanced feel in my hand. I think the length is just right.
Between that and the temperature jumping around, they've totally failed in the firmware for this.
Marketing Wank is a term used by Dave on many occasions. An honest review would be PACE, cheap in US bullshit price in Australia. I have been watching Dave since episode 250 there abouts and slowly over time Dave is no longer the honest reviewer he was at the beginning. He used to provide review for Australia and other places now Marketing has taken him to be selective.
Here is the killer. The JBC CD 2BE is only $549 AUD ex GST, no where near the markup of the Pace. In this case Dave has really been playing Pocket Billiards when it comes to review and should be exposed for such outright crap.
Marketing Wank is a term used by Dave on many occasions. An honest review would be PACE, cheap in US bullshit price in Australia.
I have been watching Dave since episode 250 there abouts and slowly over time Dave is no longer the honest reviewer he was at the beginning. He used to provide review for Australia and other places now Marketing has taken him to be selective.
Here is the killer. The JBC CD 2BE is only $549 AUD ex GST, no where near the markup of the Pace.
In this case Dave has really been playing Pocket Billiards when it comes to review and should be exposed for such outright crap.
Quote from: Brumby on Today at 06:06:56>Quote from: EEVblog on Today at 04:11:45Australia is less than 10% of my audience, I always give prices in US dollars.
You aren't capable of figuring out for yourself if the iron is good value in your own country?
What's wrong with the review apart from not mentioning local prices? What about the 150+ other countries? Is it a crap review because I didn't mention them too?
OK - so you are going to be pig headed about it.
That's a shame.
What is the point in that advantage if you can't see JBC display in the first place because it is badly angled and all it does it reflects the shack lights above it into your eyes.
Dave, Personally you really fucked up this review, low cost for bloody Australian, For Retardistan yes, Not Shitsville. Next time look at Australia before fuxking up the cost of these unit. PACE fucked up have to log on for the price. Piss Poor review
Australia is less than 10% of my audience, I always give prices in US dollars.
You aren't capable of figuring out for yourself if the iron is good value in your own country?
What's wrong with the review apart from not mentioning local prices? What about the 150+ other countries? Is it a crap review because I didn't mention them too?
The whole purpose of these kind of videos is to give people a good sense what is around for what price and how it performs.
Otherwise it's kind of a useless video (please don't come with the "than don't watch it" argument)
The whole purpose of these kind of videos is to give people a good sense what is around for what price and how it performs.
Otherwise it's kind of a useless video (please don't come with the "than don't watch it" argument)
It makes a 40 minute review "kinda useless"? Really?
The whole purpose of these kind of videos is to give people a good sense what is around for what price and how it performs.
Otherwise it's kind of a useless video (please don't come with the "than don't watch it" argument)
It makes a 40 minute review "kinda useless"? Really?If a significant junk of that video is about comparing it to a similar product and the argument "price" is being used?
Yes.
Price is a main factor in a fair objective comparison.
In my opinion a "journalist" has at least the responsibility to do some basic research around to give the reader/viewer a general idea.
If you would write/show a review for the local community I can understand you don't look much further.
But since this is an international YouTube channel, it's a different story.
If selling price are so much different in big parts of the world, it's at least important to mention.
The whole purpose of these kind of videos is to give people a good sense what is around for what price and how it performs.
Otherwise it's kind of a useless video (please don't come with the "than don't watch it" argument)
It makes a 40 minute review "kinda useless"? Really?If a significant junk of that video is about comparing it to a similar product and the argument "price" is being used?
Yes.
Price is a main factor in a fair objective comparison.
In my opinion a "journalist" has at least the responsibility to do some basic research around to give the reader/viewer a general idea.
If you would write/show a review for the local community I can understand you don't look much further.
But since this is an international YouTube channel, it's a different story.
If selling price are so much different in big parts of the world, it's at least important to mention.
The USD price is in the very first line of the video description. Anyone can easily get a ballpark idea of the cost in their country based on this before they even watching a single minute of the video. My videos cater to a technical audience who know very well pricing markups of products in their own country and how they apply to.
Anyone in Australia for example with any clue at all knows about the "Australia Tax", and "well, it likely ain't going to be US$220 equivalent here, I'd better go spend a minute checking local prices before I spend 40 minute watching this review video".
Look, I'm not denying the value of having region prices in review videos, and I do do this occasionally, but sometimes I either forget, or I think it's more trouble than it's worth. e.g. in the pocket multimeter shootout.
In this video, we now have two irons, should I go find the price of both of them in all regions? What if I had three irons? Four?
What about imports or grey market sellers on ebay?
I'll try and do better next time, ok?
Look, let me tell you about the life a Youtuber. We get a lot of feedback, a metric shit ton of feedback. A good lot of it complaining about something. I have countless time done review videos with region pricing in them, and even then I still get people complaining that I didn't mention Amazon, or ebay, or this seller or that seller, or this special etc and "why didn't you put that in the video". Countless time. I know, ok, please cut me some slack.