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Morri tips.

How did we get to a $40 tip? We used to use mostly soft tips and they cost wholesale by the box of 50 anywhere from a quarter to 50 cents each. You could get one put on for anywhere from 5 to 10 bucks. This was good business for the tip people because soft tips were thin, they mushroomed out so you had to keep filing them down and away, they tore up and failed and most of us would go through about 4 tip replacements a year. Enter the Morri tip, people are charging $40 to put one on, and they stay on for a year or two, being so hard, they don’t wear down. So the overall cost to you has not really changed.

All the pros were using mostly elk masters, very soft, backed Champions, Lepros or Triangles. All single layered tips, a solid piece of leather. Elk Master was very soft, Lepro medium, and Triangle hard, equal in durometer rating as the Morri Q, or H today. Everyone wanted soft tips because they thought it grabbed the ball and gave them more spin. In fact, it gives them less, the harder the tip, the more power and spin you get.

Enter a little Japanese called Morri who begins making tips in his apartment with a new concept, glue 10 thin layers of pig skin together into a single tip and compress it all down. The result was a very hard tip, like the Triangle which few had the guts to use back then. They were rated S, M and Q or H. The S was not soft, it was hard, just a little softer than the M, which is hard, and most of the pros began using that. A few have found they can use the Q with even greater success. The word began to spread from pro to pro and soon soft was out and hard tipped Morri’s were in. Soon the Amateurs got wind of it and they all wanted them.

There has been a shortage of them from day one as the poor little Jap could never keep up with the demand. Soon he had all his kids and relatives helping out and then it expands into a company and a production line. Not being a real business man, he begins shipping tips to the USA and he felt everyone over here screwed over on him, which they probably did. So he get’s pissed and virtually cuts us off. He ships all his tips to Europe and to only one single distributor who places a very large annual blanket order that ties up and buys most of what he can make. Nobody can get them and that caused all kinds of problems due to his business stupidity and his prejudice towards the USA. Finally under pressure from the BCA, he appoints a single distributor in the USA, in Chicago, and they never gets enough to fill the demand here. We are paying an inflated price for this tip, because he did not allow competition. If we had all the dealers here buying them direct the price would be $3. Instead, a dealer has to buy from the only master importer, which is a double mark up, and when you buy the tip, it’s been marked up 4 times. If you are a dealer and can buy wholesale and $200 of them, you still pay $10 a tip. That is why you are paying 15 or 20 for one. Kamaui is doing the same thing and they are even more expensive and that’s another Japanese tip.

This is all total BS. This is total BS you pay $40 to put on a Morri.

So revolt, fight back, boycott this madness, get free of it. There is no magic to cutting and gluing together thin pieces of pig skin. The Talisman tip is just as good as the Morri. They do not come in soup can shapes, they are already domed which is better meaning they are cut down to the right shape so they will perform better than a tall fat tip. You can buy a Talisman from me, and others for $7, pay somebody 5 to 10 to put it on, you are out for 12 to $17, and not $40. Everyone in this entire chain from Morri down to the installers has been fookin you boys blind on this con. Stop putting up with it. A Morri is no better than a Talisman which costs 2/3rd’s less than this over priced tip in short supply. Don’t believe all that BS from Kamaui it give more spin because it does not, it’s no better than the Morri or Talisman.

This bozo ding dong also created other problems due to his stupidity. Because he did not allow
competition and a free market to take hold and multiple dealers, the price became inflated, the product became scare and pirates all over the SE began making bad copies of it. Unless you know what a real Morri looks like, it’s sealed in tin foil and you know the green markings on the back, you just got clipped. Counterfeits of it are everywhere. Some installers will screw you also. They show you the real Morri, you walk away and they install the cheap counterfeit copy, then you can’t tell as the markings have all been filed off. He put on a $2 tip instead of a $10 tip and put $8 in his pocket and your cue lacks in performance.

Stay there, watch the guy, and put it on. They are knocking off even the Talismans,the Tigers, all of them big time. So the only way to be sure is to buy from a guy like me who only stocks the legit products and imports most of them direct from the factory source or buys from the Morri Master distributor and then you know you are safe. Then take that tip to an installer and watch him put it on. I stock every tip there is and all the layered tips. I buy in volume so the tip I use on tour has nothing to do with price. The tip I use is the Talisman.

Send that little Jap a message, stop using his Morri tip, tell him, bonzai. He does not like you, so give him the Italian salute and buy from Talisman who is ran by an Englishman.

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