There is no way the ceramic cap and top costs 9 times as much as the loose leaf core does. The LL core is made of the same stuff and is hand made.
The ceramic top cap and mouthpiece cost $90 by themselves, yet if you buy just the LL core(no body) it comes with them. So by that pricing structure the LL core only really costs $10. Not possible.
Bought that way it sure looks like it's 9 times? It's your math...... There must be at least one way?
I think you make a unrealistic link when you look at costs in such a simplistic manner. How much do you think it costs to make a new Toyota from parts? Isn't it true, for instance, that the charger, extra batteries and a lot of other stuff for Persei is free if you look at how much the tube, end cap and two heads cost? Just because TV did a unique pricing structure on their old products to keep 'the sum of the parts' the same as the package price (know anyone else that does that for anything? I don't either) doesn't mean you can continue to add and subtract pieces 'across the table' here.
Package prices are almost always cheaper in my experience. You don't find that?
And and EO core is definitely a much harder thing to build. I've now built a couple LL cores, but I'm by no means qualified to make an EO core with the much more cramped spaces and 4 stacked (very brittle) cores. You're just plain wrong here, I think, the materials might be close to a push, but the
labor is hugely different.
As too how well it works with drip tips against the ceramic cap, I too agree that
drip tips are the call and
I have said as much here several times. You'll find drip tips on all the EO core photos I've posted, even from the early days before the change. Unlike you, PR, others and I are not guessing....we have experience to back up our opinions. The cap is just not that useful even though it's right there in the kit next to the cores I just don't use it except for what it's designed for, the LL core.
As another data point, the 'mini Cera' drawings I've been shown all use the EO core with no cap. Near as I can tell, using the cap would make the the top 1/4 inch or so bigger in diameter than the rest of the unit. It's not really intended for LL use as much as EL and EO, nobody 'in the know' would think of using that big, heavy top where it's not needed or wanted. It just doesn't offer any useful advantages I can see.
I get it you wish you'd got the parts for cheap, but that was then, this is now. IMO the new structure fits reality for most users and preserves the commitment to hold the system price in line in the face of unexpectedly small drops in production costs for the EO core. You're, of course, welcome to your own opinions but I think PR is telling it straight.
It's my honest opinion the horse is dead, you'd be best advised to stop beating it until you get something more solid to base your complaints on? If you don't want it, think the price is too high, or whatever by all means don't buy it. That's how it's supposed to be in a free market.
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I meant I couldn't figure it out, because I was unaware that was the design. Didn't know they designed it that way up front and when I tried it, I just couldn't understand that was a real option. I threw it out quickly...
one of the reasons i choose the companies i do
