What went wrong with the MegaAge project?

[Deuce]

MegaAge racquets are now priced at $90 - a far cry from their original $30 price tag only a couple of short years ago. They still claim to be offering quality products at little cost. Is $90 still considered 'little cost', though? Relative to the current (and ridiculous) $200 LM Prestige, or to the $30 MegaAge of 2 years ago? When we can now buy a brand new discontinued frame for as low as $50, I, personally, don't consider $90 to be 'little cost'.

What went wrong with MegaAge?

Did the significant price hikes by the major racquet companies over the past two years factor in to the MegaAge price hikes? Is it the MegaAge position that they are still offering a less expensive alternative to new 'big company' racquets, because prices for the new 'big company' racquets have increased to ridiculous degrees recently?

Did MegaAge simply suffer from a lack of efficient marketing, and had to choose between 'joining the herd' or packing it in?

Did MegaAge plan this 200% price hike all along?

 

[brijoel]

i was wondering wtf happened as well.......especially considering 3 weeks ago they were like 50. then, i checked back a week and a half to two weeks later, and it was 90 already!!!
a decent racquet, but for not even being able to offer a 4 5/8s grip and having a really ugly paint job...it just isnt worth 90 bucks to me.

 

[Kevin T]

Shooting themselves in the foot, IMHO, Deuce. If any sucker out there wants to pay $90 for that frame, come visit me and we'll go snipe hunting. When you can get the Pro Tour 280, one of the finest frames ever made, for $50 new, with playable head syn gut and a decent grip, why pay $90 for a frame with weed whacker string and a paper thin grip? Replacing those is a MUST on the Mega, which will bring your total up to at least $110. There are a hundred better racquets out there much cheaper than $110, including new Pro Staff 6.1's, of which the MegaAge is a direct copy. Or get the Klipper Boomerang for $50, which I am sure is made in the same factory and which also is a Pro Staff 6.1 copy. Heck, get the Slaz Pro Braided Henman, another 6.1 clone and spec it out to your liking. Only $90 at TW. And as was mentioned before, that paint job is ugly as a red-headed stepchild. Once the Pro Tour 280 was d/c, then brought back for $50-60, I couldn't see the point in even paying $30 for the Mega, 'cause like I said before, after re-stringing and re-gripping you are paying the same price for a far inferior frame.

 

[Ronaldo]

Kevin, wondered about the Klipper Boomerang but never saw a post about it.

 

[topspin]

Kevin, where can you get the Head Pro tour 280 new???

 

[@wright]

I agree, did the owner of the company get a ferrari and a yacht?

 

[Ronaldo]

For $9.95 more you get a soccer ball, football, and a can of balls. Think of this as a liquidation sale run Bassackwards.

 

[Loud]

Lots of different places but they are the made in China ones.

 

[topspin]

Loud, email me some sites if you have them (sorry TW, but if you had them I would buy them here of course). There were places that sold them awhile back but not sure who does anymore.