Transcript of Video Titled “$500 Model ‘X’ Therapeutic massage Chair vs. Infinity Genesis Therapeutic massage Chair”
Dr. Alan Weidner: Hello, I’m Dr. Alan Weidner from ‘Therapeutic massage-Chair-Aid.com‘ and as we speak we’re going to do one thing a little bit completely different. We’re not highlighting a specific mannequin, or the characteristic of a specific mannequin, we’re really evaluating two completely different classifications of chairs, and I’ve talked about this in my earlier movies earlier than in my therapeutic massage chair trade updates, and in weblog posts, in regards to the cheaper chairs which can be on the market. There’s chairs on the market which can be $500 to $1500, $2000, after which after all, there’s the chairs that we promote extra of, that are the extra high-end premier chairs, and I get lots of people that decision me and ask me what the distinction is between a $500 chair, and a $5000 chair, as a result of in individuals’s minds, the chairs are just about the identical, proper, as a result of they work in your again, they’ve airbags, they work in your toes, they give the impression of being very related, so why is there such a discrepancy in value? Effectively, that’s what we’re going to speak about as we speak. We ordered a chair, we gained’t point out the model identify of it, however we ordered a chair off of Amazon that’s what we contemplate a no-name model, or an off-brand chair that’s offered on to the buyer, not by an affiliate community. And however what we’ve accomplished is we’ve taken the chair aside, we’ve assembled the brand new chair, and we’ve taken aside an Infinity Genesis, which is what we contemplate one among our high-end chairs, one of many premier chairs, luxurious model chairs, and we’re going to check a few of the options of those two chairs, as a way to see the distinction, and you may perceive a little bit bit extra about why these chairs aren’t priced precisely the identical, and the place that value differential comes from. So, we’ve got our tech, Justin Milne, right here as we speak. He’s been within the tech enterprise for 19 years, and dealing on chairs for nearly so long as I’ve been within the trade, and he is aware of these chairs inside and outside. As a matter of truth, Justin does all of our native repairs right here within the, for the Salt Lake retailer for our Lifetime Labor guarantee, he’s the person I all the time name, and he all the time will get issues accomplished, all the time will get the chairs mounted, and all the time will get my prospects taken care of. So, I’ve requested Justin to take a look at the 2 completely different chairs, as a result of he is aware of these chairs inside and outside, and he is aware of what the first variations are, moreover you already know, simply sitting in it and feeling it, he can really take a look at it and let you know, you already know, open it up and let you know what’s happening, and what the variations are. So, what we go forward and start with that. The very first thing we’re going to take a look at is the curler mechanism of the 2 chairs. So, I’m going handy the microphone over to Justin so he may give us a extremely good description of the variations between the 2 chairs.
[SCREEN TEXT: Off-Brand Chair]
Justin Milne: Alright, in order we take a look at these, should you can look in, and I don’t know should you can zoom in on these rollers, or what they name rollers.
[SCREEN TEXT: Circulating Disks with Hard Plastic Massage Nodules]
Justin: It seems to be like we’ve bought eight circulating disks which can be ran by two completely different motors, and what these do is run in a round movement, and that’s what is available in contact with the again.
[SCREEN TEXT: Four – Six-Inch Gap Between Each Set of Massage Nodules]
Justin: And one of many points that we see with these is there’s a spot between the 2 on every of those, and we’ve bought a spot of about 4 inches that doesn’t are available in contact with anyplace in your again. So, that’s one of many first issues on one among these cheaper manufacturers is what you’re going to run in to is that.
[SCREEN TEXT: Cheap Plastic and Wood Components]
Alan: And in addition, the very first thing you discover is – nicely, we’ll take a look at the Genesis in only a second – however numerous it’s simply form of low cost plastic. There’s not numerous steel parts, and also you’ll see additionally on the body of the chair, you’ll see form of a wafer-board building. So, it’s a really, very mild building, made with cheaper parts, and that’s how they justify charging much less cash for it. However this, additionally, once I sat in within the chair and I turned it on, these neck nodules, they usually’re not rollers, they’re nodules, it didn’t even hit my neck. I couldn’t even, I may really feel one thing shifting again there, however it didn’t even therapeutic massage my neck, so I cannot alter that depth in any respect, and that’s one factor we are able to’t do with that. Now, we’ve turned the rollers on, so you’ll be able to really see the mechanism spinning, and also you’ll see that there’s, like Justin had talked about, there’s a spot between the second row and this row, and on this case it’s really greater than 4 inches, I’d say it’s most likely possibly 5 – 6 inches, and however that’s all that the rollers do, they don’t really transfer up and down your backbone, and they don’t cowl your complete size of the backbone.
[SCREEN TEXT: Infinity Genesis]
Justin: Alrighty, so proper now, we’re wanting on the Infinity Genesis, and that is the therapeutic massage mechanism that’s behind the machine.
[SCREEN TEXT: Four Spring-Loaded Rubber Rollers]
Justin: One factor that you just’ll discover one these, so it’s bought 4 completely different rollers that go up and down your again that provide you with a unique, provide the therapeutic massage.
[SCREEN TEXT: Covers Entire Length of Spine and Back]
Justin: This may are available in contact with each a part of your again, not simply in sure spots. The opposite good factor on these is there’s a observe right here, which is an L-shaped observe, that may run all the way in which down, nearly to the again of your knees, and are available all the way in which again up your again. It’s bought a number of motors that you just’ll discover.
[SCREEN TEXT: Durable and Metal Components]
Justin: You’ll see numerous steel that’s in right here. The motors will run, not solely the observe down, it’ll run the mechanism out and in, so it will get a 3D impact, so that you’re really coming involved along with your again, after which you might have the motors that may run for the completely different options.
[SCREEN TEXT: Multiple Massage Modes]
Justin: So, you might have your shiatsu, your tapping, your kneading, completely different massages which can be significantly better than simply having one contact with one curler that’s spins in the very same spot each single time.
Alan: And I observed additionally, you’ll see within the quad rollers, you’ve bought prime rollers on the prime which can be a little bit bit extra ahead, and two trailing rollers behind. So, you really get 4 rollers that transfer up and down your total backbone. And in addition, the curler heads are extra of a comfortable, or not a comfortable, however a, it’s like a rubber, a agency rubber curler mechanism, or curler ball, and so it’s a little bit bit extra snug on the backbone. The opposite chair, the cheaper chair, simply makes use of a plastic, a tough, plastic cone excessive of the factor that spins round, and I feel the general really feel and the standard of the product, of those parts is healthier. Simply taking a look at it, I imply, you’ll be able to simply take a look at it, and you may see the distinction in the way in which that this factor is constructed. It’s positively a extra heavy responsibility, a extra elaborate, a little bit bit, a way more subtle curler system than the opposite chair had. So, all in all, it’s a improbable curler mechanism, very, very properly accomplished.
Justin: You’ll have two on these, and there’s numerous completely different detect sensors that assist to detect, in order that it feels and suits to that exact individual that’s in in, as a result of we’re all completely different.
Alan: So, that’s the physique scan then, you’re speaking in regards to the physique scan. Effectively, why don’t we take, can we carry the digital camera up and round, and see the rollers from the entrance? Now, you’ll be able to go forward, Justin, something there you need to clarify?
Justin: So, should you look right here, these are the rollers that may really are available in contact along with your again. They’re spring loaded, so they’ll alter, so that you discover I can push these forwards and backwards and they’re going to run up and down, and that’s what is available in contact, and these are good. They’re good, they usually’re comfortable rollers, however laborious sufficient that they offers you a superb, good therapeutic massage. Anything so as to add, Alan?
Alan: Effectively, the one different factor that I considered was, what I considered was, you’ll see this zipper right here. The linen is the fabric that separates your again from the rollers, and the linen takes many of the abuse of the chair when it’s going by the therapeutic massage course of. Now, if one thing goes improper with this linen, it may be unzipped, or once I say goes improper with the linen, often, it tears or it frays, you’ll be able to unzip it and substitute it. If we go over right here and check out this chair, you’ll discover, as we unzip that, you’ll discover that there – it has the identical linen – however there’s no approach to take off the linen to switch it if this linen frays, and that is among the commonest issues that occur to therapeutic massage chairs is the linen frays. And it drives individuals nuts, as a result of what occurs is the linen frays, after which it will get caught up within the curler mechanism, whether or not it’s this type, the place it spins, or that sort, the place it rolls up and down your again, and so to switch that, you must substitute the entire chair again.
Justin: So, proper right here we’ve bought pulled aside is the foot relaxation, and that is simply displaying the underside of the foot relaxation. A few issues to notice on right here, so we’ve bought the identical, these are simply disks that spin in a round movement to therapeutic massage the toes. This on on the cheaper chair, after which you might have one bag that is available in to right here, which is one airbag. The opposite factor that I’ve observed, so far as the technical standpoint, is in these tubes, on the costlier chair, they’ll really put some steel, a steel spring that’s in there that’ll really, if someplace it will get pinched, or there’s air for some purpose that’s getting hung up, it’ll really permit it to undergo. So, that’s one of many issues to notice, the opposite factor is, the cheapness of the wooden that they’re doing. It seems to be prefer it’s a pressboard or a plywood that they’re utilizing on this, after which they’re stapling the airbags to the aspect, simply utilizing a foam skirt on it, after which that is simply pulling over all the way in which. If we transfer over to the Infinity Genesis, you’ll discover a few issues. The airbags are screwed down, which is very nice, after which this has bought three airbags, which is able to really inflate, which provides you higher stress. On that chair, once I was sitting in it, you possibly can barely really feel any stress being utilized to your toes. The place on this, this’ll really come down and put, and maintain your toes good and tight. After which this one, we couldn’t take the, with out slicing this or taking it fully aside, we couldn’t get entry to the rollers, so we’re going to attempt to see if we are able to get you some footage of that. However this has three completely different rollers on the underside that truly roll in your toes, and the center one is sweet as a result of, on the arch of your foot, it’s a little bit bit raised, as a way to really get some feeling there, the place with the 2, you’re not going to get any feeling actually on the arch of your foot. This one is made out of a really sturdy plastic, which is able to final loads longer than any sort of wooden will, that may ultimately, over time, break.
Alan: How in regards to the Achilles bubble there?
Justin: Oh, yeah, after which within the again right here, you’ve bought airbags within the again as nicely that inflate, that truly put stress in your Achilles, to present you a full squeeze, after which these have gotten calf baggage. A few of them will even have a calf curler as nicely, which is able to put some stress on it.
Alan: Thanks, Justin. That was improbable. I respect your experience in displaying us the variations between the 2 chairs. In abstract I simply need to be certain that I make it clear that we’re not saying that the $500 chair is just not a superb chair for you. These cheaper chairs have are available in to market as a result of lots of people need to get in to the market they usually can not afford to get a chair that’s $5000, $6000, $7000, and even $10,000. Now, you’ve seen by the video as we speak, by this video, what you’re giving up if you go for the cheaper chair, however you already know, $500 or $1000 or $1500, if that’s what you’ll be able to afford, then that’s what you’ll be able to afford, and then you definitely get the very best you may get for that cash. You simply might have to switch it, it’s possible you’ll, earlier than the opposite one, than a higher-end one, however you’ll nonetheless at the very least have a therapeutic massage chair, a chair that’s going to do one thing on your again, and any therapeutic massage than no therapeutic massage, for probably the most half. Despite the fact that, in my years on this enterprise, I’ve seen some chairs that fairly brutal, however you already know, most of those chairs are simply, they’ll, they’ll get accomplished what you want accomplished on the finances you could afford. However I wished you to know that these aren’t, these aren’t like the identical chairs, anyone’s simply pricing one larger than the opposite. There are true variations within the high quality of those chairs. You discover the wafer board, or that skinny plywood on the cheaper chair. You discover a tough, plastic molding that handles numerous steel parts, motors, curler tracks, the curler mechanism itself, it’s a really heavy mechanism. The mechanism on the cheaper chair was very, very fundamental, very low cost, quite simple, simply plastic spinning disks. I don’t know if, I feel we talked about this, however like a chair just like the Genesis is about 275 kilos. The burden of this chair was, I feel, 136 kilos. This chair additionally, you’ll discover the dimensions, like simply from the angle of the shot, you’ll see the distinction within the measurement of the chair. It is a larger chair, it could deal with an even bigger physique, an American, larger American physique. This chair is designed for smaller our bodies, you should have hassle feeling such as you’re getting a full therapeutic massage in this sort of a chair should you’re, like I’m about 5′ 8″, a little bit over 5′ 8″, I didn’t really feel the rollers, or not, they’re not rollers, the rotating disks on my neck in any respect. After which I’m, and if I did, it was down within the decrease half, I felt it hitting the fabric, and the fabric was hitting my neck. So, should you’re taller than 5′ 8″, you’re not going to getting a lot of a therapeutic massage, 5′ 7″, 5′ 8″, you’re not going to get a lot of a therapeutic massage on it. Additionally, one factor, I don’t suppose Justin talked about this, he talked about it within the toes, however these airbags don’t compress very a lot. The airbag within the arm is, there’s such a large hole there, and the airbags don’t inflate very a lot to start with, and also you, and I feel when Justin sat in it and he turned it on to check it, these shoulder airbags barely touched his shoulders. On the Genesis, you’ve bought sequential airbags that slot in to the entire arm, and you may see the depth of the airbag housing, and you may put your arm all the way in which in there, and also you’re getting it massaged by three airbags which can be sequentially shifting up and down your arm. The airbags within the toes and the calves work in live performance with the foot rollers, and also you get a superb squeeze, together with a superb foot therapeutic massage. This chair, you don’t get numerous the airbag part in any respect. I feel that’s most likely nearly it. Justin went in to some actually good issues, just like the Achilles heel bubble on, or bubble, air bubble on the Genesis. He talked in regards to the spring mechanism contained in the air hose in order that when the chair strikes, and the air hose doesn’t get, the air hose gained’t get kinked and block the air passage, which you’ll see on numerous the cheaper chairs, after which he talked additionally in regards to the – oh, one factor that we didn’t point out – is that it’s very laborious to get substitute components for these cheaper chairs. As a matter of truth, it’s possible you’ll not even have the ability to have, there might not even a cellphone quantity on the proprietor’s handbook, or on Amazon, or eBay, the place you’re coping with the corporate to buy the chair. And Justin, I feel he stated about 98% of the, and he does numerous work on therapeutic massage chairs, as I discussed, he’s been doing it for years, and he will get numerous these, numerous the house owners of those cheaper chairs calling him, on the lookout for components, and he can not get components, he simply can’t get them. There’s nowhere to name, there’s nowhere to achieve out to get assist, and so that you need to be actually cautious if you get the cheaper chairs. Ensure that they’ve bought some guarantee assist you could entry, and get assist, get true assist, and you already know, you’re not going to get in-home repairs on chairs like this. You’re not going to, most likely if you wish to have a restore, you’re most likely going to must ship the chair again to them, at your price, and have them restore it for you, if in reality they restore it in any respect. So, there’s issues that go together with that, and don’t go together with that, however you do get what you pay for. However once more, I need to iterate that, or reiterate that should you can not afford a pleasant $5000, $6000, $7000 chair, and all you’ll be able to afford is a $500 chair, that is going to be higher than nothing in any respect. And so, it serves a function out there, and that’s actually vital to know. I’m not bashing these chairs, I simply, I wished to clarify to individuals which can be asking me ‘Why are you charging a lot for this chair, and so little for this chair? You guys should be simply cleansing up on revenue margins, or no matter.’ It’s not like that. Granted, they’ve higher revenue margins on the costlier chairs, however there’s much more service and assist that goes in to it as nicely. For instance, we provide Lifetime Labor on a chair like this. We may by no means afford to do this on a less expensive chair like this. One drawback with the chair that we must pay for the tech assist would wipe out our revenue margin, and so there are specific stuff you simply can not get if you’re going this value vary, that you just do get with the premium chairs. So, anyway, I’ve gone on too lengthy. I hope that made sense. I hope I’ve lined all the pieces that we wished to speak about as we speak, and confirmed you all the pieces that we wished to point out you. 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