Looking for opinions on disc golf baskets for temp tournament holes.
I can get the Innova Discatcher Sport for a very reasonable price, but I'm concerned with it's quality and ability to catch discs well. Anyone have one of these? What is your opinion on it for tournament use?
What brand/type of baskets does everyone like?
Anyone have a decent temp hole basket they want to get rid of at a reasonable price?
send spitner or stpitner (one or the other on here) and ask him which ones he uses for his tournaments. the chains dont seem to be as heavy. but for a temp basket, it gets the job done
He and I both use Chainstars for temp baskets. I think at Channy he may have borrowed two others (I don't recall what type they were).
I think the DGA Mach Lite is probably the best portable basket as the dimensions are very similar to baskets at most courses. The chains are a bit light and can spit through, but it's fairly consistent compared to the other portables I've played on.
I was planning to get a Chainstar this year from Discraft. However, when I asked them what wholesale price was on it, they quoted me retail. That really left a bad taste in my mouth. If you are unwillling to sell me wholesale (even though I have a tax id, and a valid business) just say so. Don't BS me and qoute me retail price.
They also weren't willing to work with me much to use D-dollars on it either. I would have had to put in a custom disc order of over $1500 with them to be able to use D-dollars on it. ( I could have hit that number between both tournaments, but they don't allow you to save and combine D-dollars)
So, my choices were to order way too many custom discs, pay full retail, or go somewhere else.
Hence, I am looking for alternatives without compromising quality.
Anyone have a used Chainstar or other high quality PDGA approved basket they want to sell?
To be fair though, if you aren't purchasing products at a larger level then maybe it's just a few more months until you would qualify for more wholesale pricing. If they gave everyone wholesale pricing, there wouldn't be much of a business model and they would be in the business of direct sales.
Patrick - DGA and Discraft don't sell their baskets for any cheaper than the $388 or whatever the pricetag is. DGA is willing to set up a referral program if you refer someone to buy baskets from them, so you can get something like 15% off, not sure if you can refer yourself or not :)
Right now for my tournaments, unless I make arrangements to borrow baskets from others - I use one Discraft Chainstar and 2 Innova DISCatcher sports. DISCatcher sports are a good place to start, especially based on the price point.
Another option would be to post and find out if someone is going to be at the tournament that has a higher quality basket willing to let you borrow them. I know DISContinuum members can arrange to borrow some of the club's 6 baskets - contact Brett about that.
I have a 2nd chainstar on the way, but I think I'm going to be out of town the same weekend as your Channahon tournament.
"DGA and Discraft don't sell their baskets for any cheaper than the $388 or whatever the pricetag is"
That is just really wild!
I guess there's not much of a retail marketplace for those baskets though, now that I think about it. Maybe that's why there is no need for a wholesale price. Still, I am having trouble wrapping my mind around that whole idea. Thanks for the head up on that though, as it clears the bad taste from my mouth. LOL.
Thanks for the tip on the Discatcher Sport. I can get those for so much cheaper than anything else that will work.
I'll check around with the J-Town crew about borrowing some baskets, as I see them every week. I would rather use a high quality basket if I can. I'm sure there are some baskets floating around that I can borrow.
Actually, it is more accurate to say that Discraft and DGA do not sell their full weight baskets at retail, but only have wholesale pricing. Discraft makes no money selling Chainstars at their current pricing. I'm not so sure about DGA, but I think it is the same deal for them.
Discraft sells baskets out of necessity, and not for profit. That is why they have never bothered to develop their own basket. That is also why Erich always sounds a little pissy when you're trying to work him for a deal on baskets. The deal is already a deal. ;D
I actually think the new Mach 2s are nice baskets for something like $100 less than the chainstars. I have been quite happy with mine and have had it used as an extra basket for a tournament or two with no complaints. Anyone else had the same experience?
You know, it's funny......I have never paid much attention to the baskets until I decided to run some tournaments.
There was one temp basket used for hole 21 I believe at the Dave Pitner Memorial May 1st that I didn't particularly like. The lower basket was REALLY deep. Or, to put it another way, the lip of the lower basket was very tall. If you didn't pay attention before putting, it was really easy to hit a full frontal by accident. I don't know what type of basket it was, but maybe Scott remembers. Looked like a nice quality basket otherwise.
Other than that, I've never really noticed. I don't have a hard putt, so even my cheap practice basket at home works perfectly well for me with no noticeable difference between it and a high quality basket. But I've played with some very hard putters who would be at a disadvantage with a cheaper basket. So I wanted to be sure to do my research before I consider purchasing one for tournament use.
The Mach II's look pretty nice. So do the Chainstars, and the Innova Pro. And of course, the Mach IIIs and Vs look great.
Quote from: acesandchains on May 19, 2010, 09:29:19 AM
You know, it's funny......I have never paid much attention to the baskets until I decided to run some tournaments.
There was one temp basket used for hole 21 I believe at the Dave Pitner Memorial May 1st that I didn't particularly like. The lower basket was REALLY deep. Or, to put it another way, the lip of the lower basket was very tall. If you didn't pay attention before putting, it was really easy to hit a full frontal by accident. I don't know what type of basket it was, but maybe Scott remembers. Looked like a nice quality basket otherwise.
Other than that, I've never really noticed. I don't have a hard putt, so even my cheap practice basket at home works perfectly well for me with no noticeable difference between it and a high quality basket. But I've played with some very hard putters who would be at a disadvantage with a cheaper basket. So I wanted to be sure to do my research before I consider purchasing one for tournament use.
The Mach II's look pretty nice. So do the Chainstars, and the Innova Pro. And of course, the Mach IIIs and Vs look great.
The basket that you are referring to is one of my baskets. They are made up in Wisconsin. What is nice about them is that they screw together so you don't need any bolts and nuts. The basket is deeper, but I have never put it side by side with another basket to see if the top of the basket is actually higher than normal.
it almost makes you wonder if it's a psychological thing where it just LOOKS taller even though it's actually goes lower. and btw Tom I never say it enough - thanks for making that basket available for us to use.
Lol. Yeah, it's probably just psychological. I can't say I had any trouble putting at that basket. But, it did make me look twice and think about it a bit. ::)
http://blogcritics.org/culture/article/disc-golf-baskets-on-the-cheap/page-2/
http://ching.us.com/access/news-and-events.html
thoughts on the new ching target ?