Niche has updated the prices for Zero and Duo. In addition, the Duo is no longer sold as two burrs set option. We have a choice of either of the burrs set or both. The company has done a great job in addressing the concerns on pricing and the choice of burrs set options. The pricing has also been rationalised. For example, if I am ordering a zero from Germany, they take away the VAT (before shipping is added) taking the cost to £449. I checked this with a Germany address and obviously, did not order. Happy to be corrected, if am wrong. https://www.nichecoffee.co.uk/products/niche-zero https://www.nichecoffee.co.uk/products/niche-duo

Not surprised to see the zero go up - as has everything else recently.. Good to have the options now of the single burr sets - and sorting out the VAT issue. Also the shipping date for new order is back to August… clearly a pretty successful launch on Aprils fools day !

both burr sets (original) is still july glad they sorted the pricing out, as it was a big point for a lot of people

@"Cuprajake"#p45462 Makes you wonder if they will even mention it on HB…..🤣

@"DavecUK"#p45468 nahhh but we cant because we will get called names

Interesting, so with just one burr it's cheaper than the DF83!

@"Ammonite"#p45473 Indeed that too with Mazzer burrs set! IIRC, the DF83 still comes up Itamil, unless they have also defaulted to Mazzer or DLC.

I guess it now gives people everything they want. My personal recommendation would be to get the "directors cut" and have both burr sets. It is well worth it if you do filter. Or if you are pure espresso you might even want to put different espresso burr sets in the other carriers.

Also notice that the one with both burr sets (i.e.: Filter and Espresso burrs) now costs 778.80. If memory doesn't fail me, it was £799? So a reduction of £21.20. Sold out in any case.

@"MediumRoastSteam"#p45477 You are quite correct.

Even though I am a brewed coffee dabbler, I would still go for the two burr option…….why you ask? Simple, if you go for the one burr version then you have no option! I am not a big believer (sorry Tom P) of the ever increasing market of speciality burrs. I think very few people have the skill and taste buds to detect the minute differences these burrs can make. I think a lot of people think they can, but I have my doubts! It takes many a moon to train your palette and become a super taster. Many years ago, I made 3 cups of tea. I put sugar in one then stirred it and used the same spoon to remove the tea bags from the other two mugs. Handed one to my mother in law who took a sip and said, you have stirred my cup with the same spoon you used to put sugar in the other………..she was in a different room and I still have no idea if she was a super taster or a con artist!

Niche - New Prices

tompoland

FadedFrontiers Yet on another thread about Timemore, Meticulous etc on the other hand then people pile on a lot worse and it’s fine.

The big difference is that people don’t tolerate a pile on as much if they already own the kit in question. Human nature.

Cuprajake

Didn’t see your reply as its been edited to add more, if you want to add more just add a fresh post or stuff easy gets missed, one of my biggest bug bear with forums is posts being edited to add more then it’s missed or stuff gets taken out of context.

Niche seem to have backed down due to public demand for a single burr option, which is a shame really as it makes a mockery of the name of the product now, the one burr duo 🤷

Attack is a strong word re the other subject, if you mean people are quite rightly worried about the amount of money sunk into something like the meticulous then fair do but it’s not an attack.

There was a post like this recently which prompted me to create poles asking what grinders people use

https://coffeetime.freeflarum.com/d/1724-whats-your-grinder

50% of the 60 votes use a niche, so your going to get more natural bias towards that product.

MediumRoastSteam

Cuprajake which is a shame really as it makes a mockery of the name of the product now, the one burr duo

I struggle to understand this Jake, no offence. If prospective customers are voicing their frustration about dual burr sets, (yep, some of us don’t care about filter coffee that much!) do you believe it’s wrong they listened? Maybe they should have added a marketing spin on the name of the product and called it the “Uno” or whatever their marketing department comes up with but doing nothing could’ve been a launch disaster for them.

In my humble opinion, the price change to remove VAT was the biggest one. I bet people would have ignored the dual burr option and would have bought the grinder regardless. But I think it’s great they listened to their prospective customers - potentially now actual customers - and got things right in the end.

dfk41

Cuprajake which is a shame really as it makes a mockery of the name of the product now, the one burr duo 🤷

Au contraire……..one grinder, Duo burr options

Cuprajake

Non taken, just seems a shame they went down that route for a couple years only to back track immediately.

Dusk

Cuprajake

I think it shows Niche to be a very good business who listen to their customers. There have been many products made in the past (outside of coffee) that are based on lots of research, testing and focus groups but still end up a massive flop. Niche listened and immediately responded so fair play to them in my eyes. Being stubborn doesn’t make good business sense, being pragmatic does.

Doram

Cuprajake just seems a shame they went down that route for a couple years only to back track immediately

You can see it as back tracking, but you can also see it as moving forward. Many products (think phones, for example) offer different versions so people can have a choice. Niche had one new product, now they have three versions of it. More offerings = more sale options. I think that’s the best move they could make, and while doing it also get applause for listening, being agile, doing the right thing etc. How can forcing people who will only use one burr set into buying a second set (to justify a name…) be a better idea?

MediumRoastSteam

Cuprajake just seems a shame they went down that route for a couple years only to back track

You might think they went down the route for a couple of years. In reality, it was for a couple of weeks, as customers only knew of the product once it was released.

Edit: didn’t see your last reply and the few before. Moving on. 👍

Dusk

And it’s still a duo as it can take two sets of burrs for different brew types, I’m not aware that other grinders that are designed specifically that way?

Cuprajake

Im not coming from a business point of view more a design artis side of things, agree niche acted correctly with both the vat and single burr option, just a shame to me that’s all, it’s not a big deal ❤️

Cuprajake

Just my opinion move on please

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