 Hello, it's Alex here from alexfocus.com and welcome to the very first part of the red light body panel showdown. So I've got six panels behind me from leading brands in the red light therapy space. And if you haven't seen the introduction, I'm going to be comparing these across mini metrics, price, power, flicker, wavelength, shipping, all sorts of things. All right. And I'm going to be releasing those videos and blog articles over a period of days, weeks, depending on how long it takes me to do all this. So be sure to subscribe if you haven't already and head over to alexfocus.com, jump on my email list and also check out my Instagram because I'm going to be putting a lot of behind the scenes on my Instagram page. So in this part one, what I want to do is I want to look at price and shipping. Okay. We'll get to the wavelengths and the power and all those other cool data points and the next steps or parts. But to start with, let's look at price. So with these panels behind me, I've tried to select panels that are very similar in terms of the key target audience, target market. So that means a similar size, all right? The price obviously varies between companies, but I think these are all very closely related. I mean, you can see behind me that five of them are nearly identical size. One's a little bit taller, but narrow. So they're all targeted for that full body panel user, I guess that's what they're after. These aren't the target lights, the small handheld ones. These aren't the beds that you're lying. These are your standard body panels. And we'll look at the pros and cons of the sizes and LEDs and modular capabilities later on. But today I just want to look at price. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to share two price points, all right? The first is just the retail price, so if you head straight over to the website now and buy it without any specials or discount codes, that will be your price you'll get. I'm also going to give you the price after the discount that these companies have given me to give to you. So all these companies have given me a discount code or a promo code, and that is alex. That knocks anything from zero dollars off your purchase price and I'll explain that soon, right up to 10% off the purchase price. So I figure why compare the retail price, we might as well compare the discounted price because you can get that discount right. So that's what we're also going to compare. I'm going to score these panels on that discounted price, all right? So every panel is going to get a point or be ranked first 36 and they'll get a point for the place. And then we're going to total up these points at the end of this series and hopefully find a winner. And it's going to be the best body panel in the market for 2019 going into 2020. Secondly, I'm also going to look at the shipping, all right? So shipping to the United States, but it gets a little bit complicated there so we'll cover that soon. Anyway, let's get into price. So starting from my right, we have the MitoRid, MitoMax, all right? This is a panel that I've used for a while, I really like it. A lot of my clients have it. A lot of my readers have it. It's a good all-round product panel and best of all, it's awesomely priced. So sorry, I'm going to have to look at all the notes here because there's a lot of numbers and names here. So you have to excuse me. My unprofessionalism here, $749 US dollars. All the prices I give you are going to be US dollars, all right? $749 for a full body panel. Great price. All right. Discount. Discount code LX, ALX saves you 5%. That brings the price down to $711, $711 for a full body panel, 660 nanomers, 850 nanomers. Great price. Second, red therapy, red rush, $720, $779. So another great price point, well under that $1,000 mark, which is awesome. With the discount code, so the discount code LX, it actually gives you a $25 saving and I'll work that out. It's about a 3% saving, so not as good as the MitoRid, but still, $25, hey, I mean, that's a meal out, right? So with the discount code, that brings it down to $754 US dollars, not too bad. In the middle here, the Mito HQ Mito panel. Now this was priced in Australian dollars, so I converted it to USD dollars based on the date today. Obviously exchange rates fluctuate all the time, so the price I'm going to give you may be slightly off by a few dollars, but it should give you a rough idea. This came out, retail price is $1,026 USD, but the promo that I'm sharing with you guys is actually 10% off this price, so discount code LXALEX will save you 10% of the price. Brings it down under the $1,000 price point and it is $923, still a lot more expensive than these two panels. Over this side, we have the Platinum Biomax 600. This panel here retails for $899, I've also given me a discount code, this one's 5% off, that brings the price down to $854, so again, well under the $1,000 price point, but a little bit more expensive than the $700 units that we started with. I should also mention Platinum LED Therapy, the company they also do their original Bio Series range. I don't have one here to test, it's a shame, it would have been good to include that in this review. That's their first generation product and it's very similar to the Mito-RED panel behind me. That price is a lot cheaper, I think it's $699, I can't remember, but it is their first generation product, doesn't have as many bells and whistles and a few other features that this one has. This is the best unit out of those two, which is why I wanted to include that in the review. From a price point of view though, they do have a cheaper one, but again, we haven't included that in this showdown. Next up, we have the Juve, the infamous Juve. Juve Solo here, $1,195, it's up there, I mean it's a lot more expensive than these other units, well over the $1,000 price point, what about a discount you ask? They don't do discounts, so they don't give out any discount codes. They have given me a coupon code or promo code to share with you guys, and that is also Alex, but you don't get a discount, instead you get a free book or a free supplement. You could put a figure on that, maybe $20, $30, depending on which option you choose, but if you don't really value the book or the supplements, I mean hey, it might be worth nothing to you. So that's a shame because their price point is quite high, $1,200 for a panel when you can get these other ones for $7,800, $900. And so yeah, no discount on that, because even a 10% discount would bring that down closer to that $1,000 mark, but anyhow, $1,195, no discount code, but there is a free gift with coupon code Alex. Finally, the tool one here, Red Light Rising. The European or British company stands out from the crowd, obviously with the height here, so I'm looking forward to getting into testing the units and looking at areas and whatnot. This unit is priced in British pounds, so like I did with the Mito HQ, I have to convert that to USD dollars. That came out to be 902 US dollars as of today. They've given me a discount code, also 5%, so that brings it down to $857 US dollars. So, if you can hear some squealing in the background, it is my wife and an eight month old baby, and they're making me dinner. And having a lot of fun by the sounds of it. So, if you're confused with all those numbers, don't worry, hopefully my video editor can do some cool graphics and do a neat little table on the screen and make it easier for you. Otherwise, I've got my notes here, I have ranked them all for you. So, we'll go from last to first. Last in sixth place is the juve, gotta make sure I point to the right one here, the juve solo. And that was your $1,195 and they had no discount code. In fifth place, in the middle here, the black one, the mito HQ mito panel, which is $923 US dollars after the 10% discount code. Fourth place, down the end here, red light rising, full stack and that was the $857 after the 5% discount code. All right, now to the top three, where am I? Third place, taking bronze, platinum biomex 600, $854 after the 5% discount code. And second place, you scoot over here, second place, the red therapy company Red Rush 720 at $754 after discount code Alex, which gives you $25 off, which is about 3%, $754. And the first place that leaves, the mito red mito max, this puppy, $711 after discount code Alex, which is quite a good price. I mean, it's amazing price, it's the best out of all six by far. I mean, if you compare the mito red at $711 with the juve at $1,200, that's a $500 price difference and percentage wise it's huge. I mean, not quite double, but it's a big difference. So there we go. What I'm going to do from a points point of view is I'm going to, depending on the place, I'm going to give the product one point. So if it's first, it gets one point. If it's second, it gets two points, et cetera. I'm going to total them all up after we've done this whole showdown review, looking at all these metrics. And the panel with the lowest score is going to be the winner. So just remember that when the total tally comes up, lower is better. But again, I hope my video does a cool job of making it simple for you guys. All right, so that's the very first challenge done, price point. I hope you found that interesting and leave comments and questions below. Before we wrap up this video, I also want to look at shipping, all right? So shipping is a tricky one because obviously, people live in all corners of the world and, you know, every company has different shipping costs to get in different countries. And I couldn't cater for all of them, it would be like a three week series, just looking at shipping. So what I thought I'd do is just look at shipping to the US. But then I thought, well, if there's any standout features, I'll factor that in as well. Okay, so I'll run through it as we go through each panel. And you'll understand where we're at. MinoRid, MinoMax, the cheapest panel of them all, free shipping to the US, great. Red Therapy, free shipping to the US, great. Mino HQ, a bit of a spanner in the works here. This is an Australian company at the moment, we're late October of 2019. They don't ship outside of Australia. And I know you're thinking, well, why do you include it? Australia is such a small market. They are moving into the US market. That's why I wanted to include them. Plus, I think they have a pretty cool panel. I mean, it looks great. And I know they're very different to all the rest, which is also why I wanted to include them in here. And there's 20 million people in Australia, so hey, it's not a non-existent market. But they are expanding into America and potentially worldwide late 2019. And we're getting into late 2019 anytime now. So I want to include them in for these reasons. I know what will happen. I'll publish this video and then we'll get in the email saying, all right, but now shipping to the States. But as of this point right now, they only ship to Australia. So it's going to impact my scoring, which I'll get to soon. However, it's free shipping in Australia, which is great. And if you do live in Australia and you're looking to buy these panels, it's actually a good choice because you don't have to pay import duties. All these other ones, because they're over the import duty threshold, you'll be paying taxes on it. And again, I could have, you know, I could spend hours breaking that down. So just keep that in mind when you're shopping around. The Platinum Biomex 600 free USA shipping. The Juve Solo, also free USA shipping. The Red Light Rising, free USA shipping when the purchase price is over 100 pounds. So if you're buying that, you're well over 100 pounds, which is great. But they also do free worldwide shipping for purchases over 100 pounds. So pretty much if you buy that, no matter where you live in the world, you're going to get free shipping. Doesn't mean you get free import duties or it doesn't mean you don't have to pay the import duties. So for instance, me buying that here in New Zealand, I got free shipping, great. But I still had to pay 100 bucks whatever it was for import duties. So you get a factor that in, which is why, again, if you're in Australia, that's an appealing panel, the one behind me. So let's score this. It's all tricky, right? Because they're all similar. You know, obviously with the free USA shipping, I didn't want to create a huge range with the awarding points here because it was just going to skew the whole tally, the overall winner, it's going to impact it too much. So what I've done, I've got three places to award, all right? I remember the lower the score, the better when we add them up. What I've done is I've given the real light rising one point, lower the better. So first place, gold price because they did free worldwide shipping. I mean, no other company does that. I mean, that's awesome. I should mention that all these companies do have kind of unique worldwide shipping policies as well. Like some of them do discounted shipping. Some of them give you various options. So if you are an international customer and you're looking around, you know, go to each of these product companies' websites and have a look because some are better than others. But again, I don't want to factor that in here. It just gets too confusing. So anyway, first place, red light rising full stack. And they're going to get their one point, lower is better. Second place, and we have second equal, we have four companies here. We have the Juve with free USA shipping. Platinum, LED, free USA shipping. And then the two white panels with two other white panels. So all the white panels behind me, free USA shipping, they're all going to get second equal. All right, they all share silver middle with two points. That leaves third place on three points, which is the MITO HQ panel. I gave them three. I didn't want to give them last, you know, six points, for instance, because they are going to move into the USA market. They are doing free Australia shipping. They very well may do free USA shipping, given that that is the norm. So I'm kind of giving them the benefit of the doubt here. They are falling behind all the others in terms of the overall school board, just by giving them three versus the two or the white. So, you know, I think that's a fair way to score it. If you're not happy with that, leave a comment below. We can discuss this and find a detail. Maybe you can do your own scoring system based on all these facts I'm giving you. So, given we've now done two rounds or two score points systems, it's two rounds on the red light showdown, body panel showdown. Let's do a tally. Total points so far, you know, we'll go from last place up to first. So last place, we have the Mido HQ and the Juve Solo with eight points each. So the fifth equal. Then we go to third place, third equal. We have the red light rising at five. We have the platinum at five points. In second place, we have the red company, red therapy company Red Rush with four points. And first place, the Mido Red, Mido Max with three points. All right, that was a lot of data. Hopefully you didn't get too confused there. But so far, Mido Red coming up on top. Red therapy in second place, not far behind. And then everyone is beneath that. I'm gonna wrap this up now because it's starting to go too long. In the next video, we're gonna look at, I'm just thinking what we're gonna do next. We might do EMF levels. Yeah, let's do EMF levels. And then round three, we're gonna do power, output. We're also gonna look at flicker. We're gonna look at wavelengths. We're gonna look at sizes. We're gonna look at warranty support. We're gonna look at other things that come with the panel. There's a lot we're gonna cover. It's gonna be a pretty comprehensive roundup. I'm gonna leave it there. Be sure to subscribe if you haven't already. Leave any questions, comments below. Share this with your friends. Share it on Facebook groups and Reddit, wherever you wanna share it. Let's get everyone watching this and you guys can critique my review process because I know it's gonna happen. I know the manufacturers are gonna critique all this and I know everything's gonna change. They're gonna publish this. Some company will offer me a bit of discount for you guys. But hey, I had to draw the line somewhere so let's run with this with the numbers we've got now. So I'm excited to see who comes out on top. Who do you think is gonna come out on top? Right now we have the minor read, my Max in first place. Will they hold number one throughout? What do you guys think? Juve, the very popular and well-known Juve. Currently, we're there. That's sitting fifth or equal last place. I mean, are they gonna pull ahead here? What's gonna happen? What do you think? I'm curious to hear your thoughts. Stay tuned, speak to you soon.