I just ordered mine last week sometime and it was in my mailbox in like 4 days. Pretty quick turnaround! I had a problem putting them on my pads cuz I have Vapors and they don't have a toe bridge attached to the pad (just two SMALL holes in the pad itself that the lace goes through). After some drilling and a coat hanger experiment (which surprisingly worked very well!) I got them on. With my lace toe ties (which would fray and break after about 8 games cuz of it rubbing on the ridges of my skate boot), I found myself making my boot strap fairly tight on my skate to make the pads rotate how I wanted. With flex-toe however, I seem to need to make my boot strap loose to achieve what I want. At first I had the flex-toe hooks on about the 4th or 5th skate lace on my skate but found this to be too tight (compared to my normal lace toe tie slack as the flex-toe bungee cords are fairly short). So I switched to the very bottom skate lace and it was like magic. I really like the product so far (only played two games with it) as I just leave it attached to my skate lace (It's a b*tch threading the hooks through the front opening in my Labeda Chassis) and it cuts down on dressing room time and feels the same to me as my lace toe tie method. With a minor boot strap adjustment of course
BTW, my 'regular' lace toe ties prolly had like 1-1 1/2 inches of slack.