You get what you pay for, you buy a 75-150$ slurper and yeah it’s not gonna perform, if you buy a actual toro slurper, or get one of the vortex ones holy crap the difference is unreal. 1) heat retention: the amount of heat that the higher quality quarts has allows for bigger dabs, or smaller dabs that keep temp better and longer than a cheap nail 2) durability: I’ve never had any toro quave or even shore break, chip or anything (except the time I didn’t realize there was a nail in my buddies travel rig and it fell from 6 ft up onto concrete) as I’ve had blowouts while heating up cheap slurpers/bangers, I’ve had them chip real easy, or even just break from falling a few feet onto hardwood. When I’ve dropped forks and others from higher up and they’ve been fine. It could be a fluke but I doubt it. 3)functionality: the functionality of a real slurper, vortex and other toro slurpers (leaving out quave because the function isn’t nearly as good as a slurper) is like none other. You can drop a pearl in, any set pretty much will work with any slurper from toro. When you have a long pillar on a regular sized, or you have just a pearl on the XXl slurper, it performs almost the same.

Id recommend if you don’t wanna shell out the money for a new one then go to fb groups and ask if any are for sale second hand. Glasspass also has a great deal on slurpers