you get what you pay for [SEP] these plates are just cheaper price wise and quality versions of konad plates you get plates for about and shipping is free so that is quite an irresistible deal but i have to say these plates cannot compare to the konad platesfirst of all there is no safety backing on the plates as many people have written already the plates are very thin and can be very sharp i resorted to pasting the plates to index cards so it is less likely to slice into my fingers and to prevent the plates from scratching each othersecondly the designs of the plates are not as intricate and well done as the konad plates i have a bunch of konad plates and the bm designs definitely do not come close the bm designs are not as detailed and just are not as pretty as the konad designs but of course you get what you pay for also some of the plates i got seems like there were manufacturing flaws the designs on the plates appear smeared or smudged and when i tried to stamp them the images do not transfer properly if at allthridly the full nail designs do not actually fit on your whole nail unless you have really small hands or are a child i learned that if i am very precise on how i stamp i can get away with stamping the full nail designs from my index to my pinky thumb is definitely out of the question lest you end up with a half stamped thumb or you are good enough to stamp in two halves you have to really match up the designs i have never had this problem with konad designsfourthly some of my plates arrived with water and rust stains i do not understand how this happens since there is a thin saran type film ontop the plates when you first get them this must mean that the plates have somehow gotten wet during manufacturing process but before the packaging process this doenst interfere with the stamping process but i just find it annoying to have rust and water marks on my platesoverall these plates are dirt cheap under a dollar for each plate compared to konad which are between per plate but you get what you pay for and bundle monster plates definitely do not compare to the quality of konads