Sean,
I'll check again on gravity cue.
OK, I did. I go to
www.gravitycue.com and there on the website it says American Pool Cue GravityCue and 360 PureCue, "COMING SOON".
When I click on the buy Now button, it brings me to another link and it doesn't show the price. Something is going on but I don't know what. I've used your link with the 24 id on it and it provides the pricing and the ability to order. Thanks!
Joey:
I don't know what's going on with your experience on their page, but all I'm doing is going to
http://360purecue.com/ (Notice the lack of the "dubya dubya dubya" stuff -- you don't need to do that silly stuff anymore. Take it from a guy that has written RFCs and IETF documents.) Then, from there, I'm merely clicking on the "Buy Now" red button next to the embedded YouTube video for the 360 PureCue Action Trainer. That's it -- honest. Your Internet service may implement a "speed boost" feature, which is actually a caching proxy server. In that case, that server's cache may be stale, and might have an old copy of the 21st Century Cue Sports content.
(Kinda doubt it, unless there's others in your area that've visited that page in the past, and I kinda doubt that this server would've kept in cache a copy of this page that you visited long ago. But hey, stranger things've happened.)
You must be talking about someone else besides Gene with those mean-spirited comments about him. It has become apparent to me that many people value what Gene is offering for sale and the bitterness in which you constantly refer to him is unfortunately petty and uncalled for.
<sigh> Here we go again with the fake-innocence. Joey, others are picking up on this (in this very thread, in fact), so please, do us all a favor, and knock it off? This from a fellow veteran. Let's get something straight -- a product's value (irrespective of "real" or "perceived") HAS NOTHING TO DO with the proper way to market that product, specifically of the techniques used. That "old-sick-man-who-says-he-wants-to-do-good-for-pool" does NOT give him a free pass to cast treble hooks into the forum, and not compensate it. Nor will having the greatest product in the world; it doesn't matter. Bad/unscrupulous/parasitic marketing is just that. For the life of me, I can't understand why you are not getting this.
However your suggestion about Gene buying a banner is good advice. I agree with that.
Good, please bend his ear, because he seems to not listen, or just plain "not get it." He doesn't listen to others (and I'm not referring to just myself here), but maybe he'll listen to you.
Sean, we can agree on many things and the things that we disagree on, well, we will just have to agree to disagree.
I see that Gene is a hot button for you so I won't bother teasing you with it in the future, however if I do make posts about Gene or Perfect Aim in the future, please don't be tempted to respond as you have done here or I will have to bring out the large blue fonts.
Life is too short to get wound up on anything like this.
<shakes head> Good grief, Joey. For the last time, it is not an issue of posts about Gene's product. It is the issue of ethics and propriety. Are you trying to say it's "ok" to derail threads with fornicative insertions of off-topic product rah-rah cheerleading into threads that have nothing to do with the topic being discussed? Joey, you've been around on these boards (and their predecessors, e.g. CCB and RSB) for quite some time. You
know what spam is. And yet you subscribe to it?
It's not just Gene that's a hot button for me. It's
any parasitic marketing, especially masked under a fake-innocence guise, which you obviously subscribe to
(hey, you did it right here in this thread). Gene's name just bubbled up to the top because you know he happens to be the
CyberPromo example in my book.
I don't mind product reviews of anyone's products. Heck, keep 'em coming! That's how we learn what are valuable products, and what aren't. But there's a stark difference between these three things:
1. A user review of a product;
2. That product's vendor gaff-hook fishing in a forum with no compensation back to his fishing grounds;
3. Those gaff-hooks loaded with bait to disguise their barbs (e.g. "pool stories" that are poorly disguised product boosters), or take credit for inventions / discoveries which are most certainly and well-documented to not be his/hers.
I stay out of threads that bug me -- or at least don't participate in them. E.g. aiming system threads, Gene's own-initiated threads, etc. You've obviously noticed my absence from all that silliness and immaturity. But know this -- you warned me about the blue fonts as you did above. I'll reciprocate -- post
off-topic product advertisements (even disguised ones) and I *will* call you on it. That's a promise. You know that.
Your AZB friend, who still hopes to break bread with you one day.
(You do know that I bought one of those Cue Track, stroke trainers, don't you?):wink:
JoeyA
I hope to break bread with you one day as well. Perhaps break a few racks as well. Although I'm familiar with the CueTrack stroke trainers, I haven't seen one. The only stroke trainers I have are the LaserStroke and the 360 PureCue. At least ones that I actively use (there may be some others I bought over the years, but they obviously turned out to be duds, because they've been repurposed to keep shelves in my basement from floating away.
Your AZB friend as well,
-Sean