other than some deflection, which only comes from having less weight up front. the big thing that a carbon fibre cue differs from a wood one, will be when you take one out in a thunderstorm.
Profit on their Chinese stuff has to be massive. The workers are probably making 1/5(maybe) of what pay is in US. I've never owned a single Pred product. Their cues have never done anything for me. They are marketing guru's, their diehard fans won't buy anything else.
I know it's crazy.
Picked this custom up about 8 months ago to my personal specificatins from inlays, colors, etc. and it cost much less than some of Preditor's high end machine made products. I just don't understand it.
The Ko brothers don't seem interested in pool any more. What other Asian players are clearly better than Biado and Chua (who might be another defector)? Yapp is up there for sure...but any Asian team chosen without politics should have at least two Filipinos, even with the Ko brothers.
chua is out, with the kos. biado, jefrey roda maybe if you go for solid player. they have to have played all but two major events right? add in januarta if you want youth, then yapp and capito. 10-7 to team asia.
I've seen hundreds of predators over the years owned by local players. Super popular in my area. I don't think I've ever seen more than 1 of their models over 1500 retail (in today's dollars) actually owned by a local. The players who buy them just want the low deflection, imo. The high end cue players would match up the 314 shafts with their custom butts.
no idea. when their top model was like model 3k6 and costed around $800, yea i saw people here play with them. now they ask the equivalent of that, times two, for painted cues with big ugly cats on them.
and their freak colored break cues sells out because people are mental.
I've seen hundreds of predators over the years owned by local players. Super popular in my area. I don't think I've ever seen more than 1 of their models over 1500 retail (in today's dollars) actually owned by a local. The players who buy them just want the low deflection, imo. The high end cue players would match up the 314 shafts with their custom butts.
Predator is the absolute king of pool marketing. Sometimes I think that they are a marketing company that uses the pool diaspora to make their profits.
I just don't see it.
Frankly, some of their production cues are more costly than some customs and the pool world eats them up.
They are great marketers for sure.
