I beg to differ…….a friend of mine just sold his Eddie Cohen Color of Money “Doom” cue.
I know what he paid since it was going to be my order and he wanted it more than I did.
He just sold it and doubled his price. I have a offer for twice what I paid in ‘05 for my EP cue.
If you buy smart and the cue maker has a waiting list, i.e., longer the better, & your cue has
some curbside appeal or maybe even sizzle, you won’t lose money and likely net a nice profit.
So you get to own and play with a great pool cue, recover your entire original purchase price
and all the more likely realize a small or perhaps tidy profit in contrast with your cue peers that lose
money when they sell their cues, I suppose there could be something wrong with this arrangement.
WTF it is I can’t figure out but I guess there could be some how or some way. I can sell any of the
cues in my case right now and not lose a red cent but have enjoyed years of playing pool with them.
Hmn….I guess I could have invested my money in a mutual fund or gold but this was never money
intended to be an investment but rather money that came from investments and the IRS says you
must start withdrawals at age 70 so I complied, albeit maybe a bit sooner but with the same intentions.
So after how I figure out how this is a bad deal, I’ll get back to you. When something is too good to be
true, it usually is. But this much I know. Bob Owen would charge a whole lot more for my cues he built
for me than what I originally paid so if someone wanted my cues, why the heck would I sell them for less
than what he would charge to build those cues today? And yes, Bob has a wait list like all the top names
in cue making so that’s a consideration if a buyer was impatient and eager to get a Owen custom he liked.
Everyone can come up with the exception rather than the rule but the real world says what I described is true.
