Thank you both for your reply.
I wish you a happy New billiard year and a merry Christmas

Oscar has a lot of heart, traveling across the country and betting big on someone else's home court. I wonder if he is betting all his own or has partners.

sjm said:

Yup, look forward to seeing you again. I'll make sure to have you as my guest for at least one big match, but probably not the banks ring game.

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Works for me. I am always honored to sit with you. I will be there each weekend but not during the week.

only way to learn to not choke is to play under pressure regularly so you get desensitized to it. no other way. all the other stuff is total bull crap.

and the best way is to gamble at pool. then every time you are under some pressure and soon it becomes second nature and its gone.

tg_vegas said:

I recently made a deal to buy a USED mezz cue and shaft from a guy in Toronto. We haggled a bit on price but ended up at a price, SHIPPED, that we could both live with

I paid him via PayPal, friends and family. All good so far.

Next day, Paypal hits me with a $31 transaction fee. No explanation since it was not a G&S transaction.

Then the cue got stuck in customs for a couple of days but eventually made it to me after a little more than a week later.

THEN, the bills came.. Duty fees, and Trump Tariffs, etc... another $46.50 in fees.

In the end, if I had known that I would have almost $100 in fees to buy this used cue from an AZB member in Canada, I would never have bought it.

Buyer beware

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So… you unsuccessfully tried to commit fraud?

Solid stuff Gage!

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This is truly bizarre.

Easy money

Oscar for the win.

I had another Canadian seller on here (not Kenny) literally tell.me this would never happen on a 2k cue shipping from Toronto..

It's only going to ramp more as the duties control technology that's getting ready to roll out ramps because the new software is using a Palantir develop LLM model to catalog senders, receivers, and value.

So there going to start tracking the same person sending lots of $100 items to US destinations which is going to make Kenny's current hack stop working. They will just do a deep inspection of the package, meaning they will seize it, a month later they will open it, four months after that they will research it and validate the actual value vs the declared value and if it's significantly above the declared there not going to fine you there just going to permanently seize the item and destroy it.

Your better off declaring a value of $900, paying the duty on that amount (20%) and getting your item. International sellers are going to have to factor this one of two ways, jack up the price of their cues 30% and not sell them, or eat the fees. Sadly I think this just means the end of cross border selling/buying...

And one last gift I will share, here is the customs code for Billiards items that you will need to put on the customs forms: 9504.20.00

49-39. On the hill. Tune in for the last game
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Duane said:

bump

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Sent pm

boogieman said:

Do you have any tips? I've not attempted it and am curious.

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Find a big fat house cue with points that are fairly even. You can also try and pick out one with as tight and straight maple as possible. I have converted Duffs, Falcons and McDermott house cues. If you are real lucky you can find an ebony one.

Leigh said:

Now... try being right handed, left eye dominant, with boobs - you gotta get your head over the cue with boobs in the way.

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Damn. Didn’t think about that. That wouldn’t help