I'm glad WalMart is selling Schon cues!!!!!! READ B4 You Vote

Walmart selling Schon, McDermott is......

  • Good for pool.

    Votes: 139 44.8%

  • Bad for pool.

    Votes: 27 8.7%

  • Wont make a difference.

    Votes: 132 42.6%

  • Whats Walmart???

    Votes: 12 3.9%
  • Total voters
    310
They are also pitching LD Shafts (Z and 314^2, i1, i2, i3)

Lot more McDermott then I would expect. Lot of Cuetec and Arsenal.

I dont think it helps or hurts pool. People who would be looking online for high end cues like Schons are very interested in pool already, it is tapping into an existing customer base.

One of the things I have noticed around here as of late (Tampa) is a push for "take a kid fishing", those programs introduce a new generation to an activity. I cant remember who, I want to say Cocobolo, has a youth program.

But I agreed with the above, they are just hooked up with a dealership, Walmart is just try to make a little change in the transaction.
 
So you bought your Schon at WalMart huh?
Well i bought my Lucasi at a billiards dealer. Please sir don't sit so close people might think we are friends.
Is this the future? Or
So you bought your Schon at Macys? Let me see it, it must be a fine cue if they sold it. Oh no, i bought my Lucasi at a Billiard dealer. Nice to meet you.
 
I think it's good for pool. Walmart.com gets more hits than all billiard supply sites combined.

I don't understand the reasoning behind thinking it's bad at all. I definitely don't get how anyone could kick Schon to the curb for this either.
 
I also don't understand the idea that these cues lose value because they are listed at Walmart.
 
GOOD FOR POOL and ME!!!!

REASON:

1. AT LEAST YOU'LL FIND DECENT PLAYING CUES ON CRAIGSLIST
2. AT LEAST YOU'LL FIND DECENT PLAYING CUES ON EBAY
3. NO MORE LAVA-LAMP FILLED POOL CUES, AND DECAL HARLEY DAVIDSON-COLLEGE LOGO-AND OTHER USELESS THINGS THAT SHOULDN'T BELONG ON A CUE.

4. AT LEASE WHEN YOU GO TO BIG 5 SPORTING GOODS, SPORTS CHALET, TARGET, YOU WON'T SEE DUGLASS FIR WOOD POOL CUES WITH A 6 PACK OF SCREW ON TIPS.

5. SCHON's value will go the heck down and all these guys who owned $10,000 SCHON's. Har har.

6. I always said it as "SKOWN". Isn't SCH = SCHOOL. Thought they named it after pastry you eat with coffee.
 
Soooo ppl want pool to be exposed to as many ppl as possible, want more money put into pool and want the sport to grow, but they don't want the largest retailer on the planet to be involved?

I think I'm getting it now.
 
I don't see this being a issue for the stl's as long as Evan doesn't out source anything.It won't matter much with his Unique and Elites because he only makes limited numbers already.I'm a big Schon fan.I really dis-like what Wal-Mart is about.But I think this really may end-up being a good thing.IMO

-JR
 
Not going to make a difference. Poeple who dont know cues will still by the $20 Wally cues cause its cheaper and dont matter anyway.

Except all the current Schon owners will love that the guy at the next table can say hey , I saw the same cue as yours at Walmart !
 
Good for the game.

Schon cues ROCK! always have always will!...no matter where you buy them.

So if I buy a Szamboti off some down n out drunk at a yard sale it has less value then if it came from highendcues.com?.....nah. You are buying the product, not the seller IMO.
 
Oh I can't wait...

Look into my crystal ball......

Jonny 8 ball : Ordering a Schon at Walmart.com..

Comments: Please let me have your best cash price:

Walmart associate: It's listed sir...

Johnny 8 ball: C'mon you can do better, how about 450.00

Walmart associate: No, sir it's 750.00...

Johnny 8 ball: Oh come on, how about 450.00 and this eddie wheat?

Walmart associate: Sir, it's 750.00 and what's an Eddie Wheat?

Johnny 8 ball: The Eddie Wheat is the best cue in my collection and I wish I didn't have to trade it to you...

Walmart associate: Have a nice day sir..... click....brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Johnny 8 ball posts to AZ: I can't believe Walmart tried to low ball me on my Eddie Wheat, are you kidding. I am never dealing with them again.... Do they have Itrader?

JV
 
Walmart doesn't sell enough $12.00 cues to warrent selling Schon cues. It doesn't do anything for the game of pool or it's industry. Good thing its online and not in the stores. If they do end up being sold in the store, they will be stolen and sold in the local pool rooms. Congrats to the Schon sales rep for selling its cues to walmart.
 
My two cents:

There might be a slight increase in sales - most people that would buy a $1000 cue would more than likely be aware of all the other avenues already out there.

It won't impact pool at all.

It likely will impact Schon values, especially at the higher end. A portion of a cues value is perception, and this move will impact the perception of collectors. IMHO, Dale Perry is a valid comparison - you had great, custom cues made with precision that commanded a certain price. You add in some low end options and some mass marketing, and it has impacted the value of the previous high end cues (even though they were still expensive and still of the same quality as the day you bought them).

Value is perception, and the perception of Wally World is low end. The only time I've considered higher end merchandise there is when it's been at a discount, same with costco.

Again, just my opinion.....and I like Schon cues, they rock.
 
I don't think it's good for anybody.
In 1964, Browning Arms Co. left their manufacturing facility in Belgium and moved to Japan. They have'nt been the same since.
As with pre-64 Brownings, the only good I see coming out of this is an increase in price for pre-2009 Schons.
 
Big Perm said:
My two cents:

There might be a slight increase in sales - most people that would buy a $1000 cue would more than likely be aware of all the other avenues already out there.

It won't impact pool at all.

It likely will impact Schon values, especially at the higher end. A portion of a cues value is perception, and this move will impact the perception of collectors. IMHO, Dale Perry is a valid comparison - you had great, custom cues made with precision that commanded a certain price. You add in some low end options and some mass marketing, and it has impacted the value of the previous high end cues (even though they were still expensive and still of the same quality as the day you bought them).

Value is perception, and the perception of Wally World is low end. The only time I've considered higher end merchandise there is when it's been at a discount, same with costco.

Again, just my opinion.....and I like Schon cues, they rock.
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Truer words have never been spoken...rep to you.
 
gunzby said:
Soooo ppl want pool to be exposed to as many ppl as possible, want more money put into pool and want the sport to grow, but they don't want the largest retailer on the planet to be involved?

I think I'm getting it now.
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you have it right, and they wonder why pool is stuck in the mud.....
 
Tramp Steamer said:
I don't think it's good for anybody.
In 1964, Browning Arms Co. left their manufacturing facility in Belgium and moved to Japan. They have'nt been the same since.
As with pre-64 Brownings, the only good I see coming out of this is an increase in price for pre-2009 Schons.
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if Schon was moving where they are being made I would be right with ya, but they are only opening up another avenue for potential sales...doubt that'll effect the way they are made one bit....:confused:
 
Fatboy said:
you have it right, and they wonder why pool is stuck in the mud.....
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Well Eric, this is an entirely different scenario. If your hope is that Walmart moves from just cues to sponsoring tournaments or stuff like that, that's different.

But realize pool has always been here. Do you think that Walmart picking up a production brand of cues will say "Hey let's sponsor the WPA 9 ball Tour?" Like I said, pool has always been here. A line of production cues isn't going to get Walmart's attention. They sell fishing equipment and I've yet to see Jimmy Houstons Walmart Bass Open...

Even when pool was in it's recent heyday, in 86-2000 that's 14 good years. No one stepped up. Now pool is on the down side of the rollercoaster and I just don't forsee a large corporate sponsor.

JV (----hopes I am wrong
 
trustyrusty said:
if Schon was moving where they are being made I would be right with ya, but they are only opening up another avenue for potential sales...doubt that'll effect the way they are made one bit....:confused:
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You're probably right about that, but seeing Schons at Wal-Mart just rubs me the wrong way. And yes, I know they are on-line sales only right now, but give it time.
I used to drop by a Wal-Mart, from time to time, to pick up a bag of golf tees because tees were tees no matter where you got them. While there, I would look at their display of golf clubs and laugh because it was such cheap junk. If, one of these days I see an STL-11 on the wall at a Wal-Mart, I'm probably going to cry. :shakehead:
 
www.bing.com

If Walmart hasn't reduced the price of a Schon down to little of nothing then you can go to bing.com (which is Microsoft's answer to Google) and join bing.com and then shop at the many different stores that are members of bing.com and get lots of BING BUCKS back from your purchase. Walmart is one of many companies that are part of the bing network of suppliers.

I saved 30% in bing bucks on a $350 purchase at ebags.com
Haven't spent them yet and am just hoping they are a little more valuable than V-cash. :grin-square:

JoeyA
 
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