Given the number of quality cues made in the last 20 years, why are so few available?

[Bavafongoul]

Finding A Hercek Cue Is Easy.......Finding One Like I Want Has Become Impossible..

cubswin.....I can find a Hercek cue....that's easy......heck, I've turned down 1/2 dozen sale offers this year alone......at least twice as many last year......finding a cue made by Joel is easy.

I won't go into any further elaboration than this...... others on AZ can confirm this......finding a cue with my cue specs, well, that's a horse of an entirely different color...been trying for 4 years.

 

[justinb386]

Just another example of your pool naivete' Justin. There are significantly more active league players today, than there were 2 decades ago (APA alone has increased their membership in the last 20 years by 60%). There are a whole bunch more nationally sanctioned leagues to play in, than there were 20 years ago.

The real question is how many cues are owned by the giant majority of small town league players, who never go to a national tournament, because their league is only local. There are at least 10x more of them, than all the sanctioned league players put together...400,000 vs. 4,000,000. Figure how to crack into that grass roots market, and you will have accomplished something nobody else has.

Scott Lee
http://poolknowledge.com

Back when I was growing up in the 90s, pool seemed to be much more popular. The bars had more pool tables, and a lot more people seemed to really enjoy playing the game. It just seems to me that pool has died down a lot. Bar owners are getting rid of their pool tables, in order to have more room for a dance floor for example, and it just seems that hardly anyone who does not play pool seriously cares to ever play the game. If there are now 10 times more pool players as there were 20 years ago, then I wonder where they are all at? The pool rooms around here are all seemingly dead to me. Back in the 90s and early 2000s , I could walk into any bar on any night of the week, and there would be stacks of quarters on the pool tables. I just do not see the same popularity anymore. I wish I knew where the great love of pool among the general population existed .

 

[cubswin]

cubswin.....I can find a Hercek cue....that's easy......heck, I've turned down 1/2 dozen sale offers this year alone......at least twice as many last year......finding a cue made by Joel is easy.

I won't go into any further elaboration than this...... others on AZ can confirm this......finding a cue with my cue specs, well, that's a horse of an entirely different color...been trying for 4 years.

Where did I say you coudln't find a Hercek? Or any other cue? Looking through my post history, I can find no mention where I said anything of the kind. Please provide a link.

 

[cubswin]

I did not say that I could not find a cue. You guys are putting words into my mouth (things that I never said or implied). I was just curious where are all of the cues at that have been built and used over the past 20 years. I will name 1 cue maker for example. Meucci. They are known to have mass produced far more cues then any of the other US cue makers. I just wonder how many cues they have made and sold (to players) in the last 20 years. I imagine that number is pretty high, but I have no idea. I do not know how many cues per year most US production cue companies build (like Meucci, Mcdermott, Viking, Joss, and even Schon, which I imagine builds by far the fewest out of the rest of the US production cue makers). To be honest, I do not create this thread because I could not find a cue. I actually already found a cue (which is warped by the way), but I am still happy with the cue, even though I am not sure if it was a fair deal or not. I guess all that matters is that I really like it, and can play good with it.

There are Meucci's, Mcdermott, Viking, Joss, and Schon cues for sale constantly on ebay, facebook, and here. Both old and new. Plenty of people that keep cues when they buy them as well, but you can often find older production cues pretty easily.

 

[book collector]

I'm going to hazard a guess that most people are upside down in their high dollar cues , just like everything else that was bought in the last 10 years.
They paid 3000. and nobody wants to give them 2000 for it, so they keep it , hoping one day to get their money back at least.
The really rare stuff always holds it's value and then some, but most of those cues that weren't household names lost value.

 

[Celtic]

Lol, I did not mean for it to be a trick question. My wording sometimes comes out completely wrong, but please give me a break. Can you at least try to figure out what I was trying to say? Thanks.

I know "exactly" what you are saying,

I have 4 high quality cues that almost never get used and simple sit and gather dust, and no I won't sell you one at a huge discount simply because it is sitting and gathering dust so you can simply turn around and resell it. They can continue to sit and gather more dust, they do not need to become a form of cue charity for justinb386 who wishes everyone would sell him their unused cues really cheap.

Go back to trying to buy and sell stolen laptops.

 

[justinb386]

I know "exactly" what you are saying,

I have 4 high quality cues that almost never get used and simple sit and gather dust, and no I won't sell you one at a huge discount simply because it is sitting and gathering dust so you can simply turn around and resell it. They can continue to sit and gather more dust, they do not need to become a form of cue charity for justinb386 who wishes everyone would sell him their unused cues really cheap.

Go back to trying to buy and sell stolen laptops.

You do not know me (so please do not judge me), and you do not know what you are talking about. Please do not ever reply to any more of my threads.

 

[KissedOut]

You do not know me (so please do not judge me), and you do not know what you are talking about. Please do not ever reply to any more of my threads.

If you think you can make 3000+posts on a message board and people will not know exactly who and what you are, you are sadly mistaken. We know you. That's your problem.

 

[Cowboy Dennis]

You do not know me (so please do not judge me), and you do not know what you are talking about. Please do not ever reply to any more of my threads.

JB386,

I know this quoted post is not a reply to me but I must tell you this; I gave a heartfelt, well thought out and honest reply to your original question and you completely ignored me. My feelings are hurt.

RBL

 

[Bavafongoul]

I likely misinterpreted your post (#42) since it followed my post (#41) which in hindsight was just a
presumption on my part......I inferred that you was responding that there are an ample number of
Hercek cues to pick from and finding one should therefore be relatively easy........Sorry if I oops'ed.