if these are, in fact, schmelke cues then they are good quality very affordable cues. When I say very affordable, I mean you could have called in and ordered the cue yourself and saved more than $250 which is over 50%, a sizable savings. You could have achieved this as a single retail customer calling in your order for the very first time.
dean ordered a "batch" of these cues so, presumably, he got a discount making the margin even bigger.
Let me be clear. I don't begrudge anyone for buying low and selling high. In fact, I admire that. But I'm not a fan of anyone being deceitful in order to achieve it.
Dean is able to be Dean because of people like you who lap up his crap like it's an ice cream cone.
There, somebody had to say it.
best,
brian kc