I see your point , but the one I was referring to that sold here on the forum a couple of months ago was not Chinese made , it was a japan made and over 20 years old brand new. The Cues just seem not to re-sell really well . I did not say I could buy it cheaper just thought it was a little on the high end , but to someone else it may not be. I like too haggle or Dicker or whatever. That used be one of the highlights of my day back when all was good. That is a way of life for some people who never had a whole lot .
I don't haggle over anything.
That doesn't mean I won't make an offer on something as expensive as a car where that is what they do all day, every day.
I have NEVER, EVER, NEVER paid MSRP for a car. I have gotten THOUSANDS off the sticker price. I had one Honda car salesman say I was the hardest customer he had ever had in his life.
Every car I buy is brand new. I don't buy used cars
I walk in, after doing my homework, and they ask me what do I want to look at, or drive, or whatever. I pick one and ignore any comments or bullshit they are telling me along the way. Once I decide what I want, I tell them, "this is what your getting, cash money, up front, in my pocket, take it or leave it."
They don't know what to do then. It's always, "let me go in the back room and talk to xxx", while they leave you sitting there.
I don't play that shit. I hand them my phone number and say "call me when I can come get the car, or don't bother calling me."
Then, usually that day, or the next, they will call back and say, "well, you know I talked it over with xxx and I think we can get you a deal if you come back down here." And, I say "don't fvcking bother calling me."
Oh, I forgot to say that before I went to the Honda guy, I'd went to a VW lot across the street and made a deal and before it went through the SOBs tried to stall on me and sucker me into changing my offer.
Long story short, I walked from the VW dealer to the Honda dealer across the street, made my cash offer, got the car and drove it through the VW lot and parked it. The salesman then came over and said something like, "hey, I think we can make a deal on that VW" and I pointed to the brand new Honda sitting there and said, "I don't drive VWs, I drive brand new Hondas" and got in it and drove off.
The same way it has went when I bought my last several cues and shafts. Somebody offered them to me for sale and gave me a price and I never once haggled, I handed them cash money and took what they were selling me. I didn't say I'm going to go in the back room and talk to Balabushka and see what he thinks. That is the way I expect people to do when they buy something from me. If you think you are getting screwed, go buy stuff from somebody else.
I've given away, for free, pool cues that I could have sold for a couple hundred bucks. The cues were brand new.
If you are worried about a pool cue price going down as soon as you hit with it, don't buy a car. They go down about 25% as soon as you drive off the lot. I don't buy my cars to resell them. I buy them to drive them. I drive the SOBs until they fall apart, how ever long that is. I can tell with out a doubt, the majority of my pool cues are older than my cars and have outlasted any car I have over bought. I have pool cues that I bought more that 40 years ago that I'm still playing. I don't have a car that has lasted me 40 years.
Haggling used to drive me crazy when I lived in Taiwan. People would stand there and latterly haggle for 30 minutes over a 50 cent item.
