Is $169 a bad price for a CF shaft?

[ideologist]

If I put a $169 shaft on the market, would this actually be purchased? Or would pool players think the price is too cheap and avoid them? Purely as a marketing/economics exercise.

Nice layered tip, short ferrule or ferruleless, LD front end design. Variety of pin options or replaceable inserts.

Same CF blanks as one of the most widely-used in the world.

If you post anything about your opinions of CF or that you will never use one, congratulations, you have the reading comprehension of a toddler. Please save the electricity and go play outside

 

[kling&allen]

I bought one at about that price (generic turned from a standard blank) and it's fine.

 

[Icon of Sin]

My father picked up one of those Konellen Cues. Whole cue, CF shaft, Extension and glove for 399.99. For the Price it's an incredible cue.

 

[Icon of Sin]

...and yes... even though I prefer a wood shaft, Id buy a couple CFs at that price point just to mess around with.

 

[PracticeChampion]

It's a great a price but yeah I bet people avoid it cause it's cheap, Get what you pay for kinda theory
I've built a couple and no way I'd sell them that cheap

 

[Texas Carom Club]

I think it would sell, pool players are broke mfers

 

[Poolplaya9]

There would be several key things to marketing them successfully, and if someone knew those things they could sell them literally faster than they could manage to import them. If they didn't know the keys to marketing a cheap carbon fiber shaft they would still sell a large amount.

 

[Tooler]

I would definitely try one, if it was a playing shaft, with a pro taper.

I paid 250 for my break shaft, and was very pleased.

 

[garczar]

You said same blanks as other major sellers. How do you know that? I know Pred and Cuetec make their own but how do you know where others get their tubes? I don't think they're real open to telling where they get their tubes. Some tubes are still flag-wrapped and not near as good as properly filament wound.

 

[Maxx]

I'd probably buy one from you just to try it out, then try and sell it later for $100.

 

[xX-Wizard-Xx]

To qualify my vote ... im not a CF fan.

 

[Texas Carom Club]

To qualify my vote ... im not a CF fan.

i thought you were gonna tell him to use a house cue

 

[xX-Wizard-Xx]

i thought you were gonna tell him to use a house cue

i was getting around that.

House cues are cheap. Go on a search and find the best one and hide it somewhere when you are finished. i knew an old poolhustler that done that. making a game with him had to wait 5 minutes while he went to find his cue. hahaha

 

[ideologist]

You said same blanks as other major sellers. How do you know that? I know Pred and Cuetec make their own but how do you know where others get their tubes? I don't think they're real open to telling where they get their tubes. Some tubes are still flag-wrapped and not near as good as properly filament wound.

I have held unbranded filament -wound blanks identical to one of the names you may mentioned, straight off the line from the company that developed/manufactured for them. They might have a factory producing for them under their banner, but you can order to that same spec.

Same technology, you can cut it apart and wouldn't be able to tell which was which without a logo or some goofy proprietary pad under a tip.

At $169 with the machining center I have access to, it is a minor profit and so I ponder offering an "affordable" shaft.

 

[7stud]

Why not make the price slightly cheaper than a premier wood shaft, say $250? That would also make your carbon fiber shaft 1/2 the price of a premier carbon fiber shaft.

 

[Black-Balled]

I still have trouble reconciling pricing of a pool shaft with the reality of what is out there currently...

 

[jtompilot]

I'm in the market to try something else. I borrowed John Lavin's Defy shaft when I was at Red Shoes a few months ago and loved the Defy shaft. Now I'm thinking buying one but at $355 I can't pull the trigger so I'm looking for a used one.

 

[7stud]

I still have trouble reconciling pricing of a pool shaft with the reality of what is out there currently...
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Just like I would never let a kid ride a bike sold at Walmart, I would never ride that bike--and I don't know anyone that would.

 

[jtompilot]

I still have trouble reconciling pricing of a pool shaft with the reality of what is out there currently...
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You know you can buy a real frame from Tiawan instead of a Chinese knockoff

 

[Black-Balled]

At $169 with the machining center I have access to, it is a minor profit and so I ponder offering an "affordable" shaft.

I this such an offering would only make sense for a short production run.

No way whoever is selling them to you doesn't offer same or better pricing to others, so your # is only a good one until bigger pockets either pressure your supplier or match/ undercut your pricing to cut your plan at the knees.

I'd like a flat faced radial conical taper shaft for the 3 cushion, please and thank you.