Yeah, i have no doubts about the owners tale. I do have doubts about anyone that would put up with this shit though. I could see waiting 'maybe' 6mos but FOUR years???? No way.
Searing Cue
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If you express discontent, you may be out of the special collector club
So people wait and hope
smiling_Hans
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There is a statue of limitations that I believe is 2-4 years in various states for fraud, embezzlement and any other things that involve a civil suit.
The time is up in this instance.
The time is up in this instance.
smiling_Hans
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So true.
oscargrouch
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Looks like conversion is four years in Florida.
Looks like he has 16 five-star reviews on Google, just in case you want to go skew that a bit. You never know what might motivate someone to take care of a customer:
maps.app.goo.gl
Searing Precision Custom Cues · 11586 Pierson Rd # L7, Wellington, FL 33414
★★★★★ · Sporting goods store
maps.app.goo.gl
smiling_Hans
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Those look like paid reviews. You can easily hire people to do that for you.
I read them all. So he has a walk in retail store with a staff?
2 of the reviews were for tip repairs. One took 20 min for a Pred break cue. The other was same day for a batch of house cues. I laughed at myself at the quick turnaround, while his custom customers get screwed.
They're not.
People line up to get in the shop before it even opens.
Seen it myself.
smiling_Hans
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Looks like AZB members aren't the only ones looking for their cues.
I was at Dennis' shop some years back and tho he was quite cordial, it did not appear he was working on much. I was there with a good friend who is also a long time mutual friend of Dennis'. We bs'd a while and Dennis cleaned up a shaft for me, he has the nicest shop I have ever personally seen and 99% of the builders out there would be in cuemakers heaven to be able to be working out of it. Im sure others on this site and maybe even in this thread who have been there would confirm the same. He had some cues hanging which I assume were refinishes. He doesnt have to turn cues out to survive and I personally know several people who have been waiting on one for over a decade. The OP's predicament is a shame but it isnt surprising as it happens often in the cue world, it’s just not always brought to the public's attention. If Dennis has a third party involved I can only assume it’s a coddler who wants to shmooze with the upper echelon in the cue making world while playing damage control. This also happens a lot in every form of business. The heat isnt taken off the individual but its handled by someone else, and in turn they get to feel like a big shot. Sorta like knockin on the door at the emerald city only to be told the wizard is busy...
Not everyone can handle things themselves but for those that this happens to, if at all possible the best thing is to show up unannounced and put people right on the spot. Theres nothing wrong with tush hogging your own property back...and thats a fact jack
Not everyone can handle things themselves but for those that this happens to, if at all possible the best thing is to show up unannounced and put people right on the spot. Theres nothing wrong with tush hogging your own property back...and thats a fact jack
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smiling_Hans
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I hope OP is reading because he can fly out to the store.
smiling_Hans
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Sending goons to break his hand so he can't make cues or play pool isn't a solution.I was at Dennis' shop some years back and tho he was quite cordial, it did not appear he was working on much. I was there with a good friend who is also a long time mutual friend of Dennis'. We bs'd a while and Dennis cleaned up a shaft for me, he has the nicest shop I have ever personally seen and 99% of the builders out there would be in cuemakers heaven to be able to be working out of it. Im sure others on this site and maybe even in this thread who have been there would confirm the same. He had some cues hanging which I assume were refinishes. He doesnt have to turn cues out to survive and I personally know several people who have been waiting on one for over a decade. The OP's predicament is a shame but it isnt surprising as it happens often in the cue world, its just not always brought to the public's attention. If Dennis has a third party involved I can only assume its a coddler who wants to shmooze with the upper echelon in the cue making world while playing damage control. This also happens a lot in every form of business. The heat isnt taken off the individual but its handled by someone else, and in turn they get to feel like a big shot. Sorta like the knockin on the door at the emerald city only to be told the wizard is busy...
Not everyone can handle things themselves but for those that this happens to, if at all possible the best thing is to show up unannounced and put people right on the spot. Theres nothing wrong with tush hogging your own property back...and thats a fact jack
Obviously that’s never the solution to anything, or at least should be the last…but showing up and politely requesting property returned is by no means against the rules. Everyone has a story behind a screen or even on the phone, just the same as everyone’s a tough guy from a distance. One on one in person and things take on a whole new meaning
smiling_Hans
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Oh yes, this is the way.Obviously that’s never the solution to anything, or at least should be the last…but showing up and politely requesting property returned is by no means against the rules. Everyone has a story behind a screen or even on the phone, just the same as everyone’s a tough guy from a distance. One on one in person and things take on a whole new meaning
For some reason I thought you meant go and scare/threat. Sorry I apologize.
All good…the tush hog was just throwin in a little old school pool feel to the thread
Err, no.
People who have his cues down there don't want anyone doing tips and maintenance on their shafts.
Haven't seen anyone put tips on like Searing.
There's no money on putting tips on but he still does a lot of them.
smiling_Hans
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Yea I agree there is no money to made in putting tips on which makes me believe he actually wants to help players. We have a guy here who has a job and plays pool and he gets constantly asked to put on tips for people. He does it because he wants to help and there is nobody to go to.
They don't get credit for this.
Yes and I have read them all and said as much earlier.
Waiting four years for a refinish is crazy and if it’s not a Searing then it’s even crazier.
Anyway maybe it will get resolved. I put my name on a cue with him and spoke with him many years ago. Then there was a hurricane and he lost his entire wait list which was all computerized.
I then got back on his new after chatting with him. He assured me he was now keeping a hand copied list as well as a list on his desktop.
Then I waited and nothing ever happened. I reached out again and never got a call back.
Wrote it off completed after that.
Carbon fiber is going to end a lot of this nonsense
smiling_Hans
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In my opinion a lot of these guys don't have a long list of people waiting for cues. They have sugar daddies.
Basically there is one guy that will order 5-10 cues and he immediately gets bumped to the very top. So over the course of a few years, however long these cue builders finish the order, will make for one guy.
5-10 cues isn't exactly easy to make so it will cause a waiting list. In the mean time this sugar daddy is receiving cues that are finished one by one. He sells it and claims there is a super long waiting list. No shit! You ordered 10 cues. So he sells them off or keeps them. It's an artificial market inflated by their sugar daddy.
Now the same can be done for dealers as well. Exclusive to dealers.
So when people say there is a waiting list. There isn't one. There may be one from their sugar daddy.
I know a big name maker and I have a suspicion they operate like this. This company has a guy that speaks on behalf of the company but can't help it but show off his latest cues from them, yet there is a supposed waiting list. His ego got in the way and he started dropping clues like how he helps design cues, how complicated his cues are etc...etc...
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