Cue Silk™ Table Cleaner Scam

WinterArcher said:
The bottles have the raised trademark of LA's Torally Awesome and are filled with that brand of cleaner.

The stick on label is printed for the Folks at Cue Silk and stuck on the bottle.

Cue Silk is buying it for perhaps $1 a bottle wholesale and selling it in places like Amazon for up to $23 a bottle.

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That has got to be criminal. I have a old bottle of cue silk conditioner i have been using for years as a shaft sealer/cleaner. Works great. But i also read it was just rebranded biosilk. Found the old azb post. https://forums.azbilliards.com/threads/wtb-cue-glide-or-cue-silk.162922/

Looks like same rebranding tricks.
 
Where did you buy it? Same place as previous purchases?

If this product is other than Cue Silk PTC, check out the label on LA Totally Awesome for content warnings before exposing it to the senior center.
 
people have to understand there are no miracle chemicals invented to clean polish or whatever. all the brands dont even manufacture their won stuff.

so they simply repackage something else thats cheap and rebrand it and charge more.

as bob said, use a vacuum and water nothing else. or you ruin your cloth. same with the ball polish and cleaners . they are not some new chemical wonder but some polish or cleaner that you dont need from someone else and charge you more.
 
maha said:
people have to understand there are no miracle chemicals invented to clean polish or whatever. all the brands dont even manufacture their won stuff.

so they simply repackage something else thats cheap and rebrand it and charge more.

as bob said, use a vacuum and water nothing else. or you ruin your cloth. same with the ball polish and cleaners . they are not some new chemical wonder but some polish or cleaner that you dont need from someone else and charge you more.
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OP got scammed.

The big boys such as Seybert's, Mueller's, Pool Dawg, etc. sell Cue Slick PTC.

I would hope they would not knowingly sell a rebranded product that contains skin and eye irritants.
 
its most likely some product you can buy off the store shelves. only difference they might possibly do is add some inert ingredients.

there is no new magic chemical ingredients invented for this stuff.
 
I wouldn't really call it a rip off if it works. I'd say the majority of the products you probably use in life are relabeled / rebranded products. It's rare a small startup is blending their own stuff. They're just private labeling others.
 
jimmyco said:
Where did you buy it? Same place as previous purchases?

If this product is other than Cue Silk PTC, check out the label on LA Totally Awesome for content warnings before exposing it to the senior center.
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There are limited warnings on the PTC bottle and no MSDS online for it either.

The Totally Awesome MSDS is pretty tame, especially when compared to brake cleaner .

Good thought.
 
I worked at a pool hall many years ago. We just vaccumed the tables daily it was about 20 of them and i got that all done in an hour.
 
garczar said:
Put a little Woolite in a dollar store spray bottle with water. Vacuum the table then lightly mist with the W solution and wipe with microfiber cloth. Done.
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Nice.. I just use a a sprey bottle with water and make a folded white cotton towel damp and wipe but I’m getting woolite today

The only time I used more then that was when my table cover touched something on my garage door and got a couple grease spots on it when I put it on . ☹️. I decided to treat it like I do clothes when I get a stain. I took a couple drops of dawn dish detergent on a white towel and made it a little wet and lightly scrubbed it . I swear dawn will take any stain out . It worked like a charm. I’ve gotten blood on white shirts and a little dawn and let it sit before throwing it in the wash and its like it never happened lol
 
bobbydee said:
I wouldn't really call it a rip off if it works. I'd say the majority of the products you probably use in life are relabeled / rebranded products. It's rare a small startup is blending their own stuff. They're just private labeling others.
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Huh? Would you call it a ripoff if you could buy LA cleaner instead, like cue slick does?
 
I don't think it's a scam. It's a repackaging and a markup. It happens in about everything. Now, you can go buy the cheaper brand and pay $2 per bottle, and be happy about it.

When the LED flat panel pool table lights first came out 15 or so years ago, a couple pool guys were selling them for $400 a pop for a qty 1 2x4 panel. The same that ebay was selling for $100 a panel. Pool rooms were buying them from the pool specific sellers, and were happy to pay.
 
WinterArcher said:
I take care of five tables at a senior center and keeping the cloth clean is a bit of a challenge sometimes. I've used several table cleaners and was getting tired of the ever rising prices since I pay for this out of pocket.


I found Cue Silk™ table cleaner and was really pleased at how well it worked at just $9 a bottle or so if you look hard.


The latest batch pissed me off. While the label on the bottles says Cue Silk™ table cleaner, the bottles are embossed with "LA's Totally Awesome" which is a cleaner that sells at The Dollar Store for about $1.50 for 16 ounces.


The product is a ripoff from Cue Silk™
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That may not be the only thing they do that to. I believe that their cue silk shaft conditioner is bio-silk hair treatment.
 
iusedtoberich said:
I don't think it's a scam. It's a repackaging and a markup. It happens in about everything. Now, you can go buy the cheaper brand and pay $2 per bottle, and be happy about it.

When the LED flat panel pool table lights first came out 15 or so years ago, a couple pool guys were selling them for $400 a pop for a qty 1 2x4 panel. The same that ebay was selling for $100 a panel. Pool rooms were buying them from the pool specific sellers, and were happy to pay.
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When you simply change the label and charge 8X the money, it is a scam -- especially when the bottle has the original manufacturer's name embossed in it.
 
skogstokig said:
be careful here WinterArcher, he beat shane van boening at US open straight pool championship.. might be trying to hustle you
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I've known Bob for a lot of years. Used to play in the same straight pool league at Shoreline with him, went to SJSU like he did and worked at HP and Agilent near him over the years.
 
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