HI. Just talking about monetary value. I noticed that southwest seems to go up as time goes by. Any other cues you notice doing the same thing? Thanks for your input.
I would invest as much money in Carbon Fiber shafts as you can afford.
All the desirable ones. Go to the high-end cue sites and you'll see those that bring the most $$$. JOSSWest, Scruggs, Szamboti(both), Prewitt, Cogs. There are a lot of them.HI. Just talking about monetary value. I noticed that southwest seems to go up as time goes by. Any other cues you notice doing the same thing? Thanks for your input.
I would invest as much money in Carbon Fiber shafts as you can afford.
I would invest as much money in Carbon Fiber shafts as you can afford.
HI. Just talking about monetary value. I noticed that southwest seems to go up as time goes by. Any other cues you notice doing the same thing? Thanks for your input.
This seems to be the shaping up as the worst advice ever thread.
Carry on.
Jason
Just my $.02 but i think the fact that younger players don't know or care about classic cues is the big reason for this. They want new, hi-tech stuff and couldn't care less about a "Josszambalaprewitt". They look at them as old, hi-deflection antiques.I must spread more around before I can rep you again
To answer the OP, the answer is none. Even the Southwest market is slowing. Used tools do not go up in value. More cues are produced every day.
This...why I will never sell my TAD (thanks Kirby) and never shoot with another cue.If I were investing my money in cues I would only buy traditional looking cues from top tier cue makers that
no longer make cues.HOF makers would be top of my list. I could be wrong but traditional look seems to always sell. Recently (in the last 10 years or so ) I've
noticed that non traditional cues by top makers like
Black, Stroud, Scruggs ect. seem to hold value but don't seem to be increasing like there traditional ones. I could be wrong but that's how I would buy if I had the money
to invest.
Just my $.02 but i think the fact that younger players don't know or care about classic cues is the big reason for this. They want new, hi-tech stuff and couldn't care less about a "Josszambalaprewitt". They look at them as old, hi-deflection antiques.
How do you figure more supply? A lot of the so-called classics were made by people either retired or dead. If you go to tournaments today you see a bunch of Predators and various other production cues. I think the true classics will always be expensive but as that market ages(and dies) very few will have interest in them. I know some really top players that look at classic cues as complete dinosaurs.More supply, less demand. Prices have to drop
How do you figure more supply? A lot of the so-called classics were made by people either retired or dead. If you go to tournaments today you see a bunch of Predators and various other production cues. I think the true classics will always be expensive but as that market ages(and dies) very few will have interest in them. I know some really top players that look at classic cues as complete dinosaurs.
I meant, more cues are made every day in whatever style you want. Production, dozens more "cuemakers" popping up every year, true custom shops.
Fewer people that care about these cues, let alone that the volume is increasing dramatically.
It's not a good recipe for investing, and everyone who uses the phrase "investing in cues" as anything but a perjorative has an agenda.