I have owned several Jensen cues in past and all of them have played damn good. My question is....why do Jensen cues don't hold their value in the secondary market?
I have owned several Jensen cues in past and all of them have played damn good. My question is....why do Jensen cues don't hold their value in the secondary market?
I could be way off base on this, but in the past when I was looking for a Jensen to add to my collection, I was told by someone that had owned and resold many Jensens that it was rare to get a Jensen in the under 19.5 oz and 19 oz was pretty much non-existent. He stated that Mike Johnson intentionally made his cues in the 19.5 and up range because he thought that was the correct weight range they needed to be. I have looked at a lot of Jensens in the past and found that most of them listed at close to 19.5 or heavier, so I took this to be book and quit looking for one. They hit and play great and back when I was in the market, would have added one or more to my collction had I found one in the 18.5-19.0 oz range. Just never found one.
Only for that reason did I quit looking. Today, my financial picture is way upside from what it was in the 90s and early 2000s when I was vaidly collecting, so I can't afford $1000 cues, but if I could and a Jensen came along that I liked at the right weight... I would snap it up.
I have owned many nice cues that I felt the same way about back then. Today I see most of them going for double what i paid for them and I seriously regret ever selling any of them. Klein ( first year cues) , Mottey, Bob Runde, Omen (1st ivory jointed amboynas poiinted in gaboon Pete Ohman made.), Mobley (4 point I ended up giving away for $350 because no one had seriously heard of him except for people in Florida and some others around the world.), this list goes on...
So I guess if I had owned a Jensen back then and sold it cheap like I did a lot of them, today Jensens would be fetching serious attention and big bucks.....Not because I owned one .. just that is the way my luck runs... goes up and becomes way more popular and valuable after I sold mine on the cheap.
I have owned several Jensen cues in past and all of them have played damn good. My question is....why do Jensen cues don't hold their value in the secondary market?