Ok....I believe I purchased a cue from you. But, listen. We don’t get to pick up your cues. We can’t hold them. Some of us often get stuck with what a picture reveals. You have no store front. Some don’t even have a web page. You have zero overhead. Many make a living at marking up cues in an insane margin. If car makers marked up cars that much they would have 8 cars on a lot. Who loses? The consumer. So feel insulted if you must. Reality you are making a living off minimal effort of the skin of those that.....gulp....just want to play these cues and have zero interest in flipping them. Maybe in 10 years after use at a reasonable price you make your money back and extend to another player whom can appreciate the cue. What is being done to cues these days is the extend of a Faberge Egg. An item you pay a high price for but are afraid to even hold. That’s not what a pool cue is about.
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There is a lot of trust involved, and what you say is another good reason not to take any old cue in trade.
There are people on this forum have played with many of my pool cues over the years.
I can only play with so many cues in one day, so certain cues don't get played with, and those are the first ones to go.
Typically I sell cues at good prices, but I also sell some highly desirable stuff that is hard to find.
My spending got out of hand this year after my son passed away in February.
Buying, selling and talking about cues is the way I've been dealing with it, and that gets expensive.
At night when it bothers me the most, I get cues ready to ship or plan my next sale.
I've had to sell some really nice cues to keep from draining my bank accounts.
I've picked up some really nice cues at decent prices and I'm very happy with my collection right now.
Throughout it all there are only two things that bother me.
The two problems are unreasonable trade offers with zero cash involved, and the guys that try to tell me what my cue is worth.
There's a lot of cue bullies out there.
When I'm buried in a cue i just sell it and take the loss.
I have agreed to 7 trades this year.
There are some fair people out there with similar taste as me in cues, or people who understand there has to be an upside to accept a cue I would never go out and buy.
Im not a dealer, but the reason my cue sales are successful is the way I do things, always putting the buyer first.
Before my unofficial retirement in 2012, I never once listed a cue for sale in the wfs because I didn't have the time to do it right, at times going 2 weeks without checking my p.m. box.
I might offer a cue or case if someone was looking for something that I had, but I never posted anything for sale.
I could just hear all the pissed off people complaining about me not responding.
Now with texting I have to respond within seconds
