manwon said:
Venturing into the unknown is called progress.
Only if you survive the event, and acheive something in the process!!! Now, repackageing existing technology, with a new wrapping and new name is not progress, except to those who never new the technology existed in the first place.[/QUOTE]
Well I can say with a high degree of certainty that Tacoma would not exist if it weren't for people venturing into the unknown where many of them did not survive.
And yes, if a method or technique actually works but has been supplanted by other methods - for a variety of reasons - then it certainly is progress to reintroduce it and popularize it. Life is FULL of things where the current way of doing it is wasteful and the OLD and BETTER way is forgotten.
However this does not change the fact that your suppositions and innuendos are based on no experience with the cue in question.
I could post a picture right now of a cue and ask what it is and most would guess wrong. Most would think it's a much more valuable cue than it is. The point being that it's just a picture and offers nothing as to it's true properties and whether it plays good or does not or whether it is "worth" the money or it isn't.
You say that you don't sell cues here. Scott says that you make or can make a cue and he trusts your quality.
How would you feel if you put your work up here - you would right now still in the "unknown" category for most of the world and you asked whatever you feel is a fair price for the cue and it got trashed by people who had never even hit with your cues?
Would you be cool with that? I don't think so.
But let's take it a step further and someone, even a newbie, goes ahead and takes a shot and buys your cue. When they get it they are impressed and decide to share it with the group. How would you feel if someone else told that person that they were a sucker for buying an unknown cue?
How do you think Mark Bear feels when you essentially are telling him that his cues are overpriced and you are characterizing his customers as suckers?
Somehow I don't think that you would be happy at all if the situation were reversed.
That might be a reason why you don't sell anything here.