Autographed Cue Balls For Sale...

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OnePocketKing

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6 Efren Reyes Balls - $30 a piece
Cory Deuel - $25
Ralf Souquet - $25
Rodney Morris - $20
Allen Hopkins - $20
Nick Varner - $20
Niels Feijen - $15
Alex Lely - $15
Santos Sambajon - $15
Mike Massey - $20
Francisco Bustamante - $20

Email me at playantc@aol.com if interested.
 
that is just ridiculous...if someone wants to sell thier own property it's up to them...i looked up to all these players as a child and have never sold anything with one of thier autographs on it...just because one guy is choosing to sell his cue balls then you say that the players should charge...this stuff is not really valuable to people that are around the pros all the time and he can sell it if he wants to....i'm sure some people do sell these things and just get autographs for profit...but let's not put everyone in the same category and ecspecially kids...you should be ashamed
 
Actually, there is a difference between selling a personal item such as an autographed cueball in a one off transaction and making a business of aquiring autographed balls and reselling them in bulk.

Profiting off of another person's intellectual property without permission is theft. People like Efren sign hundreds of cueballs with a smile and then a lot of them end up in the hands of a few people who sell them. I have seen, met, gone to dinner with and generally been around pro-players for over ten years and I have never seen the need to have more than one autographed item from any of them.

The whole thing with autographed souvenirs is the memory attached to them. As collectibles they become less and less worth when more of them appear. Besides that, who can authenticate whether any of these autographed balls have actually been signed by the pro?

It would be nice to see the pros get a monthly check from those that ask them to use their time signing dozens of cueballs per event.

Or, the pros should get smart like Allison and have their own booths and charge for everything with a signature on it. Allison had a line about forty people long every time she came to her booth at the APA nationals. It was a money making assembly line to make anyone jealous and Henry Ford proud.

The pros could sell cueballs at a profit and GIVE away the autographs and no one would blink twice.

John
 
You guys are all wet, When the pro signs the autograph or cueball he is giving it to you to do with as you please.

Many moons ago I suggested to CW and others that they should set up a table where the pros could sign autographs for the fans. And they could buy cueballs and have them for the pro to sign for the fan to buy. This is common practice at any baseball card show. And the kids line up 50 deep. So what does CW do, he forbids HIS pros from signing anything. Dumb, Dumb, Dumb.

Oh, he did have some stupid looking, pre-signed cueballs that I doubt anybody bought at the last Preditor Cup. The reason no one bought any is that a collector wants to see the person sign it and talk to him. He then has an experience to remember. Buying a pre-signed cueball that CW or his girlfriend may have signed is just plain stupid.

I doubt that anyone would be stupid enough to buy any cueballs that are advertised for sale on this thread for the simple reason that you have no guarantee that they were signed by the pro.

At least when Mike Howerton sells his Johnny Archer signed cueballs for $20 one has a pretty good idea that they are authentic. So I bought one of those.

CW should have seen the writing on the wall two years ago (1-10-02) when he ran that tournament for the women at Capone's place and Rocky was selling cueballs for $8 and the women were signing them. So I got to meet Ewa, Vivian, Belinda, Jennifer. Rocky had a box of 16 and sold out.

Then at the Patriot Cup in Tampa I brought 6 cue balls and Buddy Hall and the gang from the north all signed one. I was expecting to be charged but I wasn't. Max Eberle would have signed one too but I was out. But later I found out Charlie was upset. Maybe jealous is more correct. Don't blame me Charlie because you are stupid and have no business sense.

Then at the Preditor Cup in Orlando CW makes his announcement that his primadonas will not be signing anymore articles. Very stupid on his part. Had he supplied the balls, or even said the pros will sign balls for such an amount, I would have paid to have about a dozen signed. Especially Strickland. And Archer sat down right next to me and I was so pissed I just ignored him.

I have a bunch of baseball cards that are worth money. Signed cueballs aren't worth diddly.

My buddy was at the Expo in Vegas and was at a table and Allison Fisher tapped him on his shoulder and asked him if he wanted one of her pictures. When he got his mouth to working he said sure and had her make it out to me. So I have that up on my wall. I actually asked him to get a signed picture of Fran Crimi, but she walked off on him as he was on her practice table, and the comment he gave me about her is not printable here.

But trust me, there is no aftermarket value in signed cueballs.

At least none that I am aware of.

A company may give Sigel or Rempe $5,000 and have him sign 10 cueballs and write it off as a gift to their executives and give them each a ball. The balls are worth $500 each, because that is what they paid for them, but try and get that in the aftermarket. Never happen.

Jake
 
I have a cueball from a tournament i went to last month, I have franciso johnny allen hopkins thorston Hohmann tony robles. I wouldnt sell it, its not worth that much money wise and this may sound dumb but its worth alot to me. The pros of our sport what other sport can you just walk up to any pro and get them to sign right on the spot! Id like to get efrens
 
So far, i have 16 cue balls autographed. All but three in person. Will never get rid of them because these pros represent the history of the sport.
 
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