Brunswick Table Question

[ironhead_79]

i'm looking to buy a cheap yet decent table for my brother for christmas. i placed an ad and a lady called me from over 100 miles away with a Brunswick Contender 4x8 table leather pockets. she said her husband bought it less than 2 years ago and passed away just 6 months later and it's been covered up since. she knows nothing about it, says he paid some kind of extended warranty but she has no idea where he bought it from and can't find the paperwork, she's asking 1,000 dollars, comes with 12 cues and 2 sets of balls, it came with one set but he purchased a new set a week later. is the contender a cheaper version for Brunswick, i've tried looking it up, she said all she knows is it has wooden claw feet like an old bath tub. does this sound reasonable or should i pass and keep looking. and also what does it cost ballpark to have a table moved and setup, when i bought my Elephant table i had a guy from the closest dealer over 80 miles away do it for me on the side and he charged 200 dollars, and i had to haul it.

 

[NoBull9]

Its sound like a table called the Amherst it's the only table they build in the contender collection with a ball/claw leg.Plywood base frame wrapped with vaneer solid wood legs rails and blinds 1 inch backed slate.It does not have the super speed cushions I think they call the cushions True speed.Brunswick does not offer a extended warranty on any of there tables so that must have come from the dealer.The table is is on brunswick site for 2200.00 new.

 

[magnetardo]

Its sound like a table called the Amherst it's the only table they build in the contender collection with a ball/claw leg.Plywood base frame wrapped with vaneer solid wood legs rails and blinds 1 inch backed slate.It does not have the super speed cushions I think they call the cushions True speed.Brunswick does not offer a extended warranty on any of there tables so that must have come from the dealer.The table is is on brunswick site for 2200.00 new.

The Shorewood is also a ball & claw leg in the COntender series that goes for $1600 on their site, either way I would pass on either one of them. There are plenty of used tables you could find for a grand that play way better.

 

[ironhead_79]

i'm getting ready to make the trip this afternoon, not just to look at the table, but when i called her back she asked if i would be interested in any of his cues he had in cases, she got a few out not knowing what they are, the first she said just has DP, the second says Philippe, the 3rd JP, gotta go now, she says there are 13 cases, each with one butt and 2 shafts. now if only my conscience will allow me to make offers, lol, i don't want to put the screws to anyone, but if i don't get some of them she'll post them in the local paper and sell them cheap she says, i told her they weren't cheap cues and she replied that nothing her husband ever bought was cheap and not to tell her what they were new cause she can't strangle him now. i told her i had close to 1,500 cash available today, and she said bring a truck and clean it all out, if i find a Bushka they'll probably be hauling me to the morgue, lol. wish me luck and hope the good lord don't strike me down.

 

[NoBull9]

The Shorewood table was not available 2 years ago.

 

[DaveFagan]

i'm getting ready to make the trip this afternoon, not just to look at the table, but when i called her back she asked if i would be interested in any of his cues he had in cases, she got a few out not knowing what they are, the first she said just has DP, the second says Philippe, the 3rd JP, gotta go now, she says there are 13 cases, each with one butt and 2 shafts. now if only my conscience will allow me to make offers, lol, i don't want to put the screws to anyone, but if i don't get some of them she'll post them in the local paper and sell them cheap she says, i told her they weren't cheap cues and she replied that nothing her husband ever bought was cheap and not to tell her what they were new cause she can't strangle him now. i told her i had close to 1,500 cash available today, and she said bring a truck and clean it all out, if i find a Bushka they'll probably be hauling me to the morgue, lol. wish me luck and hope the good lord don't strike me down.

Good luck at the gold mine.

 

[ironhead_79]

well i got back late last night after buying this table and all the cues from this lady, out of 13 cues i got 2 Dale Perry's, 1 Phillipe, 1 JP Pechauer, 4 Vikings, and 5 Meucci's, seems every one of them has alittle wrong with them as far as cosmetics, but i'll have the Dale Perry's and the Phillipe redone, the rest i'll just use in my gameroom for company to play with. the table was actually beautiful, she let me shoot on it for a little bit and it's like she said like brand new, i got 2 of the side tables with the comfortable bar stools, 2 wall racks for sticks 2 boxes of extra racks and chalk , 3 cans of chalk off which i've been wanting to try, a dozen house sticks, the lights for over the table and even the nice area rug the table was sitting on. she let me have everything for 1,350 which was a total steal with all the nice cues, so my brother got a really nice table for christmas from me and i got a bunch of goodies for christmas , also from me, lol, wish i could find deals like this all the time.

 

[rc11]

dear god... you robbed from an old widow

just kidding man, good find

 

[kydartmaster]

I always hear about stuff like this after the fact. Why cant i ever be that lucky?

John

 

[ironhead_79]

dear god... you robbed from an old widow

just kidding man, good find

i know, i had to keep telling myself if i didn't take it all some local rat would have cleaned her out after she ran an ad in the paper and they came to look and found out she lived there alone. i even fixed her ceiling where the light was hanging down from cause the dywall was all busted up there, i put a new peice of drywall in and mudded it, then my brother is going back up tommorrow to sand it paint it and hang her light back that was there over her dining room table before her husband decided to put the table in there. she was a really nice lady, she fixed me and my brother and 2 other friends i took to help out a really nice dinner, we all sat at the old dining room table we brought back in for her. to bad she lives 130 miles away, i'd be there all the time helping her out. she said her husbands name was Gus Moody, i guess he played in and around cleveland ohio from about 1955 till he passed away in late 2004, maybe some of the members on here that live in that area may know him.

 

[ironhead_79]

I always hear about stuff like this after the fact. Why cant i ever be that lucky?

John

the one thing that made me feel better was i could tell by walking into this probably close to 750,000 dollar home was that i don't think she needs the money. i had to pull a escalade and aviator out of the garage to get the table through, plus she was showing us paintings that her son had sent her from Las Vegas that were supposed to be worth alot of money, they were paintings of martinis with olives, kinda cool paintings, wish i had one of them in my gameroom but not at the prices she said they were worth.

 

[smittie1984]

I always hear about stuff like this after the fact. Why cant i ever be that lucky?

John

I move pool tables everyday and you won't believe what you see out there.

There was a job I did where we took an old Brunswick table from a house in North Atlanta. It was an estate sale. I think they got the 9' table for $200 plus paying us. He said that Willie Misconi has played on that table. Not sure about the Validity to that. I thought it was a peice of junk. But along with the table came a Joss Model 7 in perfect condition.

I'm not a fan of the Cotender line. I've moved a few of them and I can't believe how light they are. I've moved legs that were heavier than the frame with legs. The slate was super lite. I've moved those slates by myself down stairs from bonus rooms to save time.

I will say this about them. If you can find one for the right price they are good looking tables.

I'm still waiting for a job where some old woman calls us and says
"I have a Diamond Pro Cut 9' table that belonged to my husband. He bought it and installed it and died the same day so it hasn't been used. And I also have a bunch of cues. My husband said something about Rambo, Zamboti, Balabushka, and has something called a Joss signed by Tom Cruise. And another one signed by I think Paul Newman from another pool movie. Said it was the cue in the movie.

Oh yeah. Can you take this 12' Snooker table where all the founding fathers played on and signed right before the declaration of Independence was signed???"

Sorry to ramble on. I'm just dreaming.