Buy it or take a pass.

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The Old Jaybird

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This is 25-30 years ago. You are shooting pool; guy comes up to you and offers a cue for sale.

It's about a $200-225 new price cue, in decent shape, rolls straight on the table and rail, both together and apart.

He wants $75. Do you buy it, or take a pass?










I bought it but caught grief from the guys I was playing with for "buying an obviously stolen cue".

What say the assembled masses?
 
The Old Jaybird said:
This is 25-30 years ago. You are shooting pool; guy comes up to you and offers a cue for sale.

It's about a $200-225 new price cue, in decent shape, rolls straight on the table and rail, both together and apart.

He wants $75. Do you buy it, or take a pass?










I bought it but caught grief from the guys I was playing with for "buying an obviously stolen cue".

What say the assembled masses?
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I got my block letter Joss with two shafts and a Fellini case in 1985 for $35. No regrets.

It was not stolen. I know where it came from. The cue belonged to an old road player that died. He left no family and had a pauper's funeral. He had left the cue behind the bar where he had been playing lately. My friend was the bar manager and sold it to me.
 
At least there were pool rooms back then! If you stole a cue from a pool room today you may have to travel for hours to find another pool room. Pawn shops usually ask for ID in most states if they buy something.
Online sale today most probably.
 
If you ask the right questions and it seems legit, I would buy it. Sometimes folks need to sell for personal reasons, they get an air barrel "hold" cue or they just broke up with their g/f that gave them the cue.

But sometimes, things are too good to be true...

If it's hard to tell, I pass.
 
The Old Jaybird said:
This is 25-30 years ago. You are shooting pool; guy comes up to you and offers a cue for sale.

It's about a $200-225 new price cue, in decent shape, rolls straight on the table and rail, both together and apart.

He wants $75. Do you buy it, or take a pass?










I bought it but caught grief from the guys I was playing with for "buying an obviously stolen cue".

What say the assembled masses?
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are you feeling guilty??:unsure:
 
The Old Jaybird said:
This is 25-30 years ago. You are shooting pool; guy comes up to you and offers a cue for sale.

It's about a $200-225 new price cue, in decent shape, rolls straight on the table and rail, both together and apart.

He wants $75. Do you buy it, or take a pass?










I bought it but caught grief from the guys I was playing with for "buying an obviously stolen cue".

What say the assembled masses?
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Same situation but more like over 50 years ago.

Late one night a buddy from college and I were playing at The Palace in downtown SF. Guy comes up and offers us a walnut merry widow with a bright stainless steel joint. I put the cue together and -- I'm not making this up -- the cue seems to"float" in my hands. Something about the balance and weight of the cue. Anywhos, we both decline.

Years later I think I came to suspect that cue was a National and, if I'm honest, I regret not buying it. But I was a poor college student and didn't have the dough to spare. Damnit.

Lou Figueroa
 
I had a guy, going through a divorce, hand me a pristine Schon LTD at the pool hall and say $300 cash and it’s yours. It went in my case immediately!
 
tim913 said:
I had a guy, going through a divorce, hand me a pristine Schon LTD at the pool hall and say $300 cash and it’s yours. It went in my case immediately!
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Ha, reminds of the time I was at Town and Country Billiards in Daly City and a regular, Dennis, gets majorly pissed with his game, turns to me and says, "$150 and it's yours."

The "it" was an 8-point ebony and birdseye maple Gina, mit three shafts AND a black Ernie alligator case. I could not give him the dough fast enough and played with it for several years while up in Montana. Then, on one of my visits back home, Dennis approaches me and admitted to the sale being made in haste and asked if he could buy the cue and case back and I did.

Lou Figueroa
 
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A long time ago probably 30 years ago me and a buddy was at the pool room playing some when 2 young guys walked in. I had never seen either of them before. Wanted to know if we were interested in buying a cue. I said sure let’s see it.

They pulled out a McDermott perfectly straight no dings. I ask how much. They said $75 for cue and case. I bought them.

Told my buddy this cue is stolen and some day somebody is going to walk in and say it’s theirs. Told him if that ever happens Im just going to give them their cue back.

I played with that cue for years. I played all over the state and nobody never did claim it. Last I knew a local guy still has it.
 
lfigueroa said:
Ha, reminds of the time I was at Town and Country Billiards in Daly City and a regular, Dennis, gets majorly pissed with his game, turns to me and says $150 and it's yours.

The "it" was an 8-point ebony and birdseye maple Gina, mit three shafts AND a black Ernie alligator case. I could not give him the dough fast enough and played with it for several years while up in Montana. Then, on one of my visits back home, Dennis approaches me and admitted to the sale being made in haste and asked if he could buy the cue and case back and I did.

Lou Figueroa
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How much time did you spend in Germany Lou?
 
In the early 2000's....I'm thinking around 2005 or so.....I was offered right on the spot a fancy Tonkin cue for $500. We couldn't find out who the heck it belonged to.

Come to find out it was legit and someone had traded it to someone. It went through so many people that nobody knew the true value of the cue.
 
Fore Rail said:
How much time did you spend in Germany Lou?
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I flew out twice to play in the USFAE 14.1 championships at Ramstein AB after winning the local base event at Torrejon AB in Spain and the Mediterranean championship at Aviano AB in Italy -- just a few days each time.

Had a chance to visit Berlin and Munich during Ocktoberfest.

Later on, Gail and I traveled to Rüdesheim (and slept in hotel where every room was a big wine cask) and Heidelberg where we had the best sausage sandwich *ever.*

Lou Figueroa
 
Late 70s…the Rack in Detroit…Detroit Whitey has five good cues…..wants maybe 20% of their value….nobody would buy them…
….we figured he stole them from players.
 
you can bet for sure eddie stole those cues. and would probably steal them back from you if you kept them in your car and he knew it and was broke. or at least talk you out of them or try to.
 
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