Can anyone repair this??

Okay, if you are an honorable business you must provide good service or a quality product. It's okay to charge whatever you and your customer / client agree to be that whatever.. But rule #1 is in order to be an honorable business you must provide good service or a quality product. If you can argue that I'm all ears. At what point is that not valid?
 
Glossy black nail polish worked for me. I taped around the edge of the chip with blue painters tape, then lightly brushed the polish on in thin layers. When finished, the only way you could see it was if you held it up to a light reflecting that area. Cheap Players cue, so even if it didn't work it was no biggie.
 
Pool Hand Luke said:
Glossy black nail polish worked for me. I taped around the edge of the chip with blue painters tape, then lightly brushed the polish on in thin layers. When finished, the only way you could see it was if you held it up to a light reflecting that area. Cheap Players cue, so even if it didn't work it was no biggie.
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Perfect. The inexpensive, easy repair that fully met the customer's (your) needs.
 
jayman said:
I think the part where you provide a good service or product may have been left out of your statement. Turning a profit is the end result of good work and good products.
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I want to expand on this. Companies exist in capitalism solely for the purposes of making money. Providing good products and good services are avenues to that end. That is simplistic and idealistic, tho. There are many companies that provide poor products with no service (walk through a Dollar General). There are companies that provide good product, but fail on service (go to a copper or gold mine in arizona or nevada, they definitely provide the materials, but they might not be living up to their end of the conservation agreement).

Now, take a look at Mezz cues. They provide a product that is reportedly well made. They fail on the service end by releasing stupid joint pins with false claims.

It's a complex web.
 
The fundamental role of capitalism is to allow (promote) competition.
Generally and very simplistically, capitalist enterprises compete by offering some matrix of price, quality, and predictable delivery/availability.
Various combinations can be more profitable at different times in different places.

The actual capital part means people come together to put up capital to fund an idea, product or service that they believe will be perceived as a benefit by a sufficiently large population.

Customers, sometimes influenced primarily by advertising in the short term; but each individually influenced by different aspects of the value package vote to keep the ones they like long term, with their wallets.

It's an aside, but in many markets there are would-be gatekeepers who would prefer to avoid competition and cartelize a few favored players.
That is Mercantilism, not Capitalism. Capitalism says "I am good enough to compete and i'll eat your lunch if you don't keep up" :)

smt
 
Pool Hand Luke said:
Glossy black nail polish worked for me. I taped around the edge of the chip with blue painters tape, then lightly brushed the polish on in thin layers. When finished, the only way you could see it was if you held it up to a light reflecting that area. Cheap Players cue, so even if it didn't work it was no biggie
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I've been thinking about this method of repair also. I tried clear nail polish on a small chip in the finish of another cue that I previously owned. I went with one coat instead of a couple of thin coats. It didn't turn out as I had planned. I have some inexpensive cues that came with the table that I am practicing on right now. I'm going to try and make the actual repair this weekend. I'll post the results and keep your fingers crossed.
 
Ssonerai said:
The fundamental role of capitalism is to allow (promote) competition.
Generally and very simplistically, capitalist enterprises compete by offering some matrix of price, quality, and predictable delivery/availability.
Various combinations can be more profitable at different times in different places.

The actual capital part means people come together to put up capital to fund an idea, product or service that they believe will be perceived as a benefit by a sufficiently large population.

Customers, sometimes influenced primarily by advertising in the short term; but each individually influenced by different aspects of the value package vote to keep the ones they like long term, with their wallets.

It's an aside, but in many markets there are would-be gatekeepers who would prefer to avoid competition and cartelize a few favored players.
That is Mercantilism, not Capitalism. Capitalism says "I am good enough to compete and i'll eat your lunch if you don't keep up" :)

smt
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I think sticking to the subject would be better instead of talking about politics.
 
I think sticking to the subject would be better instead of talking about politics.
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You quoted me, rather than the people who started the _economic_ discussion?
My effort is simply to define economic terms that were being used.

smt
 
SeniorTom said:
Fair enough, but I just didn't want politics to pollute this thread, like it does every other thread.
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Economics is not political. I'd also say that economics is a very valid part of this discussion. Guy wanted to know how to fix an unfixable cue. He got some ideas and the topic was expanded to educate others on why predator has no repair service. Seems like a very informative thread.

What makes you think you have any say as to where a discussion on a public forum goes?
 
jayman said:
If I spent that on a Chinese import I would at least hope for cnc points and inlays. Nothing personal but what the fuck China!
Predator cues is nothing but an import company with a trademark. they don't make or repair anything. they Have "repair centers" like Pechauer and some others, But since they make nothing they fix nothing. I had the worst repair experience ever when I decided to go through those fools to get a repair done that would have been easy except I wanted to have the logo put back on after the repair was finished. I spent far more time and money than the stupid logo was worth in the end. Several "secret location" repairs later it ended up at Pechauer cues for a good and proper repair.
In short Lol. What a surprise that its just tape and paint on an expensive "Predator" It still boils my blood thinking about the year and a half I spent to get a decent butt cap replacement done just to have a stupid predator cat logo on the butt of a falcon made cue in the end.
Don't send it to Predator. That's the best advice I can I get a lot of customers wanting the Predator logos removed.
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Crazy. Most of the time people come wanting the Predator Logos removed.
 
DeeDeeCues said:
Economics is not political. I'd also say that economics is a very valid part of this discussion. Guy wanted to know how to fix an unfixable cue. He got some ideas and the topic was expanded to educate others on why predator has no repair service. Seems like a very informative thread.

What makes you think you have any say as to where a discussion on a public forum goes?
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Just the same say as you. I guess I just missed the connection from 'can anybody repair this' to capitalism ?
 
guess I just missed the connection from 'can anybody repair this' to capitalism ?
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It's always about the money.
Obviously it could be fixed by "someone", maybe multiples of someones - given enough time. Then, how much do they want for their time, and how good would the 2 parties agree that the repair should be?
Economics attempts to explain whether or when it might be feasible; depending on the relative values of quality, cost, time; between the customer and the vendor (repair person).

FWIW, this equation applies, but might be different values placed on each component of the value proposition, in different economic systems.

It is interesting that often people consider matter-of-fact analyses that they simply prefer not to think about, as "political"
 
Ssonerai said:
The fundamental role of capitalism is to allow (promote) competition.
Generally and very simplistically, capitalist enterprises compete by offering some matrix of price, quality, and predictable delivery/availability.
Various combinations can be more profitable at different times in different places.

The actual capital part means people come together to put up capital to fund an idea, product or service that they believe will be perceived as a benefit by a sufficiently large population.

Customers, sometimes influenced primarily by advertising in the short term; but each individually influenced by different aspects of the value package vote to keep the ones they like long term, with their wallets.

It's an aside, but in many markets there are would-be gatekeepers who would prefer to avoid competition and cartelize a few favored players.
That is Mercantilism, not Capitalism. Capitalism says "I am good enough to compete and i'll eat your lunch if you don't keep up" :)

smt
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I agree
 
HelpMeScrubs0013 said:
This is why you don't buy into this new cue junk. All they did was paint the black on it wtf😂
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A lot of what they are called ebony is painted maple and white plastic sold cheap as holly
I've done repairs on a few and didn't have the heart to tell the client that it was maple
 
slim123 said:
A lot of what they are called ebony is painted maple and white plastic sold cheap as holly
I've done repairs on a few and didn't have the heart to tell the client that it was maple
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So in the cue world, ebony and ebony wood are two different items?? That is sad.
 
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