Cue From Hell
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Kevin Lindstrom said:
I don't think that his post is negative in any way, shape or form as far as Espiritu is concerned. He never says that there is anything wrong with the cue, other than the fact that the people who buy it immediately have financial difficulties...lol.
Donald A. Purdy said:I purchased five cues in 1999 from Russ Espiritu. I sold the one I liked the most to a friend of mine. He called me and told me he got a DWI and needed his money bad. I took the cue back and gave him his money back. I sold it again here on AZ about 4 months ago. A week later the guy calls me back and tells me he was in a car wreck and needed the cue money to repair the other guys car so he could stay out of trouble. All he really had to say was that he didn't like the cue. I offor a satisfaction guarentee. Since he was honest about it, I told him to send it back and I would refund his money. No problem. He even included a case. Thanks by the way! I sold the dam cue again two weeks ago. Guess what, the guys transmission went out on his car and he needs his money. I am sorry guys, I ain't taking the cue back again. It is the cue from hell. It was a $895 cue that I sold 3 times for $600. What a freaking ordeal. I think I am going to quit selling cues. Anybody else ever have a cue from hell?
Purdman
I think I'm hearing the theme music from "Twighlight Zone". lol
Donald A. Purdy said:
lol I think I mighta saw that dude at a first break tourney last week...there was a blond? headed guy trying to sell an espiritu...said something about car trouble
Meucci_Man
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Cue from Hell? I had One!
I bought a Cue from someone who was less than desirable. He promised me the cue was legit,so I took it. After about 3 months of playing with it it was stolen from my truck on my way home from a tourny as I stopped at a gas staion. About a year later, I walked into my local pool room and noticed the cook playing with my cue. I asked him about it and he said he got it from someone in another town and was looking to make a buck or two on it. I asked if I could see it and pulled the but cap off to find a piece of paper with my name and number on it. He gave it to me no questions asked, I gave him another cue for his troubles and honesty. About 2 months later I moved to another town, and again the cue was stolen, this time from a pool room while I was in the washroom. I came back to my home town to visit and stopped by the same poolroom that I found it in the last time and I found it again. This time I gave the guy a little cash and was happy to have it back agian. I ran into the guy who sold it to me and he asked me how the cue was doing and I told him the story..He laughed and said "Thats funny, I bought it from someone who stole it from a cue store in another privince." I freaked out on him and asked him to buy it back from me. he said yes.I was releaved to be rid of it as I wanted nothing more to do with that cue.
I bought a Cue from someone who was less than desirable. He promised me the cue was legit,so I took it. After about 3 months of playing with it it was stolen from my truck on my way home from a tourny as I stopped at a gas staion. About a year later, I walked into my local pool room and noticed the cook playing with my cue. I asked him about it and he said he got it from someone in another town and was looking to make a buck or two on it. I asked if I could see it and pulled the but cap off to find a piece of paper with my name and number on it. He gave it to me no questions asked, I gave him another cue for his troubles and honesty. About 2 months later I moved to another town, and again the cue was stolen, this time from a pool room while I was in the washroom. I came back to my home town to visit and stopped by the same poolroom that I found it in the last time and I found it again. This time I gave the guy a little cash and was happy to have it back agian. I ran into the guy who sold it to me and he asked me how the cue was doing and I told him the story..He laughed and said "Thats funny, I bought it from someone who stole it from a cue store in another privince." I freaked out on him and asked him to buy it back from me. he said yes.I was releaved to be rid of it as I wanted nothing more to do with that cue.
Shorty said:
My work is done.Just remember Shorty that YOU can remove the curse by buffing the cue with fur of a ferret while singing along to "Highway to Hell".
Meucci Man......was that hell cue of yours a moochie? That might not have been a curse.....just the norm.
Lil' Devil
Purdman
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Kevin Lindstrom said:
Kevin, I have purchased 12 of Russ's cues. I have always liked them. I still have 2 in my collection. The post wasn't meant in any way to knock the cues, just this one. As an after thought, I think my car or truck broke down shortly after the purchase. Go figure.
Purd
Donald A. Purdy said:Sounds like my old Vega. I also had a Corvair that you filled up with oil and checked the gas on. I worked in a gas station at the time. I put every drop of oil I removed from the customers cars in it. Smoked like hell but kept running.
Purdman
I knew a guy a few years back who had a bunch of old cars and trucks. He had no less than 8 Corvairs, including a Corvair van. He told me he would trade them all for anything that ran.
He did have some nice stuff though, had a 62 Studebaker Hawk sitting in a field rotting. I almost bought it just to rescue it.
THIS IS A NO BRAINER!!!
sell it on ebay as a cursed cue!!!!! i'll bet you can get over $1000 for it!!! do you know somebody brought a piece of toast that had an "image of the virgin mary" on it for something like $600?
there are people outthere who love your stuff. you just have to find the right category for it.
sell it on ebay as a cursed cue!!!!! i'll bet you can get over $1000 for it!!! do you know somebody brought a piece of toast that had an "image of the virgin mary" on it for something like $600?
there are people outthere who love your stuff. you just have to find the right category for it.
Donald A. Purdy said:
My old cue was so bent I couldn't possibly sell it, and I couldn't throw it away because it just came straight back and hit me. I finally managed to shake it off when we moved house without telling it. I had to change my phone number a couple of times after that because of the angry new owner though.
Boro Nut
Donald A. Purdy said:Anybody else ever have a cue from hell?
Purdman
I once built a cue that was made longer than normal and with thinner butt than normal. This is what the guy wanted. Then he brought it back and wanted me to cut it down thinner for him. I did this and charged him for rewrap and refinish butt sleeve. Then he decides it is too thin and has another cuemaker wrap masking tape around the wrap groove to make it thicker and wrap over it to make it thicker. Then he brings it to me and says he liked it better thinner, so he has me remove the wrap and tape and rewrap it. I think he had me thin it down and rewrap it one more time. Then he calls me wanting me to build it up with epoxy to make it thicker again. I told him I never wanted to see that cue again, so he sold it. I charged him for everything I did to the cue, but I was sick of messing with it. I guess this more goes into the Customer From Hell category. To show you what I mean. He had three of my cues. One Saturday morning he calls me and wants me to build him the first cue. I tell him I won't be home that day. He asked me where I was going and I told him about the tournament I was going to. He says he will meet me there to talk about the order. He didn't know about the tournament before. Well he hands me second place in the tournament and the difference in the money was about what he spent on the cue.
Then that cue gets stole from him and he has me build the thin cue. Once he sells it he buys another cue from me and gives me a Predator and some cash. Then he says he can sell the Predator for me and that is the last time I saw him. He called once to say he is sending me some money, but I never got it.
Chris
www.hightowercues.com
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Sweet Marissa
www.Bella-Muse.com
mjantti said:Sounds like your cue is 666-1 upside down -series from Espiritu. Only way to control the jinx is to have a guy called Damien to buy the cue
Or the guy who drives a cursed '58 Plymouth Fury
Kevin Lindstrom said:
Espiritu's work now is probably better, but 10 years ago I saw nothing but shoddy craftsmanship in his cues which turned me off to them forever. Inlays coming out, the BUTT warping after a few months (yes, the butt..my friend bought a brand new Espiritu at JOB's during a Camel Pro Tournament from some vendor). I'm sure in 10 years he has improved his techniques...but you don't forget those kinds of things. Not slamming him, just being honest.
Matt
Donald A. Purdy said:I purchased five cues in 1999 from Russ Espiritu. I sold the one I liked the most to a friend of mine. He called me and told me he got a DWI and needed his money bad. I took the cue back and gave him his money back. I sold it again here on AZ about 4 months ago. A week later the guy calls me back and tells me he was in a car wreck and needed the cue money to repair the other guys car so he could stay out of trouble. All he really had to say was that he didn't like the cue. I offor a satisfaction guarentee. Since he was honest about it, I told him to send it back and I would refund his money. No problem. He even included a case. Thanks by the way! I sold the dam cue again two weeks ago. Guess what, the guys transmission went out on his car and he needs his money. I am sorry guys, I ain't taking the cue back again. It is the cue from hell. It was a $895 cue that I sold 3 times for $600. What a freaking ordeal. I think I am going to quit selling cues. Anybody else ever have a cue from hell?
Purdman
Russ, lives just down the road, Don. He and my son are good friends. I will have my son show him this. I'm sure he will get a kick out of it if you haven't already told him about it. It really is funny.