Hopefully somebody here can help - I've never had any dealings with Tony other than lunch(by chance and lack of seating) at Sbe. Nice guy
Jason
Cue makers to stay away from
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Hopefully somebody here can help - I've never had any dealings with Tony other than lunch(by chance and lack of seating) at Sbe. Nice guy
Jason
I guess this is like True Detective, not no nevermnd
After the second thread on the same issue, I figured you must of really been screwed over, only to read the is wasn't you, and this is all second hand info.
This is no different than dozens of similar situations where it turns out that there has to be two sides to the story.
He already did....look above....lol
you LOVE to do that
yup, da caped krusaders mission is to eradikate illiterites buy all availible avunues
Then if I were you, I would consider this a $900 lesson in how not to do things. First of all, it won't be a Black Boar. It will be a Bernie Boar. Nobody gives a hoot about Bernie's cues. I sure as hell hope he doesn't put that little "BB" on the butt too.
I would just probably drop it at this point. Write off the $900 and be thankful you didn't lose a lot more. If I were you, I wouldn't post on AZ any more about this. If you knew this was a shady deal going into it, you're sort of complicit. I don't want to be mean but we all make bad decisions from time to time trying to save money or make a buck. This one only cost you $900.
You could look a it like this; you got something you can gripe about the rest of your life and it only cost you $900.
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Yes...lol.....sorry.......but to be honest.....YES!!!
What do you expect, I had a public education.
My momma couldn't afford one of them fancy boy private schools.
You get what you pay for
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I know exactly who this POS is. His name isn't Bernie, it's Bernard. Black guy about 6'2" carries a grey cue case with back straps and a black dealer case with a bunch of stained forearms in it.
He goes around to places that predominately has league players & leagues. Carries a plain Black Boar with the crown butt cap, tells everyone he works for Black Boar, lets them hit with the plain Boar he has with him & then goes off into this spiel about how he can take one of those stained forearms he carries around in a rainbow of color varieties in that black dealer case & turn them into their dream cue all the while throwing around the Black Boar name constantly during his sales pitch talking about "special glues" & ferrule less shafts. The guys a con man.
I went to a place called Triple 9's one Saturday night where they have a tournament looking for action with Jimbo a Filipino player who plays that tournament a lot. We matched up & I had a front row seat watching this Bernard clown preying on a pair of female league players there to play in the tournament letting them hit with the Boar he was carrying on the table next to ours & talking a line of crap 10 miles deep about custom cues he was going to make these girls. Anyone with a slight bit of knowledge about cues could see through this guys crap in about 3 seconds but they seemed mesmerized with his tall tales. It finally got so annoying I pointed out to the females he was full of crap & that there were a number of reputable cue makers in the area like Leon Sly & Bob Frey they could visit & get a real custom cue. He didn't take too kindly to it. Supposedly a one pocket player but when offered up a game he declined, packed up his little rip off show kit & left. This guy is a real piece of work. There's no way I believe someone like Black Boar Tony with the rep he has in this business has this lying con man piece of crap working for him. Guys a natural salesmen though. Before we monkey wrenched him Jimbo looked at me while this guy was in the fever of his sales pitch and said to me, "This guy missed his calling, he should be a used car salesman".
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By chance do you remember the girls names? I have some real good friends down there and if I know these two I'm gonna reiterate what your saying to make sure they don't get ripped off by this guy, thanks .
It was a heavy set Pacific island girl, maybe Hawaiian & a black girl. Didn't catch their names. This was almost a year ago anyway right after I got back into the game. Bobby Hawk steered me there to put me on this guy Jimbo. I've only been in there once or twice since then, place is kind of run down with these ancient Brunswick home tables with the deepest pocket shelves I'd ever seen on a table. I don't normally butt into other people's business but I just hated to see these two getting conned so we exposed him & chased him off.
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Thanks bro, no they are not my friends - don't even know them in fact. You're right about the tables. I've been going there since I was a kid. Matter of fact it used to be called KB Billiards and that was the very first place I went when I first got my license and was allowed to go out by myself lol, the tables are exactly the same as they were way back then. As you know with all the pool halls we've had close last several years it's pretty much the only other spot than Top Hat.
Bahahahha what an awesome analogy, I almost had coffee coming out my nose when I read that. And yes, there has been no shortage of "xyz cue maker has had my money for x years and won't call me back" threads.
I've never had a custom cue and will be sticking to production ones after all of this type of thread.
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Sometimes people only fully understand when you call on them in person, in a bar room men's room and do the talking with steel toed boots.
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im a different type of person but if someone screwed me out of $2100 and only gave me a refund of $1200 and said I had to eat the rest for some BS reason I would definitely pay him a visit.
"WEEKEND AT BERNIE'S" PART 3
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im a different type of person but if someone screwed me out of $2100 and only gave me a refund of $1200 and said I had to eat the rest for some BS reason I would definitely pay him a visit.
"WEEKEND AT BERNIE'S" PART 3
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I want to commend you for posting it up. This is exactly the kind of thing that should be posted up for all to see, I think Bank It's post solidifies that 100%. Good job.