Cue Tip Left a week ago.

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CageyCraigey

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Hi People.

Left my shaft to get a new cue tip at the pool hall on Monday, prepaid with instructions to text when done. Went back Thursday, was not done. Going back tomorrow, Tuesday, hope the local guy who doesn't do them on site has it done. If it is not there Tuesday, what do you guys suggest a next reasonable course of action would be? Tks.
 
CageyCraigey said:
Hi People.

Left my shaft to get a new cue tip at the pool hall on Monday, prepaid with instructions to text when done. Went back Thursday, was not done. Going back tomorrow, Tuesday, hope the local guy who doesn't do them on site has it done. If it is not there Tuesday, what do you guys suggest a next reasonable course of action would be? Tks.
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Put your own tip on
 
CageyCraigey said:
Hi People.

Left my shaft to get a new cue tip at the pool hall on Monday, prepaid with instructions to text when done. Went back Thursday, was not done. Going back tomorrow, Tuesday, hope the local guy who doesn't do them on site has it done. If it is not there Tuesday, what do you guys suggest a next reasonable course of action would be? Tks.
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you actually need advice on what to do here?
 
CageyCraigey said:
Hi People.

Left my shaft to get a new cue tip at the pool hall on Monday, prepaid with instructions to text when done. Went back Thursday, was not done. Going back tomorrow, Tuesday, hope the local guy who doesn't do them on site has it done. If it is not there Tuesday, what do you guys suggest a next reasonable course of action would be? Tks.
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Good grief.

That's a pool hall that has some part time hack doing tips so they can advertise it as a service.

Go elsewhere.
 
CageyCraigey said:
Hi People.

Left my shaft to get a new cue tip at the pool hall on Monday, prepaid with instructions to text when done. Went back Thursday, was not done. Going back tomorrow, Tuesday, hope the local guy who doesn't do them on site has it done. If it is not there Tuesday, what do you guys suggest a next reasonable course of action would be? Tks.
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When was the job promised ready? Tips are often put on when the cue maker doesn't feel like doing something else. It has been said before but never pay upfront. Reasonable to pay cost of materials, maybe a little more. Trying to be gentle here so consider this a general statement not directed at you personally but a fool and his money are some party. The cue man has a few hundred to thousands of dollars of work to do that will be paid for when complete. Then he has a redheaded stepchild leaning in the corner that will take him twenty or thirty minutes to do right, maybe more if your shaft is a little warped, and he won't get a dime for finishing it, just time away from work he will get paid for finishing.

Unless someone has a great long term reputation for doing business properly, never pay in full upfront. To go a step further, never pay in full upfront! Seems like I have said that a few times already.

Any time you pay upfront for anything it is apt to take longer than something with some load on the tail end. One paid in full the person you are dealing with has to get some roundtuit. Some keep roundtuit in stock, some have to order it and they are waiting to have a big enough order to tack the roundtuit onto to be worth the shipping.

In all fairness, I wouldn't call thirty days an unreasonable tip turnaround time, especially if the tip has to be ordered. I have had a little fun at your expense and some others have too. I hope it will drive home that what you did was foolish unless the cue maker is well enough known to be worth the wait.

The cue smith might have put the new tip on as soon as he walked in his shop door. Then he stuck the shaft in a corner until the next time he went to that pool hall, either to play pool or make money. Few people are going to make a special trip to deliver work already paid for.

Good luck, and I mean that sincerely. A combination of cue smith time and a customer that seems impatient unless you were promised a quick turnaround. If somebody isn't in a bind for a shaft, I might return it in two weeks to a month. If they are in a bind and I am in the mood and have a machine free, I may tell them to follow me to my shop for instant service, less than a hour. Many people throw in a shaft cleaning free, I did, but that adds time and adds to the likelihood of the shaft sittin in a corner awhile, mine actually sat in a vertical rack but whatever. Before anyone starts hunting me, I am tired and retired and gave away all of my equipment!

Hu
 
Ridiculous.

These clowns need to have a return day(same every week) or they need to f off and get raped by gorillas
 
jasonlaus said:
Ridiculous.

These clowns need to have a return day(same every week) or they need to f off and get raped by gorillas
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Might be true for clowns. If cue smiths did that a finished job might be sitting on the shelf six days. A week or ten days for components to arrive, two weeks would be a common time for a tip job to be returned with a set day. Not a retail shop with everything sitting on a shelf then you get times when somebody in the supply house is in a bad mood!

I once dealt with Acme, one of the biggest suppliers in the business, maybe the biggest. The pool division was a part of a huge business. I ordered from them, multiple things and multiples of each thing I ordered. Ten or twelve different things ordered, eight different things wrong, dozens of items since I ordered stock of each one to go on my shelves.

I called up Acme, not particularly concerned. Enough wrong things it appeared to be malicious so I was mostly warning Acme. Over a hundred dollars in items I didn't need or didn't use at all. The most annoying item was ivorine four. They had a one foot piece on sale for people to buy a sample. They sent and billed me for four feet at regular price. Garbage pins that I would never use, several more things I would never use.

No problem, I wasn't upset when I called assuming I would be taken care of no sweat. Talked to someone named ken. First off, I talked about the ivorine. It was emphasized that I needed to be sure that what I sent back was at least three feet long! Emphasized multiple times. Somebody is gonna eat a curf, why should it be me for their screw up? After a generally uncooperative phone call I asked about return shipping. "Depends how you ship it." SILENCE! Long Silence. I'm thinking to myself, "What now I am supposed to read your mind how you want a return shipped?" No offer ever of shipping information.

I had a handful of friends on the cue builder forums on AZB so I posted as much to laugh as to whine and bitch, shit happens. Four or five people told me call Acme back, talk to ken, he was a great guy who would make things right. Note above who I talked to. Many years later I gave away most of that order to Cuebuddy including over three feet of the ivorine four. Still pissed when I think about that screwing! Acme is the manufacturer of some quality products I used. I usually make a point of buying from the manufacturer if I know who they are. Not Acme, I never gave them another penny! Never used their materials if given an equal option and when I did buy Acme manufactured materials I bought from a third party, paying extra to do it!

I'm not one to hold a grudge too long but I do think the doctor slapped my ass harder than he needed to when I was born and the sumbitch enjoyed it!

Hu
 
ShootingArts said:
Might be true for clowns. If cue smiths did that a finished job might be sitting on the shelf six days. A week or ten days for components to arrive, two weeks would be a common time for a tip job to be returned with a set day. Not a retail shop with everything sitting on a shelf then you get times when somebody in the supply house is in a bad mood!

I once dealt with Acme, one of the biggest suppliers in the business, maybe the biggest. The pool division was a part of a huge business. I ordered from them, multiple things and multiples of each thing I ordered. Ten or twelve different things ordered, eight different things wrong, dozens of items since I ordered stock of each one to go on my shelves.

I called up Acme, not particularly concerned. Enough wrong things it appeared to be malicious so I was mostly warning Acme. Over a hundred dollars in items I didn't need or didn't use at all. The most annoying item was ivorine four. They had a one foot piece on sale for people to buy a sample. They sent and billed me for four feet at regular price. Garbage pins that I would never use, several more things I would never use.

No problem, I wasn't upset when I called assuming I would be taken care of no sweat. Talked to someone named ken. First off, I talked about the ivorine. It was emphasized that I needed to be sure that what I sent back was at least three feet long! Emphasized multiple times. Somebody is gonna eat a curf, why should it be me for their screw up? After a generally uncooperative phone call I asked about return shipping. "Depends how you ship it." SILENCE! Long Silence. I'm thinking to myself, "What now I am supposed to read your mind how you want a return shipped?" No offer ever of shipping information.

I had a handful of friends on the cue builder forums on AZB so I posted as much to laugh as to whine and bitch, shit happens. Four or five people told me call Acme back, talk to ken, he was a great guy who would make things right. Note above who I talked to. Many years later I gave away most of that order to Cuebuddy including over three feet of the ivorine four. Still pissed when I think about that screwing! Acme is the manufacturer of some quality products I used. I usually make a point of buying from the manufacturer if I know who they are. Not Acme, I never gave them another penny! Never used their materials if given an equal option and when I did buy Acme manufactured materials I bought from a third party, paying extra to do it!

I'm not one to hold a grudge too long but I do think the doctor slapped my ass harder than he needed to when I was born and the sumbitch enjoyed it!

Hu
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It's simple, just tell the owner the tip won't arrive for 2 weeks so hold onto the cue until then
 
jasonlaus said:
It's simple, just tell the owner the tip won't arrive for 2 weeks so hold onto the cue until then
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Nothing is ever simple. I never placed an order for one tip, or one of anything else. I had to see what I needed and put together an order. Might not have time to do that right now. Things like phone calls and putting orders together are dead time. You have to do these things then when you charge more for a tip than a few dollars above what the tip could be bought for from a discount house people think they are being robbed. I used to have a sign up that included fifteen dollars for the first five minutes of phone calls and two dollars a minute afterwards. Never charged it but the sign by my desk sure cut out bullshit phone calls! Until I put up the sign I had people calling me three times a week just to bullshit! I did tell a few people the next call would be billed.

A shop with three people working often ties up another person with the things that can't be billed. After a rainy weekend or just the phase of the moon sometimes I wrote estimates from the time I opened my gate till the time I closed it. No billable time, didn't even take time to eat lunch! I have owned over a dozen businesses. The grass is a lot greener from the other side of the desk!

Hu
 
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