Dennis Hatch's Mosconi Cup Cues for Raffle!!!

Mean-spirited man!

Celtic said:
$10k can get alot of seriously awesome, truly collectable cues. You can get pretty much the most fancy inlaid franklin era SW you could find, you could get some pretty awesome Gina-cues, atm in todays market you are even in the range of some Gus Szamboti cues and Balabushkas and rest assured those are far more collectable then this cue will ever be, less personalized and thus more easily re-sold.

You shot with this cue very little, it is extremely personal in style with your name all over it and Hatchets that mean nothing to anyone but yourself. It is clearly not a shooter, people would buy it as a collectable because of it's very personalized nature, but how collectable is it really? It it going to go up in value from the already extremely high price of $10k beyond following natural inflation? I highly doubt it.

Ask yourself honestly, if you were not Dennis Hatch what would you do with this cue if you got it? Dennis Hatch himself does not want to shoot with this cue with Hatchets all over it, his name on it, and his victory in a tournament advertised on it. It is very personal, and the guy it is aimed at does not want it and would rather have $10k, expecting someone else to want the cue to that much money is a little odd when they have far less of a connection to the cue to begin with.

Not posting this to knock your action but since we are going to have this thread for months before you "maybe" sell 200 tickets for this raffle and hear explanations such as the above about why everyone should want this cue, I gotta tell you alot of people are wondering why you think a person who is not Dennis Hatch would want a cue so very clearly made solely for you at that kind of price and what the heck they would ever do with it?

Why would "you" want it if you were not Dennis Hatch? What the heck would you do with it? Anyone else is going to look odd shooting with it.

If I won this cue for the price of a $50 ticket I would probably expect to struggle to sell it for $5,000, probably more in the range of $3,000-$4,000 that someone would count out in hundred dollar bills and hand over that stack for the thing. And you have to work to find that guy who would even pay that.

The reason is not how fancy the cue is, how much work went into it, or how expensive the materials in the cue are, but that the fact that the cue is so clearly built for one single person and it suits noone else other then yourself. And it seems that even you don't really like it enough to keep it.
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IMHO this is a very mean-spirited post.....I also would love to have this cue. And if I won it I would play with it for sure. The 2009 Mosconi Cup will liver forever in pool history and this cue was a big part of that. Sheesh.......it's not rocket science and your post come off as mean-spirited and bitter.....just my 2 cents.
 
Celtic said:
$10k can get alot of seriously awesome, truly collectable cues. You can get pretty much the most fancy inlaid franklin era SW you could find, you could get some pretty awesome Gina-cues, atm in todays market you are even in the range of some Gus Szamboti cues and Balabushkas and rest assured those are far more collectable then this cue will ever be, less personalized and thus more easily re-sold.

You shot with this cue very little, it is extremely personal in style with your name all over it and Hatchets that mean nothing to anyone but yourself. It is clearly not a shooter, people would buy it as a collectable because of it's very personalized nature, but how collectable is it really? It it going to go up in value from the already extremely high price of $10k beyond following natural inflation? I highly doubt it.

Ask yourself honestly, if you were not Dennis Hatch what would you do with this cue if you got it? Dennis Hatch himself does not want to shoot with this cue with Hatchets all over it, his name on it, and his victory in a tournament advertised on it. It is very personal, and the guy it is aimed at does not want it and would rather have $10k, expecting someone else to want the cue to that much money is a little odd when they have far less of a connection to the cue to begin with.

Not posting this to knock your action but since we are going to have this thread for months before you "maybe" sell 200 tickets for this raffle and hear explanations such as the above about why everyone should want this cue, I gotta tell you alot of people are wondering why you think a person who is not Dennis Hatch would want a cue so very clearly made solely for you at that kind of price and what the heck they would ever do with it?

Why would "you" want it if you were not Dennis Hatch? What the heck would you do with it? Anyone else is going to look odd shooting with it.

If I won this cue for the price of a $50 ticket I would probably expect to struggle to sell it for $5,000, probably more in the range of $3,000-$4,000 that someone would count out in hundred dollar bills and hand over that stack for the thing. And you have to work to find that guy who would even pay that.

The reason is not how fancy the cue is, how much work went into it, or how expensive the materials in the cue are, but that the fact that the cue is so clearly built for one single person and it suits noone else other then yourself. And it seems that even you don't really like it enough to keep it.
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It's really quite simple. Buy a ticket or don't. If you buy a ticket you obviously know what you are getting if you win the cue. If someone wins this cue and hangs it on the wall... good. If someone wins the cue and plays with it... good as well. Going through the long winded explanation of...

"Why would "you" want it if you were not Dennis Hatch? What the heck would you do with it? Anyone else is going to look odd shooting with it."

Everyone looking at this cue knows all this already and has made the choice to buy a ticket or not. I know you say you don't mean to knock his action but it comes off that way whether you realize it or not.

Good day :)
 
Here is an update:

Since the raffle hasn't filled in time for the US 10 Ball Open, the raffle deadline will be extended one time until July 1st, 2011. This is exactly one week prior to the Seminole Tour at Capones, which is happening July 8th-10th.

This is all stated in the original post. If there are any questions, feel free to PM me.

Thanks,

Jr.
 
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