I'm buying a new pool table in the future (an Olhausen), and was just wondering if they had decent margins of profit on each table. I see staggering differences in price, anywhere from about 1700 dollars for a baseline model to about 9 grand for the coveted Gold Crown. Why such extreme price differences?
Cool costs money, how cool do you want to be?
No doubt you can buy a functional table that you can play pool on cheap. I work with a guy who drives the cheapest car you can buy new, a chevy Aveo and he still gets back and forth to work. He don't have AC but he gets here.
But if you want a really nice one that looks cool, and plays nice, you got to spend the money. Like tools, my neighbor buys all these cheap Chinese tools. You can feel the difference when you hold them in your hand.
I can actually speak with some authority on this, because I have experience on going the cheap route, then redoing it later. That is why I am about to get the cushions and cloth replaced on my table, oh, that I had a local guy do two months ago, because I went the cheap route, and now I have a table with 50 year old cushions on it that plays like crap.
To think that a table the quality of a gold crown can be manufactured and retailed for ~1K is ridiculous, this line of thinking is why so much of our manufacturing has moved to over seas. You ever think the guy that works in the factory might want to make enough money to buy a pool table too.
