DP on Ebay....ROFL

[Monstermash]

Dealer price is the same as MSRP. He isnt saying he would charge a dealer 1700 bucks.

No he really is. Take a look at any of Dale's auctions. Here is one for example.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Dale-Perry-DP-P...ms=65:1|66:2|39:1|240:1308|301:1|293:1|294:50

He clearly states DEALER PRICE IS $1,799.00. And all the auctions are pretty much more of the same.

The bottom line is his cues used to be pretty nice except for the goofy uni-loc pin which he no longer uses. Now he throws them together and whores them out on Ebay.

As far is the seller being an AZer I would be surprised. Most of us seem to be pretty well informed.

I'm beginning to think Jmizzo IS Dale Perry with the way he talks about his cues. Lol!

 

[Monstermash]

Anyone who has half an interest in cues, or collectable cues, etc can tell a $1000 Joss from a $250 Joss. There are obvious visual clues....rounded CNC points being the biggest. They also changed their logo several times. Old Joss cues are very collectable. New ones, not so much, if any. DP cues will never have the collectability of old Joss cues, ever. If Perry had some hand cut points floating around, maybe. But everything I've ever seen of his looks like CNC work. The cue that's being offered on ebay for $750 is no different than a $150 cue. The sellers responses in the listing, sound like a typical car salesman, he's talking pure BS, out of his backside. It's a nice pipe dream, but nobody is going to pay $750 plus for that cue....especially since you can buy one just like it for just over $100 from Dale himself.

Well said.

And yes, his points are all CNC. And to make matters worse he uses a big cutting bit to save time. Thats what makes the end of the points so rounded.

There are a lot of respected cue makers who use CNC. I'm not saying it's a bad thing. If you look closely at Ernie's, Stroud's and Kikel's points you'll notice they have round, not sharp points and are done on a CNC. There was a time when they didn't do CNC but now most of their stuff is.

 

[TATE]

If this is the case he/she needs to take the word ivory out or change it to iv0ry or else I will be surprised if this stays up.

Probably everyone on e-bay knows Dale uses micarta anyway :smile:

This looks like a cookie cutter DP to me, the kind he was offering 4 or 5 years ago on e-bay, with the uniloc quick release joint. At the time they were getting $600 or so on auctions for these fancier DP cues and 2 shafts. I remember bidders were fighting for them.

What I like is in the Q and A section, the seller says they were going to list it for $1350!

Chris

 

[BHW]

And the listing has been removed............

 

[ARROWCRUSHER]

It really doesn't matter what somene thinks his cue is worth or what the so called dealer price may be , but a cue's only actuall worth is what some one is willing to pay for that cue at any given time, you know if soeone really wanted that cue they would have paid the $750 (lol) for that cue. But anyone that has been into cue's would defenitly know that , the cue in question would probably never have a resale value of a quarter of that price in todays market. <<<<<<<<<<<<<<

 

[poolplayer2093]

2 cents...I see where you are coming from but I am going to have to disagree with you. Regardless if it is a "custom" DP it is a DP and therefore has very little resale value. First off he lists Ivory in his listing so most likely it is going to get taken down anyway. Secondly, he has 0 transactions on Ebay so thats another negative for him. Thirdly, he has a starting price of $750 with reserve not met so who knows how high he has posted his reserve price. DP cues regardless if they are custom or the standard Ebay you normally see are lucky to get half of the investment regardless if it is new or used. Therefore half of his cost price is $675 and he would most likely be lucky to get that. Nice cue, just really hard to resale in this market.

i agree 100% with everything in this post

 

[jmizzo]

Im totally not Dale

So not, one of my playing cues is a Dale Perry, But im more into Huebler. About CNC - you can have razor sharp points with cnc - you cnc it first then hand cut the rest. Thats what I was told some makers did so that points came out sharp. I AM NOT A CUE MAKER SO THIS COULD BE COMPLETE BS, I am just regurgitating what I was told.

 

[measureman]

I have been in the retail world for over 35 years. Shoes (I was Al Bundy before he was)Autos and the last 28 in floor coverings. Other then cars MSRP is normaly much higher then 100 percent over cost so that a retailer can advertise a certain percentage off such as "60 PERCENT OFF MSRP BLOW OUT SALE !!!!" and still be able to make the 40 to 50 percent profit that is about average for most retail stores. There are some exceptions to this high a makeup but they are few.