Ever regretted selling a cue?

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8onthebreak

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I've regretted every cue I've ever sold. So unique pieces of art. Like people, all different, but love em all the same. Am I the only one who gets emotionally attached to my cues. ???

You ever sold a cue and REGRETTED IT?
 
I've sold 4 schons and I regret selling all of them lol. Don't regret selling my mezz or Richard Harris.
 
I do not buy many cues and I have not regretted purchasing any of them. I don't keep cues that are not being played often. I miss not having some of those cues, but no regrets in selling them.
 
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No regretting but I do get very attached with some cues. hmmmm - might explain why I have so many:).
I just love it when you order a custom cue to your specs and get treated with progress pics, nice communication etc from the maker. The cue is kind of full of nice vibes and I do enjoy to shoot with it more.

Chrippa
 
- First Titlist I had converted
- Mid 90s Paul Mottey
- Howard Hoppe cue

I think I have had about 325 - 350 cues and the Hoppe cue I regreted getting rid of most of all. Best playing cue I had but the deal was hard to pass up, until looking back on it. I actually ended up getting the cue back through a series of events and its now being refinished....wont happen again :nono:
 
Regrets

Just 2 both Gina's . One to make a down payment on a house in 1972 . best , Robert
 
Frankly, I think this is nobody's business and should never have been posted as a thread here on az. :mad:

damnit! :frown:

okay, if you have to know... there was this one ts true sneaky that was so sweet, it was the perfect hustler - it was dinged and danged and patenized just right and it hit sooooo freaking goooood and in a weak moment I decided I had way too many cues and I sold her to a fellow az'er from hawaii and just as soon as he said "I'll take it" I had a pit in my stomach.

I started thinking, maybe I can tell him it was stolen or during packing I noticed it was bent like the letter "C" or the dog ate it or whatever.

being an honest trader, I went through with the deal and sent it off to the land of volcanos and grass skirts.

I told the buyer that if for any reason at all he wasn't happy with it I would be happy to do a full refund including shipping. I added a condition that I have never offered before or since which was that if he e-v-e-r decided to sell it, I would buy it back, no question.

Once received, he pm'd me that he was so happy and that this was e-x-a-c-t-l-y what he was hoping for. :crying::crying::crying:

thank you for letting me get this off my chest. it was time. :wink:

best,
brian kc
 
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8onthebreak said:
I've regretted every cue I've ever sold. So unique pieces of art. Like people, all different, but love em all the same. Am I the only one who gets emotionally attached to my cues. ???

You ever sold a cue and REGRETTED IT?
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Yup. My first cue I bought it 87. A plain brown- stained maple, black w/white Irish Linen, SS-jointed 20 oz Mali from the Trophy Series.

Freddie <~~~ never forget your first
 
Cues I let go?

This thread reminds me of some mistakes I've made with cues I've owned.

When I first started buying cues it was just a hobby and it gave me a chance to try out different cues from different cue makers and different type joints etc. Before my AZ days it was so easy to list a cue on EBay and usually it would sell for at least what you paid or even a little profit so I went through a number of cues. Things have changed since the economy has tightened up and there are so many new cue makers building cues now its not as easy to get your money back out of cues like it used to be. Some of the bigger named cue makers will always bring good money, but some of the lower tier cue makers cues are hard to move if you paid top money when you bought their cue.

Who would have ever thought South West cue prices would have gone up to the level they are at now. I owned 5 South West cues a few years ago (one at a time at different times) and each of them had triple veneers and the AB rings and I sold them all for what I paid or slightly more and I thought I was doing well. What a mistake I made! I could have almost doubled my money if I'd just hung on to those cues! I never dreamed the demand would have gone up like it has.

I also had a couple of fancy Tim Scruggs cues that I wish I still owned.

James
 
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Yes, a like-new Scruggs Willie Hoppe with a leather wrap with 2 shafts - sold for $900 on ebay and it's now worth twice as much.

It's just the money - I don't attach too much sentimental value to cues. I save that for my wives, dogs, friends and children.
 
I really didn't regret selling it but I definitely missed it. In '83 I bought a Mcdaniel cue from a friend who was down on his luck and I told him if he got back on his feet he could have it back for what I had in it. It was a great playing cue but he was/is a great guy so three years later I sold it back to him. It had been my principal playing cue for that time. But I didn't regret selling it back because it was made for him and like I said he was a great guy.

But as Paul Harvey says 'the rest of the story', about six months ago he contacted me and is getting out playing and asked if I would be interested in having it back. So I now have all the principal playing cues I have owned.
 
Yes, a few. However we still have them in our minds to enjoy don't we?... Remember all these great moments of beauty and enjoy them as long as you live.
 
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Idid a favor for Russian Mike in the early 80,s in return he got his buddy named Gus to make me a cue . It was 22oz and sort of gaudy i thought at the time. I let it go for 2500 alot of $ in82 83. I have not seen to this day a nicer Szam. out their. Also a Schon from the same time $150. cue played as good as any cue ever made!!!:frown:
 
I regret not getting market value on a few cues.. lol not that I sold them.


I regret not buying one cue and I hope the guy and the cue surfaces...

JV
 
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