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He has a cue in inventory that has hit about 10 racks. Confirmed. This guy gets it and lists it as new and unplayed because... .....he has a "new" shaft...

Is it?

Would you want to know?

It is a break / jump style cue...

JV
 
classiccues said:
He has a cue in inventory that has hit about 10 racks. Confirmed. This guy gets it and lists it as new and unplayed because... .....he has a "new" shaft...

Is it?

Would you want to know?

It is a break / jump style cue...

JV
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What about when the original shaft is unplayed and a test shaft was used?

If there is no visible use on the butt what then?

Should all new cars be sold as used once they have been test driven?

If I turn on a computer at Best Buy and surf the internet for ten minutes then don't buy it should Best Buy sell it as used? (actually regarding the last one, Best Buy doesn't let you USE anything packaged until after you buy it. You can then return it and they will sell it as returned/refurbished, so they say.)

I think that the seller can't morally sell it as unplayed if half the cue was used. I would say he should certainly disclose that the butt was used for ten breaks and that the new shaft is unplayed. But if he doesn't then I don't know that it's that big a deal in THIS situation as long as the butt is in mint condition and structurally sound.
 
He is selling the butt with a non-original shaft?
Or
It was test hit with a different shaft?

Not that it matters, but I wanted to be sure.

Either way the butt is test hit. The shaft depends on the above question.

I've seen all kind of crap like this. My old playing cue with all the propellors and dots was offered back to me as a "new cue" twice, by 2 different sellers. I had beat the crap out of that cue over 1000's of hours in my pool room, and someone had it refinished and shafts built. (I sold it without shafts) But even after I told them the story, the cue was sold as new!
 
classiccues said:
He has a cue in inventory that has hit about 10 racks. Confirmed. This guy gets it and lists it as new and unplayed because... .....he has a "new" shaft...

Is it?

Would you want to know?

It is a break / jump style cue...

JV
Click to expand...

I had a friend of mine try to get me to list a Pierce cue for him that Jim had fixed the butt cap on and refinished. He wanted me to list it as new but I wouldn't do it. He got upset with me.

In my opinion if you take a "new" cue and hit ten racks with it then it becomes a used cue. Mint condition but still used. Same goes for a refinish. Its still a used cue.
 
I play about ten racks with every cue I make. Just to see how it plays and break the tip in alitte. Then I shave the tip and wax the shaft. But I would call the cue in the original post a used cue. With a new shaft.

Larry
 
I have sold a ton of cues at shows that have been tested. I don't call them used. But at the end of the shows we would remove them from the general inventory and sell them for less at the next show.

I once had a guy take a cue and play with it for an hour - I mean play as in playing sets. Then he comes back and actually buys it.

Then a week later he calls me and wants to return it saying he doesn't like the hit. I said no, you broke it in for an hour before you bought and then played all night with it after that - and told me it's the best cue you ever played with, so no, you own it now.
 
It's all word semantics or just playing dumb. If he says the shaft is NEW but not original
he's not lying but not telling the whole truth if he's listing the cue as New and
unplayed. The butt maybe pristine but still has been in play, it is used.

Distorting truth = problems!
 
I find that describing exactly what's gone on with anything I'm selling makes fewer problems. We aren't using the newspaper classified section here, and aren't character limited that I'm aware of. Everything you typed in the original post should appear in a proper description of that cue.
 
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