Guys who never sell cues

trob said:
With this post I’ll never buy a cue from you and I hope no one else does either. Dealing with the public is part of being a salesmen. Sounds like your either not good at it or your burned out from it .. either way I wouldn’t give you a dime after this.
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Patrick is a hoarder....but all his shit is top notch vintage gems.
 
I have to admit, I have cues, but I don't sell them, as there's no need to. If a cue is good enough for to buy, I keep it. Opinions vary, I understand.
 
It's all in the marketing.

One time I put a decent set of skies and bindings by the curb with a sign that said "Free".
They sat there for a week.

I changed the sign to $20. They were gone the next morning.

Know your market.
 
jimmyco said:
It's all in the marketing.

One time I put a decent set of skies and bindings by the curb with a sign that said "Free".
They sat there for a week.

I changed the sign to $20. They were gone the next morning.

Know your market.
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exactly how I get rid of old appliances, to the curb with a price tag, and the scrappers will take it away overnight.
 
trob said:
With this post I’ll never buy a cue from you and I hope no one else does either. Dealing with the public is part of being a salesmen. Sounds like your either not good at it or your burned out from it .. either way I wouldn’t give you a dime after this.
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I'm not dealing with the public, I'm dealing with old guys on AZ Billiards.

Thanks for the feedback
 
jimmyco said:
It's all in the marketing.

One time I put a decent set of skies and bindings by the curb with a sign that said "Free".
They sat there for a week.

I changed the sign to $20. They were gone the next morning.

Know your market.
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I have done this several times with old furniture. Once a friend was complaining that they had put some fairly nice used furniture at the curb for free and it had sat there three days. I told them to put a for sale sign on it. It was a Friday afternoon with fairly heavy traffic. The furniture was gone in less than two hours!

Hu
 
I went many years only selling cues we built. Now I am selling off my collection a little at a time.
So I did not sell cues, but collected them. My family has no collecting interest so I hope to sell them all before I pass away. And I hope that is many years from now.
 
If you list a cue online, know you are going to get people that think they know, when they don't, commenting. For the life of me, price knocking and making market comments are different, but why bother? A listing for a Schon and someone will say I saw the same cue for 300 less. The other guy says "What makes that South West worth 5k, I have a sneaky pete for $ 125.00 and it's better than that SW"... Neither of these comments should be made by anyone with the slightest hint of decorum. The issue is the internet has no filter on stupid. People are prone to make bad comparisons.. not knowing that the 300 difference Schon might have a warp, might need a refinish, there could be a reason of the price difference that you aren't aware of. Which again comes back to the stupid filter. Would you make that comment if you knew the difference?

These people wouldn't see an ugly baby and tell the mother... OH jeez.. what happened to your baby? Is that a birth defect? , or see someone's fat wife at a dinner and say.. Hey buddy.. you should get her a salad... So why say something about a cue? Because people want to get peer approval, and think they are smart. But it still comes down to the stupid filter and the internet and no repercussions or accounting for your comment.

There is a larger threat and that is the people being flippers or "cue dealers" that don't know jack shit about what they are selling. Incorrect cue history, not knowing the makers history, etc.. Overall bad for the hobby nonsense that is really a detriment that hurts collectors and the people that really know that try to do the hobby right.

JV
 
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