How much would expect to pay?

Tips

I dont know anything about them.one day i felt my tip wa mushroomed so i bought a layed tip cut off my old tip with a razor blade,used a little sandpaper and then tweetens 10 minute glue and a cube shaper and it was perfect.
I have paid $40 for a moori tip and its just not worth that.
JMHO:thumbup:
 
I remember when mooris first came out.
Cost me 50.00 for install at SBE.
I bought a mini-lathe for 300.00 after that and started doing my own.
 
Anyone here know m79a personally? I sent a PM at 10:21am today letting m79a know that I`d mail a new White Diamond tip for FREE. Never heard back yet. Thanks for any help.
Jeff
 
Possible price differences

Maybe some cuesmiths just do not want to deal with them. They know the people who bring in their own tips and who request rare tips will have a much higher PITA ratio than the rest of the public. Dealing with the long discussions or people coming back 4 mos later to want a new replacement tip makes them raise the price to have to deal with the drama and headache. We deliberately raise the prices of certain services just to reduce how much we have to do them. For instance....Certain pool tables sold on Ebay take twice as long to put together than a quality made American table. So we charge DOUBLE the price because of what goes into it. You only need an occasional 5 foot long bedcloth or 5 rails instead of 6 in the box (wasted service call) to send you to this format. Most the people buying this junk on Ebay are too cheap to have it done right, always shopping price instead of quality. We would rather refer it to our competition instead of doing the job at a loss half the time. Cuemakers are not any different. Once you start putting on Ivory Ferrules with White Diamond tips or Mooris you realize a certain percentage of these customers are enough of a pain that you want to eliminate them or weed out the cheap ones. If 99% of your Lepro customers are happy and 50% of your Talisman customers want a replacement tip in 3 weeks...what are you going to do?? Most businessmen do what works best for their clients and their long term sanity.
 
pooldawg8 said:
Hi m79a
I just happen to have a brand new White Diamond tip still in its original packaging from Joe Picone. I do not need it, if you want it, its yours. I see your from Kentucky.
Just PM me your mailing address & I `ll send it to ya by regular mail. I hope this helps you out. Other members here on AZB have helped me out from time to time with different things so its my turn to help out. Just let me know if you want it & have a nice day.
Jeff
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Thanks I sent you a message. Very kind of you.
 
cueandcushion said:
Maybe some cuesmiths just do not want to deal with them. They know the people who bring in their own tips and who request rare tips will have a much higher PITA ratio than the rest of the public. Dealing with the long discussions or people coming back 4 mos later to want a new replacement tip makes them raise the price to have to deal with the drama and headache. We deliberately raise the prices of certain services just to reduce how much we have to do them. For instance....Certain pool tables sold on Ebay take twice as long to put together than a quality made American table. So we charge DOUBLE the price because of what goes into it. You only need an occasional 5 foot long bedcloth or 5 rails instead of 6 in the box (wasted service call) to send you to this format. Most the people buying this junk on Ebay are too cheap to have it done right, always shopping price instead of quality. We would rather refer it to our competition instead of doing the job at a loss half the time. Cuemakers are not any different. Once you start putting on Ivory Ferrules with White Diamond tips or Mooris you realize a certain percentage of these customers are enough of a pain that you want to eliminate them or weed out the cheap ones. If 99% of your Lepro customers are happy and 50% of your Talisman customers want a replacement tip in 3 weeks...what are you going to do?? Most businessmen do what works best for their clients and their long term sanity.
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I have to disagree with you.I would say your average guy who buys a table from E-Bay probably does not play that much and has no idea what he is buying.They look good so they buy them.Now as far as tips are concerned The price should be tip price times 2. That would be fair in my opinion.
 
if the guy has equipment and a business and stands behind his work,he has an investment and deserves more than the guy doing it with hand tools.

remember a person that does a job that takes 15 minutes deserves more per hourly rate than someone working on a longer job. 30 bucks labor is a minimum for someone to do anything as setup and talking to the customer takes time.
 
bobroberts said:
I have to disagree with you.I would say your average guy who buys a table from E-Bay probably does not play that much and has no idea what he is buying.They look good so they buy them.Now as far as tips are concerned The price should be tip price times 2. That would be fair in my opinion.
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My point was HISTORY.

Whether your past experiences with a genius customer or an idiot customer, whether it is top of the line equipment or pieces of junk; many times problems arise with each one causing you to raise your prices. Otherwise you begin just to turn away certain customers. It might not be worth your time.

You also say the price should be tip times 2? Seriously? So a 75cent tip should be $1.50 installed? Who takes responsibility for that? Who pays the $1.22 Visa charge if the guy wants to put in on his credit card? Should I take a check for that? (Yes I have customers wanting to write checks for less amounts) Do I have to drive it down to the cue maker and wait for it and bring it back to my shop for that $1.50? Or do I just eat that?

I respectfully disagree that a math formula is going to work for all customers/products. I know from working in a pool room the variety of problems and customers will warrant different prices for the same service. Too many variables come up that customers believe the business should just "eat".
 
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