Actually I find very few Predators for sale. In our league most of the young players want to play with Predator cues or Predator shafts. Why, because they know what is good. It is the old timers that continue to buy cues that look good and not based on performance. Custom cue makers don't have the machinery to produce the technology that Predator produces. They do the best with what they have. It is a fact that 60% of the pros are playing with Predator products.
I started playing with Schon for a while, and amassed 29 shafts from every vintage of Schon, custom shafts made for Schon, and LD shafts for Schon.
The 314 was way down on the list for playability in my opinion.
I tried to like iPredator shaft because it was a really nice shaft with a new Precision tip like many of my cues, but it just didn't have the feel I like.
The Jacoby hybrids were way better, and I've never liked anything Jacoby other than their jump cues.
I know a lot of old guys who like Predator but I'm not one of them.