I'm glad WalMart is selling Schon cues!!!!!! READ B4 You Vote

[Mike in MN]

I'm sure Walmart's online sales are a big success (something like 350-400m sales?) but the vast majority of shoppers go to the physical brick-and-mortar stores, which are damn near everywhere. The cues are not being sold in the physical stores. Therefore, only a small fraction of walmart shoppers are seeing these cues.

On top of that, try a search for cue, pool cue, and pool stick at walmart.com. Good luck finding the schon. You see about a million results for cases, a million results for cuetec, viper, and 'trademark global' [lol]. You might see 2 results from mcdermott. You will need to fish awfully hard for Schon.

So even among the limited number of shoppers browsing walmart's site for a pool cue, almost NONE of them are going to keep searching through 5 pages of results to finally see the Schon.

Basically this is a complete non-issue. I would be surprised if Schon sales saw a huge bump because of this.

I was able to find them quite easily by clicking the following tabs (from the Wal Mart home page): Sports and Fitness -- Game Room -- Billiards -- Pool Cues -- Sort by: Price High to Low.

Or, you can just search the word "Schon" and they come up. Also, did you guys know they're selling Predator shafts online as well? Crazy.

 

[LeagueShirts]

>>> Schon will not be influenced by wal-mart because they are not working together. <<<

A 3rd party is listing their products at the WM marketplace. The product is being sold though CSNstores who, if one clicks two links, can see they have 200+ online stores and $200M in sales. So, they are also not a serious billiards retailer. In both cases, neither vendor is motivated to push schon to be a widespread commodity product. They are not going to China to sell 100,000 sticks a year. The product's image or value will not change and it will not become more familiar to date-night pool players.

I think the only way that someone would buy a high priced cue on that site is if they got some type of rewards kickback or they saved $20, found during a widespread google search.

Go to CSNstores.com and you can see they have many >$200 cues.

So, the sky is not falling.

 

[justadub]

>>> Schon will not be influenced by wal-mart because they are not working together. <<<

A 3rd party is listing their products at the WM marketplace. The product is being sold though CSNstores who, if one clicks two links, can see they have 200+ online stores and $200M in sales. So, they are also not a serious billiards retailer. In both cases, neither vendor is motivated to push schon to be a widespread commodity product. They are not going to China to sell 100,000 sticks a year. The product's image or value will not change and it will not become more familiar to date-night pool players.

I think the only way that someone would buy a high priced cue on that site is if they got some type of rewards kickback or they saved $20, found during a widespread google search.

Go to CSNstores.com and you can see they have many >$200 cues.

So, the sky is not falling.

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