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

Walmart selling Schon, McDermott is......

  • Good for pool.

    Votes: 139 44.8%

  • Bad for pool.

    Votes: 27 8.7%

  • Wont make a difference.

    Votes: 132 42.6%

  • Whats Walmart???

    Votes: 12 3.9%
  • Total voters
    310
Fatboy said:
READ THIS BEFORE YOU VOTE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thats the best news I have seen in a long time. Its going to put good quality cues in peoples hands that might not otherwise known where to buy a cue, or that there is a difference in cues, most people think they are all the same. So I dont think that is bad for pool?


this is great for pool,


Whats bad for pool is Ramin wooD cues with screw on tips. Then people think thats the standard for cues, with walmart selling quality cues it will raise the bar on the worst cues that Sears sells.

Now with Schons tip men will have more good cues to re-tip when the time comes
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Hey buddy,

I have a strange feeling that Walmart won't sell high end production cues very long. Here is my reasoning...

1. As much as i love pool, most people really don't care about it enough to spend $500+ on a pool cue. (I am not talking about serious players, just the average Joe on the street)

2. Do you really think that "pool players" in general will be spending alot of time on www.walmart.com looking for pool cues, or anything else for that matter?

3. Walmart makes money buy selling things in BULK... There is NO WAY that they are gonna be able to sell a large quantity of these specialized, expensive items to thier customer base. Hell most major billiard retailers that we all know about are struggling and we all know to look at those places for pool stuff.

Look, I am not hating on Schon, Walmart, Pool, or anyone else. I sincerely hope it works out for everyone. It would be a blessing if it helped out sport become mainstream in the USA. I just really don't see this relationship being beneficial enough for Walmart to continue to offer such items. AGAIN, I hope I am wrong!!!

Tell me what you think
 
I cant see it hurting at all. On the contrary, it may help.
Sometime you have to think outside the box.
A few years back, I put together a plan for pool on a regional and national scale. It was the same year of the IPT. I approached Orange County Choppers with the plan, via emails and their marketing dept. and they were not interested at the time. I doubt the idea ever reached the owners. Payments would have exceeded 100K per event.
Recently, as you all know, Janette Lee had theme bike made. But did it really help pool and pool hall owners? Not really. Because it was just an episode and not part of any thought out long range plan to benefit pool.

Eventually someone will come up with the right formula , right individuals and corporations.
 
Fatboy said:
READ THIS BEFORE YOU VOTE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thats the best news I have seen in a long time. Its going to put good quality cues in peoples hands that might not otherwise known where to buy a cue, or that there is a difference in cues, most people think they are all the same. So I dont think that is bad for pool?


this is great for pool,


Whats bad for pool is Ramin wooD cues with screw on tips. Then people think thats the standard for cues, with walmart selling quality cues it will raise the bar on the worst cues that Sears sells.

Now with Schons tip men will have more good cues to re-tip when the time comes
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Schon cues at walmart is a good thing...
 
they also carry predator shafts, just seen it. ive been playing with a schon for years and now it kinda makes me not want it.
 
Oooooh eeeeewww ahhhh! I won't buy anymore this or that because "Oh my God......WALMART sells it too!" Oh and I won't buy anything from WALMART because it's icky! :rolleyes:

Can we say SNOBBERY boys and girls? I knew we could.

Now... me, I'll buy what ever the g-damned hell I want to buy from whoever I want to buy it from.

Does that make me a p.o.s. subhuman? I haven't really given the matter that much thought..then again maybe I'm just not that shallow.
 
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In order to sell yet more stuff Schon will give in to market demands to make a cheaper cue under their name. They will then move operations to China.
 
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What's actually ironic here is that if Walmart is required to hold to the retail price, then prospective buyers could actually save money by buying from a "dealer", usually at somewhat of a slight discount.

So, no....this will not help pool. It might possibly help Schon, though. :wink:
 
Pool is already hurting to the max. How could this do anything but help? The success or failure of any business venture generally depends on how it is marketed, and the first ingredient for good marketing is advertising. The more a product is advertised, the more familiar it becomes to the general public. Now advertising on Walmart's website may not have any immediate or appreciable effect on the sales of the cue makers advertised there, but there is a possibility that their names may become familiar to people who might have otherwise never been exposed to anything related to good pool.

Roger
 
My opinion is WM getting in the game won't make much difference except
to die-hard loyal WM shoppers. Pretty sure Amazon also has loyal shoppers.

Simpler to google pool cue or pool stick and find the major players in the cue biz -
that also support the sport as sponsors (PDawg, Ozone, etc)

Just my 3c
 
I'm not particularly thrilled about this. I don't want someone asking me if I got my Schon at Walmart.

"No, mine is a pre-Walmart Schon"

ugh...
 
bnall said:
Also good news for husbands who wives as asked "Why cant you just buy a Wal-Mart cue and play with it instead of those high dollar cues?" Gives us husbands now a chance to buy Wal-Mart cues!:grin:
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HAHAHAHA
I had the very same thought!

I keep telling my wife that even if I buy a $500 cue each year, pool is WAY cheaper than golf, hunting or fishing. (I don't gamble...)

That quiets her down for a few minutes. She is really great and is not a nag, but she likes to have something to criticize me for (there is so little else).
 
Roger Long said:
Pool is already hurting to the max. How could this do anything but help? The success or failure of any business venture generally depends on how it is marketed, and the first ingredient for good marketing is advertising. The more a product is advertised, the more familiar it becomes to the general public. Now advertising on Walmart's website may not have any immediate or appreciable effect on the sales of the cue makers advertised there, but there is a possibility that their names may become familiar to people who might have otherwise never been exposed to anything related to good pool.

Roger
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TAP TAP TAP.... Also you have 90 days to try out the item before you return it. As you know in a poolroom....there is NO RETURNS! The price of the cues and shafts seem to be on the high side, but otherwise competitive pricing will keep the prices marginal. I agree that pool is in a terrible state and this can only make things better. Bring pool to the masses
 
I don't see how it would effect pool one way or the other. It will hurt Schon, which is well indicated by the initial thread where 50% of the people who liked Schon were a little sickened by them being sold at Walmart. I doubt new people getting into the sport are going to see a Schon for big cash from a store like Walmart and buy it, I think Schon has more harm to their image then the payoff in sales they might get from being sold there.

But affecting the actual sport one way or the other? I don't see it. In all reality they are JUST online purchases, and good thing because few people who shop at Walmart for a cue are in the market for a $500+ cue, cripe walmart sells tables cheaper then that... How would it hurt the sport? Walmart sells crap equippment, now they have some nice cues that are actually really bloody expensive for that particular store, if anything it makes our sport look a little more relevant.

Now IF some REALLY high end cues were sold at some REALLY expensive department store? That would be something. If you had high end cues like Ginas being in areas where Hollywood stars might see them that might actually get afew sold and talked about by them, and that publicity would be huge for this sport much as poker playing celebrities have helped poker hit the mainstream. It would probably not hurt to get all of the super nice cues out of the pool halls and cue making shops and a little more out there in the open where people can see what this sport actually has. Because I am pretty sure most of the high end cues would shock the general public.
 
Guys,

Wal-mart does not sell schon cues. A 3rd party retail does, and it just happens to be through the Wal-Mart Marketplace website. Don't get it twisted!
 
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