I'm so tired of seeing the same old FS threads

azdiamondbacks1

azdiamondbacks1

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Before you start. I know I am posting in the wrong section !!
Saaaaaaaaammmmmmmmeeeeeeee cues offered for sale over and
over again. Cue right below has been viewed 11 THOUSAND TIMES
AND HAS BEEN OFFERED FOR SALE SINCE APRIL OF 2015.
My god please take a break or at least relist it with a lower price.
If someone was going to buy it, someone would have by now.


End of rant.

MODS please eject me before I eject myself.
 
azdiamondbacks1 said:
Before you start. I know I am posting in the wrong section !!
Saaaaaaaaammmmmmmmeeeeeeee cues offered for sale over and
over again. Cue right below has been viewed 11 THOUSAND TIMES
AND HAS BEEN OFFERED FOR SALE SINCE APRIL OF 2015.
My god please take a break or at least relist it with a lower price.
If someone was going to buy it, someone would have by now.


End of rant.

MODS please eject me before I eject myself.
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So, perhaps you should call the police and have whoever it is that is holding a gun to
your head to force you to view that post/listing, arrested.
Or, you could explore the wonders of the ignore function.

Dale
 
Well, USA'ians seem to work by "a sucker is born each day" (you just have to find him / wait for him to find you).

I personally will not buy used stuff for a lot of money. I dont have an urge for crappy old stuff that no one cared about when it was new (Meucci etc). I do not believe in cues with points or whatever.

If you don't go down with your price for 3 or even 6 months or when I ask (because of a blemish or throw in a good case instead or offer free shipping or even refund when it's not working out for me) then you're dead to me and you wont sell. And I will not even care anymore.

Other forums have a rule that you can push 1 time and then the price must be reduced by 5-10% already.
Worthwhile addition here!

Cheers,
M
 
In this economy what do you expect? The solution is logical not looking to buy anything in particular don't look in the for sale category.
 
I Agree!

I was Going to Post something Similar last week.But I Figured All I Would get is Smart A** Comments.
 
If someone has a high end cue and waiting for the right buyer (the right buyer...wants the cue and can afford it) whats wrong with waiting until it's sold.
 
imho, everything is sellable (or is it saleable?). :confused:

But you have to be realistic about the market and price accordingly.

I have good luck selling everything I put up fairly quick by starting at a truly reasonable price and I will reduce the price, if needed, every bump or every other bump.

Personally, I'd be embarrassed to leave a cue up for sale for months on end. There are just a couple of acceptable exceptions to this imo such as *very high end cues* where there's a much smaller pool of prospective buyers so you prob have to keep these cues out there longer to catch the right person's interest. But even most of those can be made to sell with an aggressive enough price.

The ones that get me are the listed "fire sale" threads that go on for months.

Newsflash buddy; if it didn't sell in a day or two, it really wasn't a fire sale. :rolleyes:

happy selling. :thumbup:

best,
brian kc
 
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I also think it's a terrible idea, from a sales perspective, to keep bumping the same old thread. People see a cue that hasn't sold in over a year and they immediately think something is wrong or it's over priced.

If your cue doesn't sell within a month or two at the most then let the thread die and put up a new post in a month or so, preferably at a lower price. Also, evaluate your post, how it's worded, and especially the pictures. Crappy pictures don't entice anyone to buy. Grab a blanket or towel, find a decent camera (and that can even be on your phone as long as it's a recent phone) and go outside or near a window and setup a decently lit shot that makes the cue look good.

Good pictures, good description, and a fair price and a cue will sell. I've sold plenty over the last few years and never had one take too long...but then I price aggressively when needed. I'm not going to sit on a $1000 cue that nobody wants for a year....I'll take my knocks and drop it down to $800 and boom, sold.
 
I sold a couple cues, a case, and some joint protectors recently. They all went in a few days no problem at all.

The reason why this happened is because I don't pay the rent with the money I received for my used cues. These were cues I was done shooting with and going to convert to a nice break cue. I listed them for what I thought was the street value and I really didn't get any drastic hagglers off my original prices. People who have to pay the rent with their cue sales are not going to list a cue for its approximate value. They are going to list it for their most optimistic price point, just like Belk prices it's various polos without a store wide sale. The only difference is, Belk understands that at the end of a season they must slash prices to move inventory. Our online cue dealers don't like slashing prices, and I guess if they absolutely don't need the cash this minute, nothing is preventing them from running a free ad online over and over and over and over and over and over and over.
 
Totally agree.

If I see a cue that has been listed for over a year all that tells me is that the cue is very over priced or defective in some manner.

When I see the same cue posted over and over again all that tells me it is very over priced.

Invariably you see the same guys with cues that have been listed for years complaining about low ballers.

I've bought cues off the FS forum here. Been quite pleased with how it turned out. But these cues were buried in the pile of 'same old ads' that seems to clog everything.

I've seen forums allow member ads and their system worked quite well. One ad, no bumps, automatically deleted after 30 days. Must have a price in the ad.
 
I collect D series McDermotts. When I get em in I send them to the factory for restoration. As I write this, I am at the factory this very minute.
I get many off of eBay. There is a pool cue shop on there that lists them for Blue book value. They are on there for months. He has a C21 for $1900. That is BBV price. At the same time one sold for $909. So I offered him $1000 for his. That was 2 months ago.
His listings make others list high as well. As a result, nobody is selling/buying .
Today I am picking up my C21 from the factory with two new I shafts for $1500. If I were this guy I would list it for $2500 and leave it there for a decade. $300 is crazy for a D1.
That D19/23/21 mutant is cool. But only at $800- $1000 . NOT $1500!
I have disabled the message feature for my searches because I am tired of getting notified of "28 new listings" only to see its this guy with the same overpriced shit.
Value is only what someone else will pay for something at any given time. Book says my D19 with 2 new shafts and leather wrap should bring $1300. I doubt I could get my $900 investment back today. In 30 years that will change.
Moral of the story, over pricing and running the listing on and on only kills the market. Today I am buying personto person from other collectors. I get excellent examples for the same money or less than I used to pay on ebay for cues in need of a restoration and new shaft (which adds about $300 to the project.)
 
I think after a couple of months and the item hasn't sold, it should be open to thread crapping. This would encourage the seller to rethink their strategy.
 
M.G. said:
Well, USA'ians seem to work by "a sucker is born each day" (you just have to find him / wait for him to find you).

I personally will not buy used stuff for a lot of money. I dont have an urge for crappy old stuff that no one cared about when it was new (Meucci etc). I do not believe in cues with points or whatever.

If you don't go down with your price for 3 or even 6 months or when I ask (because of a blemish or throw in a good case instead or offer free shipping or even refund when it's not working out for me) then you're dead to me and you wont sell. And I will not even care anymore.

Other forums have a rule that you can push 1 time and then the price must be reduced by 5-10% already.
Worthwhile addition here!

Cheers,
M
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LOL...No offense but, It apears all sellers are "dead" to you :wink:..it doesnt seem you'll buy ANY stuff, including cues "with no points or whatever" for a lot of money considering your "0" itrader status....haha

skins ------------ just had to..
 
M.G. said:
If you don't go down with your price for 3 or even 6 months or when I ask (because of a blemish or throw in a good case instead or offer free shipping or even refund when it's not working out for me) then you're dead to me and you wont sell. And I will not even care anymore.
Cheers,
M
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"If you don't go down with your price for 3 or even 6 months..."
Because something doesn't sell in a short period of time could indicate that it is overpriced or could simply be a result of no one is looking for one of those cues within that particular timeframe.

Blemishes i.e. nicks/dents/minor scrapes/patina affect value on a case by case basis and for that reason could already be reflected in the asking price. Some potential buyers will pay -less- for a cue that is refinished.

As for cues without points, the world is made-up of people with difference tastes. Hence the phrase: "To each his own".
 
I used to scan the for sale section quite often. Sadly, I found most of the cues overpriced and I found what I was looking for on Ebay instead. There were a few interesting items, but I wasn't quick enough.

I think the main thing that ruins the for sale section is the dealer dominance. Dealers are not going to give you any deals...They are there to profit, and they push all the regular people selling cues down into obscurity. There should be a dealer section.

Those guys with the 2 year adds are going to be buried with those cues, or have their relatives sell them for 100 bucks, when they die. Remember that Married With Children episode where the Bundys had a yard sale, but they couldn't sell anything? All had this theory that all yard sales are based on there always being a bigger sucker than yourself. Since the Bundys were the biggest suckers, they were the ones that got stuck with all the stuff nobody wanted. Maybe after a couple of years, one should ask oneself wether that incredible sucker that will pay you 3 times the value, really does exist, and if he does; maybe it's you?
 
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