IP sucks...I am so disappointed in my subscription. I have been a subscriber for over a year and I may have got 4 magazines total. Now I did move during that time period, and I submitted my address move to them, but my subscription has been sporadic to say the least. When they called at Christmas time to ask me to renew I did, I even renewed with a 3 year subscription! So far, I have been getting the magazine, but in my opinion wayyyyyy after the fact. I mean come on, my latest issue has Efren on the front and is about DCC...which happened what, four months ago now? Even with publishing times, I still think this is unreasonable.
And as far as there "Mall" is concerned, I bought a predator shaft there once and got it rather promptly, only to find out I way overpaid for it...but lesson learned there. They did deliver the product promptly and I am still shooting with the shaft today. That was almost a year ago, you think with my order they would of figured out my address move eh?
Now on to Fury, in my opinion, and this is reading a BOATLOAD of websites and groups, they make a VERY good product for the money. I think people just often forget, you get what you pay for. If you are expecting an 800 dollar cue for 200 bucks, you may need to shop elsewhere. But if you want a great hitting cue for around 200, then Fury is highly recommend in my book. Just depends on the person and the way they play...a cue has to be fitted to the person...not the person fitted to the cue. I remember my first cue that wasn't a walmart special was a Crystal Leisure, and I loved that cue. It had a nylon wrap, was black with white cut outs...and hit great, but I was the laughing stock of the pool room nearly. Since then I have been through probably over 100 cues, and I settled on a Schon. You will have to pry that Schon out of my cold dead hands to get me to get rid of it...period. I do have other cues I tinker with, but when the money is down or I am in a tourney, my baby comes out a smokin'.
Now here is my idea...and bear with a short fella on this one. What if we had an electronic magazine, published monthly. Full tournament results and schedules across the country. Full articles from some of the pros or veterans in the pool playing world. Maybe just four or five articles a month. Maybe even have a different drill each month for players to try. Maybe even discuss APA, UPA, whatever-A and the ins and outs of their respective tours. Would people be willing to pay 5 bucks a month to subscribe to this? We could even have the newsletter to be both an email and a login so people could look back over older issues. Now we would also need sponsorship, from say the big pool sellers such as Mueller or Seyberts or both...heck...the problem I see is we are diversed in the pool world, and anything we can do to combine it all and make it more universal would strengthen the game of pool and its popularity. To me pool has been such a "what about me?" sport that has stressed the individuality of the game so much, stretched it so thin, that it will never be able to grow and prosper like other sports. If we notice, big sports are on a downfall. Ice hockey has lost popularity, basketball as well...baseball will be next due to the steroid controversy. Why not take advantage of this weakness in those sporting areas and let's capitalize on it?
Hmmm just a midget thinking after a cup of coffee...guess they should cut me off eh?
Shorty
