Pookster,
The cue-maker manufactures your cues incorrectly, doesn't mention anything or reveal the ivory is fake and then defrauds you by charging for materials never used.
Let me ask what the difference is between what happened to you and say a custom jewelry store that sells you a diamond encrusted Breitling or Rolex watch. You take it home for a couple of weeks or show everyone your great new, "expensive" watch that you just paid $5500 for. Then at a party, you meet someone who's father is a jeweler and he happens to know about diamonds having worked in his dad's jewelry store for many years. He tells you the diamonds don't look right to him based upon what he knows but if you want to be certain, you should bring your watch to his dad for verification.
So a few says later, you do exactly that and you find out that the diamonds are not diamonds but are zircons. You're told Rolex and Breitling would "never" make a watch with fake diamonds. So you go back to the jewelry store where you bought the watch and you're told........."Of course those are not real diamonds because a watch like that would have cost a lot more so, of course, the diamonds are not real." but you aren't offered any partial or total refund. And even worst, you find another a nicer watch with real diamonds selling for only $300 more than you paid for the fake diamond watch.
How do you feel? Was the sale misrepresented to you. Do you feel cheated? What'ya do? Did you overpay for the watch with fake diamonds.........absolutely. The cue-maker has significantly overcharged you and committed fraud since you paid a lot of money for a cue with genuine ivory inlays. I'd go on the warpath and launch a campaign to soil the cue-maker's reputation announcing what a crook he was. I'd be willing to spend money for bringing the sob cue-maker down hard.......he lied, cheated, and stole money. If any cue-maker ever screws me, I'll go after the cue-maker viciously and pursue legal recovery through the local DA where the cue-maker resides, start threads on AZ and Craig's List (in multiple different cities since I wouldn't know where the cue-makers other unhappy customers might be) and just campaign hard to soil the cue-maker's reputation.
Long ago I learned that if you let someone screw you and just take it without punching back, then go sit in the corner and pout. What kind of man are you when you allow anyone, let alone a cue-maker, to crap in your face and all you'll do is just gripe.............Haven't you learned yet you don't have to get mad but you "always" get even. At least by going after the cue-maker.....really hard not some superficial effort .........kind of like what's happening with that Zinzola creep............you'll forewarn fellow AZers and possible, prospective customers to beware and perhaps save them an exasperating and very expensive bad cue buying experience. Thank goodness my new custom cue is being made by a cue-maker who has a sterling record on customer satisfaction and has maintained an unblemished reputation for almost than three consecutive decades.
Apparently, there's more jerk-like cue-makers around than I ever imagined. The Forum should start a new section called "Complaints about Cue-Makers" and it will become populated with lots of threads and cue-maker identities. Everyone is entitled to know.....and deserves to know........about dishonest cue-makers and remember this if you ever get screwed by a cue-maker like so many other poor souls on the Forum...................if you remain silent about what happened, then you invite this same crime to happen again to another innocent victim. So start shouting out complaints about any cue-makers that did you wrong..........prevent it from happening again..............just my 3 cents on this matter.
