Hilarious.
Predator cues make better players play better. JB cases don't do jack to anyone's game. The minute they turn you into someone who can pot a few balls is the minute I'll take notice.
Predator cues make you play better?
How so. I mean for a person who is so skeptical of pool players and pool products....the idea that you buy into Predator's claims is ironic. I mean I can say that I have seen first hand back in the 90s that Predator cues displayed both lower deflection and displayed radially consistent deflection. But I saw no evidence that they made a player play better.
What they do is allow a player to be more confident that where they aim is going to be closer to where the cueball goes I guess but they do not aim for you, nor do they shoot for you so how can the shaft make the shooter play better?
No one has to date beaten Mosconi's 526 officially in the modern era. One guy got close with a 498 using a stock McDermott cue. If Predator shafts make players play better then there should be some stats amassed over the past 20 years to back it up. Where are they?
Instead, since the 1990 the majority of the world's major titles belong to players who played with Cuetec and Meucci cues iirc.
No doubt Predator shafts are nice as are all the "performance" shafts. But they all have very little actual verifiable data to back up any claims.
As for cases, protection is desired and people like to have pretty things that make them feel good. We service both in one package.