They're grossly underpriced. Louis Vuitton would be ashamed.
Kamui chalk for sale
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They're grossly underpriced. Louis Vuitton would be ashamed.
While I believe it's crazy to think that $25 for a [small] cube of chalk is a reasonable price, I am happy to see you posting again. I was following the NPR thread, and feared the worst when no one heard from you for days.
Thanks, I got stuck with out power for about 6 days and my Internet took a few days after that.
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at $25 for a piece of chalk the holder would need an alarm system and a built in tracking system
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Rumour has it, they're going to supply a slip on cover emblazoned Silver Cup. As we speak, they're testing it at Paradise Billiards in NYC. So far its pretty effective against theft, no one has admitted to stealing any Silver Cup chalk.
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this is absurd.
how to soak the public and get rich*
1. company releases a dubiously high-priced product.
2. conducts a marketing campaign aimed at convincing the general public - impressed by flashy things, bold claims, pretty girls, etc. and utterly unknowing that correlation does not imply causation - that they should get themselves soaked for the company's benefit.
3. company uses profits from soaking public to get famous pretty people to sponsor their dubiously priced product.
4. company soaks more people.
5. company becomes leading sponsor in the field they intend to further soak.
6. company uses money to design newer, better, and usually more expensive product.
7. repeats step 2-5.
8. repeats step 6.
9. ad infinitum?
*at any and all points of this profiteering cycle, paid representatives along with unpaid company glad-handers respond to any and all criticism of the company's predatory business practices by referencing page 666 in the modern business and marketing textbooks which is of this basic form:
a. mentions that this is the way a free market works - infer that dissenters are communists.
b. "in the past...some [predatory product] was priced high...now everyone buys it..."
c. more choices = good; technology & innovation = good - an opinion passed off as a truism
d. level ad hominem attacks against dissenters - usually insulting their lack of wealth and buying power.
e....
how to soak the public and get rich*
1. company releases a dubiously high-priced product.
2. conducts a marketing campaign aimed at convincing the general public - impressed by flashy things, bold claims, pretty girls, etc. and utterly unknowing that correlation does not imply causation - that they should get themselves soaked for the company's benefit.
3. company uses profits from soaking public to get famous pretty people to sponsor their dubiously priced product.
4. company soaks more people.
5. company becomes leading sponsor in the field they intend to further soak.
6. company uses money to design newer, better, and usually more expensive product.
7. repeats step 2-5.
8. repeats step 6.
9. ad infinitum?
*at any and all points of this profiteering cycle, paid representatives along with unpaid company glad-handers respond to any and all criticism of the company's predatory business practices by referencing page 666 in the modern business and marketing textbooks which is of this basic form:
a. mentions that this is the way a free market works - infer that dissenters are communists.
b. "in the past...some [predatory product] was priced high...now everyone buys it..."
c. more choices = good; technology & innovation = good - an opinion passed off as a truism
d. level ad hominem attacks against dissenters - usually insulting their lack of wealth and buying power.
e....
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Sounds like Red bull to me.
yep, that and thousands upon thousands of other products and services. it's a breeze to make a buck off man's behavioral economic foibles.
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Something is definitely wrong here. I've met the Kamui guys and they are good guys who make good products. It must be $25 for a box/case of this chalk. No one in their right mind would pay $25 for one piece of chalk. I think you're in error here.
Four pieces for $25? Still too high! Maybe a box of twelve like Masters sells theirs. Maybe???
rhyno...That's the $600 version Jimmy M was talking about! :grin: LOL
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Nope that is one piece, but it does have tiger blood in it.
I will admit that I buy a lot of gimmicks in the pool industry and if I don't like them, I give them to a friend. I bought the Blue Diamond Chalk from someone on here when it came out for $9 shipped for 2 cubes. Alot of people were b**ching about those prices back then but, there was a lot of great feedback about the chalk. I used both cubes and liked it. When I was done with them, I went back to Master chalk. There is no way I will spend $25 on a piece of chalk that is a third smaller than a normal piece of chalk and has issues of crumbling apart. I know I don't have to buy it but, this is my opinion. I love their tips and install them all the time but $25 for a small piece of soft chalk, think about it??? I hardly mis-cue and when I do, it's those long draw shots and it's my stroke, not super chalk issues.
Sorry, I hate to b**ch & complain. :sorry:
If it's not broke, then don't fix it!
I'll stick with my $.15 cube of blue Master Chalk.
Sorry, I hate to b**ch & complain. :sorry:
If it's not broke, then don't fix it!
I'll stick with my $.15 cube of blue Master Chalk.
Jay, I thought the same thing but, nope, apparently it's $25 per cube! That's more than the street value of VIAGRA! Not that I would know, of course, but one does hear things.
Its not for everybody, remember?
There are players that are using Ginas, Searing, Gus and Barry Szams, Showmans, Black Boars, Tascarellas, I know I am missing many other great makers too.
What were the owners using up until now? Don't tell me they were using
mere Master Chalk on these Master Pieces.
The horror of it all.
If you've visited Tony S Black Boar site, you'll know what a all around discerning person Tony is. He lives life to the fullest, uses the best material in his cues and uses literally the best of everything money can buy to enjoy, well, his life to the fullest. Wine, vodka, cigars, olive oil, pasta, coffee, you name it. Tony doesn't do anything half assed. If Tony thought for one moment that his cues needed superior chalk to make them play to the fullest capabilities, believe me, he would have already invented it. Think about it, Tony is the Worlds Most Interesting Man.
Just a thought.
Take some baking soda, grind white Master Chalk to a powder, mix it well with KY jelly and Chanel #5 and you have Kamui Chalk.
Its so smooth and it smells pretty too.
There are players that are using Ginas, Searing, Gus and Barry Szams, Showmans, Black Boars, Tascarellas, I know I am missing many other great makers too.
What were the owners using up until now? Don't tell me they were using
mere Master Chalk on these Master Pieces.
The horror of it all.
If you've visited Tony S Black Boar site, you'll know what a all around discerning person Tony is. He lives life to the fullest, uses the best material in his cues and uses literally the best of everything money can buy to enjoy, well, his life to the fullest. Wine, vodka, cigars, olive oil, pasta, coffee, you name it. Tony doesn't do anything half assed. If Tony thought for one moment that his cues needed superior chalk to make them play to the fullest capabilities, believe me, he would have already invented it. Think about it, Tony is the Worlds Most Interesting Man.
Just a thought.
Take some baking soda, grind white Master Chalk to a powder, mix it well with KY jelly and Chanel #5 and you have Kamui Chalk.
Its so smooth and it smells pretty too.
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How much does my cue cost. Close to the amount of a Piecost.
Whatever a person's cue costs, its useful life might easily equate to having used hundreds of cubes of chalk... Not a good analogy. It'll certainly be interesting to see the market dictate the future of this product. I have little doubt that, beyond limited initial curiosity, the message will be pretty definitive.
All the best to you & your country in recovery efforts, though.
Wish better days for you.
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I have shoes that cost as much as some nice cues, but that doesn't mean that I think $25 for a cube of chalk is any sort of value, and that is not even taking into consideration that it's noticeably smaller than other chalk on the market.
I honestly never thought I'd see "designer chalk", but it's here. All that matters is that the people who buy it are happy with it. For myself, I just don't see ever spending $25 on a piece of chalk. It might very well be the best chalk ever invented but, again, for me personally, I doubt I'd ever buy it for that price. It isn't about the quality for me, it's about what it is. It's a piece of chalk. If I invented the best shoelaces the world has ever seen, guaranteed that the wearer would never trip over said shoelaces, in the end, they'd still be shoelaces, ya know?
Anyway, not trying to belittle anyone willing to spend that kind of money on chalk. One thing that gets under my skin is when people tell me how I have to spend my money, and I'm not trying to do that to anyone else either, but please forgive me for getting at least a little chuckle out of the eye-opening price here.
Oh no! The GPS tracking unit model is $200 more + $30/month service fees. I already have this all worked out. I'm taking my business plan to the credit union in the morning.