Making an offer on Gold Crown III

Don't second guess your decision. Someone always comes along to tell the pool table purchaser that they paid too much. It's practically pennies we're taking about when it comes to just about any table IF you use it at all. Congrats.
 
BasementDweller said:
Don't second guess your decision. Someone always comes along to tell the pool table purchaser that they paid too much. It's practically pennies we're taking about when it comes to just about any table IF you use it at all. Congrats.
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The point of my post was I bought a table in non playable condition for $400. I chose to dump some money into it because I wanted too. To get it playable with new rubber and setup would have still run me close to $2K. The OP'er got a good deal at $1,700 for what looks to be a very nice table in great shape.
 
Congrats on the beautiful table! Keep us updated and pics when it's setup would be awesome. :)
 
There was two areas for negotiation here:
  1. initial offering price (I would have tried $1500, it is very hard to sell a used pool table these days)
  2. moving expenses, ask the seller to help with the costs, or who knows, maybe the seller had a truck big enough to move it?
 
rexus31 said:
The point of my post was I bought a table in non playable condition for $400. I chose to dump some money into it because I wanted too. To get it playable with new rubber and setup would have still run me close to $2K. The OP'er got a good deal at $1,700 for what looks to be a very nice table in great shape.
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Sure thing.

But having seen your table on here, I bet you wouldn't have regretted it had you paid a couple thousand for it. It's all relative to the usage.
 
rexus31 said:
The highest I would have went was $800 in the condition it was in. It's always a roll of the dice until you start breaking it down.
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Really? I get the deal side of it. I guess I'm just pointing out the value side of most used pool tables. If you play on it daily, paying a few thousand dollars for any pool table seems worth it. Now relative to what someone else paid for it -- maybe not. I just try not to live my life that way. 5k for a table you play on for 10 years is quite cheap entertainment.
 
BasementDweller said:
Really? I get the deal side of it. I guess I'm just pointing out the value side of most used pool tables. If you play on it daily, paying a few thousand dollars for any pool table seems worth it. Now relative to what someone else paid for it -- maybe not. I just try not to live my life that way. 5k for a table you play on for 10 years is quite cheap entertainment.
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It is inexpensive entertainment but when you are buying a table that looks the way mine did when I bought it, you also have to be weary and factor in what you might be getting into. You never want to over pay for the unknown. $800 was my gamble point.
 
sbrownn said:
There was two areas for negotiation here:
  1. initial offering price (I would have tried $1500, it is very hard to sell a used pool table these days)
  2. moving expenses, ask the seller to help with the costs, or who knows, maybe the seller had a truck big enough to move it?
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Unless the seller is really desperate, the seller would never be responsible for chipping in on the moving costs or even the breakdown costs.

However, informing the seller of what it’s going to cost you to get the table broken down, moved to your residence and set back up with new cloth and new pockets in the price negotiation process, in order to try to get the seller to lower their price is certainly an acceptable strategy.
 
rexus31 said:
I bought my GCI for $400. The slate backers and rails looked like it had only been recovered a couple times. About $3K later, it's better than new with 4.125" corners and 4.875" sides with Diamond Black rubber.

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You turn crap into gold
 
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