ok guys, just how long r u holding a shaft or cue?
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I was a little slow in building a shaft for a guy. He would call often asking about it getting done. After a few weeks, I finally got the shaft done and the guy is nowhere to be found. The shaft has been in my case for several months now
I had the same problem before I would put tips on for bar room players, just a LePro. But I would tell them to pick it up the next day or I would take it to the bar they played at allthe time. Well it turned out they would vanish also when they owed me money. I did them for practically nothing anyhow , I would tell a freind or bar owner to tell them or call them if I had their # ,, I still have two players shafts in my shop. LOL. :grin-square:. I know it's bull****. Every now and then after I waited months if another bar player needed a shaft or tip . I would give them a deal on the shaft I had still. It gets old looking for people ..<<ED
That is weird. I do my own cue work, at least up to the point of shaft cleaning and retipping, so that's not an issue. I did accidentaly leave a sport coat at the dry cleaners for about 2 months. I was driving home one day and it just flashed in my head, I have to get that NOW!
Still, I think 3 months or 2 phone calls in a month, and they probably don't want it anymore. Post a sign and the start reselling the stuff, I guess.
Still, I think 3 months or 2 phone calls in a month, and they probably don't want it anymore. Post a sign and the start reselling the stuff, I guess.
This reminds me of something that happened to me many years ago when I had my pro shop at Pappy's. I had done some work for this guy that wasn't a regular. I may have done some shaft work and perhaps a new wrap on a fairly inexpensive cue (less than $200). Well many months pass and I never hear from him. I called him several times but never an answer. Several more months pass and I finally decide to sell the cue and recover my losses... The very next day the guy shows up for his cue. I was falling over. Luckily, I was able to buy the cue back and return it to the original customer. The guy tells me he would have understood if I didn't have the cue anymore but he couldn't get back sooner because he was in jail.
Just when you think it's safe to back into the water.
Bryan
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Mostly it's me keeping their stuff too long & them contacting me wanting it back.
Surely not:thumbup:
Hope everything is going well for you and your family Eric!
Something similar. A customer came in with three shafts for me to replace the tips and ferrules and clean up the shafts. I did them and he came back a couple of weeks later to pick them up. One shaft had some pink coloring on it that looked like lip stick that would not come off. He then decided for me to take that shaft and make up a trapper butt for it so that the cue would weigh 25 oz. I did it but he never came back to pick it up. About 2 years ago some one was going through one of my junk barrels and pulled out that cue and wanted to buy the butt it and I sold it to him cheaply. About 3 months later the original owner called wanting his cue back saying he had only left it a few months before. I told him that I had sold it and he then threw a fit on the phone. After thinking for a minute I remembered that I only sold the butt and that the shaft was probably still in the barrel. Upon looking I found it because of the pink coloring. He came to my shop and I started thinking and remembered that I had done the work at my old shop which I had moved from in 2001. When I told him this he then admitted that he had been in prison for 5 years.
Dick
I have also had the same problem, in fact I have a Schuler, C-Series McDermott, and a plain Jane Josswest that I have repaired that were never picked up going on 2 1/2 years. I don't know how long I should hold the stuff, but I will most likely hold the stuff forever. Recently I have made up a simple document that is signed when something is dropped off, along with the outline of the repair and the quoted cost. On this document it clearly states that items left for repairs that are not picked up within 6 months will be sold to cover my expenses. Now, in most cases I would never do that, so long as the customer stays in touch, but at the one year mark the item is sold.
In my opinion this is fair, because I am not a pawn shop, and I need my money just like everyone else does.
JIMO
I have aquired quite a pile of cues and shafts left by customers, both for repair, and also because I am a soft touch and have hocked cues for more than a pawn shop would give them.
I finally put up a sign....CUES LEFT FOR MORE THAN 30 DAYS WILL BE SOLD!.....
I usually hold on to the hocked cues for 6 months to a year, and the repairs for 60-90 days, but the sign gives me an out, when and if the customer ever comes back.
I finally put up a sign....CUES LEFT FOR MORE THAN 30 DAYS WILL BE SOLD!.....
I usually hold on to the hocked cues for 6 months to a year, and the repairs for 60-90 days, but the sign gives me an out, when and if the customer ever comes back.
hey, atleast the "i was in jail" guys have an excuse.lol
Funny this came up, I have been mulling over this for the last couple days. I have a few cues and shafts that have been here for 2+ years. I am planning on doing a major house cleaning after valley forge next march. I will be puting all of them up for sale at that time. I have been debating on a reasonable period of time before left items will be sold. I am thinking 60 days unless other arrangments are made. I can hold peoples stuff in the safe for as long as needed if they just ask.
Let me know when I can swing by to pick up that PJ Josswest for cost of repairs....