Predator Pool Table?

Boxcar said:
:devilish:Yes, of course it was sarcasm.....and I knew you would pick it up with ease.

Perhaps I'd be a bit impolitic to suggest that only an idiot would think that Predator would establish an international business relationship with some small-time, two-bit loser. Is it fair for me to assume that your 1% assessment subsumes the idiots?
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Wow, you have no idea the distribution market place Predator is going to have to break into just to sell and carry their pool tables for sale. Good luck with that! There's a HUGE difference between the home table market and the commercial market. 100% of the pool table retailers in this country are HOME TABLE market first, commercial second, IF they even dabble in the commercial market at all.

So, who's going to be making up the network to SELL those tables?? Rasson has been facing the SAME problem for years, and still HASN'T broken into the distribution market, and they're WAY BIGGER than Predator!!!!!
 
rexus31 said:
This should be interesting...

www.matchroompool.com

PREDATOR TO PROVIDE OFFICIAL TABLE OF THE WORLD POOL CHAMPIONSHIP - Matchroom Pool

Matchroom Multi Sport is pleased to announce that Predator Group will provide the Official Table of the World Pool Championship, which returns this June 6-10 at Marshall Arena, England, live on Sky Sports. Predator Group have been a proud partner of Matchroom Pool Series events for 20 years and...
www.matchroompool.com www.matchroompool.com
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So who provided the official table for 2020?
 
iusedtoberich said:
Availability, price, and performance will all make a difference to the success of their table efforts. IMO country of origin will not. Predator has been since the 90’s the best selling cue brand for serious players. At least half of that time period the cues were not made in the USA. Serious pool players are already used to buying their expensive equipment from offshore manufacturing.
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I does matter from a distribution standpoint. Rasson has had challenges because they are made in China and it is costly to ship them to the US.
 
Boxcar said:
Are you suggesting that Predator, a company which has spent the last nearly 30 years developing an uncompromising reputation for quality, service, and business/professional relationships would, all of a sudden, jump in bed with some low rent table building sub-contractor just so they can get their name in front of all those international subscribers to Matchroom (whatever), suffer embarrassment and failure, and have to slither back to Jacksonville, licking its wounds, and trying to salvage their pool cue business for the few loyal buyers they might have left?
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They used Cosmos for the first run of Arcos balls and were planning on using Cyclop for the Arcos II's until they morphed into Dynaspheres.
 
As long as most of the big US events are using Diamonds, that's what people are going to want to buy. Predator has almost zero chance to take that market over with any brand of table, in my opinion.
 
Sheldon said:
As long as most of the big US events are using Diamonds, that's what people are going to want to buy. Predator has almost zero chance to take that market over with any brand of table, in my opinion.
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The only real event Diamond don't have is the Mosconi cup, Rasson pays Matchroom $300K to use their tables. Maybe Predator can out bid them for that event😅
 
Sheldon said:
As long as most of the big US events are using Diamonds, that's what people are going to want to buy. Predator has almost zero chance to take that market over with any brand of table, in my opinion.
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Not when the table costs some 40K. Lord.
Imo, Pred should have gone to Taiwan and got their tables made there and kept it under $10K retail.
 
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Hoogaar said:
Not sure what I was expecting, but was expecting to be wowed. I think it's very ordinary. Not horrible, but not spectacular. Looking forward to hearing reviews on how it plays and seeing all the specs.
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I think I would have expected Diamond type leather pockets. Like many others here I like the sound of a well hit ball hitting the rear of the pocket on my Gold Crown but I cant help but think that Diamonds are easier on the balls.
 
Hoogaar said:
Not sure what I was expecting, but was expecting to be wowed. I think it's very ordinary. Not horrible, but not spectacular. Looking forward to hearing reviews on how it plays and seeing all the specs.
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Sooner or later, even a Ferrari has to have four tires and a steering wheel. I would want more weight, more substructure strength, a super simple leveling system, a sound free ball return (if they install one) and perfect geometry. If it could give me that, I wouldn't care if it looked like a Coca-Cola crate.
 
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Boxcar said:
Sooner or later, even a Ferrari has to have four tires and steering wheel. I would want more weight, more substructure strength, a super simple leveling system, a sound free ball return (if they install one) and perfect geometry. If it could give me that, I wouldn't care if it looked like a Coca-Cola crate.
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Yeah, that all sounds good. But if it's a home table, for me, it has to look good too. Other than my bed, it's the biggest and most used piece of furniture in my house. A great playing fugly black box won't cut it.
 
"A great playing fugly black box won't cut it."

I used to date her. Good lookin' ones are a lot more fun, so, in principle I tend to agree.
 
rexus31 said:
This should be interesting...

www.matchroompool.com

PREDATOR TO PROVIDE OFFICIAL TABLE OF THE WORLD POOL CHAMPIONSHIP - Matchroom Pool

Matchroom Multi Sport is pleased to announce that Predator Group will provide the Official Table of the World Pool Championship, which returns this June 6-10 at Marshall Arena, England, live on Sky Sports. Predator Group have been a proud partner of Matchroom Pool Series events for 20 years and...
www.matchroompool.com www.matchroompool.com
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I have read that Sam Billiards in Spain is making the tables for Predator. I can't help but think that Predator missed a great opportunity by not partnering with Brunswick to build their new table. Brunswick were the only tables you saw in televised tournaments - the GC and then the Metro - and then they seemed to lose interest in making tournament tables. With their history of great tables I have to think they could have made a great table for Predator. It sure would have given the Predator table a lot more creditability in North America. Could have been a win-win for Predator and Brunswick.
 
dfaulkner said:
I have read that Sam Billiards in Spain is making the tables for Predator. I can't help but think that Predator missed a great opportunity by not partnering with Brunswick to build their new table. Brunswick were the only tables you saw in televised tournaments - the GC and then the Metro - and then they seemed to lose interest in making tournament tables. With their history of great tables I have to think they could have made a great table for Predator. It sure would have given the Predator table a lot more creditability in North America. Could have been a win-win for Predator and Brunswick.
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Neither Sam nor Brunswick designed their tables to be portable. Sucks for the people setting them up! The people trying to make money don't really care about that as much though.
 
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