Wow!
It's surprising how many of the responses hit the nail on the head.
We struggled pretty hard on this one, and chose to offer them only with our break cue.
We definitely felt that the package performed better than just the shaft on other break cue handles.
Another pretty big consideration was the number of shafts we already commit to build. If you add up all the standard and specialty joints we offer, the list is 31. Keep in mind that we have to build all those joints in each of 6 current shaft models. Now double that for 30" models, and you have 372 different part numbers. We just didn't want to add any more to that.
Also, if you go back and look at the older break shaft sales, they weren't quite what we had expected. Maybe that's why our primary competitors don't offer them either.
Jmurphy, I hope you understand. It's really just a numbers thing.
Royce Bunnell
www.obcues.com