Regarding Charlie Edwards Cue !!!

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A gift certificate for an EW cue???? That is as absurd as a Mail In Rebate for a cue...
 
Gift certificate....are you kidding? This situation is truly pathetic Charlie has been a true friend to pool for many years and gave you (Eddie) a chance. You really don't understand what you've done, do you?
 
Flex said:
Since he lives in Florida, not much chance of that. On the other hand, I heard just the other day that voter turnout in Cook County, Illinois, might hit 140% this year :eek:
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What past of Florida does EW live? He obviously has never been on my radar.
 
eddie i have been one of ur supporters on here but a $150 gc redeemable by u only? are u freaking kidding? do whats right and send charlie real money or i have a feeling u will be done selling anything else in this forum.
i know ur building a cue for a good friend of mine....lets hope it all goes right for him and the cue is built to his specs.
 
final thought.

To Eddie Wheat.
Eddie, I think what I would do if I were you, is not say anything more about any of this, especially to Charlie. If true integrity is doing the right thing even if nobody else ever knows about it, or ever finds out, then my suggestion to you, is that you build Charlie, at the very least the cue that he paid for, if not something nicer, and send it to him free of charge! If Charlie decides to say anything about it, so be it, but you should NOT! The GC was not only a joke, but an insult. You need to either send him $150.00 U.S. Dollars with a written apology, or even better, a brand new 58" cue with two proper shafts, free of charge! JMHO!
 
I have to say.. this has to be the biggest joke on AZ since I had the Palmer box.. :) A refund? Hardly, that is like getting food poisoning at Wendy's and they supplement you a free value meal...

If this was Monday Night Football Don Merideth would be singing.. "turn out the lights, the parties over..."

But we have a new cuemaker slogan... "Want to get beat, buy a Wheat"..

Hari Kari with a lathe.. interesting...

JV
 
WheatCues said:
Charlie,


Also I DID enclose partial refund of 150.00 gc it's in the white envelope inside the very end of the box on the side w/ the duct tape !


Very Sincerely, Eddie Wheat
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So you screw up counting the points and the length, and then give him money to spend with you that cost you nothing other than maybe printer ink? I'm guessing you probably used your crayons though. You can't be over the age of 5 can you? Seriously?

You took a incredible amount of time to finish a the cue compared to what was quoted, and then it is still messed up. Glad you didn't disappoint, would have been shocked if anything else had happened.
 
Worminator said:
A gift certificate for an EW cue???? That is as absurd as a Mail In Rebate for a cue...
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Not even close. A mail-in-rebate you will probably get. The WheatBux are worth less than Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac shares and falling. Especially since the man offering the rebate has a STERLING reputation with his customers and the man offering the WheatBux has damaged his beyond salvation.
 
It Will All Work Out In The End

snowmon34 said:
Not going to happen....
His criminal past has molded him into the man he is today....There is no hope..
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Is there hope for his criminal FUTURE ?

Doug
( he could get sentenced to 20 years to learn to properly measure shafts)
 
SpiderWebComm said:
If I were a cue maker and this was my customer, I'd send a "sorry" card with the client's original check enclosed and tell him to keep the cue as a token of my thanks and to ask for "another try" in the future. Eating the cost on that one cue would prob result in 50 orders waiting from people who read the happy client's post on here. Just my two-cents.
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Ex-fvcking-actly!! You are absolutely right. If he had done this, someone somewhere, someday, if not more than one person would have ordered a cue from him. Now he's eternally azb doomed and will be offered nothing more than Helfert, Craw, and ghost-bucks(no disrespect Jay or Craw, your bucks are hella worth more shredded wheat-thin-gc bucks, that's for sure)

p.s. and if anyone wants to know the truth about why it took 8 + months for Charlie to get his cue, just ask yourself, have you ever tried to removed points from a finished cue?
 
Smorgass Bored said:
Is there hope for his criminal FUTURE ?

Doug
( he could get sentenced to 20 years to learn to properly measure shafts)
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only if he gets away with it......:banghead:
 
Me Too

SpiderWebComm said:
I can't think of how many times with my business I "ate" money just to make a client happy. Personally, in my opinion, over 1/2 of those times I thought I was right.... but I always put on my happy face and fell on the sword....making sure the person received the value they expected.

I did an event for a company one time for about $5gs and the recording didn't come out as planned. I tried to offer them a % off for the problem and they responded by saying--- well, why pay anything if I don't have a perfect recording? Good point...$5k off your bill (even though I paid everything out of my pocket). True story. They're one of my oldest clients today -- and have since made 50x as much from them as what I ate that first time.

There was another time when I designed a network for a non-profit and I forgot to add the cost of the computer monitors into my cost of sale. I couldn't go back and ask for the money since they paid with a grant, so $200 x 15 or so, out of my pocket. I was so pissed that day, I nearly cried. However, I made the error-- no one to be mad at other than myself.

My point is...every single business owner screws up. Sometimes, the screw ups come in waves. Every so often, it's a mega fvck-up. I've had a lot of them. The same way you can't get good at pool without missing balls--- you can't get good at business without f-ups. It's not the f-ups that determine whether or not you're successful in the future.... it's how you handle them.

My business mentor gave me the line..."They don't care how much you know...until they know how much you care." He probably stole it from some book he read along the way and passed it to me... but I always lived by it. Caring is asking the questions no one else asks, doing the little things that no one else does, and taking care of the client when they're not happy---even if you don't think you did anything wrong. It's not what you think, it's what THEY think that counts. Always under promise and over deliver...especially with time frames.

I've never made a cue in my entire life. If I were a cue maker and this was my customer, I'd send a "sorry" card with the client's original check enclosed and tell him to keep the cue as a token of my thanks and to ask for "another try" in the future. Eating the cost on that one cue would prob result in 50 orders waiting from people who read the happy client's post on here. Just my two-cents.
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Exactly.

I dont have a dog in this hunt, but that would be my recommendation as well.

Ken
 
I wouldnt spend my VCASH on one of his cues!!!:p

What do you think the value of a buckwheat vs vcash is right know???
 
"You've Been Beat Over The Head By A Smorgass Board"

You know, I've decided to become a cuemaker. I'm going to call my cues Smorgass Boards.

I know that I don't have any experience or cuemaking equipment, but I don't intend to actually make or deliver any cues, I'm just going to sell them.

With my gift of gab and dazzling footwork, I could keep my paid customers at bay until I die and use their money to play poker.

Doug
(they could become the most sought after and collectible cue on the market)
 
Tournament!!

Smorgass Bored said:
You know, I've decided to become a cuemaker. I'm going to call my cues Smorgass Boards.

I know that I don't have any experience or cuemaking equipment, but I don't intend to actually make or deliver any cues, I'm just going to sell them.

With my gift of gab and dazzling footwork, I could keep my paid customers at bay until I die and use their money to play poker.

Doug
(they could become the most sought after and collectible cue on the market)
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You could also throw a tournament!!! Have a lot of money added, collect all the really big entries ahead of time and play poker for a looooong time!:thumbup:

Ray
(j/k)

Cue repair on site.
 
Smorgass Bored said:
You know, I've decided to become a cuemaker. I'm going to call my cues Smorgass Boards.

I know that I don't have any experience or cuemaking equipment, but I don't intend to actually make or deliver any cues, I'm just going to sell them.

With my gift of gab and dazzling footwork, I could keep my paid customers at bay until I die and use their money to play poker.

Doug
(they could become the most sought after and collectible cue on the market)
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I'll take 2. PM sent with specs & $2,000 has been sent via Paypal. Will pay the balance upon delivery.
 
I'll take one!

Smorgass Bored said:
You know, I've decided to become a cuemaker. I'm going to call my cues Smorgass Boards.

I know that I don't have any experience or cuemaking equipment, but I don't intend to actually make or deliver any cues, I'm just going to sell them.

With my gift of gab and dazzling footwork, I could keep my paid customers at bay until I die and use their money to play poker.

Doug
(they could become the most sought after and collectible cue on the market)
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Where do I send my armspand measurements???

MM
 
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