Resale Values on cues

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About a year ago I bought a Cousins Cue from someone locally for $350 (its similar to the 4pt one that you can see on chalkers.com). Its my first cue and it was kind of indulgent of me to buy a custom right off the bat, but I liked it and could afford it.

At the time, one of my justifications for buying a custom is that I assumed that the resale value would be better than a simlilarly priced production Joss or Pechauer (which I was also looking at). But, I'm surprised that the very same Cousins Cues are for sale at Chalkers.com that were there a year ago.

I'm very happy with my cue, and don't intend to sell anytime soon, but I've been thinking of trying some other ones...maybe a Coker or Espiritu. But there seem to be a fair number of new Cokers & Espiritus coming on the market, and I really wonder how much they can hold their value.

Any thoughts on how well these will hold their value....or other great hitting cues that might?
 
neither a Coker or an Espiritu will hold their value after a retail purchase.i would advise buying on used.if it were me i would go for the Coker.i like flat-faced cues and i think Cker is mostly flat-faced and Espiritu is mostly SS.i have also seen lots of Espiritu's finish peel off.he came through Nashville years ago and sold a bunch of cues at the Music City 9 Ball and almost all of them had serious finish problems.
 
Some cues have excellent and even superb resale value, while some only have fair or even to the point of pitiful resale value. If you spend a little time and read through boards like these, you will soon learn which cues fall into these two categories. For $350, you are either looking at a low end custom cue or production cue anyway, and most anything there won't hold full value, so you should not have that expectation. You should learn what you like in a cue in terms balance, joint config, taper, wrap, and the often elusive......"type of hit" (i.e. soft, med, hard, whippy, lively, stiff, very stiff...mostly all relative terms because we all play differently and have our preferences). You can buy used, but knowing whom to buy from and whether their description is accurate can be tricky. There are good buys on the secondary market at $350....just might take some time to look around and the right timing, of course.

In summary, at that price, buy what you like and don't worry about resale.

As for Cousins, they are nice cues for the money. A friend of ours who sells at shows with us had a few in the $400-$600 range....and he still has them. Coker and Espiritu have completely different hits, and they will do about as well on resale as most anything else.
 
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I have a Espiritu cue now in my collection and have had many cokers in the past,there's no comparison.Coker are ok for there money,very little resale value...there's one fancy one on ebay now for over a year and he paid 1800 and can't even get 899 right now .The Espiritu cue plays great,ss joint and the work is sharp and very high quality and would lay it next to most any cue and it would hold its own..but in the 350 range your not going to get any cue with quality work in it. If you broke even or better investing that kinda money it would be like hitting the lottery.:D
 
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Thanks for the replies

Thanks for everyone's responses. I'm not trying to make a profit, I'm really just wanting to try out different cues to figure out what I like, which means buying new ones. I expect that I will not break even turning around and selling a cue that I'm playing with a lot. I'm just trying to minimize my losses by not buying a cue with a "pitiful" resale value at too high a price.

If a cue has a strong resale value then I'm willing to pay more than what I paid for the Cousins....from what I've seen in the Forum, seems like Gilbert, Scruggs and Frey have pretty good resale??? And from what I've been told in this thread so far, sounds like if I want to try a Coker, I might want to wait for good price on a used one.
 
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