I don't know at all that I was doing anything wrong. However you are absolutely correct about the nervous energy and lack of focus. I should have practiced more and not committed to doing it until I could be clear and calm.
You are wrong because of the purpose of the presentation. It downs the other guys product to make yours look good when that reason is only slightly substantial. Most everyone seems to know this except you. The sooner you admit it and leave this alone, the better off you'll be. You make a good case, just leave it at that and let the work speak for itself. You don't have to do a video to prove how smart you are for coming up with a padded interior, show and how crappy Jack's interior's are when they actually do the job just fine. Take Bill Gates for instance. He is frustrated not because he sells more, but because people love Apple more than they love Windows. Look at Windows Vista. It did everything except BE a Mac. Now, there's Window's 7 which will even be more like Apple, but will still fall short in their attempt to trump Apple products. A PC can never be a Mac because Steve Jobs' creativity is more pure and original than Bill Gates. The iphone, ipod, and MacBook all speak for themselves which is what you should do if you feel your product is superior.
I did compare the case to our interior. That was the key point. I was rightly chastised for not doing the drop test on both the Justis and the JB Case. That was not left out on purpose. I just missed it while trying to focus on the chat room and the video quality and the connection and the message at the same time.
As I have stated several times and as you have no doubt read, that will be rectified tomorrow.
Well that's how it felt even though that was not my intention. I am really not sure how a competitor can ever do a product comparison that doesn't feel that way somehow. If I were to watch it then I would expect some sleight of hand as well. But I assure you that this was not the case. The presentation was barely planned out, was not scripted in any way and was somewhat practiced the night before but on the day of it was live and on-the-fly.
It is because it is a hasty response to something that you thought you could get ahead with by showing the world the one thing that you thought you could do better than Jack when in fact, it is not really as important as you make it out to be.
I agree. Which is why I will do it again in a calmer and focused manner.
Please don't.
Ok, Noted. Hopefully it will be raised a few notches when I do the better version.
Why? Because you have a bigger dik?
If you can agree with me on this, you should just agree with me all the way and just trust me. You are only digging yourself a deeper hole. Stop now before you completely bury yourself.
Well said. I only disagree on the points where the consumer can't or doesn't know what the guts look like. When I bought my Durango I researched review websites from qualified reviews as well as customer testimonials. In cue cases there are no qualified reviewers that are unbiased. No one knows what is below the first five inches in a tube case.
Well accidents happen to the best of people. No matter who you are at some point in your life your case will fall over, get dropped, end up in an awkward position, or be roughly handled. It is my position that the user should not have to worry about these things. That is why I definitely identify more with Samsonite in my concept of what a case is for.
Then why don't you make a case that looks like a Samsonite? Why don't you just make an ugly, hard black case with steel corners on it? Why mess with design or looks at all?
That is an interesting point because I have seen plenty of Joint protectors the past few years which cost as much as some cues. The caps made by Alton Tanaka for example are works of art. I woudn't want those hitting anything with any sort of force whatsoever if I owned them.
So what? They are made for protecting the cues. That is their purpose. If they get dinged, which it will be next to impossible, just go out and buy some more. The point is, that is very likely not going to happen. I have seen very expensive joint protectors too, but Alton's joint protector's are one extreme example which is, again, not a valid point. There are many more that cost around the $15 range which is where your primary observation should be noted.
Once again I have to ask when was the last time you were in the pool room? In my travels I have seen people carrying their cases in both directions. But in general you are right they don't.
You are right. People carry their cases upside down. People also walk on their hands, and drive down the road in reverse, but not very often at all. People of sense do things with sense, and those who don't have sense will pay for their mistakes.
Well no one on purpose. But there is such a thing as an accident. And again I have plenty of stories of people who lost control of their cases BY ACCIDENT.
That will just be too dam bad won't it? You can't control everything John.
Or buy a case that frees you from the need to take extra steps.
Let's ask any top pro if they take the extra steps? I would love to hear those answers. Maybe you're thinking of doing those videos for us on ustream too?
Your opinion is noted. Next time there is a discussion on cue construction I will jump in and give my opinion as to what common sense is even though I am not a cue maker and have never built a cue. So when you tell us that a particular technique is important to build a solid cue then I will disagree with you since I obviously know more about the subject of cuemaking than you do since I have handled and played with so many cues. The fact is you build cues and I build cases to protect them. I can take your cue and easily break it in the type of interior that you claim is sufficient whereas you cannot do the same to a cue in my case in the same manner.
Easily break a cue sitting in a pro-lite interior? How? That's what I want to know? I didn't see you demonstrate that.
Oh please. Mr. Justis "success" is nothing to me. Success to me in this business is when someone sends me an email telling me about an accident and how their cues were saved due to the protection I built into the case. And that happens often enough to let me know that what I am doing is worthwhile.
Mr. Justis' success is nothing to you? See, that is where you need to be honest with yourself and admit that Jack is successful and stop trying to prove that he isn't. Success is defined as being the top in one's industry, and Mr. Justis is regarded as the absolute best by the absolute top pros, the absolute top collectors and these are people who would know. To deny that is without common sense. I also think you are a person of great success, but you apparently feel the need to prove that to Jack, so that makes things clear doesn't it?
Mr. Justis does what 150 cases a year or so? I have no idea. Success to me though is that by the end of 2010 there will be approximately 7000 people around world who have chosen cases I designed to protect their cues. All but around 1500 of those cases will be less than $200 retail. Less than 100 of them will be JB Custom Cases. That's success that I bring what I consider to be excellent, no-hassle, no- worry protection to thousands of players.
I suppose everyday low prices and mass quantity is important to you as well as Lucasi and Fury, but to Dennis Searing, Ernie Gutierrez, and Jack Justis, it is not. Simply put, you get what you pay for. Go back and read my thoughts on Blue Diamond to 'get what I mean'. The simplicity of design and popularity I feel is your single most frustrating obstacle, so because you have no other way to retaliate, you attack the interior which is totally unnecessary, because your interiors and his both work great. Tell me I'm wrong.
I guess if I were a cue maker I'd want the people who bought my cues to take special care of them and get the case that offers the most protection. I just feel that if I put so much love and care into crafting such a beautiful and fragile thing as a pool cue, and they are fairly fragile as far as sports equipment goes, then I would be heartbroken to see them damaged in any way. Unless of course I was making money on the repairs, then I would recommend only cases that rattle.
This last comment is done in very poor taste.... So what if the contents rattle a little? I guarantee you that rattling doesn't bother Efren, Busti, Corey, Gabe one bit. There is plenty of protection in his cases and that's all that matters. It doesn't have to have a dang fortress inside of it. What matters the most is that it does the job and then some! Cues are resilient and can take a little beating. They can be carried in a plastic sleeve or even with a rubber band and be just fine. There are many cue makers who store their cues in a trash can! It is made to strike an object and can also be dinged against a table, or a chair, or against each other and still be fine........ It is wood, plastic, and metal glued and screwed together creatively to form functional art.
Anyway your points are noted. Thanks for watching and stay tuned for more. The programming will get better I promise.
