Southwest Cue order wait is over

lfigueroa said:
If you knew anything about Bobby then you'd know he wasn't sweating anything about the SW order -- certainly not sticker shock, lol.

Also, having just looked around, I wouldn't go talking so much about butt ugly cues if I were you.

Lou Figueroa
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I have made some real dogs for sure. But it happens in real time not 17 years later. I wasn't talking about Bobby specifically why would I as I don't know him? Just a lot of very ordinary and down right mismatched looking SW cues floating around that people have waited a very long time for. The logical conclusion is that's all they could afford. Carry on.
 
Coos Cues said:
Are these cues still being sold by SW to the people who have waited this long at a price point allowing immediate profit from flipping them? Just curious.
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I don't believe SW has any conditions stating that a new cue cannot be resold right away. Once the sale is done, the new SW owner can turn around and re-sell immediately, but they will not be getting another one through Laurie any time soon given the current waiting list. I'm guessing that most will keep the SW cue if they are happy with it, but if not, they still make a profit on the second hand market.
 
lord_shar said:
I don't believe SW has any conditions stating that a new cue cannot be resold right away. Once the sale is done, the new SW owner can turn around and re-sell immediately, but they will not be getting another one through Laurie any time soon given the current waiting list. I'm guessing that most will keep the SW cue if they are happy with it, but if not, they still make a profit on the second hand market.
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Not sure if it's still like this, but not too long ago they allowed two cues per person per year. So people would just get on the list every year and flip the cues as soon as they got them.
 
wrldpro said:
I totally don't understand anything your saying except you don't like Southwest cues. I've owned about every cue out there ever made except yours.
It certainly is my money that I'm using to buy it so I guess I better start counting my loose change to pay for it.
Who knows maybe I'll make it my daily cue and run over 300 again or break Jayson Shaws 714 World Record High run.lol
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Don’t pay any attention to CC. He bad mouthed a beautiful cue I owned. It was just sold to a collector that already owns over a hundred cues. CC is just a jealous bully.. Ironicly I got SW value for mine, which worked for me!
 
Jimmy_Betmore said:
Not sure if it's still like this, but not too long ago they allowed two cues per person per year. So people would just get on the list every year and flip the cues as soon as they got them.
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This is correct a long time ago. We were told 2 cues a year for life but they stopped this deal years ago.
 
Quesports said:
Don’t pay any attention to CC. He bad mouthed a beautiful cue I owned. It was just sold to a collector that already owns over a hundred cues. CC is just a jealous bully.. Ironicly I got SW value for mine, which worked for me!
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Can you refresh my memory on this "bad mouthing"? Was it here on AZ?

Never mind I remember now. It was the cue you refused to show photos of because you were afraid your design would be stolen. Too special to even view.

So I bad mouth a cue I never even saw. An inanimate object. And you respond 5 years later with personal insults.

And I'm a bully? :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:
 
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lord_shar said:
I don't believe SW has any conditions stating that a new cue cannot be resold right away. Once the sale is done, the new SW owner can turn around and re-sell immediately, but they will not be getting another one through Laurie any time soon given the current waiting list. I'm guessing that most will keep the SW cue if they are happy with it, but if not, they still make a profit on the second hand market.
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I guess my question was more if the economics of it are still viable. I know for a long time Laurie was selling the cues to people and they were in sufficient demand so an immediate profit could be realized if resold. Not thinking of dealers so much as individuals who finally get an order but for various reasons don't really want to own a SW.

With that model it seemed Laurie was leaving a lot of food on the table. When I hear of a moderately big SW with two shafts at 7k from the factory is that a 9k cue the next day on the secondary market or did Laurie tighten up her pricing so she get the lions share now? Having run a business with employees myself for 30 years now I understand you can't be giving your stuff away and crack your nut much less make a comfortable living. Expenses are as relentless as erosion on the beach, payroll being king.
 
only if by under pricing and selling below the resale value would take you from not having very many customers to a long wait list.

if people knew they were paying full retail and the cue would devalue after purchase, how long would that wait list be and how many customers would wait a year for it to be completed.
 
two guys were walking thru the park and came by a bum. one put a nickel in one hand and dime in the other and said to the bum ,, choose.

the bum took the nickel. and the guy said isnt that strange he takes always the larger coin and not the one most valuable, he just doesnt understand.. and does it every time.

as they walked away his friend asked him if people would keep doing that if the took the dime.
 
maha said:
two guys were walking thru the park and came by a bum. one put a nickel in one hand and dime in the other and said to the bum ,, choose.

the bum took the nickel. and the guy said isnt that strange he takes always the larger coin and not the one most valuable, he just doesnt understand.. and does it every time.

as they walked away his friend asked him if people would keep doing that if the took the dime.
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And that why he’s still a bum.
 
Cues are in progress.
One cue is gaboon ebony forearm,points and buttsleeve royal purple, royal blue and peacock veneers full sets of rings 3 shafts and joint protectors with solid black linen wrap.
2nd cue is Bacote forearm and buttsleeve with fiddle back points and buttcap with solid black linen wrap and veneers are royal purple/royal blue/peacock blue with 3 shafts and joint protectors.
Hope to see at the end of summer this year.
 
Probably 15 years ago a friend of mine had the best looking SW I’d seen, and I believe he had commissioned the cue so add a few more years on to that. I harassed him for a long time to buy it until he said just have someone make you one like it, which is what I did because waiting a decade and a half for a very simple playing cue seemed silly. I wish back then I would have gotten on the list anyway, because I’d still like to have that particular cue made from the SW shop today. Probably no chance of that now because 15-20 years from now who knows what the world will be like. Regardless of how long their wait time is, even if it’s longer than originally quoted, it’s nice to see the records they keep and the fact they do still follow thru with a potential customer.

Surprisingly enough, hundreds of cues later and I still have the cue I had made back then 😅
 
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