I went to a pool hall today (name withheld on purpose) and asked how much it would cost to have a tip replaced on my jump/Break cue. The owner of the hall gave me a wide range in prices to start then qualified it by saying it would depend on the tip and the shaft. I showed him the cue on the spot. It was a three piece break jump my girl got me for Christmas last year. The cue itself I believe costs about $50-80 tops I cant remember. He asked me what kind of tip I was looking to have put on it. Off the top of my head I told him a Samsara because that was what I remember hearing a lot of praise about on here at the time. He told me he had to text his repair guy and find out a price and if he had one on hand. In the mean time I posted on here asking for tip advice and most seem to be suggesting Taom tips. His repair man texted him back and said he was not home to look to see if he had a tip in stock but it would cost $40-45.
I told him I had to think about it.
I thought about it over lunch today and looked up the price of a Samsara break/jump tip and found them at Ozone for $15 each. I read Samsara have a rep for popping off. Basically, they want to charge me $25-30 labor to replace a tip.
Then I thought about it more and realized that pool hall's repair man is the same person that a few weeks back we asked him to tighten the weight bolt in my girlfriends Cuetec cue and not only was that beyond his ability but he ripped the rubber bumper off it attempting it. When she showed me that I immediately took the cue to him personally and confronted him. He tried to unscrew it from the rubber bumper instead of the entire cap. I know many cues the bumper screws out of the cap but Cuetec specifically warns you on the web not to do that and to unscrew the entire cap. When I told him that he said he tried it but could not do it. I was able to unscrew it by hand in front of him at that time. He then took it in back and tightened the weight bolt. When I asked him how he planned on correcting the damage he offered no solution. I had to ask if he had any glue in back to at least glue the bumper back in place which he did.
I feel like every time I go to that pool hall I get the feeling that besides table time itself which seems very reasonably priced everything else they offer is way over priced. It makes me feel like it will only be a matter of time before they would start charging you to use the rest room if they thought they could get away with it.
I mentioned I was considering getting a ball polisher at home and the owner asked why I could bring my balls in and he could run them through his machine. I thought to myself that was nice of him then he said something like yeah it would take a lot of $5 trips to get the balls cleaned and polished before I would have spent the same money to get a machine of my own. At first I thought he was doing something nice for me then when he said that I realized he was only trying to make more money off of me.
Maybe it is me having worked for a travelling carnival in past my experiences are likely different then most on here. That particular pool hall just reminds me of days gone by when I was working a game booth and the locals came by. It was my job to try and get them to spend as much as possible at my game and send them home broke. The more I go there and see it the more I want to play only in the private sector and not go to the pool hall except on rare occasion. Kind of like going to a carnival when it comes around once a year.
I told him I had to think about it.
I thought about it over lunch today and looked up the price of a Samsara break/jump tip and found them at Ozone for $15 each. I read Samsara have a rep for popping off. Basically, they want to charge me $25-30 labor to replace a tip.
Then I thought about it more and realized that pool hall's repair man is the same person that a few weeks back we asked him to tighten the weight bolt in my girlfriends Cuetec cue and not only was that beyond his ability but he ripped the rubber bumper off it attempting it. When she showed me that I immediately took the cue to him personally and confronted him. He tried to unscrew it from the rubber bumper instead of the entire cap. I know many cues the bumper screws out of the cap but Cuetec specifically warns you on the web not to do that and to unscrew the entire cap. When I told him that he said he tried it but could not do it. I was able to unscrew it by hand in front of him at that time. He then took it in back and tightened the weight bolt. When I asked him how he planned on correcting the damage he offered no solution. I had to ask if he had any glue in back to at least glue the bumper back in place which he did.
I feel like every time I go to that pool hall I get the feeling that besides table time itself which seems very reasonably priced everything else they offer is way over priced. It makes me feel like it will only be a matter of time before they would start charging you to use the rest room if they thought they could get away with it.
I mentioned I was considering getting a ball polisher at home and the owner asked why I could bring my balls in and he could run them through his machine. I thought to myself that was nice of him then he said something like yeah it would take a lot of $5 trips to get the balls cleaned and polished before I would have spent the same money to get a machine of my own. At first I thought he was doing something nice for me then when he said that I realized he was only trying to make more money off of me.
Maybe it is me having worked for a travelling carnival in past my experiences are likely different then most on here. That particular pool hall just reminds me of days gone by when I was working a game booth and the locals came by. It was my job to try and get them to spend as much as possible at my game and send them home broke. The more I go there and see it the more I want to play only in the private sector and not go to the pool hall except on rare occasion. Kind of like going to a carnival when it comes around once a year.
