Mr Hoppe said:
Pleeeeease stop bumping this thread.
This cue was sold over a week ago, and you're all STILL ranting on about plus or minus $150. Meanwhile, people have no problem over paying by $200-$400 for a Scruggs or others, and nobody has a problem with that... The reality is that this is an open and public exchange, and prices are set by what a buyer is willing to pay. My idea of a bargain may be your idea of way over priced. It's all relative, and the collective average price actually paid for a given cue is what sets it's market value.
Now please stop bumping this thread. This fourm is for people buying and selling cues, and they are trying to keep their offerings visible on the first page so that buyers can see them. All of these opinions and background noise makes that difficult.
Thanks for the two cents. But perhaps I should make myself clear because you seem to be missing some very important things.
This is not about an extra $100 or $150. This is about a seller asking the general public to set a value for his cue - IN A PUBLIC FORUM NO LESS!!! Then, when that has been done, he ups the price. When asked why, he is nowhere to be found except for the one time he popped in and said 'Its my cuie and I can charge what I like'. Well, that's true. But if you were going to charge what you like, why ask us what we think its worth?!?! No response to that question.
Then, the argument turned into Bishop reprimanding me for trying to kill the guy's sale and basically just for being an a$$ hole. I wasn't trying to kill anyone's sale and, as you rightly stated, the cue sold so obviously, I didn't kill the sale. I just wanted to know what the seller's intentions were. Bishop began fighting on Vass' behalf because Bishop likes to consider himself the moral majority. He sees himself on a high horse. But hey! That's Bishop. That's how he has always been and its how he will always be.
And you should read what you wrote and heed your own advice.
You said: "The reality is that this is an open and public exchange, and prices are set by what a buyer is willing to pay."
In this case, price was set by a seller who decided to increase the popular consensus by more than 25%. And if this is an open and public forum, who the hell are you to tell us that we can't dispute things?!?!
Thanks for the help, but you were actually no help at all.