justin386 flooded the market.
THAT'S freaking CLASSIC!!justin386 flooded the market.
justin386 flooded the market.
justin386 flooded the market.
I see plain Jane BEM cues with simple silver rings made by a high end cue maker going for $2000 or more.
That's nuts.
So in summary, the cues people want to buy are too expensive but the cues people want to sell are too cheap. Got it :thumbup:
The cue market will fluctuate based on the breadth of justin386's finances.
That's no shit
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What we have here is the 25th Anniversary Edition of the "State of the Cue Market" thread.
Dealers aren't killing the market, the market is flooded. If you loaded all of the cues for sales on an ark, it would sink. There are +22,000 on the eBay US website alone and that doesn't take into account the tens of thousands new cues entering the market from production makers.
If you want to focus on non-production cues (I hesitate to call all non-production cues, custom cues.) There could be as many as 1,000 people representing themselves as cuemakers who affect the market. Yesterday I saw a cue for sale by a newby cuemaker that was priced the same as a very nice Samsara/John Davis cue. I see other people paying north of 1k for cues from guys who haven't made 10 sticks.
That's the part of the market I don't understand. And no, these are not future Balabushka/Szamboti legends in the making.
I find this thread astounding considering the successes the OP has had in selling Palmer cues at prices way beyond market value.