What Tips to Stock?

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PickPocket

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What Tips do you install most? What Tip Stock should one have?

Singles / boxes / layered etc.

Please and thank you!
 
What's your ambitions?
I run a online store and I change a lot of tips.
I stock just about all the big brands and I'm fortunate to have built a customer base that makes it possible to stock 80+ different tips.
I would start out with the brand(s) I personally felt comfortable with and that customers know about and work from there.
 
Wow 80 , that has to be tough . to many new and to many get obsolete . I used to install 30 dollar tip only to cut them off becouse the buyer nwanted something else . Now on my cues for sale I install cheep tips I know works . Unless buyer says this is what I want .
 
PickPocket said:
What Tips do you install most? What Tip Stock should one have?

Singles / boxes / layered etc.

Please and thank you!
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Tip preferences are like asking a group of players what their favorite ice cream is. Usually tip experience / preference is spread by word of mouth and trying each other's cues in your play group.

I would say this list is a "good start" to the most popular tips:

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Can you carry all them? Hardly, and the newer polymer tips for jumping, breaking and other play are not even listed.

I guess the list of questions for yourself is:
  • What tips (if any) can you get at wholesale / bulk discount?
  • What kind of tips do you have experience with for installs? (layered, non-layered, hard leather, phenolic, polymer)
  • Do you have / bring a lathe setup to do the tips? What is your base charge to install a tip if a customer brings their own? What is your charge (if any) to do a shaft clean / conditioning? Do you plan to also turn down shafts?
  • Are you prepared to assume full liability for any damage done to a customer's equipment? (this is one of the biggest reasons why I don't put on tips for friends)
My starting and very short list to have in my inventory if I did them would be:
  • G2 soft, medium, hard
  • Kamikaze (base / premium) or Tiger derivatives soft, medium, hard
  • Elkmaster and maybe some Le Pro
  • Samsara jump break / Tiger jump
Not a big fan of Ultraskins or Kamui as they start playing well and then either go dead on their feel or start to glaze over, both sooner than you would expect with an average of 3 - 4 practice / play days a week.
 
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With alot of these layered tips the question is how deep do you want your pockets to go? I could easily spend $2k just in tips for a business
 
Jim Baxter said:
Wow 80 , that has to be tough . to many new and to many get obsolete . I used to install 30 dollar tip only to cut them off becouse the buyer nwanted something else . Now on my cues for sale I install cheep tips I know works . Unless buyer says this is what I want .
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It's not difficult, but remember it's taken years to build a customer base to support this.
I'm a certified dealer for most of the brands I sell.
When you start to consider how many tips Kamui makes, that's like a fourth of all the tips almost. They have 4 regular lines with 4 tips each, that's 16 tips right there, then they have 2 SAI break tips and 2 Athelete tips, so that's 20 tips right there ( I also stock the snooker tips..) Zan is 8 tips, Caiden is 5, G2 is 3, Taom has 4 (+snooker) Tiger has 9, Horo has 5, Navigator I stock Alpha, Automatic and Blue impact, so that's 8, Ko brothers has 3. And I stock all the Mezz tips, Samsara, Piku, Kamikaze, White Diamond and Geez. It seems to be a fairly even rotation.
 
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