What To Do With POS Cues.

Taiko

Taiko

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I'm sure everyone has purchased a cue, at one point or another (perhaps off eBay) that once received might be best described as a POS. What do you do with these cues? I doubt anyone will issue a refund and, well, charging it back just wouldn't be ethical in some cases. So, I am curious to know what some of you folks do with them?

I have three that I have accumulated over the past several years that I thought of either taking them apart and learning from them, or perhaps, putting them on eBay again. However, I feel that by doing that I would just be screwing someone else over.

What are your thoughts on this matter?

Thanks,
Taiko
 
well ya never know there may be someone out there willing to buy one or more of the cues, got any pics of them? or what kind are they or anything?
 
Donate, donate, donate...

....I do the same, Purd.

I'll either give them to a local youth group...or, depending on how much the cue cost me originally, I'll give them to friends, and try to get them hooked on the game. I've given two "decent" cues to friends...and now they both own more customs than I do.

Still, most POS two piece cues are FAR better than some of the junk you get in-house.

Rat
 
id take one and screw it onto a bathroom plunger and use it like that, i saw that on here once lol. The rest id try to sell on ebay prob.
 
pos cue

Sorry guys, I'm from Italy. Can someone explain to me what does it mean a "POS" cue? Thanks everyone
 
Pos

Thanks a lot I understand perfectly, I have some of that cues as well with little defect and here is impossible to find a repair cuemaker and ship that cues to my friend Bryan(Bryan Mordt) or another one is too expensive for that kind of cues.
Thanks Andy.
 
i have few pos's lying around... mostly i sell them for 30 and under around to the college guys, i just replace the tip for them free of charge...

i also bought a cheap kc off ebay because a guy told me he wanted to try one... hahaha after i got it in i refused to give it to him, after he saw it he understood why.

no way did i want a rep on campus of selling that bad of crap.



theres a college tourney coming up in a few weeks where i'll fulfill a lifetime goal.... i'm going to take that stick and swing it like a bat againts the corner of a wall and watch it shatter...


i'm pretty excited about it....



on the other hand... what cues do you have? guys around college are always looking for cheapies... so long as the joints dont rattle... lol.
 
I bought a cue on ebay supposedly from a up-coming
cue maker that turned out to be the worse exemple
of the Filipino cues. Snakeskin with lamination around it,
warped shaft.With shipping $115. I could never sell
this cue to anybody. So, I use it as my break cue
when I go to honky tonks and hope somebody likes
it enough to steal it. $115 pissed away.





Taiko said:
I'm sure everyone has purchased a cue, at one point or another (perhaps off eBay) that once received might be best described as a POS. What do you do with these cues? I doubt anyone will issue a refund and, well, charging it back just wouldn't be ethical in some cases. So, I am curious to know what some of you folks do with them?

I have three that I have accumulated over the past several years that I thought of either taking them apart and learning from them, or perhaps, putting them on eBay again. However, I feel that by doing that I would just be screwing someone else over.

What are your thoughts on this matter?

Thanks,
Taiko
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It depends on the cue...

I put a couple of really cheap ones in the basement of our frat house, even though they were broken within a month or two... still got some use, and are now makeshift frat-hockey sticks, with cardboard or plastic bottles taped to the bottom (frat-hockey is played in the basement with a tennisball wrapped up in duct tape. Each team has a goalie with a lacrosse helmet and 2-3 other players, the goals are couches turned upside down.... full check!)- sorry bout the tangent, but we just made it up the other week and it is by far the greatest game on earth, surpasing full-contact frat-house mini-golf from last year...

I've used a couple as break sticks and resold a few too....


And i keep the butt end of one in my car as a beat stick if the need should arise, since a couple of the halls i goto arent exactly in the greatest parts of town, that way i dont have to mess up any of the ones i carry in my case....
 
I have a POS I used it to learn how to retip and what glues work and what glues don't. I also have retipped many a friends tips just as good as any pro shop that i've come around just by putting on a tip and cutting it off and so on. Trying pads etc. I think after I retipped 5 of my friends cues I made my money back from my POS cue. Also when I'm about to retip my cue and I feel rusty and afraid that I might mess up my cue (which is worth a good amount) I'll do a practice run on that POS.
 
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