3 got away
Had a pawnshop and buy/sell store for many years. One day a woman calls and asks if I buy pool cues. She told me she had 4 cues. I said I do and for her to bring them by. Many months went by. One Saturday in walks this older woman with what looked like a bolt of cloth. She plops this on the counter and unrolls it. I find myself staring at apparently two Rambows, one very fancy Paradise, and what looks like a Balabushka.
She tells me that she had taken these cues to several other shops and the best offer she got was $250.00 for the lot. She asks if I could do better? We settle on $500.00. She tells me that these belonged to her husband and his brother; both deceased. We fill out the paperwork and she leaves. I'm praying the paperwork clears. It does.
Turns out that one of the Rambows is a Palmer, the other is genuine Rambow. The Paradise is genuine. But the best news is that the Balabushka was authentic, if a bit nicked up. I kept the Bushka and sold the other three. Should have kept them. So what else is new? Those are the only really valueable cues I ever bought at my shop.
Had a pawnshop and buy/sell store for many years. One day a woman calls and asks if I buy pool cues. She told me she had 4 cues. I said I do and for her to bring them by. Many months went by. One Saturday in walks this older woman with what looked like a bolt of cloth. She plops this on the counter and unrolls it. I find myself staring at apparently two Rambows, one very fancy Paradise, and what looks like a Balabushka.
She tells me that she had taken these cues to several other shops and the best offer she got was $250.00 for the lot. She asks if I could do better? We settle on $500.00. She tells me that these belonged to her husband and his brother; both deceased. We fill out the paperwork and she leaves. I'm praying the paperwork clears. It does.
Turns out that one of the Rambows is a Palmer, the other is genuine Rambow. The Paradise is genuine. But the best news is that the Balabushka was authentic, if a bit nicked up. I kept the Bushka and sold the other three. Should have kept them. So what else is new? Those are the only really valueable cues I ever bought at my shop.
