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Good Selection of Pool Cues and Biliard Supplies?
Posted by:
Fats
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Date: November 03, 2012 05:26PM
Champion Billiards used to be a good place to to try out mid-priced pool cues and stuff (not department store quality), but they have closed.
Where can I find a good selection of pool cues and tables in the Northern VA area?
THX
Where can I find a good selection of pool cues and tables in the Northern VA area?
THX
Re: Good Selection of Pool Cues and Biliard Supplies?
Posted by:
Virginia Slim
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Date: November 03, 2012 06:04PM
There's no place like that in NOVA anymore and there never will be again. The high cost of real estate coupled with the niche-ness of a pursuit like billiards just doesn't work in this area. You have to have a lot of inventory to sell cuesticks at a brick and mortar and even mid-grade sticks between $100-$500...well, that's a lot of money tied up hangin' on the wall. Find an online shop with a flexible return policy. Afterall, you can't exactly try it out if you have to wait for it to be shipped to you. Once you find a cue you like, look for it on EBay or Craigslist and save yourself 10-25%. Retail has put it over on the American consumer since the end of WWII. I'm sick and tired of hearing how great a store is. Do you take the store home with you? Their time is done and online has proven again and again to be the best way to get the best prices. You can take service and shove it up your shove-hole. In this country...price sells goods and services. Would you rather be treated like a dick and get the best price OR be treated with respect and overcharged? Bring on the dicks, I say...
Re: Good Selection of Pool Cues and Biliard Supplies?
Posted by:
BnG
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Date: November 03, 2012 06:54PM
Virginia Slim Wrote:
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> There's no place like that in NOVA anymore and
> there never will be again. The high cost of real
> estate coupled with the niche-ness of a pursuit
> like billiards just doesn't work in this area. You
> have to have a lot of inventory to sell cuesticks
> at a brick and mortar and even mid-grade sticks
> between $100-$500...well, that's a lot of money
> tied up hangin' on the wall. Find an online shop
> with a flexible return policy. Afterall, you can't
> exactly try it out if you have to wait for it to
> be shipped to you. Once you find a cue you like,
> look for it on EBay or Craigslist and save
> yourself 10-25%. Retail has put it over on the
> American consumer since the end of WWII. I'm sick
> and tired of hearing how great a store is. Do you
> take the store home with you? Their time is done
> and online has proven again and again to be the
> best way to get the best prices. You can take
> service and shove it up your shove-hole. In this
> country...price sells goods and services. Would
> you rather be treated like a dick and get the best
> price OR be treated with respect and overcharged?
> Bring on the dicks, I say...
Not necessarily mutually exclusive you know. lol
Lots of good online (and offline) sellers who provide good service and good prices.
I agree with you though beyond that. The Net has killed things like that other than in some rare cases. Good and bad to that but that's the way that it is.
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> There's no place like that in NOVA anymore and
> there never will be again. The high cost of real
> estate coupled with the niche-ness of a pursuit
> like billiards just doesn't work in this area. You
> have to have a lot of inventory to sell cuesticks
> at a brick and mortar and even mid-grade sticks
> between $100-$500...well, that's a lot of money
> tied up hangin' on the wall. Find an online shop
> with a flexible return policy. Afterall, you can't
> exactly try it out if you have to wait for it to
> be shipped to you. Once you find a cue you like,
> look for it on EBay or Craigslist and save
> yourself 10-25%. Retail has put it over on the
> American consumer since the end of WWII. I'm sick
> and tired of hearing how great a store is. Do you
> take the store home with you? Their time is done
> and online has proven again and again to be the
> best way to get the best prices. You can take
> service and shove it up your shove-hole. In this
> country...price sells goods and services. Would
> you rather be treated like a dick and get the best
> price OR be treated with respect and overcharged?
> Bring on the dicks, I say...
Not necessarily mutually exclusive you know. lol
Lots of good online (and offline) sellers who provide good service and good prices.
I agree with you though beyond that. The Net has killed things like that other than in some rare cases. Good and bad to that but that's the way that it is.