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Title: Cheap place to buy Pool Tables?
Post by: TaaJ on June 30, 2004, 01:44:30 pm
Anyone know of a great place to acquire any beat up Pool Tables?

Re-Lining and re-staining etc. aren't a problem.

Usually swap sheets would have them but of course when I'm interested they don't seem to be available.

eBay doesn't seem like that great of a place, more brand new than anything.
Title: Re:Cheap place to buy Pool Tables?
Post by: DaveMMR on June 30, 2004, 01:49:07 pm
Check the advertising in your local paper.  You could also run a 'willing to buy' ad.
Title: Re:Cheap place to buy Pool Tables?
Post by: Ken Layton on June 30, 2004, 05:54:00 pm
Ask around at local taverns. Check also with people who do pool table recovering. Sometimes they know people who want to sell older or beat up tables.
Title: Re:Cheap place to buy Pool Tables?
Post by: Goz on June 30, 2004, 10:13:53 pm
I've found a few pool tables for friends on http://www.craigslist.com (http://www.craigslist.com)  for $100 or so. They had the tables rebumpered and refelted and have fairly nice pool tables now for under $350 total.

Might be worth a check to see if there is one for your area / city.

-Goz
Title: Re:Cheap place to buy Pool Tables?
Post by: DrewKaree on June 30, 2004, 10:25:45 pm
The last SuperAuction I went to they were selling 4 of them.  They sold for a combined $250  :o
Title: Re:Cheap place to buy Pool Tables?
Post by: Tailgunner on June 30, 2004, 11:45:18 pm
The last SuperAuction I went to they were selling 4 of them.  They sold for a combined $250  :o

I'm with Drew, every auction around here I've been to had several up for bidding.
Title: Re:Cheap place to buy Pool Tables?
Post by: Lilwolf on July 01, 2004, 01:12:01 pm
In michigan there was a pooltable a week for free if you where willing on moving it yourself.

How I got mine... (but I'm looking at getting a better one in a few weeks... if the auction is good to me.)
Title: Re:Cheap place to buy Pool Tables?
Post by: DrewKaree on July 01, 2004, 09:29:23 pm
One thing to make sure of at the auction, if you want to play it right away, make sure they include the balls.  I thought that'd be a no-brainer, but oddly, only one of the four tables came with balls.

If you have to buy a set, you could easily spend a couple hundred on balls alone.

balls... :P
Title: Re:Cheap place to buy Pool Tables?
Post by: Floyd10 on July 01, 2004, 09:32:24 pm
thats a spicy meat-a-ball-a
Title: Re:Cheap place to buy Pool Tables?
Post by: SirPoonga on July 01, 2004, 11:36:54 pm
acutions, garage sales, moving sales, house sales, classifieds...