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Please allow us to sell used to clubs to players

• 1,148 Posts

  Sun, May 12 2013 1:28 PM

  I think i bought few clubs and i do not use because it do not fit my playing style. I do not want to sell for peanuts. WGT is doing high way robbery here.

• alanti 10,564 Posts

  Sun, May 12 2013 2:00 PM

  alexk345:

  I think i bought few clubs and i do not use because it do not fit my playing style. I do not want to sell for peanuts. WGT is doing high way robbery here.

  This has been requested many times and will never happen,  Unlike balls, clubs will never wear out, so onselling equipment would effectively stop all sales of low to mid range equipment - significantly effecting WGT sales (even if you gave a percentage to them).

  Then we have multi accounters - this would make it much easier for them.

  I agree it would be nice to help some people out with old equipment but I fully understand WGTs reasoning.

  I do agree 25% of the original cost is low, especially if you buy something today and sell it the following day. However something you have had the item for 6 months it is probably fair (would be a similar figure a pro shop would offer - then they add their markup to about half price of the original cost). I think if WGT changed it to a depreciated value based on the time owned, it would cause more coding problems than its worth.

  At the end of the day, it will never change, so if you will never use it again, sell it.

• courteneyfish 15,796 Posts

  Mon, May 13 2013 3:57 AM

  There would be thousands of want ads and how could you buy and sell without making it possible to give credits? It just wouldn't work.

• Jimbog1964 8,378 Posts

  Mon, May 13 2013 4:57 AM

  All part of the profit margin model! They push that up then the price of clubs / balls etc goes up.  Sorry but until some one wades in Richard Branson style, with real number's, demonstrating that real net profit is way out of line, this all just .............in the wind! No offense, just way it is! And then the sandbagging issue......

  I guess an argument might be better Pro Shop trade in would = more trade, and so no harm putting these idea's up for the pro shop to think about I would say.  Similarly I sometimes wonder if lower price top end ball's might lead to more sales.  Moreover, on the latter it might slow down the "need" some specimen's feel to develop certain type's software, but probably all been mulled over????