YankeeJim:The players gain?-all that stuff for the price of 1 set of clubs and a few small commissions.
Oops! You tripped up there, Jim. You forgot that player B must likewise have some credits to buy that second-hand equipment, so those would be additional expenses for the cheating player A.
What about the following sell-back structure? Just as an example:
- You sell your equipment to another player -> you receive 40% of the original price back.
- The player buying second-hand equipment gets a 20% discount.
- You cannot sell more than 1 ProShop item to any single player in one calendar year; you can gift the same player an unlimited amount of times throughout the year, though (with the current absurd limitation on gifting Pro/Master equipment cancelled, if the recipient is an eligible Pro/Master player).
In practical terms, this could mean: you sell your Spider putter (original price of $4) to another player who needs to pay $3.20 for it. You receive $1.60 back. WGT gets $1.60 back. You can't sell anything to the same player until 2011. Where's the problem? (Apart from, as has been said, lower profitability for WGT, compared to the direct sell-back to the ProShop.)