Comments on: Is it getting worse? Why Brunswick? http://www.billiardcoach.com/home/2008/07/08/is-it-getting-worse-why-brunswick Billiard instruction, tournament tales, and top notch products. Wed, 18 Aug 2010 15:27:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Mark Maxey http://www.billiardcoach.com/home/2008/07/08/is-it-getting-worse-why-brunswick/comment-page-1#comment-4345 Mark Maxey Thu, 11 Feb 2010 05:16:38 +0000 http://www.billiardcoach.com/home/?p=2260#comment-4345 Brunswick is going down the tubes on the commercial table end. Diamond simply is producing a better product at a dramatically lower price $4500 vs $9k for a gold crown 9'. Brunswick tables also are very pricey relevant to offerings from most other major vendors such as olhausen. Companies like brunswick make most of their money in the home table market and flat out brunswick is pricing themselves out of that market. I've also heard rumors that the gold crown and metro were built overseas. Brunswick is going down the tubes on the commercial table end. Diamond simply is producing a better product at a dramatically lower price $4500 vs $9k for a gold crown 9′.

Brunswick tables also are very pricey relevant to offerings from most other major vendors such as olhausen. Companies like brunswick make most of their money in the home table market and flat out brunswick is pricing themselves out of that market.

I’ve also heard rumors that the gold crown and metro were built overseas.

]]> By: TWW http://www.billiardcoach.com/home/2008/07/08/is-it-getting-worse-why-brunswick/comment-page-1#comment-31 TWW Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:14:01 +0000 http://www.billiardcoach.com/home/?p=2260#comment-31 I can tell you why. Brunswick no longer makes a solid table. Three years ago I was in the market for a pool table. I did four months of reading and reserch. I don't mean an hour once a week either. I was all over the internet, visiting stores, and talking to owners. Lets get real, solid tables are expensive. As any pool player can affirm, it pays to learn and cost not to. I started the search by looking at a Brunswick Hawthorn a friend of mine owns. It is about twenty years old and is in great shape. All wood and not one metal bracket. Flat and true as any table I have played on. The frame is solid with cross members right down the middle. Compared to the tables Brunswick makes today, Not even close. Sure they can make the same thing today, but all the items it takes for a solid table are extras. What I found out is Brunswick went to volume and gave up quality. They are(were)know for tables that lasted for 100 years. I wouldn't give two cents for one to last 10 years. What it all came down to is Brunswick is trying to sell tables only by their name and not their product. Its great have a BMW, but without an engine it is worthless. Thats why Brunswick. RIP. I can tell you why. Brunswick no longer makes a solid table. Three years ago I was in the market for a pool table. I did four months of reading and reserch. I don’t mean an hour once a week either. I was all over the internet, visiting stores, and talking to owners. Lets get real, solid tables are expensive. As any pool player can affirm, it pays to learn and cost not to. I started the search by looking at a Brunswick Hawthorn a friend of mine owns. It is about twenty years old and is in great shape. All wood and not one metal bracket. Flat and true as any table I have played on. The frame is solid with cross members right down the middle. Compared to the tables Brunswick makes today, Not even close. Sure they can make the same thing today, but all the items it takes for a solid table are extras. What I found out is Brunswick went to volume and gave up quality. They are(were)know for tables that lasted for 100 years. I wouldn’t give two cents for one to last 10 years. What it all came down to is Brunswick is trying to sell tables only by their name and not their product. Its great have a BMW, but without an engine it is worthless. Thats why Brunswick. RIP.

]]> By: The Tip Jar » Why Brunswick? http://www.billiardcoach.com/home/2008/07/08/is-it-getting-worse-why-brunswick/comment-page-1#comment-27 The Tip Jar » Why Brunswick? Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:07:52 +0000 http://www.billiardcoach.com/home/?p=2260#comment-27 [...] Here’s an interesting post from BilliardCoach.com: Is it getting worse? Why Brunswick? [...] [...] Here’s an interesting post from BilliardCoach.com: Is it getting worse? Why Brunswick? [...]

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