Re: Pool table or teeter-totter?

My impression is that there foreign companies continually putting out cheap
copies of popular designs. If you browse through of discount local game room
stores and online companies that are not dealers for any of the big names
(Brunswick, Olhausen or Connolly) you see the same designs over and over
again under different names, which means either they get them all from the
same no-name supplier (most likely in China these days) or there are
multiple cheap manufacturers copying each other.

Either way it is hard for the average consumer to know the difference from a
picture in a catalog. I think in this respect Brunswick have the right idea,
having recently branched into making very distinctive modern designs like
the Metro or the Manhattan that are hard designs to knock off.

--
Aunty Dan
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"For 'tis the sport to have the engineer
Hoist with his own petard."
- W. Shakespeare
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"pltrgyst" <pltrgyst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:djfse198qtdlpf0ogb8dpiheqkmglbsqur@xxxxxxxxxx
> On Mon, 1 Aug 2005 09:02:54 -0500, "JoeyA" <joey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>>Makes you wonder who is building these tables.
>>JoeyA
>>
>>"Aunty Dan" <auntydan@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>>news:R6TGe.159322$go.21572@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>: Olhausen have an identical design:
>>:
>>http://www.olhausenbilliards.com/pooltables_detail.php?id=29&cat=CONTEMPORARY
>>:
>>: I'd imagine it is rigid enough if they are selling it.
>
> I took a few shots on one of these Olhausens in a store down in Dallas
> last
> year, and it felt rock solid. I really like the looks, myself. Don't much
> care
> for the price tag, though.
>
> -- Larry
>


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