In the Market for Great Golf Equipment
Good golf equipment can be cheap if you know where to look. I can’t count how many times I’ve gone to yard sales in the summer in my neighborhood and to find an entire set of clubs for $20. Granted, I’m almost certain they weren’t top of the line stuff, but they were suitable for how I play.
I would much rather put a couple hundred bucks in golf lessons from a professional golfer than to plop down $1200 or more for a set of clubs I may or may not use a lot.Yard sales, garage sales, auctions, and second hand stores will all have sets of golf clubs discounted. So yard and garage sales are the first place I’d look.
Next, I would scour the largest online auction site in the world,bay.com. Ebay has a great business model and a great reputation. You can find really good bargains if you know how to look. You need a little patience on Ebay because the deals may not end for five or six days from when you first start looking. At this writing, there were over 2800 golf club sets for auction. There were 11,900 golf ball sites offering their golf balls. Believe it or not, there was even a “reconditioned golf ball” category. Go search around on Ebay and you are sure to find great deals.
Amazon.com is another reputable site for finding many who are willing to sell a set of golf clubs at a reasonable price. You have to search out the deals, but they are there.
One disadvantage to these online sites is that you don’t get a first hand look and touch before you buy them. In that sense, you truly are buying a pig in a poke. Most major online sites have decent return policies, but I have yet to see a quality return policy that makes the customer happy.
Finally, online golf sites (not Yahoo-, Ebay- or Amazon-related) are the last place I would turn to in order to find great reconditioned golf equipment. These sites are geared towards golf. Buying from these sites is an area that you need to be cautious about.
You can buy decent equipment at affordable prices but you need to exercise a bit of caution. It’s fine to be cautiously skeptical about your buys. P.T. Barnum said it best: “there’s a sucker born every minute.” And he hadn’t even heard about the crazy world wide web. He was ahead of his time. You now know that not everyone you deal with online is as pure as the driven snow. Read the Seller’s reviews. If he (or she) has a a fair number of positive reviews, you greatly increase your odds of having a positive and successful buying experience. Avoid those sellers who have very few buy and/or sell transactions. It doesn’t make the person untrustworthy, it just makes him inexperienced.
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