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Uncle Crusty

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Balls For Sale With Less Than 5 Games
« on: March 10, 2009, 06:29:28 AM »
All too frequently, I see people on this website offering balls for sale or for trade that supposedly have less than five games on them. I've even seen several balls advertised with less than a game on them. Threads like this have two and only two possible explanations:

 
  • The seller is a compulsive liar and feels that any ball with more than a handful of games could never be moved, so the only option is to lie about the ball's mileage.
  • The seller has absolutely *zero* conception of managing ball reaction and is entirely too dependent on technology.


So my question is this: what in the world possesses people (non-staffers, specifically) to move a ball after using it for a game or two? Wouldn't it be prudent to try several surface adjustments, experiment with different oil patterns you may come across, etc.? Or do some people derive absolutely all of their perceived talent from buying new balls on a weekly basis?
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Re: Balls For Sale With Less Than 5 Games
« Reply #1 on: March 10, 2009, 02:32:01 PM »
A post that makes sense?  Trying not to flame TS, Trying not to flame TS, Trying not to flame TS, Trying not to flame TS, Trying not to flame TS,

Screw it, ITS MY BALL AND I WILL SELL IT AND LOSE MONEY IF I WANT TO AND YOU CANT DO CRAP ABOUT IT.  AS A MATTER OF FACT ITS YOUR FAULT THAT I CANT MANAGE MY BALLS REACTION SO I GIVE UP AND SELL THEM RIGHT AWAY.
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Re: Balls For Sale With Less Than 5 Games
« Reply #2 on: March 10, 2009, 02:36:40 PM »
Sometimes you buy or trade for balls with very low games, and never get around to plugging, or sometimes a ball gives you the same reaction as others, so you realize keeping it isn't going to do anything, so you also put it back up for sale??  It's happened to me, so who knows?
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Re: Balls For Sale With Less Than 5 Games
« Reply #3 on: March 10, 2009, 02:37:17 PM »
If it's brand new and they don't go front 5 with it the first night they take it to league OOB, didn't even throw any practice with it, or do go front 4 but complain it's not working because it doesn't skid flip, probably didn't fully work out the thumb or add/adjust tape as neccessary, don't realize that the pearl they just bought won't work playing 4th-5th arrow like their preivous charcoal ball did, go against all judgement that the proshop guy may have had because their buddy in league was throwing "THIS" ball and said it was great so that's the ONLY one they are going to buy, or leave just 1 and only 1 corner pin within the first game it's no good.  

At least that what I've witnessed.
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Re: Balls For Sale With Less Than 5 Games
« Reply #4 on: March 10, 2009, 02:42:28 PM »
you cant play gutter to gutter with it WTF oh hai eric
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Re: Balls For Sale With Less Than 5 Games
« Reply #5 on: March 10, 2009, 02:42:41 PM »
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Re: Balls For Sale With Less Than 5 Games
« Reply #6 on: March 10, 2009, 02:44:37 PM »
a lot of ball junkies like to find insane deals on NIB balls on ebay and punch the ball just to see what it does. they dont get it for any other reason other than they just want to throw it for while. and after they have tested it so to speak they sell it. its hard to pass up a 200 ball if you can get it for like 20-30 shipped
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Re: Balls For Sale With Less Than 5 Games
« Reply #7 on: March 10, 2009, 02:52:01 PM »
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Sometimes you buy or trade for balls with very low games, and never get around to plugging, or sometimes a ball gives you the same reaction as others, so you realize keeping it isn't going to do anything, so you also put it back up for sale??  It's happened to me, so who knows?
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I could be wrong here but it sounds like you just proved Crusty's point perfectly.  Not getting around to fixing up a ball you just bought?  Wasn't there a specific reason you bought that ball?  Guess not, so basically you buy a ball just to buy it, no consideration of how similar said ball is to something you already have.  And despite supposedly being able to see that the reaction is "similar" to something else, a slight surface change on most bowling balls will fix this, even if its so much as hand scuffing with a 2000 abralon pad.  
I know myself when I consider buying a used ball, its a specific ball with a close layout to what I'm looking for, and as soon as I receive it, I'm going to get it fixed so I can use it.
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JoeBowler

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Re: Balls For Sale With Less Than 5 Games
« Reply #8 on: March 10, 2009, 02:55:13 PM »
And most of these ball sellers complain that bowling is two expensive.

Ive only seen staffers do this but im sure their are others looking to raise their game to the next level with equipment rather than skill.
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Re: Balls For Sale With Less Than 5 Games
« Reply #9 on: March 10, 2009, 02:57:30 PM »
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Crusty is just jealous. There is no chance he is getting a ball to strike in the first week let alone the first game, so he gets mad and throws it in the parking lot. Now he can't even make back half the money he spent on the ball because it's chewed to bits.


This coming from a guy that after going 201 the first game and 9/ 1st frame 2nd game will fry out and punch things because he can't go 800 on the night.  FTL
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Re: Balls For Sale With Less Than 5 Games
« Reply #10 on: March 10, 2009, 03:01:14 PM »
lol when I drilled my radical inferno and impulse zone, I threw them for about 10 games and then sold them.  Usually i can tell within a few shots whether I like the ball or not
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Re: Balls For Sale With Less Than 5 Games
« Reply #11 on: March 10, 2009, 03:07:40 PM »
Drilling a ball trying to fit in in a certain spot in your bag and it not be close.  Not getting the reaction you wanted is when I've seen them sold quickly.  Just saw it last week to be exact.  Guy drilled a ball to help combat the drastic over/ under that both him and myself have on the house shot and instead it made it even worse than it was.  Within 2 games the ball had been polished and sanded to about 5 different grits and decided it wasn't what he needed.
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Uncle Crusty

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Re: Balls For Sale With Less Than 5 Games
« Reply #12 on: March 10, 2009, 03:10:03 PM »
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Crusty is just jealous. There is no chance he is getting a ball to strike in the first week let alone the first game, so he gets mad and throws it in the parking lot. Now he can't even make back half the money he spent on the ball because it's chewed to bits.


This coming from a guy that after going 201 the first game and 9/ 1st frame 2nd game will fry out and punch things because he can't go 800 on the night.  FTL


Also coming from the guy who gets a ton of staff balls a month and still has absolutely no shot of ever beating me and my arsenal of junk in the sweeper or in PBAX league. Also coming from the same guy that has been known to punch everything known to man when he decides to throw plastic and leaves his first plack dime. Also coming from the same guy that, for whatever reason, feels the need to throw plastic in the first place because he doesn't have 15 to the gutter at the break because PBA patterns aren't walled. I rest my case.
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Re: Balls For Sale With Less Than 5 Games
« Reply #13 on: March 10, 2009, 03:14:01 PM »
Someone pass me some popcorn!!!
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Re: Balls For Sale With Less Than 5 Games
« Reply #14 on: March 10, 2009, 03:15:15 PM »
No popcorn for you Nerue, yeah i know i spelled you last name wrong but still you popcorn for you.

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