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Buckwild

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What do you do with the balls you can't sell?
« on: May 29, 2004, 10:01:46 AM »
If you are trying to sell some of your equipment to clear up some space, and nobody bites, what do you end up doing with them? Right now out of 4, 2 of them remain unwanted.
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Re: What do you do with the balls you can't sell?
« Reply #1 on: May 30, 2004, 01:09:23 AM »
I like to have a beard growing competition with mine and see if mine can grow in faster than the dust on the balls will.
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michelle

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Re: What do you do with the balls you can't sell?
« Reply #2 on: May 30, 2004, 01:13:00 AM »
I have a closet full of equipment dating to the 80's and haven't really tried very hard to move any of it.  On the couple of times something has been dragged out, it has sold.  If I pull something to check it and a deal falls through, I'll just put it back in its box and stash it away again.

I could easily see space being a problem if you didn't have boxes to stash the stuff in though...  

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Buckwild

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Re: What do you do with the balls you can't sell?
« Reply #3 on: May 30, 2004, 01:17:16 AM »
HB, I have them currently on Ebay. Here, I was only able to sell one, on Ebay I have bids on 2, the other two are still unwanted.
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Re: What do you do with the balls you can't sell?
« Reply #4 on: May 30, 2004, 01:24:39 AM »
Give them to youth/new bowlers in need of equipment?
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C-G ProShop-Carl

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Re: What do you do with the balls you can't sell?
« Reply #5 on: May 30, 2004, 01:25:43 AM »
I usually hold onto them for awhile, and if they never end up selling, I donate them to the local high school team. There are many kids out there whose parents cannot afford to buy them equipment.


OR....for instance, recently I had a Brunswick Ultimate Inferno that was MINT, and no one wanted to buy it, and those that did want to buy it wanted me to basically give it to them. SO, what I did with that ball until I found a good deal for it was:

I used it as the door stopper for the pro shop. The door is set up to close automatically, so the Ultimate Inferno was a very expensive "eye grabbing" door stopper.....and I must say that it did a better job doing that than it did on the lanes.
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Re: What do you do with the balls you can't sell?
« Reply #6 on: May 30, 2004, 01:30:13 AM »
LMAO....not a big fan of the ultimate inferno huh?!<BG>
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Brickguy221

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Re: What do you do with the balls you can't sell?
« Reply #7 on: May 30, 2004, 09:24:09 AM »
Give them to the local Pro Shop to give to people that can't afford to buy a ball. Any that he can't give away, he uses for test/experimental drills, like when I go in and want to try a big change with my grip as an experiment, to see what happens.

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C-G ProShop-Carl

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Re: What do you do with the balls you can't sell?
« Reply #8 on: May 30, 2004, 09:44:21 AM »
kingpin, I had two things against me I guess. #1 I was asking $75 shipped for a ball that was perfect, and #2 I throw 16lbs, which is on the decline.
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LuckyLefty

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Re: What do you do with the balls you can't sell?
« Reply #9 on: May 30, 2004, 09:54:53 AM »
My girlfriend once threw all of mine in a lake!

She almost went in the lake then I remembered we have to be very nice to women in America.

Retrieved in minute.  All long gone. Hooked more.

Also the dumpster is great!

Boy when I threw em in the dumpster I would come in later that afternoon and there would be kids with eggs on their shirt, candy wrappers etc. throwing the balls I just threw out!

So now I give to local YABA and get a tax deduction!

REgards,

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Re: What do you do with the balls you can't sell?
« Reply #10 on: May 31, 2004, 04:28:35 PM »
I'm presently considering donating 8-10 balls to my old high school's bowling program.  I sent an email to the athletic director, but haven't heard back from him or the bowling coach yet.  I told them that the balls are all 16# and that that might be too much weight for the bowlers, but if they think the bowlers can handle the weight, they can have the balls.

I'll give them the balls anyway, but does anyone know if I can get some kind of tax break for donating the balls to a school?  It's a private school, if that makes any difference.  A tax deduction would be nice, if I can get it.

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Re: What do you do with the balls you can't sell?
« Reply #11 on: May 31, 2004, 05:51:45 PM »
... If its anything good I'll stick in my closest and maybe use them at a later time, or if its a garbage ball or one that i can't replace, i either toss them in to lake near an alley in Jersey or i just toss them in the dumpster.

I like the lake more though!
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Re: What do you do with the balls you can't sell?
« Reply #12 on: May 31, 2004, 05:54:11 PM »
Steal an Idea from Dave Letterman..

Bowling Ball off the roof of a five floor building....

always great fun..;-)
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