Finding 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’d rather toss down a three or four hundred by getting private instruction from a golf pro than to drop $1350 for a mediocre set of clubs. Thrift stores are great for the bargain hunter. Garage sales, auctions, and yard sales will all sell golf clubs at affordable prices. Again, they aren’t exactly out-of-the-box new so you will need to check out the shafts to make sure they haven’t bowed or a disgruntled golfer didn’t throw it (and subsequently bend it when it hit the ground) in anger at missing at slicing the ball onto an entirely different fairway. Still, you should be able to find something reasonable if you look hard enough.
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 minor disadvantage to the online sites is that you don’t get to play with the clubs before you buy. Unfortunately you don’t always know for certain what you’re getting. The advantage though is that most major online sites have modest return policies (with plenty of cautions before you actually press Buy).
Finally, online golf-specialty sites (not Ebay-, Yahoo-, or Amazon-related) are other places I would turn to in order to find great used equipment. These sites are geared towards golf and typically have ‘golf’ somewhere in the site name.
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 online world. Unfortunately, he’s right. You now know that not everyone you deal with online is as honest and trustworthy as you and me. Do some due diligence and read the reviews of the person you are buying from. If he (or she) has a ton of positive reviews, you increase your odds of success. Chances are very good that your purchase will also be very good. Avoid those who have very few buy and/or sell transactions. It doesn’t make the person untrustworthy, it just makes her inexperienced.
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Written by Chan Boldene on December 21st, 2009 with
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