TaylorMade has jumped on the Pre-Owned Bandwagon

[Harry Longshanks]

TaylorMade's "Certified Pre-Owned" website:

http://www.taylormadegolfpreowned.com/

[traviswise]

Cool, I like.

[Dent]

Very nicely organized.

[goblue107501]

Kind of hard to believe that more company's don't do this. What is better than selling a club -- selling it twice. Let's see, sell a driver for $400 new, take it in trade three years later for $100, then resell for $175. That is a good business plan.

I think with all the counterfits around it will put many people at ease about used clubs with them coming from the manufacturer.

[Harry Longshanks]

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Can anyone guess why this item cracked me up?

[worst_shot_ever]

What kind of atomic scale were they using to determine the weight to 13 digits?

[iacas]

  worst_shot_ever said:

What kind of atomic scale were they using to determine the weight to 13 digits?

I don't know about you, but I like my drivers at a swingweight of D5.123923693291. More than 0.0000003 on either side and my swing goes to hell. Good to know TaylorMade might just be the only company that can be as precise as I require.

And to answer the previous question about why more companies don't get into it: because it requires a lot of overhead, startup, and so on, and it distracts a company from its core business: research, development, and production of great equipment. At least that's what I think the stock answer would be from those without a "pre-owned" site. Additionally, some companies may feel it cheapens their image a little. And I could be wrong here, but some company may just be licensing the deal to a third-party company. The "TM Pre-Owned" people may not even be TaylorMade employees per se. Heck, the Callaway people might be using the same people that run the TM business (if they're using a third-party company).

[Harry Longshanks]

  worst_shot_ever said:

What kind of atomic scale were they using to determine the weight to 13 digits?

I just noticed that a lot of the other bags are the same way?

[worst_shot_ever]

Maybe they really wanted to be able to say the bag weighed less than 6.2 pounds. 0.00000019073486 less, to be precise.

[Harry Longshanks]

  worst_shot_ever said:

Maybe they really wanted to be able to say the bag weighed less than 6.2 pounds. 0.00000019073486 less, to be precise.

Somebody got a shiny new calculator!

[Q.Q.Quillume]

  worst_shot_ever said:

What kind of atomic scale were they using to determine the weight to 13 digits?

I apologize if this is nitpicking, but I counted the weight to be computed to 15 digits.

[jamesgoodchild]

Actually the 13 or 15 decimal places didn't bother me. Shipping only to the US did. I'd like to see them offer this service to the rest of the world.