Pole Depreciaton

[theflyingkorean]

Hey, I was looking to sell my poles to my school. I was wondering how much a pole can drop in value? Is there an average rate by condition, etc? I do not want to rip off my school, but nor do I want to rip myself off. Anyone with experience selling used poles would be helpful, thanks!

[cdmilton]

depending on how long they have been used...half price of new would be fair.

[fchipr]

You might come up against this issue.

But in general, depending on what brand , year manufactured, seasons used, size and overall condition. As a HS coach if there was nothing wrong with the poles AND they wer by no.1 or 2 brand choice, I'd give ya 1/3 of the price I'd pay today. (and that is not suggested retail)

A $400.00 pole (like a nice 14 or 14-6 ) give ya 120-125.00 a 300.00 pole (like a nice 12-13, ), $100.00. That be my offer and certainly no more than 23.00 on top of those numbers....unless desperate before a big meet and no dist or the mfg'r has one on the shelf.

Anyhow you might come up against this little hurdle here...possibly fixable by a bill of sales that the school buys these "as is where is"

Here the issue: If they are smart or legally sensitized...they won't give you anything for them (which is why they dont sell them themselves) because its a much larger liability issue for then than buying a brand new pole from a legit distributor/manufacturer. Who will be their technical expert on saying which nick or cover layer peel off is 100 % as gos as new.

You sell them used poll, kid vaults like crap (not because of your pole) lands in the box after sitting on the take off and vaulting 2 feet out, breaks the pole, breaks bones and crack heads, somebody tries to sue aombody.....finger will get pointed at school, regardless of your technical rationale of the pole was not the cause of theaccident. Fact is pole broke, kid hurt, school should have bought new pole.

Good luck

PS I'm not afraid of used poles. Chuckle. what sizes and what poles, how many seasons on them ya got?. Got any 15-6 light poles (145-155 )poles?

[bvpv07]

fchipr, you're probably not going to get a response from kelly (theflyingkorean). This thread is over 1.5 years old, and I'm not sure if he checks this site anymore. Additionally, he's out of high school and now a sophomore in college. Sorry.

[fchipr]

Darn. Thanx. Ok I'm lame sometimes.... Funny too is that you knew the writer and school status. Chuckle. I always mess that up. I never look at how many millions of mile these things go back. Pretty funny on me.

Oh well it was in the spirit of spreading the goodness of PV, and keeping our little growing community of enthusiastsin talkingto eachother without agendas.

Run Fast, Hold High, and Fly (that little motto never is out of date)
coach c

PS But where are his used poles though??? Chuckle...

[bvpv07]

I'm not sure...

You could always e-mail him and see if you get a response. He's at Stanford, so he would probably appreciate a little extra income from things he isn't using anymore

I like the motto!
(ours is "be safe, have fun, vault high")

[vaultmd]

You might come up against this issue.

But in general, depending on what brand , year manufactured, seasons used, size and overall condition. As a HS coach if there was nothing wrong with the poles AND they wer by no.1 or 2 brand choice, I'd give ya 1/3 of the price I'd pay today. (and that is not suggested retail)

A $400.00 pole (like a nice 14 or 14-6 ) give ya 120-125.00 a 300.00 pole (like a nice 12-13, ), $100.00. That be my offer and certainly no more than 23.00 on top of those numbers....unless desperate before a big meet and no dist or the mfg'r has one on the shelf.

Anyhow you might come up against this little hurdle here...possibly fixable by a bill of sales that the school buys these "as is where is"

Here the issue: If they are smart or legally sensitized...they won't give you anything for them (which is why they dont sell them themselves) because its a much larger liability issue for then than buying a brand new pole from a legit distributor/manufacturer. Who will be their technical expert on saying which nick or cover layer peel off is 100 % as gos as new.

You sell them used poll, kid vaults like crap (not because of your pole) lands in the box after sitting on the take off and vaulting 2 feet out, breaks the pole, breaks bones and crack heads, somebody tries to sue aombody.....finger will get pointed at school, regardless of your technical rationale of the pole was not the cause of theaccident. Fact is pole broke, kid hurt, school should have bought new pole.

Good luck

Has this, in fact, ever happened, where a seller of poles that looked okay at the time of sale broke and the seller was successfully held liable?

[fchipr]

Has that ever really happened. I can't say that exactly has, but I can tell you a actually parallel case. I know folks that have gone to Ads at High schools that no longer wanted a vault program, because of liability, rule changes requiring big investments for new pits and lack of good coaches, and has offered to buy that "useless to them" old/used equipment, pits, standards and huge pole inventories, for about 10 cents on the dollar. the line goes something like..."well Mr school AD you cant really get anything for those 40 poles ya got over the last 10 years, because they are all used, and if there was an injury issue along the line of those used, unknown condition poles then a naturall place for a "potential" law suit would be to the faceless entity of the school/school district that sold them, obviously skeptical in the first place since they were getting out of PV(not the rest of T&F) altogether...(unknown condition to you, Mr. not PV knowledgeble AD). So they sell 30 poles for 2-300.00. And in all fairness about half are of vintage worth anything.

But that is a true story.

Anyhow, schools and school district "management" can be quite risk adverse.

see ya