A cracked racket is very hard to sell and you'd be lucky to score thirty bucks.
a tennis coach sold a cracked racket or he sold it then you cracked it? if the latter than it isnt his fault. but like others would say just give it away, it isnt worth anything.
He sold it to me in this exact condition...
Well I did sort of notice it, but there were a bunch of paint chips on the racquet and I didn't think it was anything much more serious than that. He was in a hurry to get back to his coaching. I asked him if it was cracked and he said it was not. I then hit a few quick shots with it and just paid him and left.did you not notice the crack when you bought it?
you could always just throw it up on craigslist and hope someone bites but don't expect much if anything. or donate it to goodwill or something.
Lok3sh why don't you go and raise the issue of the cracked racquet with the coach/person who sold you it?
Forgive me if I have misinterpreted your age, but if you are under 16 years old why not take a parent/older sibling/older friend with you? It sounds like he sold you the racquet knowing it had a crack and that's just not right.
I am 22 actually... And I know how these things turn out... I've been scammed before and you can almost never win these things without the extra headache. The reason I'm miffed is because I'm an international student here in the US and I'm not allowed to work or earn money or anything so I have to depend on a little bit of money my parents give me from time to time. Spending $45 of those dollars on a bum racquet has not been a great use of my money.
I doubt you could string that racquet again. Keep it in your bag as a back up in the event you just need something with strings in it one day. I hit with a guy one day who popped a string and didn't have another one. I had 2 frames in my bag I didn't care about and tossed him one. He definitely wasn't getting one of my Prestiges. Granted, that crack will get worse before it gets better, even just sitting in the bag.
My apologies once again for misinterpreting your age.
Just a thought - but your college/university will undoubtedly have a help-centre on campus to assist students with issues that arise. Maybe have a word with them as they may be able to assist you in some way - perhaps by sending a representative with you if you go to speak with the guy or speaking/negotiating with him on your behalf. Do keep us updated as to how this works out if you do speak to the help-centre. I really want this to work out in your favour - what this guy did was so wrong.
This is the thing, you may be able to hit with it fine until you break a string and then restringing it will be a crapshoot whether the stress cracks it completely. I know a guy who played quite a while with his pretty badly cracked racquet so either keep it as a backup as suggested or if funds are real tight just continue to play with it until the strings break. Depending on your playing level and the type of strings in the racquet it could be quite a while before you need to restring.
Why are you looking to sell? Did you get another racquet or are you giving up the game?
BTW, just so you know the "edit" feature isn't turned on until you reach 50 posts on this forum.
BTW, just so you know the "edit" feature isn't turned on until you reach 50 posts on this forum.
I wouldn't even try to sell it. You know its cracked. You know its worthless. Trying to pass it off on someone else makes YOU the smuck. Chalk it up to experience and spread the word that the coach is an a__hole.
I'm still much more shocked at this Coach. A pretty sad way to make a quick buck, least you could do for him is spread some bad words outta him, but I doubt you'd want to do that or if he's worthy of your time on that :evil:.
Definitely get back to us on this, I can understand your position and hope to hear back on the issue for this.
As for selling the racquet, I believe you should keep it at least maybe something to collect, don't sell it to someone else as what goes around comes around.
I am 22 actually... And I know how these things turn out... I've been scammed before and you can almost never win these things without the extra headache. The reason I'm miffed is because I'm an international student here in the US and I'm not allowed to work or earn money or anything so I have to depend on a little bit of money my parents give me from time to time. Spending $45 of those dollars on a bum racquet has not been a great use of my money.