Goodbye Nike Irons

ScratchSRL

ScratchSRL

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Well a week before my Club Champs and I have taken the risky move to buy a new set of irons!

Got fitted a while back, and the exact set of Ping S55 Irons I was looking for were on there, got an awesome deal. £450 for the set.

The only reason I am really switching is due to the ridiculous costs everyone wants to charge me to reshaft my clubs. I am looking at north of £200 for a set that aren't even worth that anymore! Quite sad about it! But looking forward to being part of the ping family!

SRL
 
ScratchSRL said:
Well a week before my Club Champs and I have taken the risky move to buy a new set of irons!

Got fitted a while back, and the exact set of Ping S55 Irons I was looking for were on there, got an awesome deal. £450 for the set.

The only reason I am really switching is due to the ridiculous costs everyone wants to charge me to reshaft my clubs. I am looking at north of £200 for a set that aren't even worth that anymore! Quite sad about it! But looking forward to being part of the ping family!

SRL
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on where?


reshafting never works out economicaly, I had to sell a 4 week old set of Mizzie MP69's as too expensive to reshaft
 
Yep that is why I had to sack my TM CB's. I knew the cost of reshafting just wasn't worth the hassle with no guarantee of success. Nice irons good luck with them.
 
Sorry, on ebay, i hate using it, but they were being sold by a pro, so going to pick them up tomorrow from bloody nottingham! (nothing against nottingham, just the distance!) Yeah reshafting is ridiculous! I cant wait to get the new shinys though, scratch again here we come!Hopefully a week will be enough time to get used to them.

Getting a ping gorge wedge as the pw as i prefer the feel of a wedge than a ping pw.

Will be writing a serious review tomorrow PM!

SRL
 
Reshafting is not cheap - and only really required if you actually need a reshaft. Since you didn't really explain why you needed a reshaft (£200+ sounds reasonable for 8 irons) then spending £450+ on a different set of clubs plus new wedges seems to stretch the logic out of spending money wisely or reasonably. In other words, why complain about a reshaft cost when you spend double on a replacement set?
S55's are a great set of clubs though - but claiming you were forced to buy them because reshafting your previous set was too expensive is ludicrous. You either wanted a reshaft at £200 - or you wanted a newer set at £450. Does that make any sense?
 
nemicu said:
Reshafting is not cheap - and only really required if you actually need a reshaft. Since you didn't really explain why you needed a reshaft (£200+ sounds reasonable for 8 irons) then spending £450+ on a different set of clubs plus new wedges seems to stretch the logic out of spending money wisely or reasonably. In other words, why complain about a reshaft cost when you spend double on a replacement set?
S55's are a great set of clubs though - but claiming you were forced to buy them because reshafting your previous set was too expensive is ludicrous. You either wanted a reshaft at £200 - or you wanted a newer set at £450. Does that make any sense?
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No it doesn't!

A re-shaft at £100 - or less if DIY-able could well have been tempting. I had mine soft-stepped for £40 but no actual shaft purchase involved.

Re-shafting IS (relatively) expensive. And you still end up with an x-year old used set that is different to the one you had previously - and which may not suit!

While nobody is actually 'forced' make either expenditure, I'd think the additional expenditure was worthwhile! The old irons can either be spares or help reducing the overall cost of the upgrade!
 
Lol - so in order to make your point that reshafting is expensive, it's better to spend even more money buying a newer set?:rofl:
Frankly, I'm a little confused.
Speaking of reshafting though, if you think £200 is expensive (for say 8 irons) then you need to break down the cost. £25 per iron just about covers the cost of a shaft and a grip and materials - if you think someones time and effort to pull, clean, epoxy, trim, polish ferrule, swing weight, regrip is for free, then you obviously also feel the logic of spending money "to teach your old irons a lesson" is justified too.
But then, golf equipment buying is never really about logic is it? If it were, the OP would've already been fitted with the correct clubs and shafts right? :whistle:
 
Nemicu, I was in need of a reshaft, at the time (1 year ago) the pro combos fitted me perfectly, and I was custom fit at the belfry by a friend. So think it was done properly, It was £200 to reshaft a set of irons that cost me 450, so in my eyes, I could either get a new set of clubs, sell mine for £200 and be in the same position (whilst making the most of newer technology available) and not reshafting a set of irons, that I would want to change in after another year. The cost of reshafting would effectively make my irons £650 iron cost a year ago, plus shafting now. Or I could get a set that luckily fits me perfectly (after another fit by the same friend) That cost £450 and selling my clubs for the cost of what would have been for reshafting. So I am no worse off! Does that make sense?
 
Nope!
The original cost of anything is irrelevant and is always mistakenly assumed to have any residual value to your investment. You still spent £250 which is more than the cost of a reshaft - and you will never recoup the cost of any original outlay. And it still doesn't explain why you needed a reshaft anyway.
 
ScratchSRL said:
Nemicu, I was in need of a reshaft, at the time (1 year ago) the pro combos fitted me perfectly, and I was custom fit at the belfry by a friend. So think it was done properly, It was £200 to reshaft a set of irons that cost me 450, so in my eyes, I could either get a new set of clubs, sell mine for £200 and be in the same position (whilst making the most of newer technology available) and not reshafting a set of irons, that I would want to change in after another year. The cost of reshafting would effectively make my irons £650 iron cost a year ago, plus shafting now. Or I could get a set that luckily fits me perfectly (after another fit by the same friend) That cost £450 and selling my clubs for the cost of what would have been for reshafting. So I am no worse off! Does that make sense?
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If I'm getting this right, your options were
a) reshaft clubs, net cost £200
b) sell clubs for £200, buy new set for £450, net cost £250

But with option a) you're more likely to be getting rid of the clubs sooner. The time value of that is maybe £25. So it's almost a wash but at least with option b you have new shinies.
 
The X100's I was playing with were launching the ball way too high, so needed something that was launching it lower. Also changd posture slightly, so needed them slightly longer.

Tht reshafting cost didnt include grips either, and with the multi compounds i would have got, we would be talking £250 so its evens!

Thanks Ian! I am happy with them, just shot 1 under through 9. 100% greens in reg, so pretty happy!
 
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