Pool Table Resale Value

Resale value is something to consider when buying or owning a pool table. In many ways, a pool table can be related to a car in most cases. As soon as you drive that new car off the lot, its value depreciates tremendously. The same is true for your table in most cases. However, just because it depreciates doesn’t necessarily mean it’s worthless after you buy it.

It is important to mention that there are differences between the quality of each particular brand. In general, you can distinguish them into two categories. Domestic heirloom and mass-produced. Now, typically, a mass-produced table is a lower-quality, budget-priced product, whereas a household heirloom would be a custom, solid wood product.

Brand recognition plays a factor in resale value at the household heirloom level. However, most of the time, the more common the name, the more common the table, which means the less you can get in the long run. This is only due to the “popular” styles that are flooding the market. Something a little more name brand will depreciate a lot, but you’ll still get more than half your money even with a “common” model.

The mass-produced, or “imported” table typically depreciates by more than 80% after initial installation. Typically these models will need more work on them before they are proposed for realistic resale. On average, you can’t expect more than $500 on the resale of one of these pool tables.

When people go out to buy a used pool table, they trust brands over others by wide margins. These tables are made to last. In most cases, the only thing they’ll have to pay besides the table is the cost of a professional move and maybe a new tablecloth for the pool table.