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POOLTABLES-DIRECT.COM is proud to be
the ONLY AUTHORIZED ONLINE DISTRIBUTOR FOR ALL GREENLEAF BILLIARDS BRAND PRODUCTS. For over 15 years the Greenleaf Billiard workshops have been crafting professional quality BCA-approved billiard tables. With their hand-carved details, use of premium materials, and exacting fit and finish, a Greenleaf pool table represents the pinnacle of form and function. For the first time ever, POOLTABLES-DIRECT.COM allows consumers to buy an authentic Greenleaf pool table at up to 75% OFF billiard store prices. Combine these dramatic savings with the ease of our professional delivery and installation services and you'll realize you've found America's best deal on a quality pool table that will last a lifetime. |
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Other Online Stores: You will either find cheap "no-brand"Asian tables or good quality American tables at inflated prices. Some companies have even resorted to making up brands and sticking brass-plates to pool tables in an effort to convey authenticity. Also, most internet companies selling pool tables online have been in business for a few years at most.
Traditional "brick and mortar" Pool Table Stores: These operations are a dying breed. To afford the tremendous operating costs of maintaining a store and a large expensive inventory, they MUST make a sizeable profit on each table sold. These factors also lead to a limit on the pool table selection. |
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SHIPPING & DELIVERY |
This is where we really shine!
We refuse to subject our customers to the nightmares of budget shipping & curbside delivery. Instead, we have used our huge volume of pool table sales to negotiate some of the best shipping rates in the industry with a premium shipping company. We then negotiated to have your pool table hand-delivered into your home with our exclusive "White Glove" Delivery Service. We will even unpackage the pool table and then remove and dispose of all the crating lumber and packaging. NOBODY ELSE OFFERS SERVICE LIKE THIS AT THESE PRICES.
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Welcome to the wonderful world of freight shipping & curbside delivery!
This is a world where giant trucks try to fit down tiny residential streets. Where people take days off work waiting for trucks to arrive and whose delivery appointments get rescheduled as often as pop-up ads appear on your screen. You are not in this world alone - you've got a friend. A friend who will have to wait with you so that you can both lift and carry the back-breaking 1000lb pool table into your home. Sounds like fun right? It's not. Don't forget about the large wood pallet and reinforced crate that all companies use to ship pool tables. It's too large for most trash companies to pick up, so make sure you have a truck, some time and some money to drive it to your local dump. (They probably forgot to tell you about this little detail)
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PTD TABLE CONSTRUCTION |
OTHER TABLES |
True pre-squared, factory-assembled frames.
These premium pool tables are crafted to meet or exceed the Billiard Congress of America standards. We specialize in solid hardwood pool tables.
Detailed construction specs can be found in the description of each billiard table. |
The cheapest tables are KNOCK-DOWN tables. This means that the frames/cabinets are completely disassembled. BEWARE of these. They lack the critical rigidity and perfectly-squared dimensions/stability of a factory preassembled body. It's also nearly impossible to find installers who will deal with the hundreds of parts required for installation.
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TABLE FRAME |
TABLE FRAME |
The cabinet is supported with 2" x 4" thick solid kiln-cured maple beams. The interlocking grid framework ensures maximum stability and exacting support for the slate playing surface.
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You'll find a fairly even split between true interlocking-beam construction and the inferior metal-bracketed frame method. If you are able to see pictures of the frame look for the telltale signs of dark metal brackets where the beams meet together. If you see them, you've just found a table that derives it's strength not from interlocking beams, but from 5-7 or more pieces of wood held together with flimsy asian metal brackets and small wood screws.
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PTD WOOD |
OTHER WOOD |
There are two ways to cure lumber: At the lumber yard or at specialized curing facilities. When the lumber yard cures wood they do many different types in the same giant batch. This DOES NOT WORK. Various woods have very precise temperatures and times at which they become cured. This is how legs, rails and cabinets become cracked months or years after you've purchased and the company you bought from has disappeared.
The Greenleaf Billiard Co. always has their lumber transported from the lumber yards to outside curing companies before construction. |
If you've found a cheap table that seems to measure up to the slightly more expensive tables, then you've likely found "yard-cured" lumber. How the wood is cured is the type of detail that inexperienced customer service reps won't have an answer for...or will hesitate on before answering. You'll know the truth as soon as the rainy season hits a few years down the road and your legs begin to split. |
PTD SLATE |
OTHER SLATE |
We use BCA-recommeded 1" thick, diamond-honed,
3-piece slate with a 3/4" lumber slate backing. |
Some vendors are selling pool tables with inferior 3/4" thick slate. Some offer slate with no backing. Some offer 1 1/8" slate. The thicker slate is unnecessary and simply adds cost as they make an effort to set their products apart from the rest of the market. |
PTD ACCESSORIES |
OTHER ACCESSORIES |
| Our basic accessory kits feature quality solid maple 2-piece cues, shatter-proof billiard balls, a wall rack and more. We are the only company to offer a premium accessory kit featuring Aramith Premium billiard balls. With a pool table this elegant, we refuse to spoil it with cheap accessories |
Some sites offer fine accessory kits. Others offer the cheapest kits they can find. Cheap balls often crack. Cue sticks can be warped. Unless a company actively stresses the quality of their accessories it can be hit or miss. |
PTD WARRANTY |
OTHER'S WARRANTY |
Every pool table on our website is backed by a MANUFACTURER LIFETIME WARRANTY. |
Look very closely here. You must read the fine print. If you find a Warranty offered by the manufacturer its fine. If you find one offered by a website/vendor watch out. It's very easy for a website to disappear and startup as a new site after they get swamped with warranty claims. |
PTD INSTALLATION |
OTHER INSTALLATION |
Notice how few companies offer installation? That's because installers won't work with a company whose products are difficult to install, require continued service calls or whose products always arrive damaged. The fact that we have invested the money and time into developing a nationwide installer network speaks volumes about the quality of our billiard tables and the quality of our company.
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Most other companies don't offer professional installation or make a reference to "helping you find an installer". Installation is critical in the billiard table industry. If they don't clearly offer the option of installation you've either found a questionable company or a company with questionable products.
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