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Equipment => Bats => Topic started by: Silver Bullet on April 09, 2015, 03:41:21 AM

Title: Buying Clearance Bats
Post by: Silver Bullet on April 09, 2015, 03:41:21 AM
Anyone have a definitive opinion on clearance bats ? Wouldn't the best pinging bats be gone at the start of the season, and whatever's left over be complete dead planks ?

Anybody here gotten any real belters at ridiculous bargain basement rates ?
Title: Re: Buying Clearance Bats
Post by: ogroupleader on April 09, 2015, 10:47:51 AM
Make sure you know the brand/batmaker and you can't really go wrong. I have found many belters in the clearance sectíon.
Title: Re: Buying Clearance Bats
Post by: peristocle on April 09, 2015, 10:54:11 AM

Picked up my best bat in a clearance deal. Was overlooked I guess for a couple of scuffs but is the best bat I own at half the cost of the others
Title: Re: Buying Clearance Bats
Post by: Blank Bats on April 09, 2015, 10:55:55 AM
Do you not think that it may be possible for a bat to mature and improve with use.

Most bats do come good in the end, some sooner some later.
Title: Re: Buying Clearance Bats
Post by: WalkingWicket37 on April 09, 2015, 12:23:32 PM
Do you not think that it may be possible for a bat to mature and improve with use.

Most bats do come good in the end, some sooner some later.

Most on here never keep a bat long enough to find out! (Myself included in the past)  :-[
Title: Re: Buying Clearance Bats
Post by: ScottParko on April 09, 2015, 06:43:55 PM
My two bats I own were steals for what I paid! About this time 2 year ago I got a GN Quatro Grade 1 for £38 from Sports Direct! Then about 8 month ago got an Adidas Pellara V4 grade 1 again for £47ish from the Adidas outlet store at a retail park about 15 minutes away from me! Just what I need for the level I play at for bargain prices!
Title: Re: Buying Clearance Bats
Post by: tom line on April 09, 2015, 07:09:15 PM
Well I got a powerbow 5* for £64 from ssports direct and as been my match bat for 1 season already and probably will be for the upcoming one the only feature on it that i can see as putting someone off is the eart wood hard a really really dark grain in it from a dry season of growth which o assume people thought was bad. I have had no problems with it thus far. 
Title: Re: Buying Clearance Bats
Post by: i12breakfree on April 09, 2015, 07:34:06 PM
if you buy top grade ones in clearance you should get a decent bat.
Still there is a risk which one should be ready to take.
if you are going to buy 1 or 2 bats in the season then go for a genuine source who will show you the bat before buying.
you will have better satisfaction that way