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PGA Value Guide offering extra incentive to trade in your clubs

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10 years ago

Oct 1, 2016

The PGA Value Guide is offering golfers an extra incentive to trade in their golf clubs. During the month of October, the company is running a “Fall Trade-In Blitz” that will give golfers an extra 20 percent on the value of their existing clubs toward to purchase of new clubs.

“Today’s high performance drivers, fairway woods, irons and putters are generating a great return on investment in-trade,” said Doug Smith, PGA Value Guide vice president of business development. “Fall is the perfect time for golfers to trade in their existing clubs to help offset the cost of new golf club innovations hitting the market.”

The first step is to visit the PGA Value Guide’s website, which shows golfers the value of their club or clubs (including the extra 20 percent) and allows them to print a free shipping label. When the clubs are received by the company, golfers will receive credit for their trade-in, which they can use to purchase new clubs from their choice of more than 5,000 PGA Professional-staffed facilities in the PGA Trade-In Network.

Golfers can also choose to receive cash for their trade-in.

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11 Comments

Electricrph

Oct 31, 2016 at 1:28 pm

The people at the value guide never respond to emails… i was thinking about sending some clubs to them but they cant communicate before hand … then i am not sure i want to do business with them… anyone actually communicate with them??

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Mad-Mex

Oct 4, 2016 at 11:52 pm

Cheap infomercial ,,,,,,,,,,

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Justin

Oct 3, 2016 at 7:56 pm

They’ll give me $146 for a “used” M2 driver without even knowing how used it is. Not only that, they list the “resale” value of the club at $304. So you’re going to take my $146 trade in and make $158 on it while forcing me to spend the $146 I receive on merchandise that you sell instead of giving me cash? The $146 trade in money represents the “high” value for the trade in while the cheapest used M2 I could find on Ebay is $229, with most going for closer to $300.

Hurry guys, trade in your perfectly good gear for store credit you are forced to spend on overpriced gear.

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Bert

Oct 3, 2016 at 7:50 am

So now used clubs are worth 20% more than before?

Don’t trade them unless all else fails and you just have to have that small trade in value. I would suggest you donate your clubs to youth or another golfer. I played the other day and this guy didn’t have a fairway wood. I gave him one of my old clubs that had a trade in value of $35. Used clubs have little value, what does that tell you? The values in the guide are going to be very low so they can mark them up a little and try to sell them. When golfers are not buying new fixed priced clubs (can’t mark them down) values of used clubs might go up to entice you to buy. The real problem is there isn’t competitive pricing between retailers of new clubs. Retailers are not allowed to reduce or have competitive pricing on new clubs.

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- cgasucks
  
  Oct 3, 2016 at 8:43 am
  
  I know for sure that Ping is very strict to sell their new stuff no more and no less than what they want for but TM doesn’t give a crap as their clubs were heavily discounted months after release in the past (but not now).
  
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cgasucks

Oct 2, 2016 at 6:01 pm

The PGA Value Guide totally disregards prices on auction sites and classified Craigslist sites and employs desperate crackheads who want to sell stuff quick to get cash for their next fix to value to their clubs.

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BC

Oct 2, 2016 at 1:19 pm

In the post it mentions more than 5000 places the credit can be used. Does anyone have a site where I can find a list of these stores?

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- Jalan
  
  Oct 4, 2016 at 10:33 pm
  
  Open the ‘Research’ Tab. At the bottom of the page you can find a link to the list of places to use your Trade in certificate.
  
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Dan

Oct 1, 2016 at 7:39 pm

I like the picture. He’s holding one of the finest drivers ever made.

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RAT

Oct 1, 2016 at 6:31 pm

I don’t pay any attention to this sham of a guide . They low ball you so you will just buy a new set. Go to Ebay find some thing you like or sell something that you can decide if you want to give it away or stick to your guns on the price.

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Skankhunter69

Oct 1, 2016 at 10:36 am

Wow, what next on WRX, informercials for Go Dadddy and the Warrior hybrid? Shameless advertisement as a pseudo article. Surprised that it wasn’t given 5 stars.

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