Currently there are approximately 3 million Americans who live with type 1 diabetes.  Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease in which the body’s immune system attacks and destroys the insulin-producing cells of the pancreas.  To stay alive, people with type 1 diabetes must take multiple insulin injections daily or continually infuse insulin through a pump.

This is a cause that hits close to home with the PoolDawg family, as both PoolDawg player rep Sarah Rousey and the daughter of PoolDawg’s Marketing Director both live with type 1 diabetes.  As a first step in raising awareness and bringing support to this cause, members of Team PoolDawg will be taking part in the annual Walk to Cure Diabetes September 12th in Denver, Colorado.

If anyone reading this would like to support this cause, feel free to click the ribbon below which will take you to the team donation page.  Be sure to check back after the event for pictures.  Who knows, Frank T. Dawg might even stow away and make an appearance.

JDRF Walk to Cure Diabetes

When you go to a cue page, you’ll be given the option via a dropdown of either selecting a free gift or upgrading your case.  What you’ll notice is that the cases in the upgrade dropdown are $5.00 cheaper than normal.  Basically, you’re getting to apply the value of the most expensive freebie toward the purchase of a better case.  It looks something like this:

We’re working on some other stuff as well, so keep an eye out for other site upgrades over the next few weeks!

As always, if you have any questions, just drop us an email or give us a call.

Later this month, we’ll be offering something that our customers have been asking for – tip changes!  We’ve got the lathe, we’ve got a guy that knows how to do tip changes and shaft repair, so all we need to do is get the functionality built on the website.

The PoolDawg Lathe

The way it’s going to work is as follows.  When you buy a new cue or shaft on the PoolDawg website, you’ll have the option to stick with the standard tip or upgrade.  Moori, Kamui, Tiger, whatever tip you want, if we have it in stock, we’ll install it for you.  If you choose to upgrade your tip, it will take a couple of extra days for delivery.

Once we have that worked out, we’ll also be offering shaft tune ups and tip changes for customer cues.  Customers will ship in their shaft with instructions and we’ll get it cleaned up for you.  Look for all this to happen by the end of August.

In addition, we’re changing how we display our cues.  For years, we’ve shown our cues with a picture that looks something like this:

This did a nice job showing the work on the forearm, but it was confusing at times for customers.  So, we’ve decided to straighten it out a bit.  Our new cue thumbnails will look like this:

A small change, but we feel that it does a better job showing the entire butt of the cue.  As always, let us know what you think!

We wanted to get some feedback on this payment option, so eBillme was nice enough to offer a special deal for PoolDawg customers where you’ll get $10 off your order if you spend $100 or more when you pay with eBillme. Here’s how it works:

• Select your items and proceed to the checkout
• Select eBillme as your payment option
• Enter the code SAVE10EBM at the Ebillme checkout (the code only works there, not in the PoolDawg discount code box in the shopping cart)

Once you enter the code, you’ll see ten bucks come off your bill total. Once you pay your bill, we’ll ship out your order.  This is a completely new way to shop online, so needless to say we’re excited to hear your feedback.  Be sure to check out all the stores that offer eBillme as a payment option in eBillme’s debt free shopping portal and the eBillme blog (where they were nice enough to give us a mention!).

Ohio State Cue Ball By Frenzy Sports

This is going to be a “first come, first serve” deal.  No guarantees on availability, but we will let you know if you order one that we run out of.  For some schools we’v'e got decent stock, but there are handful where we only have 1 or 2 left.  The complete list is below with our stock status as of 11AM MST 6/29/10.