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Old 06-23-2007, 01:42 PM   #1
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Default Why you need to be your own pro shop

Stories long so I'll just state the facts.
My brothers bow string became damaged.
He took it up to the local "pro shop" and was sold the wrong string, along withlittle to no help in setting it up. We were outof town on a trip.
When he returned home he went to his local "pro".
The local was supposed to change the cams and set it up.
When we picked it up it shot fine but was all wacked out of shape. I really don't know how it shot as good as it did. It did have a serious creep problem due to the stops not being even close to timed.
He shipped it to me and this is what I discoverd.
The guy didn't know the difference between a cam and a hafl and a sprial cam. He put on the wrong one. He tried to set it up with cam and a half info.I think he sold my brother some cams he had sitting around and didn't order the right ones as he claimed.
The strings were all the wrong length.
He's out close to 200 bucks.

Know what is what or be sold what you don't want or need.I think from now on I am going to also be a mobile shop when away from home even though I already take way to much. Really sucks.


Thanks for the strings gibblet. Great work! Both are bows are ready, and I know they will stay that way for some time. Even talked my brother into getting rid of the peep/tube.
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Old 06-23-2007, 05:02 PM   #2
 
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Sounds to me like your local dealer doesn't care, or doesn't know. You do have to watch what is going on at the shop. I am a Bow dealer, and enjoy working on bows and fine tuning. Don't let one bad bow shop label the rest of us. Also if you get to messing around with your bow and your not an authorized dealer, you can void your warranty.JMO
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Old 06-23-2007, 06:25 PM   #3
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Default RE: Why you need to be your own pro shop

Personally, if I owned or was the CEO of a gun or bow company I would require any and every "dealer" to take a training course on MY paticular product(s) and if you didn't know how to work on them, you wouldn't sale them.

A few companies are actually doing this now. My ex g/f's mother works at a Jon Deere dealership and they started requiring the machanics get ceritifed or they would lose the right to sale their equipment.
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Old 06-24-2007, 08:31 AM   #4
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Learning how to work on all of your equipment is always a smart idea. Whether it's your car, gun or bow.
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I want to be able to do all my own soon.
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