Man, you guys crack me up. Just listening to some of you gloat about how great "your" company is, if I didn't know better, I'd think you guys were CEO and majority shareholder. LOL

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Personally, I think they're all ripoff artists. They do nothing but rape the consumer at every turn in the road... They monopolize the market through protected dealerships, overpriced parts, overpriced products and ruthlessly false advertising.

Look at Hoyt/Easton... These are the slimebags who insisted on building 5000 different sizes and shapes of arrows, then cornering the market on the components that fit their odd shaft diameters - and rape you at the point-of-sale just for a stupid uni-bushing. They put practically everyone else out of business, so the sky is the limit on their pricing policies. Just dirty trick after dirty trick... Another favorite of mine were the draw-length specific cams. Wanna sell your bow? Better find a buyer with the same draw length, or he's gonna take onefor the teamwhen he has to order new cams. Oh yeah, it has a lifetime warranty - but we won't tell you that it expires when you sell the bow.

Bows didn't cost $800 (bare) 10-15 years ago. Granted, costs have gone up, but not by that much... They're still using the same components (6061-T6 Aluminum cut on a CNC machine) and Gordon Glass raw materials...Raw material and labor costs don't just triple in 12 years.

What really twists the knife, for me at least - is not WHAT they do, but WHO they're doing it to. Look, if some luxury boat manufacturer wants to assrapeRichie Rich on theprice ofhis 72 foot yacht, have at it. But these people are taking advantage of the lower middle class. Most of their customers (honestly) have a better use for $1000 than blowing it on a bow, seriously. I concede that the buyer is mostly to blame, and people have to understand their finances and priorities before they go out and drop a grand on a stupid bow.. But itreally bothers me when you see some guy posing outside his house-trailer with a $1200 new Vulcan with all the trimmings - and it looks like a refugee camp in the background.

Maybe I just have more sympathy for the working class...

The collusion and price-fixingbetween these mfr's makes me sick...and the fact that they market this junk so hard that they convincegood hard-working peoplethat they 'need' it.

Put it this way - I know what bowtech charges its LOWVOLUMEdealers for their bows, and there's a lot of money being sucked out of the consumer - who's paying for WAY more than he's getting.Since every other mfr is building basically the same thing - theiroverhead and dealer pricing can't be much different.

So, y'all wonder why I boycott Hoyt/Easton, Bowtech, Mathews, PSE.... This is why. I think they're reprehensible in every possible way. They just keep taking every opportunity to pull the wool over peoples' eyes, and that really scorches me.

That's why I support any newcomers to the marketplace, hoping that someday, somebody will crush the old boys club and bring prices back down to respectable levels - and stop the price gouging.

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