BOWFANATIC: If you have several good PRO Shops, I hope you and your friends support them. If they are trying to get a certain bow line, find out who the Sales Manager is for that line and call or write to them supporting your shop(s). Some manufacturers don't have Reps in the field and would probably respond quicker than you would think.
Absolutely! We'd rather pay a few $$ more and keep them around. About ten years ago we found out the hard way why to purchase items from your local proshop rather than internet sales. We lost the best proshop we had around for over 25 years because he couldn't compete with internet sales.
We also got Hoyt into another local shop by doing exactly what you said. For years he couldn't get them because Sheels Sports had them already. When we finally got a rep to stop by the shop and check out the range it wasn't 2 weeks before he had Hoyts on his rack.
We're now trying to get some Diamonds around here.