RE: Pro Shop Blues
THERE IS NO EXCUSE WHATSOEVER FOR THE BEHAVIOR OF THE DEALER THAT YOU WENT TO AUSSIE!
I know lots of dealers have had poor luck selling Bowtechs for a couple of reasons and the jerks like you ran into today make it even tougher.
Lot's of dealers both fail to attend the AMO show and thus don't get themselves truely educated on the product. Combine this with the fact that most of the Archery Magazines that the average Archery customer reads tout every bow that is advertised in their pages as being pretty darn swell. Look at the article in the new Peterson's Bowhunting on 12 forgiving bows. Is there anything in the article that would make you pay an extra $200 for a given bow? They all sound terrific.
Archer's Retreat, Bowhunting.com and the Bowsite tend to get the Seriously Addicted or Pro, the Serious Enthusiast, and the Soon to Be Serious Enthusiast visiting them. Though there is tremendous buzz among the true would be Bowtech customers, there is no such buzz among the average Joe that picks up Bowhunting or Bowhunter at the corner newstand. But there is Mathew's buzz at this point in time.
So a lot of decent and not so decent "Bowtech Dealers" do have some of last years Bowtechs on the shelf. This leads some of them to badmouth the product.
Now as some of you know I was very unhappy with one of their warranty provisions, but I have never thought that the bows were other than first cabin.
Bowtech would be better having availability for all through those such as Len and Pinwheel as well as through their true quality dealers. Having meatheads represent your products is of less value than not to be sure.