ORIGINAL: Leverdude

The difference is that HE helped them & showed them what to do. They couldnt just buy one, open the box & shoot it.
I don't know about your xbow , but mine didn't come preassembled , it also didn't come with a teacher . I also have yet to see a compound that didn't arrive preassembled , and in most cases already set up to shoot since it had all the minimum gear already attached .

I may well be wrong as I've shot guns for years & when I picked up a crossbow found it much easier than a compound to master, it was almost boring.
And yet an easy to shoot compound isn't boring yet ?
One of the largest reasons I started out with a trad bow instead of a compound was that the compounds that I had tried were too easy to get used to and shoot accurately and I wanted something a little more challenging . Ironic , huh ?