Why can't a dealer order and stock bows and whatever they dont sell, send back to the company, for example, Bowtech or Mathews?

My proshop WILL NOT stock a left handed Mathews, cuz they say it wont sell, yet every lefty in the county goes there..

I dont understand why the COMPANY can't take the bow back.. Its still brandnew...

You are not going to like my answer.

If every Mathews dealer ordered from mathews one (draw lenght & model)of every bow they produced in both right & left hand. Then shipped back the bows that did not sell?
Mathews would be eating a ton of bows at the end of the model year. That is not good business.

so true or maybe its because mathwes knows that hoyt is better hahahah

Yeah, I would buy that!!

Seriously, it's all about overhead. To have bows just hanging on the wall costs money, money that dealer's don't want to spend. The less overhead, the less cost which also equates into a bow they can sell a bit cheaper, which causes more to sell. It's a vicious circle. Wolf killer is also right in that the company (mathews or whoever) would eat the cost of those bows. Which is also why the shop doesn't want them, they don't want to eat the cost. We don't stock many lefties, either, for that very reason. They just don't sell very often. We keep a couple, but not many at all. I think right now there are only 2 hanging on the wall, and we had buyers for those before we got them in.

I feel your pain.............read my $2,000 for Bowtech thread and you will see that you are not alone in your misery.

I have 13 left-handed bows in the shop right now in many major brands. For instance I have BowTech Tribute and Allegiance and Hoyt Trykon and Trykon XL, just to name a few.

From stocking them for many years, it has become well known that they are readily available in my shop. Working with the manufacturers so that cam switches can be made at a very nominal cost makes things easier.

Once you get established as a left-hand stocking shop, word will get around.

Len,

Do you guys sell all your lefties, or do you end up with leftovers? I have been stocking left handed accessories at our shop and am having a tough time moving them.....I can't imagine unloading 13 left bows in a year and we live in a fairly populated area that has a huge archery following due to being a bowhunting only county. We have 2x lefty XT's, 2x lefty PSE Diablos, and we have had about 4 lefty Liberty 1's. We have moved 3 of the liberty 1's, and 1 of the XT's since January, that's it. Just curious.

Yes, we have some left over at the end of the year, but we also have right-handed bows left over. We usually put them into 'packages' for Christmas specials and offer discounts to move them for new stock.

You have to build up to a given number of bows. If you have a large customer base, the stocking of left-handed bows and accessories will grow over time. I just noticed yesterday that we're running low on left-handed rests. It was just a short time ago that I was thinking that they weren't moving very fast.

Like everything you stock, you have to 'guage' your purchases.

But what i dont understand is, why wont the Mathews, Bowtech, Hoyt, ETC companies take back the UNUSED Brandnew bow if you dont sell it?

What are they going to do with all of the previous years models that didn't sell when everyone returns them? They have to gague their manufacturing on how many bows that are actually selling. Not on how many dealers are not selling.

There are very few "guaranteed sells" where the manufacturer accepts returned items that didn't sell at the end of the year. When it does happen it is usually anew company that needs to get their name out there and they offer this as incentive for a dealer to take them on as a new vendor. The major names do not have to do this as they are already established in the industry.