Not ripping ANYONE....
But here is the problem. This has turned into a personal issue. This is exactly what happened many times in the Lane 1 forum, when someone would step up and state a comment not consistant with what the Lane 1 users thought. This person was rediculed and almost ran out of town for even bringing up a contra point. What that caused is potential customers to stop buying Lane 1 products. Even though as far as I know there is only maybe 1 higher up in Lane 1 on here, people who were rediculed then turned on Lane 1 as they associated the people on this forum doing the rediculing as a Lane 1 rep since they promoted Lane 1 for everything. Ask Nova how that turned out...he had 50+ Lane 1s, almost had all of them, and then simply sold them off after he was tired on the continous senselessness from some of the posters in the Lane 1 forum. Nova got tired of their slams and simply said thats enough. Granted, Lane 1 or any other company may not feel the effect of 1 or 2 less ball sales here and there, but if many people log onto here and got turned off to the product, this can start to have an effect.
What I am trying to say here is JLS, I know exactly where you are coming from defending a product. It is a great product from San Antonio. However, you do not want to get into the name calling and then have potential customers to Global not buy the product due to someone poking and prodding and doing name calling. It could very easily turn a sale away, especially from a smaller company which is not readily available on the internet due to the sales practices Global enforces. Not only does this have a detrimental effect on you as a pro shop operator, then you have all of the execs from Global not too happy as we know Eric and Phil and who knows else posts on here and reads here everyday. If they see your posts are turing away customers, it could come back to haunt you. Take the high road, look past the snide remarks if thrown at you, and just promote the product as you have been and everything will be fine.
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