You know, I've been trying for AGES to get a logon registered with AMF300s forum, and all it EVER does, is to "lock up" once I've filled in all the necessary information and attempt to enter it!? Anyone else having this problem?
I've thrown AMF exclusively for a long time, had to take a couple years off, and when I came back, I found that AMF had virtually disappeared. Now they're back with good equipment, and I'm once again exclusively throwing AMF. But they just don't seem to take care of their LOYAL customers very well! It's no wonder they keep going "belly-up"!
And it doesn't matter whether it's AMF, Columbia, or Track. Try joining to get supposedly "advance" information about new equipment coming out, and you'll find that your read about it here and other places on the internet LONG before you get their notices in the mail or by email! I've even had the new gear drilled and throwing it long before the notices come to me! What's up with that?
And then people wonder why bowling is having such a hard time surviving! I am preesently a member of our local bowling association and all they seem to care about is getting everything done to ensure we join the new USBC!? Not a bit of time is spent on what I consider to be the most important job of a board of directors (and I've been an association president before) and that's to "promote the sport of bowling"! Our town has only one bowling center that caters to a very small number of individuals. It's lanes are dressed for south paws because the owner is a south paw! He and a couple other lefties average over 235, but when they leave town, they can't carry duece! I bowl in the small military base lanes here (8 lanes) and we have a good, HONEST, shot! I carry only about 10 pins less on base than I do out in town. However, everyone else seems to carry about 15-30 less on base than out in town. And bowling membership continues to decline!
My point is, that I've told several other board members that we'll still have a board of directors patting themselves on the back for how good a job they're doing, the day the local center closes it's doors! And they'll still say it's not their fault that bowling went under here in this town! The ABC, and soon to be USBC (because it'll be pretty much the same people running it) simply seem to want "power" over all others! The center in town continually has things found wrong with their lanes, their pin placements, and so on, but when these things are reported and help is asked for, the national level simply says to "handle it"! Now how can we handle it when THEY (the national level) won't even write a letter, or assess points against the center? When they'll do NOTHING!?
The power of the association becomes moot point, because it has NO power!
I don't know what the answer is here, and it's fairly obvious that NO ONE in the bowling industry has ANY answers either! That's why it's dying. So I guess I shouldn't be surprised when AMF300, or any other bowling company, does not impress me with their business practices!
It just really hurts me to see the sport I love so much being destroyed by the apathy of the people with the most power to do something about it!
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Semper Fi! AMForce Rocks!
