read my post and then read the other mike30083 post.

Edited on 4/18/2009 5:01 PM

Kenny .. I could NOT find the posting you are referencing .. curious were you the only potential buyer of the 60 balls he offered? Was wondering if ANYONE did make purchases? What I'm asking is did ANY ONE else post interest in his SALE posting?
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Kenny .. I don't know the seller or am I attempting to DEFEND him. I am trying to understand the problem! You saw balls for sale .. you intended to buy 2 at a good price! You sent email to the seller .. the seller did not respond .. you were looking for these balls for a particular tournament. With NO RESPONSE from the seller you went out and purchased the balls locally and had to pay a larger price.

The seller did not converse with you .. so you were not LIED too. The seller did not take your money and NOT DELIVER so you did not get robbed. The seller did not deceive you into expecting the balls and not delivering!

So it comes down to the fact that you had high expectations and are disappointed. You saw an opportunity to get balls cheap and YOU DIDN'T.

I don't know if the seller is a SAINT .. but the only complaint you have is that you didn't get the sale you were hoping for.

What am I missing?
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Further response to Joe Falco's reply to a previous reply. A Pro Shop exists for three reasons. They are there to provide the bowling centers customers with quality service. Second, they are there to provide customer maintenance, (ie. service and maintain their customers equipment). Lastly, they are there
to sell a product IF their customer needs it. When you are in a customer related, customer driven sales business, the most important thing that you provide as a pro shop operator is customer satisfaction, no matter what the customer needs. IF you cannot provide that, you will not be successful. I am
in the sales industry myself and I know that the very first thing that I do when I go to work, is to check my email, check my phone messages and respond to
my potential customers promptly and courteously. The last thing that I do before I go to bed at night is to repeat that process all over again and make myself notes to return all messages as soon as possible. THAT is how you do
things, if my customers have to call me 6 or 7 times before I return their calls or answer their messages, then there is a very GOOD chance that someone
else will get their business, AND they will tell their friends about the way
that they were neglected. That is why the online discount ball companies have been able to establish the foothold that they have,it is because of the pro shop operators that treat their pro shops as a secondary business, almost a necessary nuisnace when they are at the shop. This guy owns two pro shops, plus a landscape business, if he answered his messages, he would sell more product. THAT is NOT hard to understand. IF you don't want to sell product, DON'T POST AD's saying that you have this or that for sale and then neglect to return PM's or Posts. When you are at the pro shop, it should be treated like any other business in which you want to be successful, ie. CUSTOMER SERVICE!!! The online distributors are impersonal, they don't care WHY you want that ball, if they have it, you pay for it,they send it.  Just my .02 cents worth, Ken Dukes

I know how bad it feels to want a ball on here that is "supposedly" for sale. And I know what you are going thru and that it sucks. But is making all these posts about this guy neccessary? I can understand having one post just asking if anyone has dealt with this guy and stating your business. But to me this situation feels like it is getting slightly out of hand. I am not backing up this Mike guy at all. I am backing you up on this 100%. All I'm trying to say is just relax and try to work things out. Maybe there was a reason as to why he wasn't responding? Messages got lost? Messages never reached this guy? Or maybe he's just been too busy to check in on things. But if what I jsut said isn't true, and that he is in fact avoiding your messages and interest about his balls for sale. Then he's just another one to be very cautious with when making a deal. Trust me.... I do know how it feels. I've been through worse. There was one time about a year ago... I made a deal with some guy on a different website. I was trading my 16lb T-Road Pearl for his 15lb Complete NV. Plus I also threw in $10 or $20 so he could plug the ball and resurface it for me. I sent mine out. Days kept going by with no response or ball. I finally hear from the guy saying he got mine but didn't get a chance to ship his out yet because it was still waiting to be plugged and resurfaced. Days kept going by with more excuses. Then eventually the excuses turned into no communication at all. I never recieved the ball. I ended up losing a ball and about 10 or 20 bucks. BTW if anyone wants to try to reach him for me... His AIM name is easyonthemayo.
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