It wasn't perhaps sitting on the towel in the box outside the bag was it? Or was the towel resting on top of it on that spot? I had one of those, and I use the microfiber towels underneath my bowling balls in the bag to cushion them and because sometimes dirt or debris or something gets in the plastic cups in the ball bags and can scratch the ball surface. HOWEVER, with the yellow Misfit, I had it sitting on a black towel, and it started "bleeding" onto the ball, or it started absorbing the color and that put a similar looking darker spot on the ball. Even the gray towel "bled" some color onto it.