Here is a direct quote from SAW_EM_OFF (Kevin Blackmer , Lane 1 staffer)from the message board on the Lane 1 site

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well either of us "mike" or myself get paid to do any kind of promo or demo. now mike is a very busy business hit the grind kind of guy, he really doesn't have much time to even eat.lol but he does what he can.

me on the other hand i am 60% disabled veteran, who hasn't had a job in 7 months. i have even went into debt going out of my way doing the whole pro-shop -to pro-shop in houston and got no where fast. other then broker then broke. with no help from lane#1, all i got from them was and I quote " well we didn't ask you to do that" i will no longer go out of my way to do anything special. I will on the other hand for business like selling the lane#1 equipment which i have produced 98% of all sales in houston are through ME, person to person face to face sales. i have purchased almost 5,000 from lane#1 just this year alone and of course i have sold all that .

what bothers me is when i am told by lane#1 hey your gonna get this or your gonna get that and they don't deliver. well after a couple times of that then i pretty much don't hold my breath on anything.

now lets talked about some facts and maybe get prepared for what maybe coming.

1.it wasn't till feb or later when lane#1 said oh where not haveing a booth this year, but we all heard that form outside this forum. then richie posts it up.

2.then i was told that lane#1 was going bankrupt

3.then you dj, heard on other sites that theres no pba reg for lane#1,
well then when pressed by you guys richie come on the forum and lets us know, what is going on. if you noticed that change in his writeing and match that with course of actions i have just posted on number 2. richie stats the economy is bad, which we all know it sucks right now. but he also went on to saying that the BANK LOANS had caught up with the sales. that means when that happends it's the end of the road partner, if not then its not far away.

lane#1 is takeing some HUGE sales loss due to this mishap, which i wish richie the best.
its not easy for him to say no we can't do this summer. that is a tuff bullet to bite for any business owner who has molded this awesome company by his bare hands 18 years ago, well for those who know it really started before that even. anyways i'm not sure where lane#1 will be in the next season, but you know visionary has no registration but they have several offiicial staff players who get a lot of equipment. and there smaller then lane#1 mmmmmm.. whats wrong with that picture.


well i am not being ugly i am just letting those who don't know, KNOW!!
i'm not sure where i am going to be next JAN.

i wish everyone the very best. remember you can only change what you physically can touch.


kevin       "

Looks like Richie and the boys are in serious financial trouble ,which is sad.