Took some of  my equipment to a local pro shop to have a few balls cleaned and polished/dulled when the operator began to berate my equipment and driller. Here are  just a few tidbits from the conversation.

About my Crossroad "I hope you didn't pay much for that, it's drilled wrong. The MB is on the track".

I have been practicing a 2handed release for the last 2-3 weeks so I let him know that the track will differ greatly from when the ball was originally drilled right now.

"I have never seen a Crossroad drilled this weak, don't know why your driller did that"

I responded in kind letting the operator know that I worked with my driller to make my Crossroad fit in between my Roto Outlaw and Roto Bandit, which it does. Also, the pin was just kicked out a bit, a very normal standard drill.

Have you all ever encountered a pro shop owner like this one? When I told him who my driller was, he recognized the driller as a mutual associate and immediately stopped trying to tear down my equipment. I wrote it off as a ploy to get me to panic and say by golly can you drill me a new piece correctly but still felt the overall experience was awful. I only stop in to get things restored back to OOB surfaces on occasion but don't even want to do that going forward. Really rubbed me the wrong way.

How would you or how have you responded to operators like this guy?

If he was the best around and was correct in what he said, I would listen and take in the good while disregarding the chatter.

Let's face it, some drillers need to. be criticized. I have a friend that purchases a hammer brick. He has no flexibility in his middle finger last joint. It was cut off and the sewed back on.  The driller drilled the span scretched.  It was so bad that my friend could no throw the ball unless he put his thumb had way in the ball.

Any pro shop seeing this would have been justified in making statements similar to the ones you experienced.