for full membership for a bowling ball company to have their equipment on the pba its $125,000.....even just to hav the equipment at grass roots level,(regionals etc) its something like $50,000....its no wonder that alot of companys like seismic and lane#1 cannot put the equipment on tour or have to pull out of the tour at this moment in time...its an elitist circle allowing it to happen...it means only the major companys can afford to advertise their equipment on tour...with no smaller companies capable of affording this cost its leaving the big guns with no competition whatsoever so they have no issues in paying this ridiculous cost.