[firstboat]

tjones have you checked AT ?

 

[glassbow201]

My next call would be to mathews letting them know why I am buying their competitor's product.

 

[water snake 2]

t:I LOVE that good, American companies are hamstringing themselves with ridiculous area distributor agreements rather than simpler MAP structures. Who cares which distributor sells to which area as long as they're selling your product?

I call Draves, they can't ship to an out of state address. Don't agree with it, but OK.

Call my closest local shop. No answer. Not really a surprise, haven't seen anyone there since deer season. Piss on this guy if he's never open, I'll just buy from somewhere else.

Call the next closest place (60 miles away mind you) they can't take orders over the phone. Even if I pay in full? - Nope, have to come to the store. Not happy, but it's only 120 miles. Practically slips right off the tongue if you say it fast. So I tell him to ship it to me when it arrives. Nope, have to come to the store to pick it up! Now we're 240 miles and the travel expense is rapidly approaching the cost of the damn bow. I give the guy the WTF and heretofor and he tells me it's all because of the Mathews distributorship license. Reading to me over the phone "No Mathews products shall be shipped from the distributor location except for warranty/repair... noncompliance will result in termination of license agreement plus financial penalties in the amount of $..." Blah, blah, blah, BS.

And we wonder why the Chinese are taking over the world... :rage:

check diamond bows i bet they ship.

 

[firstboat]

check diamond bows i bet they ship.

diamond does............... bowtech doesnt oxymoron

 

[whiteriverrambo]

all bow mfg. and distributors are pretty much a joke. even finding a "pro"shop that knows much is rare. in the 90's little archery shops where everywhere. now there's very few. the strides that archery has made in the last 15yrs is handicapped by thier retailers that A: just want to sale you another bow and have no service capabilities. or B: dont care if they sale you anything at all because they get so tired of educating countless morons that arnt sure witch end of a bow to hold. If I myself need something that i cannot handle here at home with my presses and minimum tools im forced to drive at least 60miles to reputable service professional. unless i need something for a brand that that shop doesnt carry, then its 50 in the opposite direction.

I dont buy anything "NEW" anymore,typically a 6 month old bow can be picked up at a pretty good discount and the cost for fine tuning or fixing others mistakes are usually minimal. just keep in mind most people have no idea what they are doing and every bow that comes used probly has something keeping it from performing to its potential. the whole warranty bit is a laughable with the exception of alpine and pse. These two have far surpassed my expectations on multiple occasions.

yes it is sad, thats why i take it upon myself to be self reliant and try my best to be able to repair anything i can get my hands on. after a few major over hauls on some trashed equipment and you will find that really most of the bows that need help really dont need a whole lot of money just some serving and a propperly tuned cable and string system that has to be timed. unless your talking a lever bow then your talking alot of money to replace model specific cables.

 

[spineshanker88]

Mathews does not cover a shipped bow for warranty, whether it is the first owner or not. Needs to be bought in store for warranty to apply.

This doesn't make sense bc Mathews will not ship a bow directly to you. They need to be ordered through a retailer and then purchased from that retailer

 

[spineshanker88]

all bow mfg. and distributors are pretty much a joke. even finding a "pro"shop that knows much is rare. in the 90's little archery shops where everywhere. now there's very few. the strides that archery has made in the last 15yrs is handicapped by thier retailers that A: just want to sale you another bow and have no service capabilities. or B: dont care if they sale you anything at all because they get so tired of educating countless morons that arnt sure witch end of a bow to hold. If I myself need something that i cannot handle here at home with my presses and minimum tools im forced to drive at least 60miles to reputable service professional. unless i need something for a brand that that shop doesnt carry, then its 50 in the opposite direction.

I dont buy anything "NEW" anymore,typically a 6 month old bow can be picked up at a pretty good discount and the cost for fine tuning or fixing others mistakes are usually minimal. just keep in mind most people have no idea what they are doing and every bow that comes used probly has something keeping it from performing to its potential. the whole warranty bit is a laughable with the exception of alpine and pse. These two have far surpassed my expectations on multiple occasions.

yes it is sad, thats why i take it upon myself to be self reliant and try my best to be able to repair anything i can get my hands on. after a few major over hauls on some trashed equipment and you will find that really most of the bows that need help really dont need a whole lot of money just some serving and a propperly tuned cable and string system that has to be timed. unless your talking a lever bow then your talking alot of money to replace model specific cables.

I agree to an extent there's quite a bit of pro shops that know what they're doing at least everywhere I've been. Big name shops however, have no clue. I trust the shops around TN/KY/LA to work on stuff that I can't as I no longer have a bow press, the guys at Backwater have a ton of knowledge and have always done me right. As far as warranties, I've owned Mathews religiously for 11 yrs and just recently chose to shoot a Hoyt both companies have surpassed my expectations with their warranties, working in a mathews shop for 4yrs I've seen a lot of idiotic stuff, the most common being guys dropping their bows out of treestands and dry firing. Dry firing is clearly not Mathews fault so they won't cover the damage but neither is dropping them out of trees and I've never seen Mathews hesitate to replace the limbs or whatever may be damaged minus accessories. Mathews is a very good company and will do their best to make things right within reason.

 

[firstboat]

This doesn't make sense bc Mathews will not ship a bow directly to you. They need to be ordered through a retailer and then purchased from that retailer

Correct, but after that bow gets to the retailer (shop that sells mathews) you must buy that bow and pick it up from their shop. There are shops that will sell you the bow over the phone and ship it to you but then the warranty is void. Or this has at least been my experience

 

[spineshanker88]

A retailer will lose their contract if Mathews finds out about that.