Bowling ball pricing?

[GeoLes]

I follow a cycling forum and I hear the same agrument all the time. The big online shops are so much cheaper. why is the local shop so much cheaper? Big warehousers can buy in bulk at discount rates. No display costs and chaeaper costs all around. Buy a cheaper ball they take on of the 30 or so they have in the store room, slap a label on it, ship it to you. You can't run a pro shop like that. You can't stock enough of everything everybody wants. If you don't sell it, you are stuck with it and you have very tiight overhead costs.

On the other side of the coin, try walking into a big retailer to have the thumb hole tweaked (If you can find out where to go.).

support your local pro shop whenever you can.

[billf]

I've ordered stuff and it was shipped straight from the manufacturer. With that, the on-line retailer doesn't even have to stock it. It took the same time to get to me as if the pro shop had ordered it.

Another thing to remember bowlers. In most states, the shop has to pay taxes on inventory at the end of the year (fiscal or calendar depending on state). So be understanding if around that time your equipment has to be ordered. Unless you want that cost passed on to you.