Demo Day Frustrations

[disco111]

I don't know if anyone has ever had this particular problem or if it's a practice for equipment reps, but here's the story. Home course demo day a few years ago and was just killing a particular driver. It's a name brand, but to go on. After hitting close to a small bucket and as I said just killing it, I told the rep, I'll take this one. He said he couldn't sell the demo club, but could order the same one from the manufacture. We went round and round as to it won't be the same, I'm killing this one, why can't you just order a replacement and make that the demo and on and on. Even offered to pay the retail price, but to no avail. For the life of me, I could not and still cannot grasp why. Anybody else have a similar situation or know why the rep was so unwavering?

[newtogolf]

I don't know if anyone has ever had this particular problem or if it's a practice for equipment reps, but here's the story. Home course demo day a few years ago and was just killing a particular driver. It's a name brand, but to go on. After hitting close to a small bucket and as I said just killing it, I told the rep, I'll take this one. He said he couldn't sell the demo club, but could order the same one from the manufacture. We went round and round as to it won't be the same, I'm killing this one, why can't you just order a replacement and make that the demo and on and on. Even offered to pay the retail price, but to no avail. For the life of me, I could not and still cannot grasp why. Anybody else have a similar situation or know why the rep was so unwavering?

I've been to demo days where the reps offer COTS equipment to try out and others where they used shafts and heads from their fitting kits.  If it was a driver from their fitting kit they may not have wanted to be without the shaft and or head as it wouldn't be available for others to test and try.

[disco111]

I've been to demo days where the reps offer COTS equipment to try out and others where they used shafts and heads from their fitting kits.  If it was a driver from their fitting kit they may not have wanted to be without the shaft and or head as it wouldn't be available for others to test and try.

This was not the adjustable head/shaft combo, but just one of the many drivers he had in the demo bag. Still frustrates me when I think about it.

[SavvySwede]

The rep you met has a boss. His boss probably told him to not sell the demos and there simply may not have been anything he could do about.

Or, perhaps the demos are all jacked up with a nonconforming COR and they couldn't let any of them out of their hands for fear the people might find out.

[Big C]

The rep you met has a boss. His boss probably told him to not sell the demos and there simply may not have been anything he could do about. Or, perhaps the demos are all jacked up with a nonconforming COR and they couldn't let any of them out of their hands for fear the people might find out.

Bingo. Happens all the time in corporate America. Maybe there was a valid reason they had for not selling you the demo club. Or maybe the boss just "said so'," and the rep was too lazy or too scared of challenging that directive to try and accommodate your request.