A couple of months ago our new cat chewed the string apart on my son's bow and arrow. The bow was a Christmas gift almost two years old, but used quite often. Being it was his first bow it was fairly cheap($60). Well as the tears begin to fall from my lil guy's face, I take to Amazon.com to find replacement strings. It's just strings, how hard can this be? I did manage to find one style but wasn't the one I needed. The price, 6.95. With chewed strings in hand I make a trip to Academy Sports. No strings to be found. The gentleman was nice enough to refer me to Wiley's which was on my way out of town.
Upon walking into the store, I see the bow section in the back. I stand at the counter for over 5 minutes while the man behind the counter proceeds to ignore me. Another man walks up whom he quickly acknowledges. I'm already running late and now I'm getting angry. I butt into the conversation (after all I have been standing there getting ignored for almost 10 minutes). The worker tells me that they do not have strings. I need to bring the bow in and have him professionally string it himself. Bear in mind, the bow only cost $60 at the most to begin with now he wants me to pay him to professionally string the cheap thing....No Thank You.
The following week I see a bow just like the one with the missing string on sale at Sports Authority. I make a trip in and they are all sold out. Thankfully I run into my friends husband who works there. He tells me to go to Dicks and ask for this gentleman he knows. I go to Dicks and once again in a dept full of men I'm totally ignored. I find a different bow I decide to purchase. I get home and it is too hard for my son to use.
I decide to once again resort to the internet. I type in the name of our bow and finally find ONE website that has what appears to be the same. As I'm about to purchase the bow I see there a link for replacement strings. They were 6.95. I ordered them. Fearing that I would have to have the bow pressed like the man in Wileys, the man in Sports Authority and my step brother kept telling me, I wasn't sure if I was going to be able to fix the bow. A week later the strings arrive. I pull them out of the package and place one loop on one end and a loop on the other and TAA DAAA a fixed bow. Yes it was that simple. Every man I spoke with kept telling me that it was a complicated procedure even after I told them it was just a cheap bow not used for hunting.
Bottom line is they would not listen to what I was saying. I just wanted strings to put in a bow so my son could shoot it in the backyard. I didn't want it so tight he couldn't pull it back. I wanted it just like it was before. For 6.95 and an internet order, I finally succeeded.
