Regardless of how you explain it, there are still people that look for attractiveness. A ball like a Double Agent may fit their game great, but they still don't want a ball that looks like a blob of crap.

Shelf appeal does have a lot to do with selling a ball, especially to impulse buyers.

you never fail to amaze me. just like the website you made it if looks like crap nobody is gonna want anything from it. even if you have experience it cant compare to somebody who has been drilling balls longer then you have been alive.

its a consumer market, which means you give the customer what they want, if its a certain color so be it.

i hang around in my local proshop alot and i have seen somebody pick what ball they wanted just because they liked the smell.

alot of bowlers don't know or care what coverstock/core combo are in bowling balls, they just want something that looks good (or smells good) going down the lane.

i have talked to some very experience ball drillers and what they have told me is if the customer asks for something that you know is wrong you recommend for them to get something else, if they still want it tell them one more time, if they still want it, you take their money punch holes in it and send them on their way.

Edited on 6/27/2007 2:41 PM

it might just be me but when i think of a zone i think of the an awesome ball with a mean aggressive look. logos like the zone pro series, the time zone, demolition zone, danger zones, red alert overseas balls, azure zone, things like that. i hate the way the strike zone, red zone looked, and now they bring these soft looking kiddie balls out. i am sad.
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