Sports Promotion Network

This is a little hard to believe. A while back, the company where I work was contacted by Sports Promotion Network of Arlington, Texas to buy some miniature basketballs for the local high school. The idea is that these miniature basketballs would be thrown to the crowd at the high school basketball games. Sounds like a great idea? We thought so. So for a few hundred bucks, we went for the idea. A few months later, after the high school basketball season had started, we get a couple of sample miniature basketballs, in the mail. Very cool, until we see that our competition's name, logo, phone number and web address were printed on the basketballs that we purchased! I called the home office of Sports Promotion Network in Arlington, Texas and they assured me that we were shipped a couple of demos for the competition by mistake and that the only error was that WE received the wrong balls and that the local high school received the correct basketballs with our name, etc. on them.

Being the way I am, I called the local high school and guess what? All of the basketballs at the high school had the competition's name, etc. on them. I called the home office of Sports Promotion Network in Arlington, Texas again and told them about this. I even got to speak with one of the owners. They refused to correct the problem. Instead, they offered to not charge us for the basketballs. So, the local high school is out the money that they would have raised for this promotion...and the business where I work is out the promotional benefit that we were seeking and personally, I am out of a couple of hours of my time which, at times, is worth something.

I suggest that no one should do business with Sports Promotion Network of Arlington Texas. Unless you want to take a chance of getting into a hassle with people who obviously do not dot their i's or cross their t's.