I met Alan at Carlisle and picked up a pad for the AAR at the Nationals. The first one he tried to give me was lifting at the vent slots, he said something about seconds which desturbed me. He got another shipment Saturday morning and the one I got seemed to be fine, time will tell. The thing that really bothered me was that he was gonna try to pass the bad one off to me like I wouldn't notice. This is after making prior arrangements and payment to pick it up and carrying my core from Florida. He actually charged me more than I over heard him offer pads to other as a show price, not a significant amount but $20 is $20. Duely noted.

Just my experience.