That works out to about 1/2 price. You should be thankfull. I have found Falcon makes a darn good rod. You Broke the Rod and they sold you another at half the cost and you are unhappy?
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i have to agree with the previous poster, i dont see why u are upset, they honored there commitment after u broke the rod. If it broke the first 1 or 2 times u fished I can understand a manufacturers defect. but u used that thing for almost year.

Yes I am disappointed I keep a log when I fish and it broke on the 5th trip out,b I shouldn't be but for 229.00 It should have lasted better than that, now I have $344.00 in a rod , sorry if this bothers people but I'm not satisfied, they said I lifted rod strait up with fish on and I didn't because I swung it up on the deck , oh well they are good rods if they don't break

then i will give u my rod breaking experience. I have had to send 2 rods back to Shimano
first was a crucial 3 years ago. They sent me back 2 new rods. Second was a cumulus that broke about 1 month ago
. they sent me back a new shimano Jackall rod. there were no questions asked on either returns. It just cost me
the shipping to there office. Both times, I had expected to shell out some money for a new rod.

Well I am a pretty avid angler and deal with Bass mostly but I also live about 300 yards from a boat ramp that is 10 minutes from the open gulf. I deal with a lot bigger fish than the little green ones. I can count on one hand how many rods I have broken in 57 years of walking this earth. Maybe you should consider your rod storage options or try out some lightning rods or Ugly sticks. That is what I use to pull in Bull Reds with which I assure you are a bigger tuss on the end of the rod than a little green fish.

A lot of what I see in the Bass industry is guys that are clamping down their drags and not allowing them to slip as they are designed to do. They then put 50 braid on them (I use this fishing oil rigs for Snapper against the barnacles) and do hard snap sets. Something has to give, The line, The Rod, the reel, the fish's mouth or the arm.

Remember, all it takes is one good hard slap on the trolling motor, the side of the boat, a lure hitting the rod tip during a cast or something similar to shatter these thin high modulus rod blanks. Then the next stress put on the rod will break it.