Have any of you experienced Patterson Dental taking your payment or down payment for equipment and not placing the money in your account for months? I believe they are padding their profits. I believe that is why their profits dropped so drastically when financing became a problem. The loss of the financing was felt much more deeply in Patterson because they were using the down payment (aka principal payments) to pad their profits making them look like they had more sales than they actually did. In other words they had the equipment and the money. I believe their investors (some of whom sued them in 2005) would love to hear about that. Not to mention the SEC.