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Agreed, what they should say is, "they won't let us sell that for less at our current purchase volume" which is the primary key. There is obviously a solution otherwise businesses such as TDL, scubatoys.com, scuba.com, divesports.com and others wouldn't be "Authorized" retailers and would be operating no differently than LP. Even at lower volume or restrictive manf. regs, as you pointed out there are ways around it in order to be successful. It just takes pulling the blinders off and a little forward thinking outside of the box, bend the rules but not break them. Eventually, the manufacturers will adapt, but by the time most shops try to jump on board it'll be too late for them, only the strong will survive and someone else will dream up a new and improved business model to get everybodys panties in a wad. Scuba survived without the LDS before and it may come full circle eventually in the non dive resort areas of the US like Arizona. I see clubs filling a large part of the void. IMODive-aholic:The reason most don't go e-tailer is because the manufacturers/distributors scare them into not doing it. I've talked to a couple of shop owners in SC AZ and all I hear is "so-so won't let us sell that for less". What they don't realize is that there are ways around that.
-Garrett