Thread: Leupold Parts- Firedot battery cover NEEDED

Originally Posted by Dicko

McNotty, that is the Swarovski model (Agency model). Everyone sells at the same price.
Over here Nioa do negotiate and provide better prices with shops in exchange for volume buys.
I dont think the margins are great on small volume purchases to allow much discounting other wise.
Talking to a LGS owner recently, alot of Zerotech scopes are going out the door and its impacting Leupold sales.

That is illegal in NZ. It’s called Resale Price Maintenance. It is a breach of the law if supplier of goods:
- Specifies a price (they can recommend only)
- Takes certain action to enforce that specified price. (Eg Threatens to stop supply or increase wholesale prices)

https://comcom.govt.nz/business/avoi...ce-maintenance

No doubt it occurs because most are too scared to expose it as it’ll possibly affect their livelihood.

I’ll never forget a conversation with a large retail store manager, he was complaining about Giles undercutting them all the time and how they had all these overheads and it wasn’t fair blah blah blah, absolute bollocks. Giles was providing the same quality of service that they were, and if he could do it for cheaper then too bad.



Large retailers may complain that they have large overheads and small retailers that have less overheads are undercutting their prices, but that’s business, and also tough shit.