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Originally Posted by cornernfool
I hear you brother. I have a small independent motorcycle shop. I was a dealer for a certain brand of exhaust. I go to the local swap meet and the manufacturer of the exhaust is there with a big trailer full of exhaust with a few flunkys selling pipes at below my dealer price and installing them for free. All cash. I told him to come pick up his pipes I had in stock. Nothing like screwing your dealers.
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I went through the same thing when I had my online motorcycle race parts store. I ended up dropping several manufacturers because I was tired of competing with them. Especially when they held "group buys" on forums and sold product for less than my cost. Nice.