well, the us laws are one thing, unpredictable.
the idea by an mrsp is that the dealer now for how much he can sell the goods. if he do so, say 10% less than that, his margin is smaller. in swiss, 10%ish is ok.
if he has an online store, dont pay rent for an normal store, nor have to have that stock or give the buyers suggestions etc, then he sell his knives say for 14% on top of what he pay as an dealer, plus let the stocking distributor, where he orders from, dropship directly to the customer, cutting one mailway and that price too, then this is maybe us market, but sure not ok. at least not for the manufacturer.
the problem is that if an knife is mrsp $ 100 and some dealers, charity or not or for any reason, sell it for say $ 60, then the "good" dealers cant sell theyr knives anymore or at least way harder. the customers think because you get that knife so cheap, its bad quality and or dont sell well, witch hurts the manufacturer and sooner or later hurt the market of his product. in some regards this is joust not working.
i now that some of us have to work on an budget, me too, but we cant expect from an quality product like an sak, made in switzerland, an high price country, to be cheap priced. i say eaven for the full mrsp its an bargain! if we can afford that is an different question but mrsp are needed and these dealers who dont do it that way will sooner or later get dropped in the supply line.
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