Which knife brands require MAP pricing?

hardheart

hardheart

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I've been out of knives for a while, and was wondering how far this has spread. Figure it would be easier to ask rather than bounce around several sites looking for identical pricing to appear.

Ugh, just realized I essentially repeated "pricing" in the title.
 
Cold Steel has now started MAP , but doesn't seem quite as strict as Spyderco etc.

I can usually still find a good deal if I wait long enough and search hard .
 
Is this list accurate?

Boker
Buck
Chris Reeve Knives
Cold Steel
Columbia River Knife & Tool
Condor
Hogue
SOG
Spyderco
Zero Tolerance
 
any company that wants to control the value of their products and brand, while helping to ensure their dealers are evenly priced for competition will use MAP pricing...
 
Maybe a dumb question but how do brands like CRK manage to keep all the prices exactly the same no matter where you're buying from?
 
A shame MAP can't be outlawed as an anti-competitive practice.

It's almost as anti-competitive as so called "Fair Trade."
 
Rival1314 said:
any company that wants to control the value of their products and brand, while helping to ensure their dealers are evenly priced for competition will use MAP pricing...
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Sellers do not determine value, buyers do. Demand will set a market price, not the initial ask from the supplier.

Many products compete on price, and many companies compete on efficiencies and greater scale to deliver what a customer wants at a price they want to pay.

I have no incentive to pay for inefficiency in mass produced goods, or to subsidize obsolete market practices. And as these brands communicate through email and social media rather than written letters, and usei digital listings on websites rather than reliance on mail order catalogs, I don't see why they feel they can claim to be protecting any entity other than themselves through efforts to hamstring online only platforms.
 
hardheart said:
Is this list accurate?

Boker
Buck
Chris Reeve Knives
Cold Steel
Columbia River Knife & Tool
Condor
Hogue
SOG
Spyderco
Zero Tolerance
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Of that list I know CRK, Cold Steel, CRKT, Condor, Hogue, Spyderco and ZT all have MAP policies. Benchmade does as well, and they're not on your list. Boker, Buck and SOG I'm not aware of MAP policies for, but that certainly doesn't mean they don't exist.
 
hardheart said:
Sellers do not determine value, buyers do. Demand will set a market price, not the initial ask from the supplier.

Many products compete on price, and many companies compete on efficiencies and greater scale to deliver what a customer wants at a price they want to pay.

I have no incentive to pay for inefficiency in mass produced goods, or to subsidize obsolete market practices. And as these brands communicate through email and social media rather than written letters, and usei digital listings on websites rather than reliance on mail order catalogs, I don't see why they feel they can claim to be protecting any entity other than themselves through efforts to hamstring online only platforms.
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I agree. Capitalism in this country can take some interesting turns. Not always in the best interest of the consumer. Maybe a business that can t prosper with free competition doesn't t deserve to prosper.
 
hardheart said:
Sellers do not determine value, buyers do. Demand will set a market price, not the initial ask from the supplier.

Many products compete on price, and many companies compete on efficiencies and greater scale to deliver what a customer wants at a price they want to pay.
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For values after the initial retail sale, check out the Exchange here. That said, most sellers delete the final price of an item they are selling which I don't like.
 
"Advertised price"? Not long ago I bought five Fallkniven F1 knives in black Ceracote with the leather sheath. Bought them on-line from a retailer that has about 4,692 retail locations in the United States. They are not counterfeits, $20 each. 4 of 5 had the holographic stickers that scanned properly. One box was older and had a FAX number on it! Fallkniven customer service said not to worry about the vendor. (They were nice). So closeouts and dented boxes don't count.
 
It is "ADVERTISED" price. A dealer can discount below MAP if it is not advertised. It all depends on how good of a customer you are, buying in person, and the dealer's sense of what sells for them. Why discount when they don't have to? I compare to cars and pickups.... some dealers simply quote you sticker price as "the price". They have a pretty good idea if the vehicle will sell at that price.
 
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