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Only $10 for all 2024 SX, MX, and SMX series (regularly $30).
Look at Game Consoles. They've been price fixing for decades.
The Shop
Its been an ongoing issue with almost ALL Japanese's auto parts manufactures at their US plants. There are quite a number of people in jail currently and $100's of millions in fines.
http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20141017/NEWS/141019881/former-sho…
Console pricing has been set in stone since the NES, A retailer cannot change the price, period.
I believe this is illegal.
I don't know if anyone is upset about it. i'm not. But it does prevent competition based on price.
My point is simply that KYB is not the only company out there that is fixing prices.
I'm happy.
Would the factory edition KTMS be considered fixing prices ?
or a salvage yard..
Pit Row
You guys are getting "fixed price" or "MAP Pricing" confused with price fixing.
Setting an MSRP or setting a fixed price for retailers, i.e., "you may not sell this at any price lower than $X" is not illegal. It is an attempt to solidify the brand value. Similarly, MAP pricing sets a price minimum that may be advertised by retailers. They may sell below that but not advertise that they do.
Price fixing, however, is when two or more competitors agree not to compete with one another and agree to hold their prices at artificially high levels to make more profit. That kind of collusion is illegal, kids.
A perfect example would be if KTM, Honda, Kawasaki, Yamaha and Suzuki all agreed that 450 MX bikes would now cost $25,000 for dealers to purchase. No matter how much the dealers wanted to undercut each other (and are free to do,) an MX bike would cost you $25,000 + dealer's profit and tax. The market wouldn't be able to shift to another brand because they would all be in kahoots to keep the prices up, and the $8,000 MX450 would be a thing of the past.
I was about to say something similar after reading MXKing809's comment above about shopping around. The point is that shopping around does no good for auto-manufacturers (and consumers) when the suspension companies have pre-arranged their prices.
Quality control is the big part of what most low end manufacturing lacks. Most of the well known OEM's can get high quality parts out of China (and other countries known for similar low cost / low quality) because they implement tighter quality control standards and procedures.
The aftermarket stuff is typically not nearly as tightly controlled by the importer. They are trying to get a decent looking product on the shelf for the lowest possible price so they rely on the offshore manufacturer to do their quality control.
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