How did we do? (FastTech.com)

The behavior is standard, the wording of that message not so much.... reminds me a bit of the Sopranos. ..... or else....

My thoughts exactly. I know this happens often(Benchmade I know for sure does it), but a threatening letter is not the way to go about it…

i’ve seen other online stores that advertise the MAP on the website, but if you put the item in your shopping cart it shows a lower price. they do this to not violate the MAP policy, but still keep good prices. maybe you could do something like that as well, add to the description “add to cart to see actual price”? or maybe just have a coupon for that flashlight?

i made my second order half an hour ago, some arduino-related things, and a 8*amc nanjg driver for (probably) the wallbuys u2 c8 that has the awful next-mode-memory.

Thank you for the suggestion. The FastTech site does have a provision for this functionality.

Has anyone seen any distributors of Nitecore or other brand name Chinese flashlights doing this? If it turns out to be an industrial practice (for Chinese brand flashlights) then we’ll give this a go right away. Otherwise, we’re pretty sure Nitecore means they don’t want the lights sold below MAP and we’ll likely stir them up even more over this matter — the message we shared above isn’t the only we received before price was adjusted.

After seeing this I started to hate this nitecore brand and I will stay away from them.

Who do they think they are ?

Very threatening words! And humiliating!

If I was fasttech I would remove all nitecores from sale.

Can somebody - another company - make a similar, better or clone of this ea4? I will be the first to order!

By the way who are you fasttech ?

Are you guys really from earth? lol

Really thanks for amazing prices and first class customer service!

A lot of sites do that with all sorts of stuff. And I haven’t seen a site at $74.99 either

We agree. Amazon does it very often as well, but we’re interested in sites carrying Chinese brand name lights. We ask because from their messages we’re pretty sure Nitecore means actual sale price.

We should add that we weren’t made aware of, or agree to bind to any MAP in the first place. Nitecore has a large distribution network in China. You can only take our words on this but their guys didn’t pass that information on, and now they get upset over this.

I’m thinking a simple way is a coupon code on products you’d like to ‘adjust’ the price on. You can still advertise the ‘happy price’ for manufacturers, but peeps in the know get the price you want to sell at. Call it a sale if you have to.
The in-cart adjustment would work too, it’s just a lot more obvious and may still be frowned upon.

There is MAP and Unilateral. MAP is the minimum advertised price, and unilateral is the price that it cannot be sold below (even with discounts). But these days each manufacturer/vendor seems to want you to implement these in different ways. Some you can advertise on the listings page at MAP with a strike through to indicate it's lower when added to your cart. Some you can't indicate the lower price at all, it just magically appears in the cart. Some you can't even show the price until "final checkout". Amazon got around this by requiring a log-in to see the final price, instead of actually going through the whole checkout process.

As someone who works for a retailer, it's very confusing and frustrating to always abide by all of these rules. I'm sure it's much more lax with Chinese companies though.

Another way around this “Price Fixing” (Because that is what it is) is to offer an instant coupon for $X amount off of Another/Different item when bought with the first Map item.
Or a coupon good for next purchase, or so much off on the batteries, or free batteries, the options are endless.
This way they get to have their precious Map price be honored.

Bose is one of the worst for this price fixing practice.
Thanks for all you do FastTech!

Later,
Keith

you see that all the time at the big box stores

buy the ps3 here and get a $40 gift card

buy an xbox here and get two games free

sign your soul over to the devil and spend 99 cents on an iphone

On some online dealers, prices can be transacted through emails. Even with the usual BLF/CPF discount, most items can be had at a still lower price. I have done this a couple of times.

How about a Trustfire X6 or even a clone of the X6 ?

I’ve been itching to pick up one of these for a while… :slight_smile:

Promo codes for brands are used by other merchants. I received a promo code for all Fenix lights that gave me 20% off the advertised price when entered at checkout. That merchant uses it for other brands off and on and it is still in business….

Thank you everyone for your inputs.

Well other sites are still selling these at around $55. This includes even eBay. We decided that if they can’t make everyone comply we have no choice but to ignore their request.

Once again the lights are available for order now in both cool white and neutral white flavors.

Jasmine

Thanks Jasmine. I hope you all don’t get in trouble. I’ve had great success with fasttech on my orders :slight_smile:

I have to say here, I have made about 4-5 good sized purchases from them in the past month and a half.

A couple of the orders contained very minor issues. One package was missing some $2 magnets, one package came with a broken $3 red dot laser, and one came with a cheap flashlight that had a dirty reflector.

Fasttech handled EVERY issue with absolutely FANTASTIC service and I am very thankful for that.

I must say, if I need something, I’ll be ordering from Fasttech, and if they don’t have it, i’ll wait for them to get it lol.

Best shopping experience ever!

I just finished testing the six Panasonic NCR18650A 3100mAh button-top, protected cells I recently received fast from FastTech.
Firstly I charged them in my Pila IBC and all came out at 4.19V each. Next I have my hobby charger discharge capacity tested each one of them and here are the results:

3069 mAh (re-tested after I manually terminated the discharge mode due to some errands, 2914mAh)
3030
3036
3031
3064
3054

Excellent consistency and quality control by Panasonic.

I’m really glad you’re going this way on this issue. I don’t understand what NiteCore has to gain as I can only see the price you charge affecting your margin and not theirs. OK, they want to be a premium brand but I’d like to see them enforce this MAP in Europe as it’s outright price fixing and likely to attract the attention of the bureaucrats.

Still a bit premium for me even despite your great price. Maybe your friends at Convoy could take some ‘design inspiration’ from your recent dealings with NiteCore and show them how it can be done?

+1

Just have to say. From a scale from 1 to awesome. Fasttech is awesome! :wink: