Originally Posted by
Sy Reene
I guess, though as a manufacturer, why not just look at it as 'sales are sales. If our competitor wants to own a shop that is selling a lot of our product and no more of their own, that's hilarious; we're still getting the revenue back at the home office.'
In 2014 (or some other year) when there was a surplus of bikes, they may have done that. In a year of shortages when there aren't enough to go around, why give profit/commissions to someone who is now your competitor. You can keep some of those 400 and shove bikes that would have been aliquoted to the others to your factory stores so they have more product to display/sell and you get to keep that proft for yourself.