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Got word from my local that NHS is leaving distributors and only dealing direct, meaning Indy trucks will be out of inventory for shops that base their stock from East Coast Skate Supply. Not sure how many other distributors would be affected by this move.
Can you please explain why this will be the case? Can't shops just deal with Indy directly?
Serious question.
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Another sign of a contracting industry sitting on tons and tons of unsold product.
Why would Indy going direct be a sign of this?
Another serious question.
Maybe I'm just slow today or something lol.
Did I hear that they had minimum order quantities and had to order a box of each truck at a time, more so than smaller number mix and match, or was that only here in AU at one point?
This is mainly to get the maximum number of trucks out there, so some smaller shops can't just order a few of each and have to order 20 sets minimum of each size they want.
Sounded similar to what certain big shoe brands were doing too, with minimum orders otherwise the whole order was just dropped - something about not worth their time dealing with small fish, in not so many words.
Also when brands or distributors do something like that, they don't have to sell at wholesaler discount prices, just so the middle man smaller wholesaler can make money too, so if they sell direct to a shop the product costs $10 per unit, but if they sell to the middle distro, they only get $6 per unit, based on the bulk deal discount sort of thing, as the middle wholesaler buys 1000 units, not just 10 or 100.
Hopefully that makes sense, but all of that is just speculation going by what I have heard from others in similar situations over the years, both in person and on here.