Pedal Commander! Awesomeness!

[t_j]

Actually, your understanding of what happened is off. There are many companies out there that state in their MAP policies that their MAP pricing is the minimum price to be sold for period. Many have gotten around the Sherman Act by changing the names of their policies so that instead of calling them "MAP Policies", they are now "Unilateral Pricing Policies". In those cases, the manufacturer can control the end sale price regardless of how the sale is made and MANY manufacturers do this and have done so for years. It is very common practice.

However, your understanding about what transpired between the three companies is askew as well. myself and SVC did not go to Power Commander and ask them to raise the Map policy price or enforce it. At first, we were just fine with our pricing war and were indeed selling at a discounted price. It was a former sales manager at Power Commander that called myself and SVC stating that they would be strictly enforcing their pricing policy as a unilateral pricing policy instead of just a general MAP policy. However, he did so without authorization from the powers that be at Pedal Commander and his actions caused the premature cancellation of the sale that Rick was promoting through Freedom here on the forum. BUT, Once Pedal Commander powers that be figured out what actually happened, they fired said sales manager for his actions, informed myself and SVC of the actual policy and what we are "authorized" to do with our sales as long as we maintained the "advertised pricing" at the same $299 as everyone else and then they attempted to try to explain to the forum what happened and what had been done. That same sales manager was also responsible for the pricing issues being promoted on other forums that members here found with a google search. So what they had was a sales manager overstepping his bounds causing as much if not more harm than the pricing war between myself and SVC.

That being said, the agreement between myself and SVC was merely to come to an amicable resolution of our differences that would benefit us and the FRF community as a whole while also remaining fair to other Pedal Commander dealers out there. This agreement is indeed beneficial to FRF members due to what we agreed upon and anyone that wants a Pedal Commander can now contact their vendor of choice to obtain one, receive a great deal on them and all is fine with the world again without the drama in open forum.

It is FAR from price fixing as mentioned.

I suggest you read this:

https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/com...ws/dealings-supply-chain/manufacturer-imposed

 

[Chris@FreedomMotorsports]

I suggest you read this:

https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/com...ws/dealings-supply-chain/manufacturer-imposed

While I understand the law, I was trying to avoid putting the fine details of our "agreement" out in the open. But our agreement is simply this, SVC is now my wholesale supplier for the Pedal Commanders instead of my ordering directly from Pedal Commander. This means that while myself and SVC can sell at whatever price we want, when I sell a unit, SVC benefits as well since I will be ordering from them. Our "pricing agreement" was simply that we would not get involved in pricing wars with each other like we did last week so that we can avoid the drama.

Now, there. You all know all the details. We are not price fixing, we are not trying to screw anyone. We are all just trying to avoid going at each other's throats, sell some products and move on. Can we leave it at that now?

 

[Jimbo]

Have these units been EMC tested?

 

[Phyguy]

While I understand the law, I was trying to avoid putting the fine details of our "agreement" out in the open. But our agreement is simply this, SVC is now my wholesale supplier for the Pedal Commanders instead of my ordering directly from Pedal Commander. This means that while myself and SVC can sell at whatever price we want, when I sell a unit, SVC benefits as well since I will be ordering from them. Our "pricing agreement" was simply that we would not get involved in pricing wars with each other like we did last week so that we can avoid the drama.

Now, there. You all know all the details. We are not price fixing, we are not trying to screw anyone. We are all just trying to avoid going at each other's throats, sell some products and move on. Can we leave it at that now?

Chris, you're getting screwed.

There seems to be a whole lot of collusion going on with this one and the Raptor owners are getting hosed. Sounds like a cool product, but I will not be investing in one. Glad PC has other make and model verticals that can support their company.

 

[Mapleman]

So what's the new group buy price?


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[Chris@FreedomMotorsports]

So what's the new group buy price?


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Not telling. It's a secret that only those who private message Rick@FreedomMotorsports will know.

 

[Chris@FreedomMotorsports]

Have these units been EMC tested?

"Pedal Commander cannot release the precise testing that was done on the units because they are exclusive to its patent. They are EMC, CE and DOT certified and will not malfunction if they come within distance of any type of radar."

 

[t_j]

"Pedal Commander cannot release the precise testing that was done on the units because they are exclusive to its patent. They are EMC, CE and DOT certified and will not malfunction if they come within distance of any type of radar."

1) There is no such thing as DOT certified, the DOT us not a certification authority.

2) CE certification is self certification and basically meaningless

3) EMC is very vague, what specific certifications where done?

 

[Chris@FreedomMotorsports]

I assume by DOT they mean SAE. But I m just passing on what I was told. As for the EMC, don't know about that since their response said that they cannot release that specific information.

 

[Ironhorse07]

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