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So looking at lights.

Surefire charges $299 for the X300 lights direct from their website. They sell a dozen 123a batteries for $25.

But I can go to Amazon and Surefire sells the X300 bundled with a dozen batters and a battery case for $270.

Why do that?


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To encourage you to do business with their retailers instead of directly with them.


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Because if their wholesale price was the same as direct retail price they severely limit their distribution opportunities.



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To encourage you to do business with their retailers instead of directly with them.

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Some people won’t buy at retail but will buy if they think they are getting a deal.

Some will find buying at Amazon easier and convenient, more so than buying online from a new vendor.




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Many times an OEM will assure retailers that they will not undercut prices except for special circumstances.




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Many times an OEM will assure retailers that they will not undercut prices except for special circumstances.


This, and it's probably far more costly for Surefire to hire all of the warehousing and packing and shipping people themselves,than to just send an entire semi to Amazon and let them do what they do best (dealing with customers, boxing, and shipping to individuals.)
 
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Surefire is privately-owned. They design and manufacture their product. Conducting a one-at-a-time retailing operation - which I did with USA-made Meiser gauges - is a tough way to make money.

The last Amazon/eBay batteries I bought were date-stamped a couple months shy of their ten year shelf life guarantee. The packaging of the 12-count box seemed new.

Surefire offered free shipping in February 2014 in honor of Presidents Day if you ordered in a four-day window. The family bean-counters probably were grinding their teeth on that one; it has not been repeated since.
 
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