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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mfunnell" data-source="post: 3444199" data-attributes="member: 134332">Trevor, one of your competitors (Maven) claims much the same thing. Yet, as Chuck has pointed out, you're selling at a relatively lower price-point from them and other similarly-specified bins. It is quite hard to know whether this is because different vendors are capturing higher or lower margins, whether there are differences in the quality of the bins and whether one does better than the other on price/performance due to better design.There are many imponderables. But I guess I will be left to ponder, at least about Tract binoculars. Not to put too fine a point on it, one of the major reasons for that is that I can buy binoculars from the other guys (eg. Maven, Zeiss, Meopta) but I can't buy binoculars from Tract. You are direct to consumer only - but only if those consumers are in the USA or Canada, which I am not. I have bought from Maven (6x30 B.3) who have a similar direct-to-consumer business model - but one that includes me. Yours does not.This kind of thing (not specific to you) is something of a personal annoyance of mine, though I'm sure it's of little concern to Tract. The deliberate exclusion of substantial markets for your products might concern you more, though on past experience I doubt it. Yes, I know there are ways around this (I have many friends in the US) but I usually can't be bothered - figuring that I don't much want to buy from people who don't want to sell to me.   ...Mike</blockquote>

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