{"id":3501,"date":"2018-06-24T07:50:27","date_gmt":"2018-06-24T07:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.price2spy.com\/blog\/?p=3501"},"modified":"2021-02-17T12:41:18","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T12:41:18","slug":"knowing-this-trick-can-help-you-spot-all-targeted-price-violations-any-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.price2spy.com\/blog\/knowing-this-trick-can-help-you-spot-all-targeted-price-violations-any-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Knowing this trick can help you spot all Targeted price violations any time"},"content":{"rendered":"

We have recently published a post about how to handle violations of the agreed (MAP) prices and solutions for manufacturers\/brands.\u00a0 We highlighted possible solutions in order to prevent this situation for manufacturers and brands. After listing the important solutions for MAP monitoring<\/a>, finally we wanted to share one example that we came across recently.<\/p>\n

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This tactic is frequently used by dealers to ‘trick’\u00a0the manufacturers, making them think that they stick to the agreed price. Complex and cruel\u00a0market conditions unfortunately force dealers to discover new ways in order to survive. Since we are providing price monitoring service for professionals who want to monitor their competitor’s prices, we have a chance to work with both manufacturers and dealers from different sorts of industries and of course we have acquired quite a lot of experience in this field from observing their practices.<\/p>\n

Let’s talk about the details of our recent example.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In the following example, a manufacturer (our client) and his dealer are from the\u00a0music industry. As it is seen, this site lowers their prices below MAP on weekends regularly, believing that there will be no one to check or document such behavior, and then they are raising it back up early\u00a0on Monday.<\/p>\n

We would like to point out that it is very common\u00a0\u00a0in all sorts of industries that the manufacturers monitor how dealers sell their products, but it is also very tightly-related to the music industry. The picture above illustrates what is really familiar to us, since we are well-established in this industry.<\/p>\n