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== Lamy Safaris ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' So Lamy's sitting on ticked off retailers who cannot move a pen that they did a bad job with. And Lamy won't let them get out of it by discounting it. Which stinks. So now dealers have to essentially go around the process and invent a discount that doesn't discount, right? So the discount now is you get a free amazing pen with purchase. Which is a great deal if you want both of these pens and gift one to someone else or one of both for yourself. It's an awesome deal. But the onus lies on Lamy in this case for not allowing dealers to get out of one of their products that they kind of screwed up initially. Like this was the pen we talked about constantly last year. You know, the anticipation was huge. Then the release came and everyone went like, oh really, that's it? And then the price is outrageous. And I think there was only 5,000 units made. And I thought they would have no problem selling it. Even just 5,000 units to Lamy fans, they're going to sell it. But apparently that's not the case. And they can't, dealers can't get out of them. So it's very interesting. And I just, you know, it's hard. And we're going to talk more about, you know, manufacturers in a minute. They do very weird things in this market because they think it's the right thing to do. Because that's the way they've always done it. These are 100-year-old companies. And, well, we just don't allow our dealers to discount it. Well, now you're getting a bad rap because of what's happening with things like this. So it's a tough place to be in.