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Originally Posted by oldpotatoe
Need a like button. We got bit by the D2C alligator more than once. Again, with shoes..Got 'showroomed', then the guy rides by to show us his new bike(mail-order), and we notice his new shoes...Happened with Colnago too with Maestro-UK..even tho we 'were' a Colnago dealer. The Rep(tile) told us to just lower our prices 'to compete'...Amazing that some of these companies will piss on their LBS network not realizing it's their bread and butter..it sure ain't volume MO/D2C.
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I will say, shoes seem like an incredibly hard market to fill for shops. My wife wears 38s and I wear 42.5, went to the closest 3 LBS and found a grand total of 0 shoes of any brand in our sizes. Competitive cyclist just can’t be beat for shoes. We ordered probably 15 pairs to try on and then returned most of them, for free, back to CC.