Originally Posted by SteelCommuter
I can't let this pass. Your post is asinine.
"prebooking"? Buddy, you don't seem to know much about business. This is not unusual, in fact it is quite common among smaller bike businesses to make payments on small volume special orders, or to get in line for a custom.
+1 on this. I couldn't have said it better. For someone, such as Bekologist, that hates a company so much he sure does know a lot about them. Bekologist must not ever go into any retailer or do business with anyone except Wal-Mart as this is how small businesses do business.
They HAVE to go through these intermediaries and order small bulk purchases. It does them no good to order 5,000 frames or derailleurs at the beginning of the year from someone and then have them lying around at the end of the year and then become unable to pay bills because they have a million dollars worth of inventory laying around. That would just be plain stupid.