Trade in program? Why?

[honda761]

Why doesnt Escort/Bel do away with the trade in program and just make their top RDs on sale? Its a pain to go to post office and sometimes we dont want to part with our old ones. I know we can buy a 10 dollar one off ebay and send it in but thats a hassle too.
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In this day and age of everything now, why cant they just offer a sale?

[CJR238]

Why doesnt Escort/Bel do away with the trade in program and just make their top RDs on sale? Its a pain to go to post office and sometimes we dont want to part with our old ones. I know we can buy a 10 dollar one off ebay and send it in but thats a hassle too.
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In this day and age of everything now, why cant they just offer a sale?

The more cheep cobras they get off the road the better.

IMO Escort shouldn't sell direct at all and give there dealers better discounting so there could be better sales on there products.

[Bushman15]

Why doesnt Escort/Bel do away with the trade in program and just make their top RDs on sale? Its a pain to go to post office and sometimes we dont want to part with our old ones. I know we can buy a 10 dollar one off ebay and send it in but thats a hassle too.
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In this day and age of everything now, why cant they just offer a sale?

The more cheep cobras they get off the road the better.

IMO Escort shouldn't sell direct at all and give there dealers better discounting so the could be better sales on there products.

X2 on that one!

[honda761]

What in the world do they do with these old detectors anyway? Its got to be a waste of dollars to even deal with it when Escort/Bel gets it.

[CJR238]

What in the world do they do with these old detectors anyway? Its got to be a waste of dollars to even deal with it when Escort/Bel gets it.

Yes and no, if they get one of there 8500 or 8500x50s they will refurbish it and sell it on eBay for $200. So most of them they throw away, but there are a few they can resell.

[The Chariot]

The answer is actually quite simple.

They have a retail channel. That retail channel wants to make certain profit margin and in order to insure that Escort has MAP policies. If Escort dropped their prices or otherwise had a sale they would be undercutting their own MAP policies and creating a massive problem for some retailers.

[CJR238]

The answer is actually quite simple.

They have a retail channel. That retail channel wants to make certain profit margin and in order to insure that Escort has MAP policies. If Escort dropped their prices or otherwise had a sale they would be undercutting their own MAP policies and creating a massive problem for some retailers.

X2, well said!

[mswlogo]

I agree, it certainly isn't very "Green" of them.

All the waste of Detectors (that maybe a friend or something could use) are now in a landfill some where.

Not to mention the wasted resources getting the old detector to them, or buying one off ebay.

It's all very wasteful.

[CJR238]

Hmm, but is it really not a "Green" thing for them to do? They are reselling an old product, or they are recycling the old RD parts.

I would think its like saying sending back the old HP ink cartages to be recycled is not a "green" thing to do.

[2Bolt]

Wouldn't they make a good decoy detector where RDs aren't allowed? LEO pulls ya over, and as he walks up to the window, ya just yank it and hand it out to him through the window while saying "man your good, here take it as it don't do me any good. Use it for target practice".