Eric,
I don't know all the details of the situation, but I would venture to guess
that you're both right, to some degree. To my knowledge, there are
"political" issues that have kept The Tire Rack away from Falken tires. I'm
not in the circle that gets to see what all of these issues are, or if
they're being resolved, so I can't shed much light, unfortunately.
It certainly is a shame that the Azenis is so hard to come by in some areas.
Do you suppose that this jeopardizes its legality, in regards to the "equal
access to all competitors" rule? Not trying to start anything, just curious.
Regards,
William Loring
The Tire Rack
> From: "Linnhoff, Eric" <elinnhoff@smmc.saint-lukes.org>
> Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 14:23:24 -0500
> To: autox@autox.team.net
> Subject: RE: Outlawed Tires?
>
>> It's for the same reason that the Tirerack doesn't carry them. There's
>> something about Falken having a rather strict "no compete" clause for
>
> Actually this is wrong. The real story is that a local NW tire store
> chain, Les Schwab tires (275 locations), has exclusive rights to Falken
> tires in WA-OR-ID so online and other retail tire locations in the NW
> are not allowed to sell them.
> =================================
> You're correct regarding the not-so-great Northwest Alan. However, there is
> indeed some policy along those lines that prevents the Tirerack and Falken
> from joining forces. A move which would certainly benefit both parties
> involved.
>
> Do you really think that the Tirerack is voluntarily losing out on all these
> STS Falken tire sales because they don't want to carry them? Hardy.
>
> William Loring, you wanna chime in here perhaps?
>
> Eric Linnhoff in KC
> #69 STS
> '98 Dodge Neon (see-dan)
> www.geocities.com/eric10mm/KnuckleDragger.html
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