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It’s only interesting if you think or believe that buying direct from Brooks is the only and preferred way to acquire a Brooks saddle.
Disagree. I found it interesting as it's a UK manufacturer who previously sold their products made in the UK, direct to customers in the UK. This can no longer be done as a result of Brexit as previously they would ship their products to Italy to be distributed, in this case, back to the UK.
You can find it interesting or not.
mmccarthy-
This can no longer be done as a result of Brexit
It can be done - they just don’t want to, right now because they probably won’t make any money and it’s a load of hassle for them. And because Extra are supposed to do it for them, they have zero incentive to jump through the - probably minimal - hoops to do something very few people cared about or needed.
(Also it’s kind of good that a bunch of Saddles aren’t going to do round trips to Italy. Maybe. Not sure if Extra’s stock goes that route. I hope not)
I get the Brexit wot dun it angle but feel it draws attention away from real issues caused by the re-arrangement of our relationship with Europe.
Obvs. I find it interesting too, but I meant actually newsworthy.
Howard
It’s only interesting if you think or believe that buying direct from Brooks is the only and preferred way to acquire a Brooks saddle.
That Brooks can tell it’s direct U.K. customers to do one gives an indication of how seriously it takes selling Direct in the U.K; most sales and how they want to sell will be through the distributor/ dealer network.
It’s a pretty odd situation having both direct and distributor led sales - it creates all sorts of weird tensions and issues. Like Brooks not being able to tell Direct customers where to buy and Extra not being able to do the same.