I'm starting to think about more obvious explanation. In the last 3 months our currency fall down about 20% to the Euro - so the distributor might simply cut off the orders for now and will put it back in the new price after some time.
I don't think so.
1-st: why he did it only with one model (one of the most expensive, so with low stock rotation and probably less profitable than the other models, if you calculate profit as a price multipied by No. of sold units). IMO better choice would be i.e. Tikka XP, which costs half of the Myo RXP price - so probably this is "bread and butter" for the market.
2-nd: usually importer have to pay the producer for the goods before he will sell them on the market. So Petzl was paid probably some months ago, when EUR was quite cheap in our country. So the importer have now best opportunity to gain extra profit - he can increase prices, explaining that this is because of the high exchange rate - when in fact he bought the headlaps cheaper...
The same behaviour as with petrol stations in our country: when the crude oil cost grows up, prices for petrol are increasing immediately; when oil cost comes down, the prices for petrol are still high for some time :"P
And remember - the exchange rate in Poland is now stabilising and have tendency to go down - so now is the worst time to do the operation you suggest (but can be, that the importer's management didn't realised that :"P)
3-rd: I think the costs of that operation are too high in comparison to the possible additional profits. Take in the consideration both logistic costs (transport back of the goods to the magazine and paying back to the retailers the money, then freezing the money invested in the goods for some time) and the marketing/customers' awareness costs (if customers will be informed that something was wrong with that lamp, next time they will be more mistrusted about the quality of that product and will think twice before the purchase).
The same way worked the Petzl warning about using NiMH rechargeable batteries in the Myo: I expected that the older models will be replaced by those working properly. Petzl din't do that, so now I am not very likely to buy next headlamp from them - because I mainly use the rechargeables in all my equipment, and I feel fooled by the Petzl.
Maybe this is why now Petzl is very "silent" about the recalled headlamps - they don't want to make customers more angry than the time they informed customers about myos problems with rechargeables?
BTW, some time ago I red a message on some forum, it was like: "my RXP blinks sometimes, I think mainly when I'm putting my hand on it" - which suggest that there
is some problem with RXP
local shop owner couldn't tell you why the distributor removed them?
