[machman]

This is not news. Ping will cancel your account for ANY discount. There have been stories where they cancel big dollar accounts when they find out they have given $5 off a new club that somebody has hit once or twice.

It is right in their agreement, NO DISCOUNTS, NO EXCEPTIONS. Yes they are Nazi's about it, but its a free country, and they are a private company. You don't like the policy, don't buy their clubs.

[Dixie Yooper]

"This is not news. Ping will cancel your account for ANY discount"

You are right, any catalog that sell golf or any equipment will have certain manufacturers that will not allow their prices to be published. They always have "call for price" under every product. This is their way of not allowing their products from being used in a price war between retailers.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

A smart business would have at least done something to get ahead of the PR disaster this can become. Not arguing their policy but there were better ways of handling this.

A press statement at the time explaining that their no exception policy was completely against any discounts and not the military would have helped. Now they're in the position of having to do damage control.

[Stone Mountain]

This is not news. Ping will cancel your account for ANY discount. There have been stories where they cancel big dollar accounts when they find out they have given $5 off a new club that somebody has hit once or twice. It is right in their agreement, NO DISCOUNTS, NO EXCEPTIONS. Yes they are Nazi's about it, but its a free country, and they are a private company. You don't like the policy, don't buy their clubs.

Bingo. This isn't an uncommon arrangenment between manufacturers and retailers.

[NCLaw441]

You said: It is right in their agreement, NO DISCOUNTS, NO EXCEPTIONS. Yes they are Nazi's about it, but its a free country, and they are a private company. You don't like the policy, don't buy their clubs.
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I agree, it is a free country, and people are free to stop buying Ping products if they like. Freedom is not free, as they say. Ping should have thought ahead a bit on this one, but they are free to do what they will-- and suffer the consequences.

[Petronski]

You don't like the policy, don't buy their clubs.

That's precisely the idea, professor.