Yes i saw something about this come across my desk before cedia but like alot of stuff i didn't pay much attention to it figuring it was just some new marketing by avad. But monday i'm going to call a friend who works there and ask him what the hell is going on because we like most of you have direct relationships with manufactures for our core products, but we do use avad to help fill in the gaps and also to get some other things it's not worth the hassle to become direct. But if what you say is true then i believe avad should be careful in pissing off the people who have helped the become th company they are today because there are plenty of distributors who would love our business, yes we may have to deal with multiple people rather than one but i may not have to watch my back either.