Would it really take all that much more time to change your web text than to complain about it on APS ?
Yes. Much more time.
For the Trijicon MAP hassle, it takes an entire weekend. I sell 48 different ACOG models, and God-knows-how-many other Trijicon products. I'm can't be price competitive on the non-ACOG products, so I just price them at 10% over cost when I'm showing non-MAP prices, and just show MAP prices when Trijicon hassles me about it.
To change from non-MAP prices to MAP prices on the ACOG's, I have to create 48 new attributes for the coupon codes for each model, so that I can create coupon codes for each. Then I have to modify the files for each model to add its new attribute.
Then I have to create new coupon codes for each model, or modify existing coupon codes, in the shopping cart backend. To do that I need to create an Excel file with all of my ACOG sku's and prices. Then I need to take all of Trijicon's MAP prices and do a sort in Excel to find the MAP prices for each sku that I sell. Then I need to subtract my price from the MAP price to come up with the value for the coupon. Then I enter those coupon values in each of the 48 different coupon codes.
Then I need to change the titles and descriptions of each of the 48 ACOG's to instruct the customer to enter the code in the Discount box at checkout, and indicate how much the customer will save (the coupon value). Once the coupon codes are created or updated, the prices changed, and the titles descriptions changed, I upload the new prices, descriptions and titles.
There's two sites where I offer special pricing on various products, including ACOG's. I use different coupon codes for each site. So, after doing all of the above for the general ACOG prices, I have to do pretty much all of the same for the 96 coupon codes for the two sites.
So, yes, it's a lot less work to complain here on APS.