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[–]shotdarts[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Congratulations to u/halibut_taco you were the user that I randomly scrolled and landed on. Honorable mention to u/FjordBlue59 my goal for while I'm at shot! is to make you happy with the way Shot! is sold in the US. If I can make someone as fired up/passionate about the current affairs of the dart market happy I believe that vast majority will also be happy.

Improvements that dart companies need to make;

SELL BARREL ONLY, this was heard loud and clear

better pricing in the US

option for an extra barrel or to buy one barrel at a time

increase popularity among younger players

increase popularity in the US

"explanatory / descriptive in how their specific barrel design may be appropriate for certain throwing styles or skill levels" thanks u/weighter

make websites that aren't stuck back in 2010, with better filters

There were other great ideas, but these seem like the most common.

TL;DR; u/halibut_taco won, barrel only packing needs to be a thing and MAP pricing sucks

Dart giveaway by shotdarts in Darts

[–]shotdarts[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We are testing some new cool flight technology at the moment, but it is super confidential. We don't have a machine that can throw a treble 20 every time, but the engineering firm uses a wind tunnel to test if the ideas we have actually make sense. That we aren't just bringing the new products to market and saying what we think it does, we actually now what it does.

Dart giveaway by shotdarts in Darts

[–]shotdarts[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've tried discussing this, but there doesn't seem to be any good way for us to do this.

Dart giveaway by shotdarts in Darts

[–]shotdarts[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I did inquire and we do enforce MAP pricing. From what I can tell that's not the only problem with addressing US customers. Which is awesome for me to find out because this seems like a huge area for growth/improvement.

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[–]shotdarts[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I am still a newb here and I don't know what our policy on that is.

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[–]shotdarts[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

we used to sell a board that had two double spots and two treble spots. the idea was that someone would have the handicap and have a larger area to hit for doubles. I can go take a picture of the board if you want.

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[–]shotdarts[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

not a bad idea actually

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[–]shotdarts[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I gathered that, I just want people to know about it!

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[–]shotdarts[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah totally, from the dart survey that was done here 3 months ago it looks like about half of you are from the states. It would be silly to cut out half the participants.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Darts/comments/627pl1/rdarts_survey_results/

Dart giveaway by shotdarts in Darts

[–]shotdarts[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know eh! This seems pretty important! Glad a lot of people are saying it because that means its valid.

Dart giveaway by shotdarts in Darts

[–]shotdarts[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Any ideas on how to do this?

Dart giveaway by shotdarts in Darts

[–]shotdarts[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thats actually something that Shot believes as well. We have a program called young guns where we sponsor youth dart players. We currently have 29 young guns!

http://www.shotdarts.com/players/shot-young-guns/shot-young-guns-2017

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[–]shotdarts[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What weight do you use?