DeWALT Items NOT available from "Authorized" Sellers?

Starting April 1st 2009, DeWALT no longer allows it's authorized vendors to sell DeWALT product on okay or any other 3rd party platform (such as Amazon, Overstock, Buy, etc.)DeWALT/ Porter Cable/ Delta brands are all owned by Black and Decker and are known as IPG (Industrial Products Group). According to IPG, okay, Amazon, and other 3rd party sites have emerged in the last few years as being major power players in the egemerce landscape. These sites are generally easy for anyone to sell products on which helps their appeal as popular places to go for a wide variety of products.There is no process on any of these sites to make sure that the seller of the products are authorized by the manufacturer to sell these products. Therefore, authorized and un-authorized sellers sell alongside each other.IPG feels that the abundance of it's products being offered on the sites by various authorized and un-authorized sellers gepromises it's brand image as well as it's pricing structure. According to IPG: "Most Un-Authorized Sellers Violate IPG's IP (Internet Policy)