Grabar Law Office Investigates Price-Fixing of Archery Products

We are investigating allegations that the manufacturers, distributors, and retailers of Archery Products, at the impetus of the retailers, colluded to eliminate horizontal price competition for Archery Products at the retail level. The cartel was chiefly operated through the Archery Trade Association (ATA) and the primary means by which they operated was through their agreement to the widespread adoption, implementation, and enforcement of minimum advertised price (“MAP”) policies. In practice, these policies represented an artificial price floor; they restricted competition and increased retail prices.

Archery Products are described as follows:

(1) bows – including compound bows, recurve bows, longbows, and crossbows – and their components; (2) arrows (minus the arrowhead) and their components, including the shaft, fletching, and nock; (3) arrowheads (or arrowpoints) including broadheads and field points; (4) targets, including bag targets, foam targets, and 3D targets; and (5) accessories, such as bow cases, arrow quivers, sights and scopes, and stabilizers.

The class definition is defined as follow:

All persons and entities residing in the United States or its territories that directly purchased Archery Products (defined infra) manufactured or distributed by an ATA member, at any point between 2014 and the present (the “Class Period”).

You may have been overcharged and damaged if, at any time between 2014 to the present, you purchased Archery Products from any of the following companies:

Bowtech Inc.;

Hoyt Archery, Inc.;

Precision Shooting Equipment, Inc.;

Cabela’s LLC;

Dick’s Sporting Goods, Inc.;

BPS Direct, LLC D/B/A Bass Pro Shops;

Jay’s Sports, Inc. D/B/A/ Jay’s Sporting Goods;

Kinsey’s Outdoors, Inc.;

Lancaster Archery Supply, Inc.;

Trackstreet, Inc.;

Neuintel LLC D/B/A Pricespider F/K/A Oris Intelligence.

You may be able to recover damages and a court approved incentive award if appropriate - at no cost to you.

A no-cost engagement letter can be viewed here: Archery Products Antitrust - Retainer Letter - Blank

If you would like to learn more at no cost to you, fill out the form provided or contact us at jgrabar@grabarlaw.com or call 267-507-6085.