The real reason they don't want their thermometers sold on amazon is because they are merely official US distributors of the Thermapen which is made by a British company, ETI.
You can buy them from European distributors in bulk for less than MSRP and sell them for the same price as thermoworks on amazon and still make a profit. The only reason they were going for $179 previously is because thermoworks was buying the thermometers from sellers and reporting them as counterfeit. Thus making it difficult for sellers to sell them which keeps supply low.
They have fraudulently filed copyright removals and counterfeit accusations on amazon multiple times for Thermapen listings that don't use the "thermoworks" name.
You can see that thermoworks does not own the Thermapen trademark.
https://thermometer.co.uk/99-thermapen-thermometers
You can buy them from European distributors in bulk for less than MSRP and sell them for the same price as thermoworks on amazon and still make a profit. The only reason they were going for $179 previously is because thermoworks was buying the thermometers from sellers and reporting them as counterfeit. Thus making it difficult for sellers to sell them which keeps supply low.
They have fraudulently filed copyright removals and counterfeit accusations on amazon multiple times for Thermapen listings that don't use the "thermoworks" name.
You can see that thermoworks does not own the Thermapen trademark.
https://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4803:hv...
Edit: apparently, you can't link to a trademark search directly, so you would need to go to the basic search and enter"Thermapen".
https://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/gate.exe?f=login&p_lang=engli...