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[jdrakeh]

Originally Posted by Scribble

Uhh... did you read their authorized online seller stuff? There aren't any slavish or absurd standards aside from pretty much always maintaining your brick and morter store.

Well, I do think that forcing an Internet retailer to own a brick and mortar retail store is pretty absurd if taken at face value. I mean, it's nowhere near as draconian as the stuff that GW employed, but requiring that an Internet retailer start a completely different business to carry your product via their current business is Lewis Carroll absurd.

Yeah but the current edition stuff is well was drivethru exclusive.

I did not know that.

They already had that stuff in place before, (about Brick and Morter) just through the distributor. Did you read any of the retailer rewards stuff linked to the press release?

Yep. And, as stated above, that stipulation seems pretty silly. I have no doubt that it's designed to cripple Internet retailers given its absurd nature. Again, it's not quite the level of micro-management that GW asserted (e.g., minimum monthly purchases, maximum discount caps, etc) but it's pretty crazy, IMO.