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<blockquote data-quote="TirionAnthion" data-source="post: 5884662" data-attributes="member: 61048"><p><strong>Lowered Value</strong></p><p></p><p>The product is devalued to me as a retailer. For example, if game stores are the only way to obtain a product, and say 1000 people want that product, they all need to go through a game store to get it. With that in mind, the game store orders more product because he will likely sell more. </p><p></p><p>When the product then becomes available on Amazon, many people who would have come to the game store can now buy the product online. In the case of Amazon, the product is probably being sold just above cost. The more people that go online, the less copies the game store sells. Thus the product is not as good a buy and the game store should not order as many.</p><p></p><p>The problem here is the product was solicited to the game store as an exclusive. If the product had released and then was released in a wider release later, it would not be as bad. As it stands, retailers preordered product based on the understanding that they would be the only ones who could sell the product.</p><p></p><p>Again, I prefer to see the product get to as many people as possible, it just stinks that we are stuck with a preorder for a product that will now be much harder to sell. I am glad that overseas customers can get access to the books, that is certainly a plus.</p><p></p><p>Ultimately, I am just glad to see these great products back on the market and I look forward to playing some in store demo games!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TirionAnthion, post: 5884662, member: 61048"] [b]Lowered Value[/b] The product is devalued to me as a retailer. For example, if game stores are the only way to obtain a product, and say 1000 people want that product, they all need to go through a game store to get it. With that in mind, the game store orders more product because he will likely sell more. When the product then becomes available on Amazon, many people who would have come to the game store can now buy the product online. In the case of Amazon, the product is probably being sold just above cost. The more people that go online, the less copies the game store sells. Thus the product is not as good a buy and the game store should not order as many. The problem here is the product was solicited to the game store as an exclusive. If the product had released and then was released in a wider release later, it would not be as bad. As it stands, retailers preordered product based on the understanding that they would be the only ones who could sell the product. Again, I prefer to see the product get to as many people as possible, it just stinks that we are stuck with a preorder for a product that will now be much harder to sell. I am glad that overseas customers can get access to the books, that is certainly a plus. Ultimately, I am just glad to see these great products back on the market and I look forward to playing some in store demo games! [/QUOTE]
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