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Message: <blockquote data-quote="D_Sinclair" data-source="post: 1952784" data-attributes="member: 21823">OK, what game distributor are you using that you're only getting 25 cents on the dollar for your merchandise? The only way I can imagine this happening is by you producing goods locally in the UK and then incorporating overseas shipping fees to reduce your net that low.Here in the US, game distributors pretty uniformly expect to get a 60% discount off cover price and games-only retailers expect a 50% discount while comics & games retailers are willing to settle for as little as a 35% discount. And outside the game industry, non-periodicals uniformly look for 65% off on books (though a vast quantity is sold at odd net discounts), 75% off on periodicals, with retailers expecting no more than a 50% discount. These differences outside the game industry are due efforts to change existing return policy structures into a system where a bigger discount is easier and cheaper to deal with than the accounting and logistical nightmare that is the traditional return system.</blockquote>