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<blockquote data-quote="Guest 6801328" data-source="post: 7375640">No, because they would still be selling just the Corolla (or whatever car it was that was their first hit.)I'm sure Toyota's early reports...when all they had was the Corolla...read something to the effect of &quot;we're doing great and smashing all our previous records.&quot;&nbsp; So...by your logic...they should have stopped there.You have very curious notions of how product lines are built, but let's think this through:&nbsp; If great sales are a sign that product lines should not be diversified (out of fear of increasing costs by not increasing sales) then when should companies expand their product line?&nbsp; When they are doing badly?&nbsp; That doesn't make any sense either: if you don't have profits to invest you should be focusing on making one great product, not spreading yourself thin.Again, it's possible that WotC has data that shows their market is saturated and they're not leaving much money on the table. But that's not the same thing as their public announcements that they are selling more books than ever.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Guest 6801328, post: 7375640"] No, because they would still be selling just the Corolla (or whatever car it was that was their first hit.) I'm sure Toyota's early reports...when all they had was the Corolla...read something to the effect of "we're doing great and smashing all our previous records." So...by your logic...they should have stopped there. You have very curious notions of how product lines are built, but let's think this through: If great sales are a sign that product lines should not be diversified (out of fear of increasing costs by not increasing sales) then when [I]should[/I] companies expand their product line? When they are doing badly? That doesn't make any sense either: if you don't have profits to invest you should be focusing on making [I]one[/I] great product, not spreading yourself thin. Again, it's possible that WotC has data that shows their market is saturated and they're not leaving much money on the table. But that's [I]not[/I] the same thing as their public announcements that they are selling more books than ever. [/QUOTE]

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