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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mallus" data-source="post: 4349500" data-attributes="member: 3887">Exactly. Really? So Half.com doesn't exert any price pressure on Amazon? Let me ask you a simple question RC: if small, independent gaming stores are so valuable in keeping Amazon's prices for game books low, why haven't Amazon's prices for those items risen as the FSLG's have died off? Is Amazon waiting for the very last local game store to go under before it dances on it's grave, let's out of whoop, and then radically increases it's prices on gaming books? (I referred to this upthread as a belief in "Doctor Doom economics") Borders, B&N and other chain retailers that sell gaming materials might pressure the big online retailers, but a relative handful of specialty shops?Put another way, just because two businesses might sell the same product, it doesn't automatically make them competitors (in a meaningful sense of the word). Size and market penetration come into play. Kids selling bottled water at a busy intersection aren't helping keep the price of that same bottle of water low at the local Walmart. Neither are the kids w/the lemonade stand preventing an explosive rise in the price of lemonade.RC, obviously you're correct to say competition keeps prices down, but by failing to acknowledge the difference between significant and insignificant competitors, you render that moot.P.S. Even though Corjay is right that this is off-topic... music piracy was made possible by the spread of consumer broadband access. That's the technology I was talking about, not file-sharing clients. And broadband Internet providers like Comcast did not develop their services in response to high CD prices so that their customers could thieve music...</blockquote>

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