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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Blue" data-source="post: 9700679" data-attributes="member: 20564">I worked for 25 years for an international freight forwarder, one of those middlemen, or as you call them, parasites.It much cheaper than for small companies to understand global customs, do filing in their local and foreign countries, negotiate prices with steamship (yes, they're called that) lines or air, get them in and out of the port itself, offer services like LCL (Less than container load) where they find others that also want the same service so you can share and split the costs of the containers.For distributors like Diamond (but acting in good faith) the costs to physically transport in bulk, sharing transport means with other goods from other companies, as opposed to you mailing every hobby shop individually 2-3 pieces of product a month via USPS/FedEX/USPS, etc.  Heck, just to have the connections to all of those shops, so they can look at the distributor's catalog and decide to carry your product instead of your small company trying to individually call up all of the FLGSs about.You really are spouting something with confidence, "parasites" heh, that betrays a lack of knowledge of how these offer services and prices that are lower than the company could provide for themselves.</blockquote>