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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alzrius" data-source="post: 6760299" data-attributes="member: 8461">You've just moved the goalposts again, by switching from "taxed as income" to "subject to state sales tax." As it is, that's a largely moot point, since most online transactions aren't subject to state sales tax to begin with; doubly moot since tax transactions do not denote what type of platform something is. That's the sleight-of-hand; pointing it out is showing how your trick is performed.You seem to be referencing some specific activity happening here (e.g. the state checked), but you don't reference what it is. As noted above, the "sales taxes are charged" issue is a thin one at best, and largely based around the relative locations of the patron and the company. Even considering that, having such a tax charged does not mean that this is a retail transaction, since tax structures do not denote what sort of platform a particular venue is.The salient point here is that contract law, while it may be one of the key points of retail activity, is not limited purely to retail activity. It covers a lot of other areas where something is X-for-Y. Not particularly, no. The fact that something was categorized as being subject to a particular type of taxation is not indicative of the nature of the platform, as I've told you many times now. Even if you try to change venues from "taxable income" to "state sales taxes," that doesn't undermine that point. Non-retail outlets can still be charged with sales taxes on materials when there's a monetary transaction involved, even if that's a transaction that doesn't involve a "purchase" per se. Likewise, there are retail transactions that aren't subject to state sales taxes (e.g. most online sales), so the entire "it's taxed this way, so it's retail" argument is far less ironclad than you'd like to believe.Except that it's not hurting them, because WotC isn't using a distribution channel at all; they're funding it and promising a few copies as rewards ahead of time to help incentivize the funding. That's extremely different from WotC opening a webshop, which funds nothing and instead makes direct sales. Moreover, said webshop would be available in perpetuity, and would still need to compete with retailers (e.g. secondhand products) in a way that Kickstarter is not subject to. Stores cannot be "cut out" of distributing an item when said item hasn't had the funding necessary to create it procured yet.</blockquote>

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