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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alzrius" data-source="post: 6761825" data-attributes="member: 8461">It definitely sounds like all of those things!Based on what you're saying here, it sounds like it's not so much an issue of competition as it is with them being functioning like a different sort of distributor. You can order products from them for the purposes of retail sale, but there's an issue of how much demand is there after the ordering period has closed, due to the fact that the distributor also makes itself available to non-retail outlets (e.g. other individuals). In that case, this becomes a balancing act of trying to anticipate whether the demand that's still there when you can make it available for retail will be sufficient for however much supply you've ordered. Given that that's almost entirely an act of guesswork - particularly in case of those "one and done" titles you mentioned, which essentially make you have a small window for figuring out what level of orders you need to place - I can see how that'd be hair-pullingly frustrating!</blockquote>