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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tortoise" data-source="post: 1001554" data-attributes="member: 146">Where FLGS' and distributors should take their biggest issue with WOTC isn't as much holding the big chains to street dates, but in the amount they sell the books to the chains for.Too often I've seen the big chain and internet retailers selling the books for barely above or even at what it costs an FLGS to buy them from a distributor. In order to do so and make a profit they would have to be buying them from WOTC at the cost that a distributor buys them from WOTC. That amounts to WOTC cutting the throats of both distribution and the hobby market by undercutting the pricing to a select few retailers. Since Walmart and Amazon (and others) are retailers, not distributors, WOTC should either funnel them through regular distribution channels or charge them what the average distributor would charge them. This would help restore the competetiveness of the FLGS (the folks that put them where they are) and would reduce or eliminate the harm that deep discounting (in the words of WOTC, Games Workshop, etc) is doing to the hobby.WOTC would not likely lose those sales channels because even under fair pricing conditions the big chains would still discount somewhat and there are tons of people that would still buy through those sources either due to lack of a nearby FLGS or just because that's what they prefer.Once the palying field with regard to prices gets leveled somewhat, then they could consider looking into street dates. As it is now WOTC would merely be whistling into the wind and doing nothing to correct the more important root problem.The execs at Hasbro need to think about how WOTC got to be the valuable company worth buying to begin with ... it didn't start in the big chains.</blockquote>

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