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<blockquote data-quote="Kaptain_Kantrip" data-source="post: 180563" data-attributes="member: 546">RPGNow's policy is pretty much the same as Ebay's... they don't want the customer/bidder to get around paying their commission on a sale... which is a real pain for sellers, who would prefer to get as many non-Ebay sales as possible. Ebay won't even let you sell catalogs unless they are out of date &quot;collector's items.&quot; Understandably, RPGNow/Ebay spend lots of money hyping their sites which leads to more customers being exposed to your products, but this is still a painful concept for sellers to swallow. Sellers do not want a middleman to have exclusivity as that cuts into their potential sales/profits/sources of revenue... The middleman wants to become &quot;indispensable&quot; to the seller by providing the bulk of its sales (while taking a healthy--and sometimes questionable--cut off the top for itself) by limiting additional sources of revenue. Exclusivity is a dandy way for them to do this, though it hardly wins any friends. But business isn't about friends---it's about profit!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Kaptain_Kantrip, post: 180563, member: 546"] RPGNow's policy is pretty much the same as Ebay's... they don't want the customer/bidder to get around paying their commission on a sale... which is a real pain for sellers, who would prefer to get as many non-Ebay sales as possible. Ebay won't even let you sell catalogs unless they are out of date "collector's items." Understandably, RPGNow/Ebay spend lots of money hyping their sites which leads to more customers being exposed to your products, but this is still a painful concept for sellers to swallow. Sellers do not want a middleman to have exclusivity as that cuts into their potential sales/profits/sources of revenue... The middleman wants to become "indispensable" to the seller by providing the bulk of its sales (while taking a healthy--and sometimes questionable--cut off the top for itself) by limiting additional sources of revenue. Exclusivity is a dandy way for them to do this, though it hardly wins any friends. But business isn't about friends---it's about profit! [/QUOTE]

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