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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mark CMG" data-source="post: 3300798" data-attributes="member: 10479">Time and money.  Hundreds of manufacturers/publishers to deal with at an increased cost.  There is no real savings, even if a few manufacturers or publishers might heavily discount for dealing direct.  It takes time and costs money to call them all (or email/fax orders) and to chase them down with inevitible mis-shipments or damaged shipments.  Smaller individual orders to multiple sources removes the discounts one gets by placing larger orders with a few select distributors.  Add in the additional costs for shipping when your smaller orders are not large enough to get free or discounted shipping rates.  Plus, the amount or paperwork increases tremendously.I've talked to a number of people on this issue in the past, those who own or order for gamestores, and recently discussed this with a friend who is an owner/orderer of one of the top gamestores in the country (he may even pop in this thread to elucidate further) and it just isn't feasable (unless you, perhaps, have game products in a very, very limited number in a store of another type, e.g. a comic book store with two or three game company lines).</blockquote>