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<blockquote data-quote="catsclaw227" data-source="post: 3146048" data-attributes="member: 14197">I have purchased from Enworld Game Store, RPGNow and DTRPG.&nbsp; I have bought a LOT of PDF's and I consider myself a major customer:$1,920.52 at RPGNow since Nov 06, 2002$1,401.24 at DTRPG since June 8, 2004$89.15 at Enworld Game Store since a couple of months agoThis just means that all my money will go to one place, and quite frankly I don't care as long as the publisher gets their due. The DTRPG watermark has NEVER been a problem and I find that all stores downloaded their PDFs fine.&nbsp; But...... It sucks that the prices will go up since the distributor percentages go up.&nbsp; THAT I disagree with. If someone opened up anther PDF store that gave better percentages to the publishers, then the prices would be better for me and all my money would go there. I have developed and run distributor websites in the past, for other industries, and once the site gets up, it's not that tough to manage, though a couple of Customer service people help.&nbsp; The rate increases only seem like a golden lining in the pockets of OBS and the publishers are getting screwed?&nbsp; What is the justification for the rate increase?&nbsp; What are they doing, that increases the distributors COSTS, that justifies the percentage hike and therefore harm the (mostly) poor publisher.This does suck. And I am pissed about it.&nbsp; Not because of the merger, that sounds fine to me (though I just realized that the nice discount offers of one site over another will disappear and now I won't get as many deals as I saw before).&nbsp; One place to shop, OK.&nbsp; But the rate increase for the publisher really bites.my 0.02</blockquote>

[QUOTE="catsclaw227, post: 3146048, member: 14197"] I have purchased from Enworld Game Store, RPGNow and DTRPG. I have bought a LOT of PDF's and I consider myself a major customer: $1,920.52 at RPGNow since Nov 06, 2002 $1,401.24 at DTRPG since June 8, 2004 $89.15 at Enworld Game Store since a couple of months ago This just means that all my money will go to one place, and quite frankly I don't care as long as the publisher gets their due. The DTRPG watermark has NEVER been a problem and I find that all stores downloaded their PDFs fine. But...... It sucks that the prices will go up since the distributor percentages go up. THAT I disagree with. If someone opened up anther PDF store that gave better percentages to the publishers, then the prices would be better for me and all my money would go there. I have developed and run distributor websites in the past, for other industries, and once the site gets up, it's not that tough to manage, though a couple of Customer service people help. The rate increases only seem like a golden lining in the pockets of OBS and the publishers are getting screwed? What is the justification for the rate increase? What are they doing, that increases the distributors COSTS, that justifies the percentage hike and therefore harm the (mostly) poor publisher. This does suck. And I am pissed about it. Not because of the merger, that sounds fine to me (though I just realized that the nice discount offers of one site over another will disappear and now I won't get as many deals as I saw before). One place to shop, OK. But the rate increase for the publisher really bites. my 0.02 [/QUOTE]

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