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Message: <blockquote data-quote="D_Sinclair" data-source="post: 1832659" data-attributes="member: 21823">The thread was about RPGNow's minimum checkout hike, and it rapidly evolved into a discussion regarding vendor response to that, namely in the form of price increases.Every step of the way, you have insisted on attempting to harangue vendors for the price increases, right down to attempting to debunk justifications without serious consideration, right down to offering little more than innuendo regarding MODERNIZED operations as a free fanzine, all in the name of suiting your adopted role of non-vendor pundit trying to illustrate that vendors are wrong for choosing to raise their prices. The vendors have every right to price their products as they see fit, including taking into consideration the minimum checkout amount allowed with any particular retail outlet, since so many initial pricing decisions involved the original $5 checkout minimum to begin with. However, on the flipside of that, while you and other customers are quite welcome to tell us you are unhappy with our choices, you don't have any grounds upon which to tell us our decisions are unjustified. Just as you think I'm ignorant of how freebie fanzines operate and how the standard business model for that is supposed to apply to MODERNIZED, I get the feeling you too bear some ignorance as well, regarding the day-to-day fiscal decision-making involved in a for-profit enterprise. After all, you insist on assuming that the price increases were due to the increased checkout minimum and nothing else.Want to know another strong factor in all price increases recently, rather than just the ones to $6.40? The vendor reimbursement minimum was raised recently too. Now vendors have to wait until they total $50 in reimbursement from the last check to get a check any given month, double what it was just a few months ago. Or how about this? RPGnow just increased the percentage of its cut in sales by 5%. Prices went up for that, in order to maintain per-unit profitability. Then there's all the price increases that occurred due to many vendors now doing nonexclusive business with DrivethruRPG now. With DTRPG taking 35%, many vendors raised their prices across the board in order to maintain the same profitability per unit at DTRPG that they had at RPGnow. Then there's the new setup fee for new publishers at RPGnow, and many of the new publishers want to recover that expense as quickly as possible. And that's just the fiscal factors of doing business with an online vendor and RPGnow in particular. It doesn't take into account the increasing costs of running an office, necessary equipment and software purchases, or any other offline fiscal influence on the revenue stream.See, Roudi, all things you never considered and probably didn't even know about. Perhaps in the future, you won't sling the insult of accusing others of ignorance quite so lightly.</blockquote>

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