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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kae'Yoss" data-source="post: 3106757" data-attributes="member: 4134">On the other hand, if Wizards doesn't sell to online sellers any more, it's the B&M stores who have the near-monopoly. Now they can dictate the prices. Online sellers would have to form a price cartell to charge high prices - after all, if online seller 1 charges too much, you just use online seller 2.B&M stores, on the other hand, often don't have to contend with local rivals. You either buy in my store or you drive 200 miles to the next one. So if they charge high prices, you can't just use the next B&M. And I have seen stores that charge really high prices, and heard of more to do the same. If you now take away their major competition - online sellers - those guys will increase the prices further.Of course, the fact that Wizards seems to be willing to attack online and flea market sellers, while still selling to Amazon, means that the shops still have some competition. The only loser in the whole thing is those online sellers.And, especially in the case of DDM, Amazon doesn't sell singles.There has to be a better way to help the B&M stores than killing non-amazon online sellers</blockquote>