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CMON Adopting a Minimum Advertised Price Policy
Following in the footsteps of Asmodee. Better jump on all those CMON kickstarters, turns out there may actually be a discount for prepurchasing now.
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stormseeker75 wrote: If you charge more, people will obviously believe it's a better product, right?
A Veblen good is a material commodity for which the demand is proportional to its high price, which is an apparent contradiction of the law of demand.
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What good did that do for GW, where is kirby now?
It seems ffgs relationship with gw during those years taught Peterson this, and took that with him in his new found place at asmodee. And they all spouted it was to help the BandM shops when its plainly obvious its about their own bottom line.
They too will learn this lesson, eventually.
The best thing to do is just vote with your dollars. Consumer ethics has to play a role somewhere, since we do have the upper hand in the end by our choices.
Its a changing market dictated by consumers. Manufacturers attempts at price manipulation can only work so well if you don't buy their products.
I'm glad none of this is relevant to me since none of these companies produce a.product I feel inclined to buy. And even if they did, I'd laugh and go elsewhere since these are not commodities.
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charlest wrote: It also keeps the perceived values of their Kickstarter pledge levels high.
Good point.
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As for the pricing, it IS good for the consumer. It encourages you to save your money and spend it on something of value instead of another mediocre board game.
This is 100% a marketing strategy to increase the perceived savings of their Kickstarters, which is their primary source of revenue (and R&D budget). It's a _smart_ move.
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My son has a 3-D Printer now, So things may get very interesting if they start including printing specs for gaming pieces.
The manufacturers are propping up Big Box stores, which apparently need propping up. All I see people buying there is the Bigger Blacker Box.
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Now I don't buy board games, hardly shop online at all, and about once a month buy a few items from my local GW at MSRP(!).
Similar to Barnes, there are only a few key gaming franchises in my house that we make any purchases on: Games Workshop, Nintendo, Pokemon, and Street Fighter (which, admittedly, as a Nintendo owner...there isn't much to spend on here...c'mon Street Masters!)
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