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In article <C7Jo7...@news.cso.uiuc.edu> be...@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (David Bell) writes:
>sha...@inter.com (Steve Shannon) writes:
>>Might & Magic: Clouds of Xeen	      IBM	                 
>>$69.95
>
>This is about $20-$35 more than what it sells for in many local stores.
>I'd love to save money by cutting out the middleman, but factory-direct
>ordering always seems to cost much more (almost twice as much in this case).
>This seems to be true of all companies, not just New World.  Anyone know why?
>Are they afraid of offending their retailers if they offer competative 
>prices?

Bingo.  That's precisely right.  If you were a retailer, would you sell
products of a company that undercut you?
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