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In article <1993May24....@midway.uchicago.edu> th...@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>In article <C7Jo7...@news.cso.uiuc.edu> be...@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (David Bell) writes:
>>
>>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?
>-- 

Usually the deal with distributors is that the factory will not undercut
a particular price ("retail" though retailrs can and often DO discount).
This extends to most distribution arrangements, not just software, for
the obvious reasons (why advertise and display a product to consumers if
they can say "That looks great!" and buy it from the factory for less?)

>ted frank                 | "Absolutely.  I would've been glad to pull the
>th...@kimbark.uchicago.edu |  switch myself." -- Harvard Law professor Charles
>the u of c law school     |  Fried, on whether due process was served in
>standard disclaimers      |  Coleman v Virginia. 

Still around, and still in law school?  Nice that the Net has stable anchors.


   Mitch