blockerdave
ICC Chairman
Do you know what would happen to big ant's cash flow if everyone bought from their website??
So they would have to up front buy additional bandwidth, potentially employ additional it staff, buy more powerful servers including back up and redundant servers for load balancing, potentially open various multi-currency (fee paying accounts), possibly a different/more expensive transactioal system. All this is expense up front. People browsing the site but not buying still cost them money if they have a traffic-based web plan.
And they get the money in drips and drabs.
Or, a distributor comes up and says "i am forecasting 50k sales in my territory in the first 3 months wholesale cost $40, that's 200k, here is my 60% deposit, we can revisit additional orders in 2 months post release". (Disclaimer - i made up all of those figures but they are illustrative.)
And you wonder into GAME see DBC on the shelves and think, i'm paid next week i will buy it then and Ross already has your money anyway.
As i say "middle men" serve a purpose, or they wouldn't exist. They are not blood suckers. They provide better cash flow, and less up front costs.
So they would have to up front buy additional bandwidth, potentially employ additional it staff, buy more powerful servers including back up and redundant servers for load balancing, potentially open various multi-currency (fee paying accounts), possibly a different/more expensive transactioal system. All this is expense up front. People browsing the site but not buying still cost them money if they have a traffic-based web plan.
And they get the money in drips and drabs.
Or, a distributor comes up and says "i am forecasting 50k sales in my territory in the first 3 months wholesale cost $40, that's 200k, here is my 60% deposit, we can revisit additional orders in 2 months post release". (Disclaimer - i made up all of those figures but they are illustrative.)
And you wonder into GAME see DBC on the shelves and think, i'm paid next week i will buy it then and Ross already has your money anyway.
As i say "middle men" serve a purpose, or they wouldn't exist. They are not blood suckers. They provide better cash flow, and less up front costs.
