Reply To: [unofficial weekender] You k? james exposed!

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I find it frustrating that if you buy direct from the creator of a product you have to pay the full price whereas if you shop around you can get 10-20% off.

Yeah, I get that. But you still need to think of it this way: creators sell to retailers at a very low margin of profit so that the retailer still can make a reasonable profit. But the retailer usually sells multiple things so he can balance margin of profit and thus make some very good prices.

You might not be buying at the best price but buying directly from the creator makes them make the most money and offset the costs of such events like UKGE.  That being said, I too buy from an online store (with a retail shop attached) because my hobby budget only goes so far.  There is no perfect solution to this sadly.

Back when there were big computer conventions the best way to get a discount was to go on the last day as they wanted to get rid of as much left over stock as possible. I don’t know if such things happen at the expo.

That’s still the case but I think that’s mainly a thing with international events like Spiel and cebit back in the day when vendors would technically have to pay import taxes for their own stuff when bringing goods back from conventions. Hence why they sold it of cheaply.

Saturday! And I’m lazy as fuck 8)