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Ross but not HTS? Why?
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12-20-2010, 03:27 PM
Roshan
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this is actually a very good question.
the only possible explanation is that selling it to Ross you get the entire inventory sold and get paid. selling it to HTS you technically sell it, but it is still owned by Hasbro, and you risk some not selling. and absent of the manic gotta get to the store before anyone else and I better buy them all because the next person will that drives resell value, given the ability to buy as many as you want online reduces that hysteria and people would only buy one or two of each, leaving plenty for everyone.
in turn, the demand would be less as an HTS exclusive and eliminate the second hand market value that drives the hysteria and thus demand. it is better to sell them to Ross for Hasbro where they are more likely to sell out.
I can understand that argument. But then, aren't they assuming their product is going to fail? Or at the very least selling it short for its potential? I only worry about it because I worry about the health of the line in general. Too many releases relegated to discount stores means Hasbro green lights less new product, or cancels it all together.
I think if the people running HTS were smart about this, they could keep a craze up. Look at how the Slaughter's were handled. Yes, there were much less of them, but they kept people on the keyboards hitting refresh for days waiting for them to come out. Now if they didn't call this an exclusive, and decided that instead of some guy in the Phillipines at a warehouse, they were the ones who pre-released this before it got to Ross, they could sell through on a third of the stock in a couple days while the other 2/3 is on its way to the Ross warehouse. Demand wouldn't be met yet, and people would be clamouring for more, and bam, then they hit Ross and you could have a successful sell through.
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