If it’s cheaper for someone to buy your product and ship it overseas, then you are overcharging for your product. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I mean fuck Amazon and all but isn’t capitalism the ability to provide a product for cheaper than the competition? How is it Amazon or those resellers fault that Nintendo is liquidating their product for cheap in Asia they just chose to bring it here.
Nintendo is selling them for cheaper in Southeast Asia because people there have less money. They could sell them for less in the US as well, but people are able to afford the prices there so capitalism dictates that the price is higher. What Amazon and the retailers are doing undercuts this strategy, which in theory means that Nintendo should raise their prices in Southeast Asia to make their business model work, making the games inaccessible to consumers living there. In classic liberalism this is the logical way things should be, in neoliberalism the state should intervene.
There was a whole thing in the past where some smart individual would buy college text books for a fraction of the price then resell them to college students at a much more reasonable price but still at a profit for him.
Lots of people would love to buy their prescriptions from outside of the US because the same exact drugs are significantly cheaper elsewhere.
The whole point of capitalism at least the way it’s sold to average person is that they’re going to get the best price because businesses are competing with each other and will naturally offer you the lowest price. What’s happening in effect is businesses and companies are trying to figure out the exact maximum amount of money they can extract regardless and that’s not good…
If I can get a product and sell it cheaper than someone else why shouldn’t I be able to do that especially if it’s the same product and not a illegal knockoff?
Yes this is an example of capitalism and not free market.
It is why the system needs to be burned the fuck down.
The Japanese company stopped selling on Amazon after noticing that third-party merchants were offering games for sale in the US at prices that undercut Nintendo’s advertised rates, according to a person familiar with the situation. Enterprising sellers were buying Nintendo products in bulk in Southeast Asia and exporting them to the US, said the person, who requested anonymity to discuss confidential information.
How dare you!
Let them fight.
But also, I get the idea of selling to other markets for cheap for a little extra profit. There’s a difference between profit based on cost of production and profit based on the development of the product. Same as with medicine costs. Not sure how that’s Amazon’s fault though, considering it’s Marketplace.
“MRP”… “hey Nintendo, don’t you mean MSRP?”… “no, there’s no suggestion about it”
“Mandatory Retail Price”
