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Supply & demand? Those other sites have more inventory of the troll than Paizo? Just speculating.
Really? Why would X allow Y to have more of their product than they have themselves? Why should I buy anything from Paizo then? Every mini(and book) I have cross checked has been lower, sometimes substantially, than what I would pay at Paizo. Goblins for $3 or $.99? Obviously they wouldn't allow it if they weren't making money, but why not just cut out the middle and give people a better price? Beyond me I guess, but I buy were I get the best deal and it isn't at Paizo.
Supply & demand? Those other sites have more inventory of the troll than Paizo? Just speculating.Really? Why would X allow Y to have more of their product than they have themselves? Why should I buy anything from Paizo then? Every mini(and book) I have cross checked has been lower, sometimes substantially, than what I would pay at Paizo. Goblins for $3 or $.99? Obviously they wouldn't allow it if they weren't making money, but why not just cut out the middle and give people a better price? Beyond me I guess, but I buy were I get the best deal and it isn't at Paizo.
Not necessarily about minis, though it probably applies to them to an extent, but Paizo has said they are not trying to cut the prices on their own products as much as they could. The reason is because they don't want to directly compete with brick and mortar stores. The keep their prices on their own stuff up high enough that the stores can be reasonably competitive.
On other companies products they sometimes have pretty good prices.
As for miniatures, I think they have said they put the price at a level and people buy a lot of it, they raise the price some. If nobody buys something at a price they lower it. They don't really seemed that interested in competing with other companies, but just going by how much their customers are willing to pay for minis.
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Really? Why would X allow Y to have more of their product than they have themselves? Why should I buy anything from Paizo then? Every mini(and book) I have cross checked has been lower, sometimes substantially, than what I would pay at Paizo. Goblins for $3 or $.99? Obviously they wouldn't allow it if they weren't making money, but why not just cut out the middle and give people a better price? Beyond me I guess, but I buy were I get the best deal and it isn't at Paizo.Vic Wertz, Paizo's Technical Director, answered a very similar question with regard to Paizo books being cheaper on Amazon. Here is the relevant post:
The original question begs an important corollary: If other places can sell our stuff cheaper than we can, why don't we just lower our price so that we're the cheapest?
We pretty much have to sell our own products at MSRP. The occasional sale now and then is fine, as are the perks we provide to subscribers, but if we commonly sold our own products for less than the price that we ask other retailers to charge, retailers would—quite rightly—revolt.
Hope that helps.
-Skeld
Chief Technical Officer
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Supply & demand? Those other sites have more inventory of the troll than Paizo? Just speculating.Really? Why would X allow Y to have more of their product than they have themselves?
As has been pointed out, Paizo is not the manufacturer here; WizKids is. But there's actually a more important reason here: nobody can just buy Trolls from WizKids, including Paizo. Anybody selling Pathfinder Battles singles gets them the same way: by opening up cases of boosters. And most retailers won't open a new case just because they've run out of one or two minis, so minis will go out of stock now and then, even if that retailer still has cases of inventory.
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Just looked on Ebay and all the goblins I found were 2.25 to 2.50. I did not do an extensive search but it was five auctions. I know there are other places to get minis cheaper but if you find them cheaper there than buy them there.
Already have. For about $113 I purchased over $300 worth of minis. Going by Paizo prices anyhow. Vat a deel!
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The original question begs an important corollary: If other places can sell our stuff cheaper than we can, why don't we just lower our price so that we're the cheapest?
We pretty much have to sell our own products at MSRP. The occasional sale now and then is fine, as are the perks we provide to subscribers, but if we commonly sold our own products for less than the price that we ask other retailers to charge, retailers would—quite rightly—revolt
Hope that helps.
-Skeld
I'm horrible at math so I just don't get the whole idea and maybe I'm just an A-hole, but if I offered products like Paizo, and I could keep all the money myself, I'd tell the retailers to EFF off, lower prices and keep the money for me. Could be it's the area I am in, but I don't see squat from Pathfinder on the shelves of my local retailers anyway.
Oh well, they wouldn't do it if they weren't making money. So as long as they keep making money and I keep getting stuff, I will just smh and look for the best deals. meh
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The original question begs an important corollary: If other places can sell our stuff cheaper than we can, why don't we just lower our price so that we're the cheapest?
We pretty much have to sell our own products at MSRP. The occasional sale now and then is fine, as are the perks we provide to subscribers, but if we commonly sold our own products for less than the price that we ask other retailers to charge, retailers would—quite rightly—revolt
Hope that helps.
-Skeld
I'm horrible at math so I just don't get the whole idea and maybe I'm just an A-hole, but if I offered products like Paizo, and I could keep all the money myself, I'd tell the retailers to EFF off, lower prices and keep the money for me. Could be it's the area I am in, but I don't see squat from Pathfinder on the shelves of my local retailers anyway.
Oh well, they wouldn't do it if they weren't making money. So as long as they keep making money and I keep getting stuff, I will just smh and look for the best deals. meh
And then a lot of those retailers would go out of buisness or at least stop stocking Paizo stuff, which would definately loose some of the sales - they wouldn't all transfer across to online sales, and some people would choose not to buy Paizo products in reaction to that tactic. It would also stop a lot of sales to new players who might pick up their first pathfinder book at a retail store, like what they find and either keep purchasing at the game store or come here and pick up the items. Trying to force everything into one channel will generally reduce overall sales, reduce the amount that Paizo is earning and cause a lot of bad blood as well. It's not that you're an A-Hole, it's that the business plan you're considering doesn't actually maximise profit.
As for why people don't find the cheapest available price for something; there can be a variety of reasons - loyalty to a brand (there are regularly threads on here asking which way to make sure Paizo get the biggest cut through a persons purchases), there may be a lack of trust of cheaper places - some might not feel willing to trust a random eBay seller for example, some might buy only from retailers as they don't trust internet sales or don't like stuff going through the mail, with new products people might want to buy direct from the manufacturer so that they get it quicker, some might buy from a store so as to avoid waiting for the product.
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Well from what I see, those retailers aren't stocking that much to begin with. My loyalty is to me and me only, so price is what gets me to open my wallet. I finally figured out where I was losing my connection though, licencing. I saw what Shem wrote it and I shot right past it. They aren't Paizo's minis. WizKids is basicaly renting the Pathfinder name. I had it stuck in my head that Paizo was having these made by WizKids like you would go to Kinkos to make copies. "Here, I need 50 copies of Half-Orc Barberian #25". Heavy sigh.......