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Old 2012-01-03, 14:23   Link #31
bayoab
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Originally Posted by cyth View Post
Thanks for that.

So Bandai Ent. USA blames either the evil retailers for their huge returns and/or their evil Japanese owners for shutting them down preemptively and/or evil North American fans who don't want to buy even cheap releases.
Bandai doesn't blame the retailers. People don't buy stuff, it gets returned. (The problem is when it gets returned, it creates a massive accounting problem.) What causes the problem is fans create an artificial and imaginary demand through piracy and never create that demand in the actual market.
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