(09-26-2011, 09:40 PM)cmccart8 Wrote: It doesn't hurt companies at all when we tell them they are on our "hate list" or that we won't buy from them anymore because $0 of our money goes to them. Dealers and distributors pay for products long before they are released, in some cases as far in advance as 4 months. Dealers and Distributors will always buy it all because they take what their allocation is. It's the dealers that suffer when we stop buying, the companies have nothing to lose.
thats not accurate at all man.
Dealers are just like any other store....if everybody stops buying a certain thing from Wal-mart....they arent going to carry it anymore.
If people stop buying Topps from Dealers....they are going to quit carrying Topps.
In this country the Consumer decides what products make it or break it....not the middle men.