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Busier Than Shinjuku Station
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Posts: 1,474
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Central Virginia (Yamagata currently)
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08-11-2010, 06:43 AM
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Originally Posted by MMM
But someone needs to buy it once before it can even appear on eBay. Resale is a part of life in any industry where the goods are not physically consumed. Whether it is books, DVDs, video games, cars, houses, etc. There are benefits to resale, like free advertising.
If I post a book I bought new on eBay, 1000 people might see that ad. If one of them is interested by the title and goes to buy it new, that "lost sale" is just restored.
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Hm, couldn't that kind of apply to manga too? Some people read titles online, and then later on, went out and bought them because the scanlation places introduced them to said series to look into. Guess you could say it's "free advertising" in a way. |