Mitchman
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As many of us would know, frim experiencing it first hand, Nortec shut down its operations in Greece for distribution of Nintendo Games.
Greece - Nortec Multimedia S.A. ceases partnership with Nintendo
What this meant was, in 2016 there would be no official channel for getting the games here, and that means importing. Something that has shipping charges, extra taxation and price differentials for each market. So yoy would think that things would get costly right? Apparently not.
Παιχνίδια Nintendo 3DS (Έτος Κυκλοφορίας: 2016) | Skroutz.gr
Ignoring the liscense fluff, look at the big games, like PSMD, Final Fantasy Explorers, and Legend of Legacy. If you are from any other market, those might look like fair prices. Here in Greece though, all of the games INCLUDING Rumble World, which for some odd reason is 40 euros, would be a hard 50,maybe 55 depending on the effort to bring it over.
So yeah, how is it that the prices are going down? The site I posted isn't straight online shopping, its an aggregate site that rounds up all the online retailers that exist and compares prices. Which means that mostly the people selling it for so low a price are high end import shops, which by extent would neccessitate a higher price on their end for the trouble.
What I'm basically asking is, did an official distributor mean that price markup was happening, and if the import shops could afford prices closer to the MSRP of other European countries, can a reentry through another distribution company perhaps be as generous to the consumers as it is now without one?
Greece - Nortec Multimedia S.A. ceases partnership with Nintendo
What this meant was, in 2016 there would be no official channel for getting the games here, and that means importing. Something that has shipping charges, extra taxation and price differentials for each market. So yoy would think that things would get costly right? Apparently not.
Παιχνίδια Nintendo 3DS (Έτος Κυκλοφορίας: 2016) | Skroutz.gr
Ignoring the liscense fluff, look at the big games, like PSMD, Final Fantasy Explorers, and Legend of Legacy. If you are from any other market, those might look like fair prices. Here in Greece though, all of the games INCLUDING Rumble World, which for some odd reason is 40 euros, would be a hard 50,maybe 55 depending on the effort to bring it over.
So yeah, how is it that the prices are going down? The site I posted isn't straight online shopping, its an aggregate site that rounds up all the online retailers that exist and compares prices. Which means that mostly the people selling it for so low a price are high end import shops, which by extent would neccessitate a higher price on their end for the trouble.
What I'm basically asking is, did an official distributor mean that price markup was happening, and if the import shops could afford prices closer to the MSRP of other European countries, can a reentry through another distribution company perhaps be as generous to the consumers as it is now without one?