Is Ubisoft lying about ZombiU?

[Viper1]

KylieDog said:

Viper1 said:

Let me get this straight.  A retailer will puchase X amount of copies at full price but if a certain percentage of those copies do not sell, the distributor will send money to the retailer to offset the reduced retail price to sell the remainder?

It depends on the agreement, it is either that or the copies are paid to the publishers as they sell.  Is very rare anything is shipped back anymore, usually a fault is the cause for that to happen.

That's the consignment agreement I was talking about before.  That's rarely used except in some European markets in desperation mode.   HMV did it for a little while when they were in administration.  But this is not used as standard practice.  Much less widescale.

And I've also never heard of a distributor paying money back to a retailer for a percentage of product that was reduced in price by the retailer themselves.