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Neodegenerate on 21 December 2016
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Intrinsic said:
Neodegenerate said:

Again, you are failing to see where one store gets to sell something at a discount from a distributor (in this case digital distributor Sony because they are the ONLY distributor for Playstations online store) because of that company's own decision to do so.

It's like being dumbfounded that Target is offering a sale on wool coats this week but Walmart has decided it can continue to sell them at full price because they are having a sale on Oreos instead.

You keep using this example. Its not teh same thing.

There is only one place in the world to download games for the PS4. Thats on the PS store. So all game codes for any game that they are selling will ultimately go through the very same store.

This is not like target and wallmart offerring dirfferent deals at different times. 

Here, amazon, is offerring a game in a form factor that you can only get from one place. And the place in question also happens to sell the exact same game in the exact same form factor. But at twice the price that amazon is offerring it.I do not know how else to explain this.

This is like being the sole distributor of oreos, and having a store where you sell only oreos. But people have to go to another store to pay for a coupon that allows them come back to your store and take the oreos for half the price.

And you are hung up on the distribution method and not the fact that the item you are purchasing is treated the same way as a physical item for the sake of sales.

So instead of Oreos and wool coats, look at it as Walmart and Target both offering Oreos for separate prices. You can only get Oreos from one place, Nabisco.  However, they distribute by selling Oreos to stores like Walmart and Target for a specific price.  Generally speaking, the more they buy at once, the less it costs.

So essentially you are complaining that Nabisco lets Target and Walmart set their own prices on Oreos instead of making it as cheap as possible for everyone all the time.  Go ahead and replace the word Oreo with digital game and the words Walmart and Target with Gamestop and Amazon, then Nabisco with Sony.  It is the same thing.

Ultimately it comes down to you not understanding how business and economics work.  It's ok, you can be ignorant to those things.   You just can't expect everyone to side with you when you are.