EVE General Discussion

I would gladly trade you our American discount on plex if you would take Obamacare to the UK and never let it come back here.

When you are the number 1 consumer market, and the number one market for video games, you get special perks. Hi I am from Canada, I live 2 hours from the US I get shafted just the same. MMMmmm MMM Shaft.

I have a solution for you though. Buy a corp house. For roughly @2K US you can buy a **** property in Detroit and use it as a US address. Get 20 dudes from your corporation to pitch in a hundred bucks a pop and you can buy a property that everyone not in the US can use to benefit from US deals.

http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/10020-Winthrop-St-Detroit-MI-48227/88398210_zpid/

Or buy that one yourself.

It needs to be the same address that the card you use to pay is registered to, so no, it's not an option.

Guys, do you realize that CCP doesn't actually set the prices on amazon?

Amazon buys a quantity at wholesale price from CCP, then they set their own prices.

CCP is apparently scared that we will throw their tea out the undock at Jita 4-4 if they tax out PLEX.....

Obviously, SOMEONE remembered the lesson from Boston, because our own politicans sure seem to have forgot.

Then..at what price is it that CCP sells said plex to Amazon in the first place ?

If at a discount then there is indeed a collusion


edit..In answer to a convo I was just engaged in..

..Collusion is an agreement between two or more parties, sometimes illegal and therefore secretive, to limit open competition by deceiving, misleading, or defrauding others of their legal rights, or to obtain an objective forbidden by law typically by defrauding or gaining an unfair advantage. It is an agreement among firms or individuals to divide a market, set prices, limit production or limit opportunities.[1] It can involve "wage fixing, kickbacks, or misrepresenting the independence of the relationship between the colluding parties".[2] In legal terms, all acts effected by collusion are considered void

That was kinda implied captain obvious.

28 PLEX go for $490 on CCP's PLEX Store. If you can afford to spend that much for virtual currency in a video game, to spend on goods you never actually own, you should go help people instead.

(Glares at the over privileged 1%er and wanders off to make a donation to the local food bank.)

If Plex cost the same on Amazon as they do directly from CCP, how is Amazon making money, do they buy the Plex at a lower price from CCP? In which case wouldn't it be better to support CCP by buying Plex from them directly and cutting out the middle company?