Seems like buying games to remove them from your competitor is a scummier thing to do.

  • Taldan@lemmy.world
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    24 days ago

    30% is the standard retail markup for many things

    It most certainly is not standard in retail. Most retail stores have a margin of a couple percentage points. Walmart, for example, is ~3% net margin most years

    Unless you’re trying to compare wholesale price to final consumer price. In which case I would say that’s a silly and pointless thing to compare, but even then it’s far smaller than 30% across retail and varies wildly based on the individual item being sold

    A 30% cut is only really common in the tech sector where the underlying economics make it feasible

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      19 days ago

      I just did a cursory search online and the only markup I could fine below 30% was cellphones at about 8-10% and groceries at 5-25%. Now, I wouldn’t make a wager on the precise accuracy of a cursory glance but it’s telling that even in a Capitalist society, no ones denying their huge markups. Most sources list the markup on cloths to be 50-400%