The PLAN - DO NOT Boycott the Merchants

[Annemehr]

> Tonks:
> 
> If you don't want to buy things at the WB site, that is fine. But 
> PLEASE do NOT punish the other merchants. They will have a hard 
> enough time during the Holiday shopping season because of the movie 
> delay. WB is a big company, it will mean very little to them 
> actually. But they would love to put the small companies that are 
> their competitors for HP merchandise out of business. Buy from 
those 
> places instead of WB. Or just boycott the movies. Actually whatever 
> you do will mean very little to a company the size of WB. We are 
> like gnats on a wall to them. Trust me on this.
> 
> Tonks_op
>

Annemehr:

Maybe I'm missing something, but what "small companies" in 
competition with WB do you mean?

HP merchandise is licensed by WB, so there's no competition regarding 
the manufacturers.  I can't say how large the companies are that pay 
the licensing fees, but I imagine they would have to be of a certain 
size to be able to afford it.

As for the retail merchants, most of those are chains stores anyway.  
If you want to support, say, a small independent bookstore that 
carries this stuff, you could always buy something else instead.

Annemehr,
who wasn't going to bother with any more HP movies anyway...