The PLAN - DO NOT Boycott the Merchants

[Beth]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Annemehr" <annemehr at ...> wrote:
>
> 
> > 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.


Beth:
I'm with Annemehr in that I'm not sure I understand this, but if what
you mean is to keep buy Harry Potter merchandise, I'm afraid I was
never one to count on for that anyway. If it didn't relate to my
class, I really couldn't justify the expense. If what you mean is to
keep patronizing the stores, why not buy only book-related products?
I'm not thrilled about Scholastic lately because I think their book
club order forms for school children have been seriously lacking the
past few years, but I don't have such a beef with them I can't see
buying things they license. (Do they license things? Don't they do
calendars and such?)

Beth