You are the riaa and mpaa's wet dream

If it's not a good analogy, show me an argument against it.

So now we're comparing WK to a non-profit? LOL, okay I'll play along ...

Did WK "donate" those prize kits? Are they even provided at or near cost? No.

Although again it's not a donation, a true nonprofit actually can do just about anything they want with your donation (unless they advertise to the contrary or run afoul of some law). I know of national nonprofits that sell stuff in bulk on the side and it never goes through the front door to the people it's "intended" for, but the nonprofit and thus the people it's helping still benefit.

If WK's goal is to support its venues, and thus its player base, that's still happening. Making a little extra off the stuff online (or in store) helps many of the smaller venues (and the players at the venue still get prizes for the tournaments).

Do you really believe that? I've seen just the opposite. The expensive buy-in for NML sealed, plus the highly competitive play for prize support, actually drives newer players away. We get new players on the $2 modern or golden tournaments, never on IG or NML weeks.

Because venues are so limited in what they can buy, are a few stores who violate the spirit of the prize kits really going to make much of a difference in the scheme of things? The vast majority of venues are going to use as much prize support as needed at their venue, and only sell off what's left over. Let's have a little faith in our retailers. WK admits that there's no such thing as an "online-only retailer" so what's the big problem? Don't you think you'd hear the players of a venue scream if there was no prize support?

"few stores that violate the spirit of the prize kits"

"vast majority of venues are going to use as much prize support as needed at their venue"

That's the problem. You feel it's 'the few' doing the wrong. While that may have some truth, the players in my town have been affected by 'the few' and I am confident other players have been affected by 'the few'. And until you've been personally affected by a local store doing this to you, you really have no idea how it feels.

All I want to see is prizes given out how they are supposed to, and writing "NOT FOR RESELL" on the package hasn't solved the problem.

so why not have the WES keep track of what venues have tourneys and which dont? isnt that what its supposed to do? and what about venues that get screwed out of an OP kit and are lucky to have another venue sell them their extra kit so the screwed venue can have their tourneys? i think the problem is the ordering requirements coupled with a lack of mandatory use of the WES than strong arming venues into a contract forcing them to choose whether clix is worth having or not.

Or worse that your opponent will take from you.

Oddly enough, just yesterday I found a GF of AVM in my local ShopKo. Not sure how they managed to get their hands on a previously-Target-exclusive product a year after release. But I did notice that the boosters I could see had all been opened by Loki-hunters.

I was unaware that WK was donating these kits...

And to be clear I'm unsure of how I feel about this, I just don't think that if I were a venue owner I'd sign suck a one-sided agreement

[quote=jwb441;7210548 suck a one-sided agreement [/QUOTE]

Best typo ever.

i like how the guy says "Hello Kitty clix" and the guy in the background is all "MAIDEN! MAIDEN!" lol's

Great episode,thanks