I think this touches on a core problem. When you add a middleman between the product and the consumer you get a painful market. The consumer doesn't get to ch

I think this touches on a core problem. When you add a middleman between the product and the consumer you get a painful market. The consumer doesn't get to choose his product thus the product gets to market to the middleman and gradually increase it's cost to the consumer because the middleman won't notice a dollar here and a dollar there, whereas the consumer absolutely would.