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About 50% of the human race is middlemen, and they don't take kindly to being eliminated
by koenigdavidmj 13y ago
About 50% of the human race is middlemen, and they don't take kindly to being eliminated
- shmerl 13y agoMiddlemen don't necessarily need laws to protect their position on the market. If they offer some value with their services - people will use them. If they need laws, it can be that their services aren't necessary at all for the consumer.
- makomk 13y agoThey do offer some value to both consumers and manufacturers - they allow manufacturers to sell cars without the capital costs of setting up dealers everywhere themselves. The trouble is that, without legal protection, you basically have to be a sucker in order to set one up; if the manufacturers can set up dealers themselves, they can just cherry-pick the most profitable locations and drive their independent dealers there out of business. This actually happened with Games Workshop, whose resellers didn't have any legal protection - as soon as their stuff took off, they set up stores everywhere and drove the hobby stores who took on all the risk of marketing their products out of business. (To the detriment of customers I might add.)