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I don't think it's Creative's "fault" that they have low prices. I don't think it's Creative's "fault" that they successfully negotiated a magic deal with Commodore. Commodore has a long sordid history of dumping product at prices to special mail order companies at lower than regular channel price, and they also have a long history of dumping product at lower prices to help the bottom line for quarterly reports. I think your argument is with CBM's practices, not "mail order". It would be quite easy for CBm to have strict, well-enforced prices within the dealer channel. They don't.