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Reply To: Kickstarter rising costs, the end to big box games What will the future be ?

June 11, 2022 at 1:03 pm #1746773

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Companies used to be able to pay VAT on the manufacturing cost of the goods rather than the ‘retail’ price of kickstarter stuff due to a degree of fuzziness in the law (typically retail cost for board games is 6-8x higher than the manufacturing cost) so it was easy enough for companies to subsidise $7-10 on a $300 all in. This has now been eliminated meaning they’d have to pay $60 so they pass it all on to us

Container costs may be falling, but fuel prices rising fast means the courier costs to get the container to the distribution hub and the courier to deliver it are rising so shipping is still going to stay high