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Fanatics - How does this company stay in business? (1 Viewer)

SwampDawg

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I've ordered from them three or for times in the past and had minor issues. One time they sent and charged me for two hats when I only ordered one, another time ordered a white Dolphins shirt and two weeks later get a notice they are out of stock. Had issues with delivery being slow once shipped. So Cyber Monday they have the soccer jersey my son wants and free shipping. Place the order, check the status and estimated delivery of 12/17 to 12/21. Great will be here for Christmas. Go in today to check and see if there is a tracking number, new estimated delivery of 2/5 to 2/11. What the hell. I understand hey maybe shipping was behind or something and if it was the first week in January then so be it. But February? That tells me they didn't even have it in stock and they just didn't bother updating their site so people would keep ordering. Oh and never and email or anything, if I hadn't went in and looked I would assume it was still arriving in the next day or two.
 
They have exclusive licenses for a lot of stuff. Monopoly power is, well, powerful.
Exactly. Only way to change it is for people to stop buying the stuff. The only way leagues and teams will make a change is once merchandise revenues significantly drop.

Or until another company comes in and outbids Fanatics and then has even worse quality.
 
Unfortunately, they are one of the companies "partnered" with Costco in the sense that you can buy $200 in Fanatics gift cards for like $160, or something like that. Which isn't a bad deal, in the event that you actually get what you order/pay for with no issues, etc. But, it's not going to slow down business or stop people from buying their stuff, unfortunately.
 
They have exclusive licenses for a lot of stuff. Monopoly power is, well, powerful.
This. They also now own Topps and starting in the next few years will have the exclusive trading card license with the NFL, pushing Panini to non-licensed products. I can only imagine the crap they start to do then as they'll have NFL and MLB.

Pro sports are one area where I feel like anti-trust rules don't apply quite as firmly as they do in other industries.
 
They have exclusive licenses for a lot of stuff. Monopoly power is, well, powerful.
This. They also now own Topps and starting in the next few years will have the exclusive trading card license with the NFL, pushing Panini to non-licensed products. I can only imagine the crap they start to do then as they'll have NFL and MLB.

Pro sports are one area where I feel like anti-trust rules don't apply quite as firmly as they do in other industries.
Which is saying something because I would argue that anti-trust laws hardly apply anywhere in 2024.
 
They have exclusive licenses for a lot of stuff. Monopoly power is, well, powerful.
This. They also now own Topps and starting in the next few years will have the exclusive trading card license with the NFL, pushing Panini to non-licensed products. I can only imagine the crap they start to do then as they'll have NFL and MLB.

Pro sports are one area where I feel like anti-trust rules don't apply quite as firmly as they do in other industries.
Which is saying something because I would argue that anti-trust laws hardly apply anywhere in 2024.
I'm curious what antitrust laws y'all think would even apply here?
 
They have exclusive licenses for a lot of stuff. Monopoly power is, well, powerful.
This. They also now own Topps and starting in the next few years will have the exclusive trading card license with the NFL, pushing Panini to non-licensed products. I can only imagine the crap they start to do then as they'll have NFL and MLB.

Pro sports are one area where I feel like anti-trust rules don't apply quite as firmly as they do in other industries.
Which is saying something because I would argue that anti-trust laws hardly apply anywhere in 2024.
I'm curious what antitrust laws y'all think would even apply here?
I believe that question was settled in the case of Nunya vs. Ida Noe.
 

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