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To: gman992
Secondly, no wonder Playboy is going broke when they make crap like this instead of concentrating of producing a good magazine.

Things like this are what keeps Playboy afloat. Licensing their logo and their pictures is pure profit-Playboy doesn't actually make the snowboards, they just give the manufacturer the license to use Playboy's intellectual property, in exchange for royalty payments. Plus, this is free advertising.

Playboy magazine is what's known as a "loss leader." It stopped being profitable a while ago and is unlikely ever to come out of the red. Playboy keeps publishing it in order to maintain its "brand."

55 posted on 01/05/2009 12:40:35 PM PST by Citizen Blade ("A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy" -Benjamin Disraeli)
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To: Citizen Blade

Playboy is going broke...they fired their entire DVD division, the mansion itself is way over-budgeted, and even Christie is jumping ship next month...


61 posted on 01/08/2009 10:07:05 PM PST by gman992
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