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<blockquote data-quote="Ath-kethin" data-source="post: 7745378" data-attributes="member: 6798775"><p>I absolutely 100% empathize with those who buy stuff at bargain prices and eschew the higer prices at physical stores. I did the same for a long time, and I still do in some cases.</p><p></p><p>But I buy game and comic stuff from my local comic and game shops, and I do it to support those shops. The comic/game store closest to me is closing at the end of this month after 15 years, and I think that sucks - I have a 4 year old kid who loves going there to see the people and look at the comics and miniatures and RPG books and the board games. I want shops like that to be around when he's old enough to actually play in their events. There is no experience like that in the world.</p><p></p><p>So I buy him his monthly comic book we have the store hold for him, and while I buy the collections instead of monthly issues for my books (they store better and look better on a shelf), I buy them from the local store. My experiences as a gamer and as a comic fan have been fantastic, and I want him to have those same kids of opportunities. That doesn't happen at the Amazon Slave Pen, it happens at the local shops.</p><p></p><p>I don't like spending $30 on a book I could buy online for $18 any more than anybody else does. But I like the idea of my kid growing up in a world with no comic or game shops a whole lot less.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ath-kethin, post: 7745378, member: 6798775"] I absolutely 100% empathize with those who buy stuff at bargain prices and eschew the higer prices at physical stores. I did the same for a long time, and I still do in some cases. But I buy game and comic stuff from my local comic and game shops, and I do it to support those shops. The comic/game store closest to me is closing at the end of this month after 15 years, and I think that sucks - I have a 4 year old kid who loves going there to see the people and look at the comics and miniatures and RPG books and the board games. I want shops like that to be around when he's old enough to actually play in their events. There is no experience like that in the world. So I buy him his monthly comic book we have the store hold for him, and while I buy the collections instead of monthly issues for my books (they store better and look better on a shelf), I buy them from the local store. My experiences as a gamer and as a comic fan have been fantastic, and I want him to have those same kids of opportunities. That doesn't happen at the Amazon Slave Pen, it happens at the local shops. I don't like spending $30 on a book I could buy online for $18 any more than anybody else does. But I like the idea of my kid growing up in a world with no comic or game shops a whole lot less. [/QUOTE]
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