Recent content by gamersgambit

Marty's right. Thing is though, I've been an aspiring writer in the past and an aspiring game designer as well, though I've found my niche since and am happy with it. What I don't get is why on Earth a designer would WANT to see more PDF sales than real-book sales on a personal pride and...

I am going to expand my answer based on various differnt product lines (not just books). Review of the big ones: Wizards: Wizards has the best retailer support stuff, but then again, they can afford it. Posters, incentives to buy from them (depending on amount spent per year and number of...

To: Erik Erik, You've my sincere apologies for my mischaracterization of your situation. I did not do due diligence in my research regarding Paizo products and Amazon (frankly, I did a search, found Pathfinder Chronicles, and its two companion books, on sale there, and made my judgement from...

What she's saying holds some truth. Consider that FLGSes are in general changing their models to reflect the current economy. I offer events in my store. The best margin item I have in store is a bottle of water, which retails for 15 cents and that I sell for a dollar. I also sell used video...

I've had one person, and probably a bunch *more* people who don't mention it but do it anyway, come to my store to look at a book not easily found in a Barnes and Noble, and come right out and tell me that he wasn't going to buy it but wanted to look at it before he bought it online. Needless...

Often, like communism, good ideas don't translate well into good realities. The first problem with this is that of the Distributors, the middlemen between the publishers and the retailer. As a game store owner, I rely on them greatly, primarily because they give me terms. I order something...

A few observations from an FLGS owner: * An FLGS won't survive unless it offers something above and beyond physical product. My store survived the Oct-Jan downturn in our area by growing its RPGA game days; we run games for 30+ people every Thursday and Sunday now. * Legal distribution of...

Open Grave, Draconomicon, and Manual of the Planes didn't sell well compared to the books that are player-oriented...but that's a given. Basically, any book that players want/need (PHB, Martial Power, FRPG) will sell a lot more than any book that only DMs need (Open Grave, Draconomicon, Manual...

My thoughts re: Martial Power 2: PHB1: Arcane, Divine, Martial PHB2: Primal, Arcane, Divine PHB3: Ki, Psionic, Martial The Divine book will cover all the options from PHB1 and PHB2. The Arcane book will (we think) cover all the options from PHB1 and PHB2, but not the Artificer. The Primal...

Wellp. At my store (which I've owned since April 1, 2007) there were roughly 20-25 people I could count on to buy 3.5 books when they came out. There were about 18 people who had weekly games at the store every week in about 4 groups. Since September of 2008, when I started hosting 4E RPGA...

Just a friendly thank you to Bagpuss. As a retail store owner, I am often frustrated by people who get their books early online and post the details leading my customers to order online, believing (mostly falsely) that they'll get the book early if they order from someone other than me. And a...

My competitors' places, one hopes. :)

I also have items you can't find in many places anymore (Judges' Guild modules, Queen of the Demonweb Pits, Expedition to the Barrier Peaks, etcetera).

I would have to say that yes, we have, as well as started a very interesting series of discussions regarding Wizards. Now let me share another area of interest, and see how this comes out: I'm also having trouble rationalizing keeping products other than Wizards and White Wolf on my shelves...

A few comments: First, the economic theory thread has been played out. Can we (if we're going to discuss economic theory) argue it in another thread aside from the one I started, please? Second: Wizards has a pretty lousy policy when it comes to direct sales with LGSes: COD or credit card...