Best 3.5 pre-order prices: $17.62 each at Walmart ($52.86 + $5.88 S&H = $58.74)

[Kershek]

FLGS is a generic term meaning Friendly Local Gaming Store.

 

[Airwolf]

Re: Shop Local

Buy where you play, please. If we don't support our local gamestores they will become another casualty of the Walmart effect. I don't recall ever hanging out after hours at a walmart to utilize their large miniatures gaming tables or play in aweekly D&D game or even partake in a ccg tournament. Yes it will cost more to buy from a locally owned game store than from the scourge of downtowns everywhere but to keep our gaming establishments open it is worth the price. The lowest price is not always the best deal.

Let's see, I can't buy where I play because my co-DM doesn't live at a store, he lives in his house.

I think I have been in the LGS about 1 time in the past 5 years. I think the only thing I have ever purchased from the LGS is a set of dice.

Come to think of it, that's about as often as a patronize Wal-Mart.

I must admit the store with the lowest price is the one that serves me the best. I can do my research on the net and my game playing in a house, thank you very much.

I also have to agree with Kershek's response to Dr. NRG on page one.

 

[MacMathan]

The real question for me is what will the ENWorld store price be?

This place basically is my FLGS and I like to support it as much as possible.

Just my 2 Cuprum,

 

[krunchyfrogg]

FLGS is a generic term meaning Friendly Local Gaming Store.

Thanks.

The people who run my "LGM" are not friendly. Anybody who's been to Dragon's Den in Yonkers knows those people suck anyway.

I was planning on buying the books either here or on Amazon.com, whichever one was cheaper. I agree with Airwolf, let's see if ENWorld can compete w/ Wal-Mart.

 

[Krug]

The real question for me is what will the ENWorld store price be?

This place basically is my FLGS and I like to support it as much as possible.

Just my 2 Cuprum,

I doubt if it'll be that competitive. EN World's RPG Store is run by RPGHost, and normally only has a 10% discount on products. And up til now, you still can't pre-order stuff.

But great to know people support the place!

 

[elbandit]

My thoughts

I have had bad expereinces with pre-ordering gaming books on Amazon and similar expereinces with Wal Mart and Best Buy with XBOX and PC games. Inevitably I get the product one to three weeks after my local stores get it.

I do not know about anyone else but when I pre-order something I do expect to get it the week the local stores have thier product. The wait is simply not worth it to me for the money I would save.

 

[Dark Psion]

A few months ago I had to attend a "motivational speech" that went on and on for FIVE hours , but one thing he did talk about was Fighting Wal Mart.

He pointed out that one complaint leveled at Wal Mart is the lack of service, especially knowledgable people. His answer? When did Wal Mart ever advertise that?

Wal Mart was built on two principals, Everyday Low Price and One Stop Shopping and you have to agree that they deliver on both. I get my groceries at our Wal Mart every week because I can get everything at one place and the prices are cheaper. If they had D&D on their shelves I would buy it there too.

I don't have a FLGS, there are a few in OKC, but they change owners so often, you never know what you will find there. If I went to OKC to get these books, like many previous quests before I went online, I would probably end up at Waldenbooks or B Daltons and are they that different from Wal Mart?

If I had the choice, I would love to buy locally, I used to when we had a book store in town, but almost 90% of what I buy online is not available in my town and the choice of having it delivered to my door over driving all over OKC to get it, I will order online. It does have its drawbacks, ther are several books on my shelf that I would not have bought if I had the chance to look at them first.

As to D&D3.5, I have had them in my Wal Mart cart for months, but I will not order them till they are released. I agree with elbandit above, I have never had a pre-order ship on time with anyone.

 

[Felon]

If you never want to ask a knowledgable salesperson about a gaming product again, buy from Wal-Mart.

At every store in my area that attempts to pass for an LGS, the salespeople rarely have a clue regarding gaming products.

"Do you have Urban Arcanna in yet?"
"What's Urban Arcanum?"
"It's the new book from Wizard's of the Coast this month."
"OK, what is Wizards of the Coast?"

If you don't want to have a place to play games outside your home, buy from Wal-Mart.

13 year-olds playing CCG's and Wizkids grab all the table space by the time I get there anyway.

If you think bland, faceless multi-national corporations are a good thing, and deserve your economic support, by from Wal-Mart.

IMO the best thing that ever happened to D&D was its absorption into Hasbro, who have ensured that it's carried by big retail outlets. So many of the stores run by fanboys were their own worst enemy. The average fanboy seems to have a disregard for professionalism, enthusiasm, and customer service. The Simpson's Comic Book Guy character is not based purely on myth.

"This is MY store. If I wanted to kiss the ass of every idiot who walked through the door, I'd go flip burgers at McDonald's."

Not flaming, but starting to steam,

If your standards of practice exceed those I've outlined above, and (perhaps more importantly) they are impressed upon the people you appoint to mind the store in your absence, then please open a franchise in the city of Atlanta or Decatur (in Georgia). I need you badly.

 

[Dark Jezter]

If you never want to ask a knowledgable salesperson about a gaming product again, buy from Wal-Mart.

Considering that I always research my products online before I go out to buy them, that isn't a real big concern for me.

If you don't want to have a place to play games outside your home, buy from Wal-Mart.

I have a house. My friends have houses. We don't need to gather at a gaming store.

If you think bland, faceless multi-national corporations are a good thing, and deserve your economic support, by from Wal-Mart.

Hell yes I think "bland, faceless multi-national corperations" are a good thing. I love capitalism, and I wouldn't have it any other way. I won't feel any guilt if I buy from Wal-Mart instead of a gaming store. If you can't stay competitive in the world of buisiness, you go under, it's as simple as that.

If, however, you are interested in preserving your FLGS, support them. FLGS's offer more than Wal-Mart. If you don't support them, they will go away.

I've only bought one product from my "FLGS" (and I do use that term loosely) in the last two years. Felon pointed out that Comic Book Guy from The Simpsons is not purely a myth. Well, it's true, since a few incarnations of Comic Book Guy work at my local gaming store as well.

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

If your standards of practice exceed those I've outlined above, and (perhaps more importantly) they are impressed upon the people you appoint to mind the store in your absence, then please open a franchise in the city of Atlanta or Decatur (in Georgia). I need you badly.

Amen to that. I live just north or Marietta and though there are a few gaming stores around here...none of them deserve the title of friendly. Overpricing withe some annoying people...there is one place I've found that's possible, but they don't stock many D&D or d20 items...yet...