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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Treebore" data-source="post: 5337168" data-attributes="member: 10177">No, the reason the LGS is a hour away is I live in the middle of no where. I am 30 miles away from the nearest "big town".<a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=31.680757,-109.683917&spn=0.008308,0.021136&t=h&z=16" target="_blank">Google Maps</a>So the real reason I am personally that far away is my population density is not high enough to support an LGS.Still, even when I lived in Charleston, SC, I stopped buying my RPG books from them because I spent an average of $2,400 a year on RPG stuff even when I lived there. There was a 4 year period where I spent way less due to economic down turns, but in the last year I have averaged $200 per month, AFTER my shopping around and finding the best discounted prices. So yeah, an LGS would love to have me as a customer, but they won't, simply because they won't give me similar discounted prices. The way the pricing tiers work they probably cannot afford to. So I wouldn't buy at my LGS even if it was next door, simply because I cannot ignore the fact that I save myself about $600 a year getting stuff on line.So LGS' are not being hurt by Paizo and their subscription model, they are being killed because we can save so much by shopping on line instead.I'll go into that store and buy the occasional comics, and occasionally I find he has some old products for sale that I will buy, but as for his new products? Nope. I buy those all on line, and I do not regret it. It is my responsibility to minimize the financial impact of my hobby on my family, and I take that very seriously. Just like I take stretching every dollar we have as far as possible seriously, and like I mentioned earlier my and my wife's efforts save us thousands every single year by shopping on line instead of in local stores.  Just off the top of my head I know that shopping on line has saved us over $5,000 in just the last 5 months compared to what we would have paid for sale prices at our local stores.So its internet savings that are killing LGS', not Paizo's subscription plan.</blockquote>

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