Book of Familiars (TLG Special Offer)

[cleaverthepit]

Steve will not tell me how much shipping to SA costs.

Guess he did not want to depress me.

YIKES

Davis

 

[Ghostknight]

Steve will not tell me how much shipping to SA costs.

Guess he did not want to depress me.

YIKES

Davis

Depress you? I must admit I could not believe it when the offer was made, shipping costs are a killer to me getting stuff. We really face a double whammy here - very little being imported as the game is very much a fringe hobby with a small support base which struggle to support the few stores that do exist, and distance from printers creating huge shipping costs. As a rule I try to get things locally first, mainly because I want the shops to succeed so the hobby will grow (and of the three shops one is owned by a guy I gamed with for about ten years and the other is a friend from University days).

The sad fact is that often importing directly from overseas is still cheaper as there are no salaries and rental costs built into the prices on low volume sales (and I work for a bank so I get the spot exchange rate and no problems with forward contracts, commissions on foreign exchange etc.) Also driving up the prices for them is the problem that they cannot source stock directly from suppliers, most have regional agreements and have included Africa in the European distribution so they have to order from the European distriutors and cover their markup as well.

 

[Treebore]

Depress you? I must admit I could not believe it when the offer was made, shipping costs are a killer to me getting stuff. We really face a double whammy here - very little being imported as the game is very much a fringe hobby with a small support base which struggle to support the few stores that do exist, and distance from printers creating huge shipping costs. As a rule I try to get things locally first, mainly because I want the shops to succeed so the hobby will grow (and of the three shops one is owned by a guy I gamed with for about ten years and the other is a friend from University days).

The sad fact is that often importing directly from overseas is still cheaper as there are no salaries and rental costs built into the prices on low volume sales (and I work for a bank so I get the spot exchange rate and no problems with forward contracts, commissions on foreign exchange etc.) Also driving up the prices for them is the problem that they cannot source stock directly from suppliers, most have regional agreements and have included Africa in the European distribution so they have to order from the European distriutors and cover their markup as well.

That is one ugly market situation. Glad i don't have to deal with it. I only buy stuff exported out of Africa.

 

[Ghostknight]

That is one ugly market situation. Glad i don't have to deal with it. I only buy stuff exported out of Africa.

Oh well. At least we have good weather!

 

[cleaverthepit]

A preview of the Book of Familiars is now available at http://trolllord.com/files/fam1.pdf - The ToC and the introduction should suffice to reveal all the areas covered in this book. It is expansive, you will no longer see the familiar in a 'familiar' light

davis chenault
troll lord games

 

[cleaverthepit]

Look at this,I am so excited

 

[cleaverthepit]

Steve should be putting up another PDF preview today so that you can get a better idea as to the nature of the contents of this book.

 

[cleaverthepit]

Steve should be putting up another PDF preview today so that you can get a better idea as to the nature of the contents of this book.

OK, today sometime.

 

[Ghostknight]

I am looking forward to this. Can't wait for the book to arrive and what I have seen so far has just whetted my apetite!

 

[Driddle]

I figure it will ship sometime in August. January at the latest.