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<blockquote data-quote="Wingnut" data-source="post: 2055959" data-attributes="member: 6407">No.&nbsp; Most retailers use 2 or 3 distributors that they spread purchases between, but even with this, the retailers are ULTRA conservative buying new product releases from companies that are not the top folks.&nbsp; On top of this, some of the distributors have systems that prevent product from getting to the stores...like Alliance (the biggest)...they only restock in 4 week cycles...so, if they sell out of something on the 2nd week of the cycle, they are out for 2...which then they try their other distributors (where some order weekly).&nbsp; It is really hard for small press.&nbsp; You as consumers MUST tell retailers when you want them to preorder something or they'll just spot order 1 or 2.About the numbers, I cannot quote numbers for TLG or any of my clients.&nbsp; I can tell you that C&amp;C is the best non-licensed RPG (D20 or not) I've sold in an extremely long time.&nbsp; I can also say that if my company sells 500 copies of any RPG these days, we're lucky.Best,Aldo</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Wingnut, post: 2055959, member: 6407"] No. Most retailers use 2 or 3 distributors that they spread purchases between, but even with this, the retailers are ULTRA conservative buying new product releases from companies that are not the top folks. On top of this, some of the distributors have systems that prevent product from getting to the stores...like Alliance (the biggest)...they only restock in 4 week cycles...so, if they sell out of something on the 2nd week of the cycle, they are out for 2...which then they try their other distributors (where some order weekly). It is really hard for small press. You as consumers MUST tell retailers when you want them to preorder something or they'll just spot order 1 or 2. About the numbers, I cannot quote numbers for TLG or any of my clients. I can tell you that C&C is the best non-licensed RPG (D20 or not) I've sold in an extremely long time. I can also say that if my company sells 500 copies of any RPG these days, we're lucky. Best, Aldo [/QUOTE]

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