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<blockquote data-quote="F5" data-source="post: 4336006" data-attributes="member: 4607"><p>Speaking as a customer, and not a store owner, you may be looking at the situation backwards, Gamersgambit.</p><p></p><p>The gaming space you provide, the demos you run, the shelf layout that showcases cool stuff better than the Big Box stores do...that's the stuff that keeps your customers coming to you in the first place. You don't want to say "I'm losing out on retail space, and can't afford to do this stuff"...you can't afford NOT to do that stuff, or what reason to gamers have to come in and support you?</p><p></p><p>It sounds like you run a great place, and I wish there was one like yours near me. My own FLGS closed up shop when they raised the rent on them (by an obscene amount), and they couldn't keep up. Now my options are a 15-20 minute drive to one of several comic shops with crummy RPG selection, Borders, or Amazon.com. So, now I go with whatever's cheapest, but it's a sad loss. </p><p></p><p>Is there any way to make your gaming space help to pay for itself? Maybe some spiffy pre-gridded, whiteboard-topped game tables, maybe with internet access to get to DDI/whatever, or a projector for maps...get a really great game table set-up, and then charge an hourly fee to use it? Would that work at all, do you think, or would people just ignore it?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="F5, post: 4336006, member: 4607"] Speaking as a customer, and not a store owner, you may be looking at the situation backwards, Gamersgambit. The gaming space you provide, the demos you run, the shelf layout that showcases cool stuff better than the Big Box stores do...that's the stuff that keeps your customers coming to you in the first place. You don't want to say "I'm losing out on retail space, and can't afford to do this stuff"...you can't afford NOT to do that stuff, or what reason to gamers have to come in and support you? It sounds like you run a great place, and I wish there was one like yours near me. My own FLGS closed up shop when they raised the rent on them (by an obscene amount), and they couldn't keep up. Now my options are a 15-20 minute drive to one of several comic shops with crummy RPG selection, Borders, or Amazon.com. So, now I go with whatever's cheapest, but it's a sad loss. Is there any way to make your gaming space help to pay for itself? Maybe some spiffy pre-gridded, whiteboard-topped game tables, maybe with internet access to get to DDI/whatever, or a projector for maps...get a really great game table set-up, and then charge an hourly fee to use it? Would that work at all, do you think, or would people just ignore it? [/QUOTE]
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