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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Korgoth" data-source="post: 4346696" data-attributes="member: 49613">Preach on, brother. The LGS is just a middle man. The internet has given consumers the power to bypass the middle man (whose economic role appears increasingly parasitic) and go almost straight to the source. This gives access to cheaper products and thus the consumer can stretch his dollar a bit farther (very important nowadays).It amazes me that some people in this thread have gone so far as to advocate a limited socialism for use as a weapon by the shopowners against the working class consumer. Actually, that sounds somewhat familiar....Bottom line: if your crummy, dinosauric business is failing, don't call in the Pinkertons to beat money out of the working stiffs. Instead, try making your business a place that I actually want to shop.Most game stores these days are boutiques. Boutiques are for rich people. Most gamers are not rich people. On the other hand, I like this notion of "Game Store as Game Cafe". That makes sense to me.Will I buy a set of hardbacks at the game store for $105 that I can buy online for $60? Nope. And until the Sturmabteilung shows up to shut down consumer-friendly capitalism, I don't have to. But if the game store sells mechanical pencils, graph paper, character sheets, DM screens, coffee, pizza, measuring tape, rulers, dry erase boards, folders, binders, note pads, sodas, potato chips and huge quantities of dice? You betcha. And then, while I'm there buying those items and gaming (assuming a nice atmosphere, etc.) maybe I will end up buying impulse items or obscure items that the online stores don't have or haven't bothered to discount. Add that to a nice stock of used items (because who uses Ebay except because they have to?) and we've got a recipe for success.But that all takes work and thought. As opposed to just wanting the government to come in and fix it by putting the screws on some other schlub (that lowest schlub of all, in fact: the customer).</blockquote>

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