Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="mlund" data-source="post: 4346950" data-attributes="member: 50304">Actually, I regret to inform you that you are the one imposing fallacies on the discussion. I feel for you, truly. I love my FLGS. I just understand the distinctions between a terrible business model and a viable one. I went to school for this sort of thing.See, I never said anything about "gouging" anyone.The argument that they "have cover priced set by the publisher and printed on the damn books," is a fallacious argument. I see no justification for expecting anyone to sell the "damn books," for that price in the United States.Moreover, you still haven't addressed the issue at hand: If you only play middle-man, providing no service and adding no value to the product, no one should buy from you if someone else has a lower price.The point being made is that businesses that refuse to engage in adding value or providing services live and die on price alone. A lot of businesses on the Main Street of my old town tried to operate this way and died out because of it. Those that figured out how to add value or provide services did well for themselves.I'm not even going to get into the foolishness of anti-free-market rhetoric and slander against competing businesses that might appeal to the Noam Chomsky and Saul Alinsky disciples in the audience. Find better ways to compete or get out of the market. No one is entitled to make a living doing nothing but re-selling D&D books at full retail price out of a brick-and-mortar store front.This kind of reminds me of the griping that went on when the concept of renting video games was going to kill off the game industry, or how the VCR was going to destroy television.If you want to gripe about things, leave the pro-union stumping and the command economy junk at the door and focus on the selling-for-a-loss tactics and the evasion of Sales Tax that some of these online retailers exploit. You'd be best served building the better mouse-trap, though. Your business model should not be predicated on retail sales in a vacuum, but rather adding value and services that generate income and facilitate some of those sales.- Marty Lund</blockquote>

Verification