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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Primitive Screwhead" data-source="post: 4285201" data-attributes="member: 20805">[/failed will save]So.. let me get this straight. You goto a store that you haven't been a 'regular', with the intent to learn more about the 4e books.Once inside, you wander around the mini's displays {where most gamers really don't have any questions} for a while before approaching the RPG shelf. Seeing shrink-wrapped products, you lose interest and walk back out... to post on this board how unhelpfull the 'FLGS' is and how it has lost your patronage.Compare to: Sunday evening, 5 minutes from closing, I make it to the FLGS where I run a monthly game. The place is empty and the owner, who hadn't met me yet, is turning off the lights and wrapping up to head home. I make a bee-line to the book shelf and don't see any 4e books anywhere. So I turn to the owner who says they sold out already...but wait! He has a stack of pre-orders and an unopened box behind the counter. He double checks and finds that one is not already held for another customer, opens the box and offers to let me flip through his copy if I want to check out the material before buying......  Is the difference in the FLGS staff or in the approach the customer takes... or do both impact on the impression of the store?  For those of us who have worked at a game store, for every 1 purchase there are about 25 people who come in and browse the minis...and leave. I have done it myself on a number of occasions. My suggestion? Don't give up on your FLGS. It can be a portal to the local gaming community where you can meet fellow gamers and potential freinds. Instead of griping on the boards.. approach the owner and say what you feel. There are pretty good odds that they have a copy of 4e that you could flip through if you wanted.  Don't harsh on them for trying to protect thier business...after all, it is a business and they have some pretty nasty competition.pogminky, in my experience, game stores become less freindly when thier 'patrons' turn out to be theives and merchandise wanders off without payments. Its hard to pay the rent when your valuable goods keep getting stolen.</blockquote>

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