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Message: <blockquote data-quote="OnyxPharaoh" data-source="post: 5447948" data-attributes="member: 6669063">Absolutely. And a charismatic leader who could convince rpg companies to increase their dues and fees to fund these projects wouldn't hurt either.    This is absolutely not the case. Derivatives are designed to hedge against variable future outcomes, but as for turning a profit, it's highly speculative and exceptionally risky. Manufacturers have a variety of means at their disposal in terms of generating their returns. A key measurement is their return on assets. How much profit are they generating with the assets they have. This is typically the first area of improvement. And again, there are a variety of ways in which this can be done, first and foremost is inventory management. But as with limitations on reorganization, I'm sure there is a theoretical limitations on the number of ways these profits can be maximized within this industry. But we can't assume that all businessmen are created equal. Companies are rarely victims of circumstance. More often companies are victims of the people controlling the operations. The question is, are the people running these RPG companies the best people for the job, or are most of them excellent game designers without any real practical business education? It's hard to say, because as we all know, few are public. Without a sound financial analysis we may never know the answers.   This is just irrelevant. If you are selling spark plugs in a store and I am selling them online, we are competing with each other. There is no business law that states the nature of distribution will dictate whether or not two companies are competing. Borders and Amazon are both in the business of media retail.   Books-a-Million may not be a household name like Barnes and Nobles or Amazon, but at the moment their performance is putting B&N to shame. Their net income exceeded B&N by nearly $50 Million at the close of 2010 and their OM beat B&N by nearly 4.5%. What B&N is showing is that for all it's assets and thousands of employees they can't turn a profit as well as this smaller outfit. B&N's biggest problem seems to be its inabillity to manage its recievables. (Yet another place a company can reorganize its policies and better manage its assets.) I'm getting off topic though. The point I was going to make was that while BAMM may not be in the same 'league', they are in the same industry. Which means if B&N doesn't put their house in order it will only be a matter of time before investors start looking at alternatives like BAMM.</blockquote>

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