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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vigilance" data-source="post: 2275985" data-attributes="member: 4275">If your friend isnt one of these knuckleheads, then apologize to him for me <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> However far too many retailers think like this:1. We don't care about small press rpgs. If you aren't Green Ronin, Mongoose, S&SS or WOTC, we won't stock you. People have to special order it. Sure we could learn what's good, but that takes too much time, rpgs in general are such a small portion of our business compared to minis, board games, CCGs and comics to bother with you guys. 2. Despite #1, all rpg companies should run their business with my store in mind. That means never sell direct, never sell PDF and never do anything else I perceive as harmful to my bottom line, even if I have no proof its bad for me.If you're not sure, assume its bad for me.If its new, its bad for me. I know, I don't think of you when I run MY business, but if you dont think of me, then I will order EVEN LESS of your books.3. You must apply #2 even if the current distribution model is broken and small press rpg companies are frequently not paid by distributors. You small press guys just have to suck it up. Sure we realize that frequently a distributor will blow all his cash on the hot new minis, use what's left to pay his bigger clients and pay everyone else "next month" and that the most common thing that happens is "next month" never arrives, but you're supposed to be thinking of US, not yourself. Chuck</blockquote>

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