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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cergorach" data-source="post: 184290" data-attributes="member: 725">I think punishment is the wrong word to use here, it's a reminder that i do not like to buy from said store, and that if they want to sell products to me they should start looking at other ways to get product out to me. And everyone with half a brain will find those 'other ways' out there on the web, it would take a little effort, but the reward would be enourmous (not soley dependant on someone else for your sales).Erm... Sorry to be so blunt, but this is BS! What exactly do you mean by afford? I'm setting up my own webshop at the moment (only physical products for the moment), it's costing me €105 a year for 300MB of space and another €11 a year for running a MySql database on it. The shop is PHPshop with some hacks and plugins, it's free and you could use a service such as PayPal to handle the payments. I have to admit that it would take a bit of time for those with absolutely no computer skills, but then again you could probably pay someone to do that for you (if you don't want to invest the time to become a bit more computer savvy). This is about investing a bit in the future...I think that if small time publishers do not want to invest in their own future, then why should i? I certainly do NOT have the responsibility to buy from smalltime publisher, and even less from RPGNow!.What i find disturbing is that why did RPGNow! not start a dialogue with the publishers to resolve the problems they have think they have. RPGNow! is nothing less than a provider, without the publishers they are nothing, how is it that they can set policy?With the current possibilities on the web there could have been other possibilities. One of the best (IMHO) would have been to suggest to publishers to create a system that would not allow users that where revered to the page by RPGNow! (used the link on the site) to buy from other vendors (it would not show these possibilities). With the current technology on the web this could be achieved without to much trouble.Just more and more questions, why, why, why!</blockquote>

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