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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TalonComics" data-source="post: 926805" data-attributes="member: 60">Re: FIGSOriginally posted by TalonComics Uh, no. I want you to support *any* LGS instead of Wal-Mart. It can be me as I *am* a real gaming store but I'd be happy if everyone supported their LGS. It doesn't have to be local as long as it's a store that actually cares about gaming and the future of gaming.  I'm doing 25% off because I want to try to give at least something back to my fellow gamers. I can't match 40% since that's pretty much what I pay for WotC books and I still have to pay rent and utilities. ~D First off, thanks for the compliment. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Second, my main concern is supporting Wal-Mart and massive discounters as I feel massive discounting only hurts our small hobby instead of helping it.As you can see from my quote I never said Amazon isn't a real gaming store and of the massive discounters Amazon has a pretty decent selection. However, I still feel massive discounting hurts gaming in the long run and that will always be a problem for me as a retailer and as a gamer.Personally, there's no way I can compete with anything Amazon does or sells. You and I both know that. Heck, you guys lose more money in a year than I've ever had in my store's entire existence! Owning and running a gaming store for me has never been about making tons of money or ruling the FLGS world. It's always been about supporting something I love and providing gaming product for my fellow gamers in the best way I can. To do that though I do have to make some money from sales. WotC products are the bread and butter of the RPG hobby right now. Without those sales it makes it that much harder to sell independent publishers and that's one of my biggest concerns. If it's a problem for me then I'm willing to bet it's a problem for all the other FLGSs out there as well. We've already seen several posters on this thread and others talk about how their store is no longer carrying RPG products and has gone to Warhammer, Clix and CCGs only. That's a direct symptom of massive internet discounting as retailers are finding RPGs just don't sell like they use to and many of them just aren't willing to add the internet as a way to sell more product.Anyway, I didn't mean to ramble on again about this. It's just something I feel very strongly about. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />~Derek</blockquote>

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