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<blockquote data-quote="jdrakeh" data-source="post: 5168073" data-attributes="member: 13892">I'd like to add this maxim: &quot;Building your inventory based solely on personal likes and dislikes is a bad, bad, bad, idea.&quot; — I have seen sooooo many game stores make this blunder, always to their detriment. Frex, I recall a game store that, for a long time, refused to stock any d20 products as a matter of course because the owner disliked the system. This was at a time when the d20 system was the best selling thing on the market. The owner eventually relented, but not until his store was nearly bankrupt. I can also think of other stores that stock a ridiculous number of small press games because an employee has a real hard on for them, but since customers couldn't care less, they end up doing nothing but collecting dust. Point is, as a business owner, you should be stocking things that your customers like, not what you like (unless they happen to be the same thing, but I think this is usually not the case).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="jdrakeh, post: 5168073, member: 13892"] I'd like to add this maxim: "Building your inventory based solely on personal likes and dislikes is a bad, bad, [I]bad[/I], idea." — I have seen sooooo many game stores make this blunder, always to their detriment. Frex, I recall a game store that, for a long time, refused to stock [I]any[/I] d20 products as a matter of course because the owner disliked the system. This was at a time when the d20 system was [I]the best selling thing on the market[/I]. The owner eventually relented, but not until his store was nearly bankrupt. I can also think of other stores that stock a ridiculous number of small press games because an employee has a real hard on for them, but since customers couldn't care less, they end up doing nothing but collecting dust. Point is, as a business owner, you should be stocking things that your [I]customers[/I] like, not what [I]you[/I] like (unless they happen to be the same thing, but I think this is usually not the case). [/QUOTE]

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