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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KDLadage" data-source="post: 808165" data-attributes="member: 88">FLGS (Friendly Local Game Store). I got out of the Navy in 1997 and returned to Iowa. In this time, I have seen: <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> A local comic shop/game store turn to nothing but comics and card games despite my begging to give him my money if he would just special order the stuff I wanted. He responded "If I special order it for you, I would have to special order it for everybody." He went out of business in 1998.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> A local game shop in a local mall where the owner would verbally abuse anyone that was not playing the games he liked. For example, I wanted to get In Nomine from him and he berated me for a half hour about how Steve Jackson Games was just trying to create some World of Darkness want-to-be... he refused to carry or special order many of the lines of games I wanted to buy -- again, despite my begging to give him my money. The partnership there split, and the store starved as they guy who owned it wondered why nobody wanted to come in. Go figure. Went out of business in early 1999 after only a year and a half of doing business.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> A local game store that had been a staple of the area (M&M Games) go up in flames -- literally -- in 2000. The owner had decided he did not want to own a store any more and torched the place. He had recently upgraded his insurance and managed to nearly kill three people next door in a tanning salon. He was arrested for arson and is still doing time.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> After M&M was gone, some local kids started a special order only joint called Charging Rhino. They built some great gametables and invited people to come down, order stuff, play and have a good time. This was not a business, it was a hoby for these guys. As such, they were in business for all of six months.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> Excalibur games was started by one of the employees of M&M Games in 2001. It is holding its Going out of Buisiness sale now. The guy that owned it was a great salesman -- but a terrible business man. I once got the run arround for six months over some books I wanted. Litterally, once again, begging to give a FLGS my money. I ended up ordering it on te Net and he was pissed that I found alternate routes to getting my stuff. I had several people, because of me, order over $6000 in material from him only to have him refuse to order it.</li> </ul>Right now, we have no FLGSs.In other words, I have a bit of a bad taste in my mouth for FLGSs...</blockquote>

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