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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Sigil" data-source="post: 808452" data-attributes="member: 2013">Re: Rant!LOL, nice rant!Consider yourself lucky - here in California we have 7.75 to 8.25% sales tax (depending on where you go) AND we have income tax - which comes in at another, I don't know, 5-6% as well!I order online as a matter of fiscal self-preservation in cases where I know what I want in advance and/or trust the publisher sight unseen.  I also order scads of PDFs - I think I must have over 1000 now (close to 200 3e PDFs plus 800 or so TSR ESDs).But you know, with my FLGS almost literally just down the street, anything I don't want to buy sight unseen, I usually buy there.Then again, I doubt they'll go under without my business - since they are also the US Distributor for several miniatures lines - one of the biggest kicks at GAMA was being with MEG Hal and looking over the booths and going, "Holy cow!  What's my FLGS doing with a double booth at GAMA!"  LOL.Then again, I guess I'm lucky, too as far as isolation from the homogenization of america - I live on the border of "Little Saigon" and also am next to the "Korean Business District" - I can find tons of "mom & pop" shops before finding chain stores because the culture there is to support each other by keeping the business "in the area" - and this is in suburban Orange County, CA!  It's a wonderful reminder that when you have a small community that is somewhat insular due to the language barrier, you will have mom & pop shops galore - a slice of rural living in the midst of suburbia.  It gets even better when you have SEVERAL such insular groups - Hispanic, Korean, Afghanistani, and Vietnamese communities are all within 10 miles of my home.  Thank goodness I can go there when I want something "mom & pop." <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=":)" />--The Sigil</blockquote>

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