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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TalonComics" data-source="post: 808505" data-attributes="member: 60">Re: crappy FLGSsI've heard a lot of stories about FLGSs both good and bad. I even have my own stories about my store which to this day I'm still dealing with. There's an universal truth to owning your own business and dealing with those who do: Bad things can happen that can easily put you out of business.What do you think the number one reason why someone would open a gaming store of any kind? It's an easy answer for me and probably holds true for everyone: I love gaming and talking to other gamers. Gaming is a social event but it draws a lot of social misfits to it. Some stay misfits but I've also found that many of these fine folks get a lot better dealing with other people and interacting. That's probably part of the reason you see so many strange game store owners is many of them come from social misfit backgrounds. Sometimes you want to punch them in the nose. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />I think a lot of crappy store owners just don't realize this rule: When you run a store you are there for your customers not the other way around. It's almost like DMing in a way. It's a give and take process, it can be personal and you can develop friends from it.I never understood the game store owner who refuses to special order things. If you're afraid of getting stuck with a special order have the customer put a deposit down. Occasionally, special orders are out of print or have to be ordered from a remote warehouse. With the economy being like it is now I've seen that scenario happening a little bit more often. The distributor doesn't want tons of shelf copies and in turn the publisher doesn't want to be sitting on tons of shelf copies either. But at least I know that's the case and can tell the customer what is going on.The only thing I've been trying to make people realize in these threads is that without speciality stores tabletop gaming as we know it will die. Gaming is popular right now and that's why Wal Mart is even carrying it online. If it wasn't popular do you think Wal Mart would even care? Think about it, where are you going to buy gaming books if there are no stores selling them? The publishers? There won't be any publishers because they can't make any money to sell their books!Guys, AD&D *died* once and was brought back because a company that revitalized gaming spent their money by buying TSR. That company exists to this day because small game stores and their customers gave Magic: The Gathering a chance. Places like Wal Mart don't take chances. They only sell product that they *know* is going to sell and they want to be the only ones selling it.Thanks again for reading,~Derek</blockquote>

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