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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mercule" data-source="post: 4215584" data-attributes="member: 5100">There is much truth to this.  When I was in college and the FLGS was both F and L, I spent my money there, even though I knew I could get stuff cheaper elsewhere.  Heck, if I happen to be passing through when I'm contemplating a purchase, I'll still stop in and pick it up from them.Where I live now, though,  Barnes & Noble has a better selection, better atmosphere, and better customer service.  I'm quite certain that, should I care to, they'd let me run a Game Day type event there, too -- and that might actually get some people involved who didn't show up knowing in advance what was happening.  The only thing my LGS has to offer is great prices on minis (better than I've found on-line, anywhere) and a few oddball board games.  They may be great for CCGs, too, but I... I'm not the target audience, so wouldn't know.If I had a FLGS that provided me with something more than books on a cold wire shelf and the chance to meet smelly people, I'd have no problem spending a couple more bucks there.  Since they don't, my decision-making comes down to figuring out how to get the most out of my gaming buck.  At Amazon, I can get three books for less than the cost of two at the LGS.  And I do so at no opportunity cost, because I don't count some theoretic cost to not dropping an additional 50% of my cash into a store that is only visited by "the choir", as it were.</blockquote>

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