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Message: <blockquote data-quote="monkius" data-source="post: 1143223" data-attributes="member: 14404">My wife and I do quite well for ourselves financially, so it is not a financial limitation.  Instead it is that $50 is way too high for impulse buying of gaming books.Over those same visits I mentioned above, my wife has been buying LOTR cards.  She has bought the starter set ($20), two more started decks ($10 each), and a booster pack ($3).  All told, $43 total.  I asked her if she would have bought all the cards she has now in one box if it cost $43, and her immediate answer was no.  But she still is planning on buying more cards...Another example is the MechWarrior figures.  I have never played the game, but ended up buying 10 of the booster packs ($10 each) before I finally decided I had enough of them.  Before I stopped I would buy 1 or 2 packs at a time, and ended up spending $100 dollars on them.  Would I have bought them if I had to spend $100 in one chunk, no.And I know you can get books / gaming stuff cheaper online.  I buy lots of things online, but I prefer to buy from my FLGS if I can.  They give you the option to browse through things and provide a good selection.Plus, when I go to the gaming store, I am there to look at things, and more than likely buy some gaming item(s) that I didn't know about but decide that I need <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=":)" />  I as a customer, however, prefer to do that in $10-20 chunks.  I may buy 2-3 of those $10-20 chunks at a time, but I don't like buying 1 gaming thing for $30-60.  Even though it is the same amount of money . . .What I am saying is that is does not matter how much gaming goodness the company packs into 300-500 pages of a book.  If it costs over some amount (I would argue $20), you will lose sales because it is over one of those impulse buying points.</blockquote>

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