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<blockquote data-quote="spacecrime.com" data-source="post: 1150025" data-attributes="member: 753">Nope. I sell a mix of books at a variety of price levels to a variety of people. The more I broaden those categories without overstretching myself, the happier I'm going to be. At the risk of offending Eric's grandmother, bull.You're telling me one thing, but you're doing something else. You say you'd like to buy those books, but you're doing with your dollars. Your dollars say that what you really want is the B5 book and some miniatures. If you really wanted the other items, you would put off the B5 book or the minis or find a way to increase your budget.You have to remember that all other things being equal, the retailer does not care how you spend your $75 for the month. It's the same 75 dollars whether you spend it on books, minis, or soda. Smart retailers stock what you actually buy, not what you say you want.Hal's got it right. If you say you want cheap books and buy expensive ones, he's better off making the expensive books. The companies that are going to survive are the ones who look at what people are actually buying and make that, not the ones who listen to what people say they want to buy and don't. Actually, I completely agree with you on that point. I think there's an excellent chance that local game stores will be obsolete within 10 years. If they are to survive, though, it's going to be by devising a strategy to handle high-priced items better than online sources do, not by trying to make high-priced items go away.cheers,</blockquote>

[QUOTE="spacecrime.com, post: 1150025, member: 753"] Nope. I sell a mix of books at a variety of price levels to a variety of people. The more I broaden those categories without overstretching myself, the happier I'm going to be. At the risk of offending Eric's grandmother, bull. You're telling me one thing, but you're doing something else. You say you'd like to buy those books, but you're doing with your dollars. Your dollars say that what you [b]really[/b] want is the B5 book and some miniatures. If you really wanted the other items, you would put off the B5 book or the minis or find a way to increase your budget. You have to remember that all other things being equal, the retailer does not [b]care[/b] how you spend your $75 for the month. It's the same 75 dollars whether you spend it on books, minis, or soda. Smart retailers stock what you actually buy, not what you say you want. Hal's got it right. If you say you want cheap books and buy expensive ones, he's better off making the expensive books. The companies that are going to survive are the ones who look at what people are actually buying and make that, not the ones who listen to what people say they want to buy and don't. Actually, I completely agree with you on that point. I think there's an excellent chance that local game stores will be obsolete within 10 years. If they are to survive, though, it's going to be by devising a strategy to handle high-priced items better than online sources do, not by trying to make high-priced items go away. cheers, [/QUOTE]

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