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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Olaf the Stout" data-source="post: 5998341" data-attributes="member: 13703">This Kickstarter is certainly an awesome deal, but is anyone worried that this will hurt Reaper's sales in the long run?  At the moment there are over 8,000 backers, the vast majority of them at the Vampire level.  Those people are likely getting so many minis that they probably won't need to buy any more unpainted minis for a couple of years (and longer than that for some people).I have no idea how big Reaper's customer base is, but that sounds like quite a few potential buyers to not get any sales from for a while.  Yes, they have taken over $1.6m in pledges at this points, but when most people are getting over 200 minis, many of which are Huge sized or bigger, how much money are they making.  Once you take out shipping, Kickstarter and Amazon fees and the cost of actually making the molds and casting the minis I wouldn't think it would be a heck of a lot.Obviously the people running Reaper must have some idea of what they're doing considering how long they have been around.  But still, I do worry if they are getting in over their heads.Olaf the Stout</blockquote>