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Message: <blockquote data-quote="emergent" data-source="post: 628526" data-attributes="member: 8929">Hi, Sam.I am an employee at our FLGS.  We sell comics and RPG's, with some anime thrown in.  We are a pretty small opperation, with two other employees besides myself and these two guys were just hired a month ago.  The owner is similar to to the owner of your (former) FLGS.  He is very enthusiastic and great with people, but not so good at the business end.  Hence, the store has had some difficulties, but we keep trucking along.As far as games go, we have lots of d20 stuff, some White Wolf/World of Darkness items, a bit of GURPS, some Hackmaster and the occasional other RPG (Buffy, LotR).  We stay away from the Warhammer, because it is expsensive to buy and we don't have the space to set up tables.  Nor do we stock collectible card games, mainly because of the owner's distaste for them, but also because they are pretty faddish, impossible to get rid of if/when the fad dies, and are very prone to shoplifting.  We also sell HeroClix, but not Mage Knight or MechWarrior.The vast majority of our sales come from comics.  RPG's are a distant second.  If I had to break it down (granted, I don't do the books), I'd say RPG's account for maybe 15% of our sales.  Maybe.I know the average markup on a d20 book is around 45%.  We buy all of our stuff from Alliance Game Distributors, which is both good and bad (I can explain why later).In my next post I can try an answer some of your questions specifically.</blockquote>

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