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<blockquote data-quote="Rodrigo Istalindir" data-source="post: 991124" data-attributes="member: 2810">I almost never buy anything other than miniatures at my FLGS anymore, and it has little to do with price.&nbsp; I know they can't compete on price, and I don't expect them to.The biggest advantage a brick-and-mortar gamestore (or bookstore) has over Internet retailers is that I can walk into a store and browse., read the back cover, look at the artwork, maybe read the first page and see if the prose is competent or amateurish.But when I walk into my FLGS and everything is shrink-wrapped to within an inch of its life, I can't do that.&nbsp; Sure, I could probably pry the salesperson away from whatever he was doing and ask him to unwrap it, but if you want to peruse a dozen things, that just ends up annoying us both.I don't mind paying retail when I've had a chance to look at the product and made a semi-rational decision to buy it.&nbsp;&nbsp; I think pretty much everyone that hangs out on these boards has bought something that looked better in the store than it really was.&nbsp; It happens, and other than maybe making us a little leary about a particular series/author/publisher, we just chalk it up to experience and move on.&nbsp; But if I'm going to be buying a pig-in-a-poke, either becuse I'm buying over the Internet, or because I'm buying a sealed container whose contents are a mystery, then I'm certainly going to start shopping for the best price.&nbsp; I know that there are problems with stock getting damaged by grubby little mits, but when you've got 20 copies of the latest WotC book, leave one alone as a display copy, and shrink-wrap the rest if you must.The only time I think I should see a sizeable discount at my FLGS is for really old stock.&nbsp; If you have a single copy of a book that hasn't sold in two years, drop the price and get it out the door.&nbsp; I would think that selling it at cost at a certain point is better than carrying it on the books as inventory forever.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Rodrigo Istalindir, post: 991124, member: 2810"] I almost never buy anything other than miniatures at my FLGS anymore, and it has little to do with price. I know they can't compete on price, and I don't expect them to. The biggest advantage a brick-and-mortar gamestore (or bookstore) has over Internet retailers is that I can walk into a store and browse., read the back cover, look at the artwork, maybe read the first page and see if the prose is competent or amateurish. But when I walk into my FLGS and everything is shrink-wrapped to within an inch of its life, I can't do that. Sure, I could probably pry the salesperson away from whatever he was doing and ask him to unwrap it, but if you want to peruse a dozen things, that just ends up annoying us both. I don't mind paying retail when I've had a chance to look at the product and made a semi-rational decision to buy it. I think pretty much everyone that hangs out on these boards has bought something that looked better in the store than it really was. It happens, and other than maybe making us a little leary about a particular series/author/publisher, we just chalk it up to experience and move on. But if I'm going to be buying a pig-in-a-poke, either becuse I'm buying over the Internet, or because I'm buying a sealed container whose contents are a mystery, then I'm certainly going to start shopping for the best price. I know that there are problems with stock getting damaged by grubby little mits, but when you've got 20 copies of the latest WotC book, leave one alone as a display copy, and shrink-wrap the rest if you must. The only time I think I should see a sizeable discount at my FLGS is for really old stock. If you have a single copy of a book that hasn't sold in two years, drop the price and get it out the door. I would think that selling it at cost at a certain point is better than carrying it on the books as inventory forever. [/QUOTE]

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