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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sir Whiskers" data-source="post: 470295" data-attributes="member: 6941">A thought (as a buyer of pdf's):I've purchased from RPGNow a couple of times, and the only reason I haven't done so more often has nothing to do with quality or promotion, but ease of use. I can easily spend 1-2 HOURS looking through the selections, seeing what each one offers, etc. (yes, I have a dial-up connection...)  What I want is the ease of ordering online, combined with the ease of thumbing through a catalog to choose what I want. So, you guys tell me if this idea would be feasible at all:Create a pdf catalog of all current products. Each product would contain only the information currently displayed on that product's information page, with no graphics. The catalog could be organized by theme, alphabetically, or however makes most sense. I suggest no graphics to save on file size. I suggest using the same text as the product page to save time preparing and updating this document. Then allow customers to download the catalog, make our choices off-line, then log in and order quickly by item number.I see some obvious questions which would have to be answered:1) How many products are currently available on RPGNow? 2) How many products could such a catalog list before becoming too large for a reasonable download?3) How much time would it take to create and maintain the catalog? Would RPGNow have a reasonable expectation of regaining those costs through additional sales?4) Would anyone besides me actually use the thing, if it existed?5) Can much the same thing be accomplished by simply having two product pages for each product - one with graphics, one without? The prospective buyer then chooses to search with or without graphics (still a slow process, but faster than the current option).This is all off the top of my head - no offense taken if it gets shot down.</blockquote>

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