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Message: <blockquote data-quote="rpghost" data-source="post: 472169" data-attributes="member: 2834">My point was we make the VENDOR/PUBLISHER pre-pay for 10 at a time. Since we are warehousing many vendor products, it doesn't bother me if you then come to us and order 2 of each product we have in POD and at a bit of a discount. Sure wouldn't be as much as a normal distribtor - that's for sure, but it would let you get the product in physical format on the shelf and beat out your competition who doesn't have this product at all to offer.Again, the margins I work with for RPGNow are extreamly small. I'm lucky if I walk away with 10% myself when all is said and done. So for something like this to work, the publishers have to give the ok and the retailers may have to mark up more. A subscription service would definatly not work because of the fact that there are so many vendors involved and so little margin. Not to mention that most of the publishers feel their product is the best and will loose out on any such deals.As for selling CD bundles that someone mentioned. I cetainly could provide that- but when we did GENCON I found that most people were only interested in the bundles as a promotional thing. One time offer thing. Same reasoning as above. So I'm not sure that would work out. Also, a major problem with bundles is that most of the people interested in this stuff have bought several things that would be on any bundle - thus they'd be looking at buying it again for no reason, so they wouldn't save much in the end. Thus I'm not sure the bundles would be of much interest to anyone except new customers.Still, that may be enough... but an additional problem that crops up is that the reason we can work on such a low margin at RPGNow is cause we don't physically get involved in the sale. In other words, we're not paying a staff member to pack it up or burn it or ship it or deal with postal pricing, etc. If we go to bundles on CD then we have to deal with a person doing distribution- that's an added cost. This is ok with POD as the books themselves will be a higher cost and leave room for more a larger margin to cover the costs.James<a href="http://www.RPGNow.com" target="_blank">http://www.RPGNow.com</a>P.S. I posted a thread in the wrong forum about using RPGNow to sell ADS for popular website. I asked for it to get moved, but maybe some of you can reply there till it is:<a href="http://enworld.cyberstreet.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=30612" target="_blank">http://enworld.cyberstreet.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=30612</a></blockquote>

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