What Products I liked at Gen Con- A Publishers Perspective

[bolen]

You could look at another way however, by selling products at a discount. (and it is actually not a discount because there is no middleman to be making money, you are selling directly to the gamer) Every product you sell at a con is an add. the gamer will go home and tell his friend what a great game it is and you will sell 10 more at the local store. Perhaps I am missing something but I would almost give products away at cons in hope that this would happen. Obviously the most rabid fans are at gen con and they are the best advertising you could buy.

 

[MEG Hal]

You could look at another way however, by selling products at a discount. (and it is actually not a discount because there is no middleman to be making money, you are selling directly to the gamer) Every product you sell at a con is an add. the gamer will go home and tell his friend what a great game it is and you will sell 10 more at the local store. Perhaps I am missing something but I would almost give products away at cons in hope that this would happen. Obviously the most rabid fans are at gen con and they are the best advertising you could buy.

We understand your point but here is ours, we sell 100 copies discounted of one book (Yea!), we make 100 retailers mad who may buy (2 each) of the next 12 books (boo!). So we have to weigh all the factors in, and sometimes people do discount etc, but as a whole we had some specials etc., but did not discount any of our items. So we had some buy X and get Y or buy X and Y and save...that we did, but as a whole we did not discount any product, I hope that this makes some sense....(crosses fingers).

 

[Inzae]

we here at troll lord games sold everything at 100% off cover price - oops what

davis

 

[bolen]

sure I understand now.

 

[MEG Hal]

sure I understand now.

by crossing fingers was not upset mind you, just hoping my ramblings made sense BTW

I love questions from people, cause a lot of times it is hard to see the reasoning and most of us do not mind shedding light on it---so ask away!

 

[Twin Rose]

Well, to show my appreciation for everyone, I'll offer up a FREE copy of the ENnie award winning "Portable hole full of beer (this product contains no alcohol)" from my friends at Ambient.

Just follow this link:

http://www.rpgnow.com/product_info.php?products_id=148&

It's free!

 

[MEG Hal]

we here at troll lord games sold everything at 100% off cover price - oops what

davis

I could use a Comrades and Familiar book at 100% off, so where is the next con the Troll Lords will be
That was very funny!