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Message: <blockquote data-quote="smathis" data-source="post: 4250913" data-attributes="member: 56465">Here's some ideas that might be worth a try...1) A discount on pre-ordered and special ordered stuff.2) Keeping used games in stock.3) Starting up a game-store centered "gaming club" of sorts. For a one-time annual fee (like the B&N cards or such), you'll get a discount off all purchases and you'll be able to join up or participate in store-sponsored gaming events. This would be stuff like a weekly D&D game that the store hosts, using minis/maps provided by the store, etc. Basically think of it as a tabletop version of DDI. Throw in some more events going on that people can participate in and it wouldn't be a bad deal. I know I'd pay $50-$60 bucks a year for 10% off my books and the knowledge that my RPG group is taken care of (either as DM or Player).But mostly I get fed up with FLGS because they lose my special orders. That's the absolute worst. I'm basically giving them a sale. Yet I'm always amazed at how many different ways I've gotten screwed on that.Also, FLGSs will need to find some way to compete with the big bookstores price-wise, if not the online vendors. If that means selling some sort of discount card or discounts on pre-orders, then so be it. Sure, that hurts some. But business is business. And they'll continue to lose if I can buy a set of books on Amazon for 40+% less than what they're selling them for.I don't know of any FLGS that has offered me anything that can sway me from that kind of price differential. At some point, it just becomes simple economics...</blockquote>

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