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Message: <blockquote data-quote="farscapesg1" data-source="post: 2394210" data-attributes="member: 15234">Services and friendliness are nice, but they don't make up for all the price differences though.I'm not familiar enough with the whole gaming/hobby shop business so I have to make some comparisons to something that I am familiar with, computers  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> If you look at computer shops, you would think that there are a lot of them, but pay attention to how many of them come and go.  With big chain stores like Best Buy and Circuit City, and the companies selling directly like Dell, it is harder and harder to run a computer shop.  I know several of the local computer shop owners and in fact wanted to start one myself until they showed me the error of my ways.  The majority of their income comes from upgrade and repair services, but these have been dropping off drastically thanks to Best Buy's Geek Squad and similar big chain support.  The general population doesn't understand that their Dell or Compaq system has an inferior video card, are usually sold with a very minimum amount of memory, and usually have other sub-standard components.  Of course, you tell them and the only thing they care is that they got the computer for $300 after rebates  :\  There is no way that a "mom and pop" shop can make a profit off of a $300 computer.I guess what I am trying to say is that while I love a good LGS (if you can find one), until the general population stop buying from large retailers (and are willing to pay more to do that), Amazon, B&N, Walmart, etc. will recieve more of the business and the LGS will go the way of the neighborhood bookstore (one of the things I sorely miss from my childhood years).</blockquote>

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