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Message: <blockquote data-quote="buzz" data-source="post: 2402196" data-attributes="member: 6777">I'm not telling you what to do. The paragraph of yours that I quoted just summed up the common selling points attributed to LGSs, and I wanted to address them. As I said in my post, if your FLGS is giving you what you want for a price you feel is reasonable, by all means patronize them.I don't get to Games Plus much more often than Gamedays, as I don't live all that close. Even when I'm there, my brain is telling me "You can get all this cheaper online!" Nonetheless, thalmin and co. have a wonderful store, with all kinds of cool products, great service, offer a frequent-buyer program, and provide a huge amount of gaming space. They host all sorts of events, too (such as Gameday). Ergo, I make a point to buy stuff when I'm there. I may seek out items that I know I can't get any (or much) cheaper online, but I still buy stuff. Heck, I usually manage to fill up my "frequent" buyer card with one purchase. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />My LGS is a Gamer's Paradise. No one who works there knows anything about the product (they had to ask *me* to help a customer one time). Everything is full price, they have no frequent buyer program that I know of, and their selection is okay. Sometimes they put product they can't move on sale, which is about the only time I buy anything from them. I see no reason to go out of my way to support them.The old adage with good and services is that there's three qualities: fast, good, and cheap. You can never have more than two of these qualities. Online stores can give me good and cheap, but not fast, as I need to wait for something to be shipped.(I'm not sure if PDFs conquer the "fast" problem, seeing as you lose some "good", either due to not getting a printed product, or due to the PDF market not yet having the same consistent quality as the print market.)BnM stores can potentially give me fast and good, but they can't compete on cheap. Ergo, they need to concentrate on the former, particularly the "good".</blockquote>

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