Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="wedgeski" data-source="post: 2404033" data-attributes="member: 16212">(Have only read the first 2 pages, so please ignore me if someone has made this point.)I would like to counter the implied notion that online retailers are any less friendly or knowledgeable than the person behind the counter at your LGS.It's been my experience that small, specialised on-liners are extremely friendly, communicative, and insightful about their industry. I have yet to encounter a small e-tailer that hasn't bent over backwards to make my shopping experience a good one, or fallen over themselves in freebie-laden apology when something goes wrong. In that sense, I get everything that I personally would look for in a LGS, except for the ability to browse a book before I buy, for which I rely on reviews and recommendations. I get all that, with the added bonus that I don't have to step into a store where the air is so thick with teenaged body odour that I have to swim rather than walk to the D&amp;D shelf to get what I want. (One of many cliches that were unfortunately true for my LGS.)Obviously this doesn't apply to large bulk-sellers like Amazon, and honestly I probably pay the same premium from my Friendly Remote On-line Gaming Store compared to them, but I do it for the service, and the ability to have a quick email with the owner of the store before I buy anything.Plus, you can actually *say* FROGS. That's gotta count for something. <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&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="wedgeski, post: 2404033, member: 16212"] (Have only read the first 2 pages, so please ignore me if someone has made this point.) I would like to counter the implied notion that online retailers are any less friendly or knowledgeable than the person behind the counter at your LGS. It's been my experience that small, specialised on-liners are extremely friendly, communicative, and insightful about their industry. I have yet to encounter a small e-tailer that hasn't bent over backwards to make my shopping experience a good one, or fallen over themselves in freebie-laden apology when something goes wrong. In that sense, I get everything that I personally would look for in a LGS, except for the ability to browse a book before I buy, for which I rely on reviews and recommendations. I get all that, with the added bonus that I don't have to step into a store where the air is so thick with teenaged body odour that I have to swim rather than walk to the D&D shelf to get what I want. (One of many cliches that were unfortunately true for my LGS.) Obviously this doesn't apply to large bulk-sellers like Amazon, and honestly I probably pay the same premium from my Friendly Remote On-line Gaming Store compared to them, but I do it for the service, and the ability to have a quick email with the owner of the store before I buy anything. Plus, you can actually *say* FROGS. That's gotta count for something. ;) [/QUOTE]

Verification