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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dpdx" data-source="post: 622648" data-attributes="member: 188">Today was very interesting.I got a chance to go by the Wizards store, and I learned some things:First of all, they're the only official Wizards store in the entire state of Oregon, and not only do the gaping holes in their stock put the entire industry to shame, but they'd get schooled by just about every FLGS I can think of in town when it comes to selection, FOR THEIR OWN PRODUCTS.Second, the assistant manager was working today, and I got to pick his brain some about what's going on. First question: who decides how much stock you get from Wizards for any given book - you, or them (the home office)? Answer: them, which results in new product being sold out (at the limited quantity) in about the timespan of a solar eclipse, not to return until about the next solar eclipse. Or, they send too much stock, but since the stuff is POPULAR, even that (e.g., 3E PHB) gets sold out in a month or so.Third, they'd LIKE some control over quantities in their orders from WotC. They can't keep Psionics Handbook, Revolution Era Sourcebook, or RCRB on the shelves. On the other hand, several copies of Secrets of Naboo have been gathering dust since release. They're closing out their GURPS stuff and miniatures, and that should give them a little more room for (hopefully) more 3E and SWRPG content. They're ready to sell Wizards product, and people keep coming to that store because they EXPECT product to be there. They ask everybody who enters or leaves the store: Can/Did you find what you are looking for? When the counter person asked me, she didn't even look surprised when I told her, "no."I feel like this is an IBM commercial waiting to happen: these Wizards stores (and more so, Game Keeper) need point-of-purchase control over what comes to them in the big brown box every month, which gives us as consumers control over what's in the shop with what we buy from them. The demand problem is solved with such a system (resulting in less guys like me who theoretically get pissed off and just about flick it in), and in turn, not only does Wizards get a much truer read wrt what sells, but it busts that self-fulfilling prophecy of "SW stuff doesn't sell" right in the mouth, resulting in more jobs to the people we want to see doing the content.Only good can ensue from such a scenario.</blockquote>

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