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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cadfan" data-source="post: 5130792" data-attributes="member: 40961">Yeah, I can see that.  Its just that I don't give them much of an opportunity to try that on me.  I don't need multiple RPGs, and in any case I'm likely to spend some time on rpg.net reading up on them before making a purchase- so at best the retailer could direct me to something new and then, if he's lucky, I'll buy it on my next visit.The only time a gamestore has been able to convince me to buy something new has been the boardgame store up north of here.  They have "game days" where lots of people come in and play games, most of which are provided by the store.  In that case I purchased a new game after seeing it in the store, but I was able to play the game twice before I had to make that decision, so I knew I liked it.  The more typical experience, even there, is to try the game out and then go home and think about it for a while.They actually have a really good model to keep their customers purchasing items from them instead of online.  1/10th of the purchase cost is given back to you in the form of store credit.  But if you use the store credit you don't get any store credit on the particular purchase you just made.  So its really easy to tell yourself that you'll just take the store credit on the 50 dollar game you just bought, and eventually you have quite a large amount of it lying around.  Plus attendance at the game day events has a $10 cost, but includes pizza and pop, and gives you $5 in store credit at the end of the day- a perfect recipe for convincing you to buy a game you tried and liked as you walk out of the door.But that's just the boardgame store.  For miniatures and rpgs the other store I go to provides little more than a hub at which I can ask them to purchase items for me, and I'm not sure if it would be possible for it to mean more.</blockquote>

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