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Message: <blockquote data-quote="haakon1" data-source="post: 3468028" data-attributes="member: 25619">I am said hypocrite.You didn't get it the first time I said, so I'll say it again.What I said is, I go to one of my two FLGS every two weeks or so.  When there's not something interesting to buy (e.g., WOTC has put out three new Complete Books of Useless Crunch), I still buy a Dungeon and/or Dragon, while chatting with the guy who runs the place about what's coming out next, how good DCC's are, how good Shackled City is, etc.  Sometimes I'll buy additional stuff I don't really need at all, like more minis, on an Osprey miniatures book, or on my most recent trip, Axis & Allies Pacific.  Because I'm there, I'm buying something, and there's ALWAYS Dungeon or Dragon, if all else fails.I don't like going into a mom & pop shop, browsing, and buying nothing.  It makes me feel like a heel.  Even if all I buy is magazines, $15 on magazines is presumably at least a few bucks of profit -- say $5-7 more than if I didn't come in at all.If there's nothing at all to buy (no Dungeon default), I'm going to go in less often.  My  guess is 8 times a year (that'd be once every month and a half) instead of 20 times a year (a bit less than every 2 weeks).  That means my spending will go down, with fewer incidental purchases.It's not just about buying Dungeon, it's about the frequency of browsing the merchandise.    And losing 4-5 trips where I ended up buying some $30-50 item for the heck of it, that adds up to a lot more than the lose of Dungeon sales.  Maybe I'm the only gamer who buys like this, but I'm guessing where there's one, there's thousands, as with most things in life.BTW, I buy tons of stuff on Amazon, but never gaming materials.  $ are votes.  I vote for FLGS existence.  Just because you buy your stuff from Amazon doesn't mean everyone does.  Thousands do, naturally, but thousands don't.  <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=":)" /></blockquote>

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