hay peater
being a store owner your all wet
think ing ? only of money (
most game store owners are in it for the games
most of us are gamers first and seller 2ed
for ex. i don t push the new gw stuff becouse it sucks
the rules are for brain dead fools who can t think
past
there face
also we have the best in store gaming in the albany ny
zone of war.
but we can deal with the discount money pigs out on
the net who have no overhead and only there pockets
to line
also if there giving you a 40*/. discount there
fucking
you some were becouse that is what GW sells it to
everone at think of that ok?
Q...
--- Peter Ramos <pramos2_at_...> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Those who frequent the news groups may have seen the
> many threads regarding
> GW and the war on online stores. As of August 1,
> 2000 GW will only allow
> discounts up to 20% from online stores or they will
> close their accounts. I
> am really not sure of the legality of this in the
> US, but the online people
> are running scared and no opposition is being made.
> GW wins by default. Of
> course GW may lead this but it is the regular hobby
> shops who are also
> applying pressure to the distributors to deal with
> online stores. Alliance
> distributions (a major games distributor) has "axed"
> online stores with no
> physical storefront. Gameshack a online store that
> gave 40% off on GW stuff
> is not distributor-less. This due to a rat hobby
> store owner who complained
> about him.
>
> Its getting pretty fierce and in the end we are the
> losers, since great
> discounts will soon disappear from the net. As an
> ex-retailer I do not
> subscribe to the notion that online discounters
> affect hobby stores. I blame
> it on the their almost universal lack of business
> sense that they may be in
> financial straits. In my travels through the country
> one thing I always do
> is visit local stores. I can say that in all those
> visits I have found TWO
> stores that really stand out, all the rest being
> rather ill-runned with lack
> of merchandise on the shelves or good customer
> service. Most successful
> stores have an online presence too and discount so
> they don't have to fear
> from the online-bogeyman.
>
> Store loyalty? My loyalty is to low prices and good
> customer service, of
> which I have found more online that at stores. In
> house gaming? I have
> played more on my own turf than a store, besides the
> reason to have in house
> gaming is to attract more business, not some
> altruistic feeling of helping
> the game community.
>
> What is everyone stance on these issues? Is your
> local store good enough? Or
> do you buy almost exclusively online?
>
> Peter
>
>
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Received on Sun Jul 02 2000 - 18:05:52 UTC