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eurydicebound) wrote2006-03-11 07:09 pm
eurydicebound) wrote2006-03-11 07:09 pm
Pieces of a former me
So as part of David's last trip to Oklahoma, he brought some stuff back with him that we'd had stored there for some time. Two boxes arrved today, for example, all filled with toys the boys hadn't seen in ages. On a more personal note, though, I had two specific things come back that I've been happy to see again. The first is my stained glass grinder and tools. (Yay!) The second is all the papers that we'd had in an old filing cabinet, many of which I'd forgotten about. In specific, among them was a journal of poetry I'd been working on. These aren't exactly world shaking poems. Many of them were done primarily as writing exercises I'd set for myself, dealing with characterization and visualization. Quality varies greatly, at least to my present-day jaded eye. Back in the day I was pretty proud of them, though.
Also, as a new and exciting development, I *gasp* BOUGHT roleplaying books today! I literally could not tell you the last one I bought, rather than traded or wrote for. It's been a really long time though. For the record, I purchased two books: Werewolf the Forsaken and the updated Witchfire Trilogy, Collectors Edition. I'd have bought a copy of Savage Worlds 2nd Edition if he'd have had it.
And this brings me to the next portion of our program: queue up the Store Owner rant, would you?
That's a love. Thanks.
Actually, to be technical, this is not so much the Store Owner as the Store Owner Without A Clue How To Sell RPGs. Nice guy, knows his board games and minis, has active leagues and plays himself. Does well at keeping a good (if limited) stock of current White Wolf and WotC titles. Promotes a couple of other games as well that I gather he knows will sell in his store, such as Ars Magica. That takes up about half of his RPG space. The rest is such a mish-mash of other publishers and old titles as to boggle the mind and eat up his retail display space. For example, the man had two -- count them, TWO -- copies of Crucible! The stillborn minis game from right before FASA closed! I mean, damn, man. My name is IN THAT BOOK and I don't even keep it anymore. He doesn't have any minis for it, he's never going to sell it... and yet, there it is. Twice. He has something like 5-7 long boxes of old AD&D stuff... things like Al-Qadim stuff. Those are discounted something like 10%, but all they do is take up space. No one is going to clean him out of those. He doesn't stock more RPGs because he says they won't move, but that's not his problem. His problem is that he can't manage his inventory for the limited store space he has. It's a shame.
Also, as a new and exciting development, I *gasp* BOUGHT roleplaying books today! I literally could not tell you the last one I bought, rather than traded or wrote for. It's been a really long time though. For the record, I purchased two books: Werewolf the Forsaken and the updated Witchfire Trilogy, Collectors Edition. I'd have bought a copy of Savage Worlds 2nd Edition if he'd have had it.
And this brings me to the next portion of our program: queue up the Store Owner rant, would you?
That's a love. Thanks.
Actually, to be technical, this is not so much the Store Owner as the Store Owner Without A Clue How To Sell RPGs. Nice guy, knows his board games and minis, has active leagues and plays himself. Does well at keeping a good (if limited) stock of current White Wolf and WotC titles. Promotes a couple of other games as well that I gather he knows will sell in his store, such as Ars Magica. That takes up about half of his RPG space. The rest is such a mish-mash of other publishers and old titles as to boggle the mind and eat up his retail display space. For example, the man had two -- count them, TWO -- copies of Crucible! The stillborn minis game from right before FASA closed! I mean, damn, man. My name is IN THAT BOOK and I don't even keep it anymore. He doesn't have any minis for it, he's never going to sell it... and yet, there it is. Twice. He has something like 5-7 long boxes of old AD&D stuff... things like Al-Qadim stuff. Those are discounted something like 10%, but all they do is take up space. No one is going to clean him out of those. He doesn't stock more RPGs because he says they won't move, but that's not his problem. His problem is that he can't manage his inventory for the limited store space he has. It's a shame.
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I think there are some good ways to avoid this problem, but they take time/effort/money to implement and they're most preventative measures, not cures.
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I know my FLGS has a whole bunch of backstock stuff, and we've talked about ways he could get rid of it, but we don't think that any of them would be particularly profitable. In general, I'd suggeset that the store find a trusted customer that regularly sells stuff on eBay, and have them sell all the backstock on comission. The store won't net as much, but it won't take them much time, and the customer will almost certainly turn around and spend their comission at the game store anyway, so the store will only be paying about 60% of the comission value.
Of course, the other alternative is to just throw it all out ... I'm sure there's some way that could be used as a tax benefit or something, but most game store owners are gamers, and most game store owners are packrats.
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Would you like to meet for dinner or something some day? I was getting kind of lonely, here in Chicago all by myself...
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*shrug* Sure, I could use some more Conservative friends. E-mail me at themoocow [at] gmail [dot] com.
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