Re: [FT] Exactly how popular is Full Thrust?

On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 07:07:22 -0400 "Laserlight" <laserlight@quixnet.net>
writes:
<snip>.
>
>If your local shop is willing to support you, then of course you
>should support them.
>
>
That's the rub for me.	Closest shop (for other - local game club
politics - reasons) I no longer enter (okay - once in a year plus but
the
game was one using a rules set I had asked a person to run several
times)
because the implicit message is "My way or the highway" and the explicit
statements (slightly paraphrased note!) have been:

1) "Oh, a UK company other than GW?  That's a cottage industry company,
I
only deal with reliable companies" 

2)"They don't use my distributor so I don't order from them, it's too
hard to make sure you get what you order."  -  Right after spending 10
minutes ripping the said distributor's shipping record/practices to
pieces in a diatribe...

3) "I don't do much 6mm since nobody plays that scale."  This from  a
man
who has had the same plastic model boxes on his shelf for years and
complains he can't sell enough of them to make a profit."

4)"The smaller scales (referring to 20 mm and below) don't sell well."
But then he put in whole row of racks of WW2 in 20 mm and 15 mm... while
the 15 mm ancients guys have a whole second club dedicated to DBx and
the
WW2 scene is either micro armor or 25/28 mm groups.

With Paypal, web sites, a VISA logo bank card that doesn't do the
'revolving charge card interest" thing but acts like an automatic debit
card, and the excellent shipping practices of GZG/Brigade/et. al. and
other (30 minutes away are 3 plus a chain of 4 shops all over the metro
area plus a couple just across the river) shops who do order (takes
longer and might cost more but at least they do it even if they don't
carry historicals in the shops why should I use the 'local' shop?

I support the companies who support my part of the hobby.  Seems fair to
me.

Gracias,
Glenn - warbeads@juno.com
.
6 mm miniatures rule!  Well, anyway in my mind they do!
.

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