Re: Chipco's Fantasy Rules! 3rd Edition Release

On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 11:36:21 GMT, William McHarg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

>You are probably right Allan.  I think selling things over the web via
>PDF files is going to become more common.  I don't really have a
>problem with it.  I do think the price is a problem.  There are some
>very finished rules that go for $30 U.S.

That's very true. I noticed in a thread that wasn't posted here in rgmh that
Chipco mentioned the high cost of postage to international customers. I've
sold stuff by eBay and noticed that shipping even to Britain from the U.S. is
pretty expensive. I can see how someone in Europe or South America would jump
at the chance to _just_ pay $30 for the rules, as opposed to paying $20 for
the rules and $10 to $20 for shipping (and whatever customs duty may be
slapped on it when it arrives). For that matter, I'd have bought it online for
$30 when I was in Canada. Shipping would cost between $6 and $10 easily, plus
I'd have to pay PST and GST (15%) when it hit the border _and_ a $5 service
fee by Canada Customs! $30 for the rules, even if I had to print them myself,
would look like a bargain in comparison, and I'd have them that day.

>Chipco is forging some new ground here, and I personally hope it truns
>out well for them.  I really think right now the problem is that
>someone can go to the store, look at the pretty picture on the cover,
>fondle the rules, and get instant gratification buy buying something
>they can go home and read.  Chipco needs to come up with some way to
>get people to look at reading a description on the web and having that
>same urge to buy.

That's also true, though now I live in Louisiana without a game store any
closer to me than 90 minutes away, and that one doesn't stock a lot that isn't
Games Workshop. Most of my game purchases have been on the web the last couple
of years. 

>They need to come up with some way of selling the sizzle, since
>we can't smell the steak.

Very good point. 

>I think you must be the Allan Goodall that used to beat the snot out
>of me at Steel Panthers by email several years ago.  :)

Yep! Though I seem to remember my own nose being bloodied a number of times...

Allan


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