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This may be me being naive about how this all works but I actually think a 3-6 month boycott on buying GW stuff would result alarm bells ringing with investors with the company losing money and shareprices would drop.

Then WE could buy shares and have a collective input.

Then when everyone buys things again we'd be quids in too if you care about that sort of thing (so long as this isn't fraud or something)

It isn't fraud to stop buying a company's products.

obsidianaura wrote:This may be me being naive about how this all works but I actually think a 3-6 month boycott on buying GW stuff would result alarm bells ringing with investors with the company losing money and shareprices would drop.

Then WE could buy shares and have a collective input.

Then when everyone buys things again we'd be quids in too if you care about that sort of thing (so long as this isn't fraud or something)

I think you might be confusing Insider Dealing with your own suggestion, which would be akin to manipulating the markets, but to do that you have to have a measure of control over the market....which you don't. So what you're actaully suggesting is speculative buying, which is perfectly legal...if a little risky.

I think another problem is that some people (myself ) dont know of alternatives to GW products and games.

Scott-S6 wrote:

Delephont wrote:People may laugh at my idea, even the retailers may raise me on a burning cross. However, the point still stands, if not my way...how are you going to take back your businesses?

When your business is exclusively the selling of other people's goods you don't have a lot of control of it.

They will set the prices, they will dictate the terms, they will develop the new products. The only way for a retailer to take control of their business is to develop their own product, as many large retailers do, or to find some way of adding value beyond the goods that they sell.

Interestingly, this is what GW did in the early days. They used to sell other peoples products, and buy liscence to make dnd miniatures, and stuff from other companies. They had trouble getting warhammer into other UK stores. As time went on, they took control of their business, selling their own products more and more, and opening their own stores. Now, we all buy from them.)