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nkelsch wrote:

 ironicsilence wrote:
I throw some of my purchases to my FLGS just to support them but the bulk of my GW purchases come from online discounters like the warstore.

Do you do a bulk of your playing on the internet at the online discounters or in your home?

If you expect to spend hours playing on someone's tables in a FLGS, but then not buy anything from them, how do you expect them to pay the rent on the space you use without you being a customer? "Oh I bought a snickers bar once, that covers the 40 hours I played there this month" doesn't usually mesh.

Having people playing and having a good time is free advertising to anyone who happens to see. Anyway, if free tables where that big of a deal, regardless of renting the space, they wouldn't be a thing. If a store offers free tables then its not something you should have to pay for. Hence the "free" part.

I support my local GW. Its the closest gaming store to where I live. The manager is cool and so are the local players that play there.

 spacewolf407 wrote:
I support my local GW. Its the closest gaming store to where I live. The manager is cool and so are the local players that play there.

Good luck when he moves on.

13whited wrote:

nkelsch wrote:

 ironicsilence wrote:
I throw some of my purchases to my FLGS just to support them but the bulk of my GW purchases come from online discounters like the warstore.

Do you do a bulk of your playing on the internet at the online discounters or in your home?

If you expect to spend hours playing on someone's tables in a FLGS, but then not buy anything from them, how do you expect them to pay the rent on the space you use without you being a customer? "Oh I bought a snickers bar once, that covers the 40 hours I played there this month" doesn't usually mesh.

Having people playing and having a good time is free advertising to anyone who happens to see. Anyway, if free tables where that big of a deal, regardless of renting the space, they wouldn't be a thing. If a store offers free tables then its not something you should have to pay for. Hence the "free" part.

Thats another good point, having a group of people in a GW store playing (regardless of where they bought the minis) is good for GW's business. Aside from the saying that nothing attracts a crowd like a crowd, when I worked at GW I always found it easier to sell starter sets to new to the hobby people when the store was full of people playing. It shows newbies that there is a community of people for them to play with