Joined: 08-Mar-2010 14:01 Posts: 98 Location: United States
Posted: 09-Mar-2010 19:00 Post subject: Bias at a local bookstore. Was difficult to get CBT books.
At a local bookstore near where I live, there was about 19 copies of a newly released book sitting on a shelf behind the cash register. A few years ago when I went back to where there used to be about four shelves of Classic BattleTech books, there wasn't any CBT products. In fact the only CBT product available for display was a copy of Total Warfare in the Roleplaying shelves area. Also, the bookstore owner got rid of her soda fountain drink dispensers. I purchased that TW copy and to get Tactical Operations, I had to order it. I think that the customer assistance could be improved at that bookstore, like having a computer that a customer could search for products using keywords like name and type and/or date of release.
Joined: 03-Feb-2002 00:00 Posts: 6017 Location: United States
Posted: 09-Mar-2010 23:46 Post subject: Bias at a local bookstore. Was difficult to get CBT books.
I think it's difficult to get CBT books anywhere these days. I order mine directly through the BattleCorps store. _________________ Mordel Blacknight - Site Administrator
Joined: 04-Feb-2002 00:00 Posts: 4120 Location: United States
Posted: 10-Mar-2010 11:00 Post subject: Bias at a local bookstore. Was difficult to get CBT books.
They, TPTB, could change all of that if they would do some advertisements in magazines and other places that folks who are likely to play RPGs and tactical games are looking for info and other things. Really it would go a long way to reversing the slump in getting new players into the game. You know the whole idea of spending some money to make more down the road plan. _________________ Karagin Only the dead have seen the end of war. - Plato
"Wasted trip Man. Nobody said nuthin' about lockin' horns with no tigers." Oddball
Posted: 11-Mar-2010 13:04 Post subject: Bias at a local bookstore. Was difficult to get CBT books.
Tssss... local game stores just said that Battletech is dead and refuse to even work as mediators for purchase. I'm getting my books through Paizo Publishing along my Pathfinder books. It kinda sucks to buy books from the west coast of the States when you live in central Europe, but German providers are even worse. _________________ The dragon NEVER sleeps!
Joined: 08-Mar-2010 14:01 Posts: 98 Location: United States
Posted: 22-Mar-2010 15:10 Post subject: Re:Bias at a local bookstore. Was difficult to get CBT books
I've found a place called Game Cafe that I can purchase CBT products from. I have to pay using cash which isn't a problem (at Game Cafe they don't accept checks and a bank I go to is nearby).
You cannot post new topics in this forum You cannot reply to topics in this forum You cannot edit your posts in this forum You cannot delete your posts in this forum You cannot vote in polls in this forum You cannot attach files in this forum You can download files in this forum
"I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself." - Lois McMaster Bujold
