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Raggi Nearly Broke

Started by Joethelawyer, July 13, 2020, 05:01:16 PM

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Spinachcat

#75
July 18, 2020, 05:12:47 PM
If I owned a FLGS, I'd have a delivery driver. Free shipping over $100 and designate X days of the week for the delivery dude to make his rounds. It would be hard for a brick & mortar FLGS to compete with Amazon, but I think there's avenues of attack to leverage customer loyalty. One tactic would be deep discounts for used products or unsold overstock, but only eligible to "club members", aka your marketing database.

FelixGamingX1

#76
July 18, 2020, 05:21:38 PM
Einstein once said... Don't repeat the same mistake over and over again and expect different results. If your delivery method fails once, it will fail again. Einstein's theories save me a lot of headache, and now you can too.
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Loz

#77
July 18, 2020, 05:26:08 PM
Quoteif you had ask anyone in 2000 if they thought that doing business on the Internet would be a serious contender in the retail business you would have been laughed off the street.

No, the online dominance of the retail business sphere was predicted well before the turn of the millennium by a lot of people who were carefully watching the development of telecommunications and the rise of broadband. I was at a speaker at a UK telecoms summit in 1998 where the growth of online transactions was predicted with pretty reasonable accuracy: and this was before Amazon even got off the ground. It really shouldn't be a surprise to anyone that internet commerce has developed in the way it has.
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Mistwell

#78
July 18, 2020, 07:07:22 PM
Quote from: sureshot;1140495It is insanity with shipping right now. I ordered two used novels of Amazon.ca first week of May 2020 and they both arrived last week nor on the same day.

USPS has terrible service right now. We mailed masks within our same city, literally less than 5 miles away. It took 6 days to arrive.

UPS is better, but not by a lot. They accept next day air packages, don't deliver in time, and claim they are exempted from the next day requirement due to Covid-19. Funny, I am not exempted from paying the higher fee to send it that way!

kythri

#79
July 18, 2020, 09:56:41 PM
I haven't had any significant issues with USPS themselves - once they get a parcel, it seems to get to me in a reasonable timeframe - usually.

My bigger issue is with sellers who aren't getting the item to USPS in a timely manner - waiting a week or more after payment to actually take the item to the post office.

jeff37923

#80
July 18, 2020, 10:15:26 PM
USPS has so far been the most reliable shipping service for game books and accessories I have found so far.
"Meh."

RandyB

#81
July 18, 2020, 10:57:12 PM
Quote from: kythri;1140579I haven't had any significant issues with USPS themselves - once they get a parcel, it seems to get to me in a reasonable timeframe - usually.

My bigger issue is with sellers who aren't getting the item to USPS in a timely manner - waiting a week or more after payment to actually take the item to the post office.

One seller that is a counterexample is Black Blade. I bought the hardcover of OSRIC and it was shipped quickly and arrived in great condition.

kythri

#82
July 21, 2020, 06:43:03 PM
Quote from: kythri;1139989As a reference, I ordered Pundy's Star Adventurer Print/PDF on June 29th.  I got a ship notification from DTRPG on July 12th, but it wasn't even dropped off to USPS until July 14th.  On top of that, they're illegally using Bound Printed Matter as the service, which is even slower than Media Mail.

FWIW, my order showed up today. 22 calendar days, 16 business days.

Eh?  If I accommodate all of the pandemic nonsense's impact on everything, I suppose that's not absolutely horrid.

GameDaddy

#83
July 21, 2020, 07:48:50 PM
Quote from: kythri;1141085FWIW, my order showed up today. 22 calendar days, 16 business days.

Eh?  If I accommodate all of the pandemic nonsense's impact on everything, I suppose that's not absolutely horrid.

That's actually pretty good. Back before the Oceans drank Atlantis, and the rise of the sons of Aryas, there was an age undreamed of (in RPG and Wargaming....) and uh, we felt lucky if we sent in a check, money order, or bank draft for an order, and it was mailed back to us before 30 days had gone by. Most mail orders were made with the standard disclaimer "Allow four-to-six  weeks for delivery", ...and that was not counting the time it took one to place the order. First class airmail could still take up to seven business days to arrive anywhere in North America.
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Mistwell

#84
July 21, 2020, 09:04:23 PM

Mistwell

#85
July 21, 2020, 09:49:41 PM Last Edit: July 21, 2020, 10:46:25 PM by Mistwell
Can anyone here offer a review of Veins of the Earth? I hadn't heard of it until today, but it looks really good from a brief look at reviews and previews.

This review makes it sound superb.

RandyB

#86
July 21, 2020, 10:28:43 PM
Quote from: kythri;1141085FWIW, my order showed up today. 22 calendar days, 16 business days.

Eh?  If I accommodate all of the pandemic nonsense's impact on everything, I suppose that's not absolutely horrid.

I have an order outstanding that I placed on July 10th. As of right now, it still hasn't been printed. That falls into the normal "up to 14 days for color printing". I'll see how long it takes to get the order after it prints.

Shawn Driscoll

#87
July 21, 2020, 10:37:42 PM
Quote from: Joethelawyer;1139556Raggi Nearly Broke
What?! Someone was trying to get rich from selling RPG books?

Spinachcat

#88
July 21, 2020, 10:54:13 PM
Amazon Prime has spoiled me beyond belief regarding high speed shipping.

Fortunately, Kickstarter keeps me zen by making me wait months (or years) for books.

S'mon

#89
July 22, 2020, 01:52:17 AM Last Edit: July 22, 2020, 01:56:40 AM by S'mon
Quote from: Spinachcat;1141126Amazon Prime has spoiled me beyond belief regarding high speed shipping.

Yeah, it feels crazy I can usually order in the morning & get delivery same day! Why go to the shops (where they're about to force us to put on masks) when I can get it delivered to my door in a few hours?

Although if I want another copy of Basic Fantasy RPG I apparently have to wait 1-2 days for it to get printed and won't get it until 3 days after ordering - a travesty! And it'll cost me an outrageous £4.22 with free shipping!  :-O
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