Put in our pre-orders for the Warhammer 40,000 Leviathan boxed set today. We only get one shot at ordering them so ordered 15. MSRP is $249.99 and, like the previous big boxed set Dominion, there will not be a second production run. We already have 5 copies presold, so if you want one, let us know as soon as possible. Release date is June 24th.
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Monday, June 5, 2023
Monday, January 4, 2021
Kaldheim Boxes
Through Jan 24 or while quantities last, our pre-order prices on Kaldheim booster boxes are:
Draft--$109.99
Set- $129.99
Collector $249.99
Wednesday, October 14, 2020
Commander Legends Preorders
We are now taking pre-orders for Commander Legends Draft and Collector Booster boxes and Commander Decks. Decks are $29.99, Draft Boxes are $129.99 and Collector Booster Boxes are $299.99. Pre-orders will close on November 8th and you will be able to pick up your boxes any time November 13 or later.
Monday, October 29, 2018
Pre-orders
It really helps a store to judge how much of a product to order if you put in an pre-order. We really fly blind as far as ordering stuff without pre-orders. D&D books, HeroClix, Warhammer items, we can get a pretty good feel for what will sell locally but something new, say like Folklore or KeyForge or Transformers, we have no idea what will sell, unless we get people in requesting it or even better asking for pre-orders for it so we have a handle on how much to get. Right now, since we have no pre-orders for KeyForge, we are going comparatively light on it, compared to some stores which are ordering dozens or even hundreds of copies. Help us to make sure we have the games (and comics) you want on release by letting us know you want them.
Saturday, December 3, 2016
The Power of Pre-orders
We have sold through our initial order of Star Wars Destiny of 10 starter decks and 4 displays of boosters but almost only brought in one of each due to the lack of pre-orders or interest in general until just a few days before the release.
Pre-orders and customer queries allow us to judge the depth of interest in an upcoming release and to determine how many to bring in or whether to stock it at all. Each month between 100 to 200 new products release and it is impossible for us to keep up on what people want without feedback. Pre-orders allow us to stock the products that you would like to see in the store and avoid the products no-one has an interest in (like Days of Wonder' Quadropolis).
Pre-orders and customer queries allow us to judge the depth of interest in an upcoming release and to determine how many to bring in or whether to stock it at all. Each month between 100 to 200 new products release and it is impossible for us to keep up on what people want without feedback. Pre-orders allow us to stock the products that you would like to see in the store and avoid the products no-one has an interest in (like Days of Wonder' Quadropolis).
Sunday, July 21, 2013
From the Vault-Twenty Pre-orders
Since we have had a lot of people calling us about pre-orders for From the Vault-20 (the announcement of Jace the Mind Sculptor as one of the cards really spurred that), here is how we will handle pre-orders:
1. We still don't know how many we will receive so are not taking any money currently, just names. We will post on Facebook, Twitter and the store website when we will take payment. If you do not pay by a week before the release date, we reserve the right to release your hold to the next person in line.
2. We are allocating FTV20 according to the following criteria in the order listed:
a. people who play Magic at the store as shown by participation in DCI Tournaments here (minimum 2 tournaments in the previous two months) AND who have a Preferred Customer Card.
b. customers who have a Preferred Customer Card but do not play Magic regularly
c. Magic players who have played in at least 2 DCI Sanctioned tournaments here during the previous two months.
d. anyone else who does not fit the previous criteria but is a customer of the store. We have no desire to sell From the Vault Twenty to people who call the store from Pennsulvania or New Mexico (or England).
Getting on the list does not guarantee that you will get the opportunity to purchase a FTV20. It means you will be among those offered the opportunity to purchase one at MSRP ($39.99) You will only be guaranteed to get one after we take your money. Giving us your name in the store is the surest way to make certain we get you on the list. Calling in is second best. Contacting us via email, Twitter or Facebook risks the message getting lost so if you do that, be sure to follow up. Also note that we will keep a few for prizes in future events and sale in the store.
1. We still don't know how many we will receive so are not taking any money currently, just names. We will post on Facebook, Twitter and the store website when we will take payment. If you do not pay by a week before the release date, we reserve the right to release your hold to the next person in line.
2. We are allocating FTV20 according to the following criteria in the order listed:
a. people who play Magic at the store as shown by participation in DCI Tournaments here (minimum 2 tournaments in the previous two months) AND who have a Preferred Customer Card.
b. customers who have a Preferred Customer Card but do not play Magic regularly
c. Magic players who have played in at least 2 DCI Sanctioned tournaments here during the previous two months.
d. anyone else who does not fit the previous criteria but is a customer of the store. We have no desire to sell From the Vault Twenty to people who call the store from Pennsulvania or New Mexico (or England).
Getting on the list does not guarantee that you will get the opportunity to purchase a FTV20. It means you will be among those offered the opportunity to purchase one at MSRP ($39.99) You will only be guaranteed to get one after we take your money. Giving us your name in the store is the surest way to make certain we get you on the list. Calling in is second best. Contacting us via email, Twitter or Facebook risks the message getting lost so if you do that, be sure to follow up. Also note that we will keep a few for prizes in future events and sale in the store.
Saturday, May 4, 2013
What in the Sam Hill WizKids?
In case you missed it, WOCT had a big release of their new set, Dargon's Maze, this week, Friday to be specific. This meant we had a pre-release last weekend. Both are capital and labor intensive, meaning, especially if a store used COD, it had quite a bit of capital tied up in both events and likely had a lot of personnel involved with them too.
So what does NECA/WizKids do? Release not one, but two new sets, one just before the Dragon's Maze pre-release and one just before the Dragon's Maze release. A store only has so many resources to develop to promoting a new product and an event, so when multiple events occur so closely together, something has to give and in this case it was the new WizKids release.
So what does NECA/WizKids do? Release not one, but two new sets, one just before the Dragon's Maze pre-release and one just before the Dragon's Maze release. A store only has so many resources to develop to promoting a new product and an event, so when multiple events occur so closely together, something has to give and in this case it was the new WizKids release.
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Pre-orders
I've talked about the importance of pre-orders before but wanted to revisit the subject.
Pre-orders help us judge how many of a particular comic book, card set or game to bring in. We have records that we look at in order to judge how well an individual new release will sell but "past performance is no guarantee of future behavior". We have dozens of new games releasing every month and over a thousand new comics. We simple have neither the space, nor the funds to bring all of them into the store.
Generally with comics, we will bring in all the regular series of Marvel and DC, though if a title release several issues in a row that just sit on the shelve, we will likely drop it. Mini-series we really look askance at, unless they have a track record such as Kick Ass or Watchmen.
Since we have very little interest from customers on the various Image and Dark Horse line, as indicated by subscriptions, we generally skip lines from those publishers, as well as most of the smaller publishers. If there is a title you want, please fill out a subscription form so that we know there is interest. More often than not, when we gamble on a new title, it sits there so "once burnt, twice shy".
Same thing goes with games. Expansions for currently popular games, sure, we will bring in the next in the line. past experience shows it will probably sell. However a new release from Mayfair Games that isn't Catan or a train game may not make it to the shelf. We have a couple of dozen Mayfair Games that have never sold a single copy in the store. Same thing with Castles & Crusades from Troll Lord Games. I like this game but people don't purchase it so we will give a very hairy eyeball at new releases unless we get pre-orders for them.
Pre-orders help us help you find new games and help us buy from the game companies, which keeps them in business. The more pre-orders we get, the better is is for all three of us.
Pre-orders help us judge how many of a particular comic book, card set or game to bring in. We have records that we look at in order to judge how well an individual new release will sell but "past performance is no guarantee of future behavior". We have dozens of new games releasing every month and over a thousand new comics. We simple have neither the space, nor the funds to bring all of them into the store.
Generally with comics, we will bring in all the regular series of Marvel and DC, though if a title release several issues in a row that just sit on the shelve, we will likely drop it. Mini-series we really look askance at, unless they have a track record such as Kick Ass or Watchmen.
Since we have very little interest from customers on the various Image and Dark Horse line, as indicated by subscriptions, we generally skip lines from those publishers, as well as most of the smaller publishers. If there is a title you want, please fill out a subscription form so that we know there is interest. More often than not, when we gamble on a new title, it sits there so "once burnt, twice shy".
Same thing goes with games. Expansions for currently popular games, sure, we will bring in the next in the line. past experience shows it will probably sell. However a new release from Mayfair Games that isn't Catan or a train game may not make it to the shelf. We have a couple of dozen Mayfair Games that have never sold a single copy in the store. Same thing with Castles & Crusades from Troll Lord Games. I like this game but people don't purchase it so we will give a very hairy eyeball at new releases unless we get pre-orders for them.
Pre-orders help us help you find new games and help us buy from the game companies, which keeps them in business. The more pre-orders we get, the better is is for all three of us.
Friday, January 27, 2012
Pre-orders Please
When customers pre-order items, it really helps us gauge the level of interest in the game or book. The store puts in pre-orders 2-3 months ahead of the estimated release date of the game or book and, once we do that, we are committee to purchasing that quantity of the item from our distributor. Sure we can refuse to take delivery of it, but a store can only do that once before getting a reputation as an unreliable partner with suppliers.
In effect, stores gamble that we know what our customers want and in most cases, we are correct. Those stores that aren't, go out of business. However, pre-orders allow us to better gauge the level of interest in a product and we get very few of them on most new releases. Of the half dozen Pathfinder releases in January, and despite the fact that we have a comparatively large Pathfinder Society group, we had a pre-order for exactly one of them. Pathfinder modules sell very slowly, so we have moved to a special order only on them. Pazio mapping tiles and flip mats also move periodically. We sat on a number of the flipmats for several months before most of them sold so are loath to restock them heavily.
Similarly in the field of comics, we had a customer in recently asking if we had gotten in the new hardback collection of Teenage Mutant Turtles comics. Since we don't sell a lot of the comic off the rack, that indicates to us there is not much interest in a hardback collection of earlier issues. A pre-order on this book would have indicated there was and probalby encouraged us to order another one for the shelf.
Help us have the items on the shelf that you want to buy by either letting us know you are interested in it, or better yet, committing to a pre-order for it. That helps us manage our inventory better and lets us offer a more targeted selection to you.
In effect, stores gamble that we know what our customers want and in most cases, we are correct. Those stores that aren't, go out of business. However, pre-orders allow us to better gauge the level of interest in a product and we get very few of them on most new releases. Of the half dozen Pathfinder releases in January, and despite the fact that we have a comparatively large Pathfinder Society group, we had a pre-order for exactly one of them. Pathfinder modules sell very slowly, so we have moved to a special order only on them. Pazio mapping tiles and flip mats also move periodically. We sat on a number of the flipmats for several months before most of them sold so are loath to restock them heavily.
Similarly in the field of comics, we had a customer in recently asking if we had gotten in the new hardback collection of Teenage Mutant Turtles comics. Since we don't sell a lot of the comic off the rack, that indicates to us there is not much interest in a hardback collection of earlier issues. A pre-order on this book would have indicated there was and probalby encouraged us to order another one for the shelf.
Help us have the items on the shelf that you want to buy by either letting us know you are interested in it, or better yet, committing to a pre-order for it. That helps us manage our inventory better and lets us offer a more targeted selection to you.
Sunday, July 24, 2011
Information Shortage on New Products.
Working on putting in an order for new releases from our distributors and find that their catalogs (and websites for that matter) lack some very important information. I can't truly blame the distributors because they rely on the manufacturer to provide information information about the games (or other products listed). However, in looking over one distributor's pre-order catalog, I find a brief blurb describing how cool the game is and, in most but not all cases, a photo.
However, missing in almost all case is important information that people buying the game would want to know before they purchased it. How many people can play? What age groups can play? How long should a game take to play? That is important information a customer would want to have before they bought any boardgame off my shelves and I would really like to have the same information before deciding whether it is a good fit for my store or not.
In the case of RPG supplements, especially if it is a new company or one whose product I have not stocked previously, I want to know how many pages. Color or black and white? Is it suitable for beginning players or more experienced ones?
In both cases, I can ask my sales representative but it's woefully inefficient to expect them to go over over every items in the monthly pre-order form, especially when the manufacturer/publisher should have included such information.
However, missing in almost all case is important information that people buying the game would want to know before they purchased it. How many people can play? What age groups can play? How long should a game take to play? That is important information a customer would want to have before they bought any boardgame off my shelves and I would really like to have the same information before deciding whether it is a good fit for my store or not.
In the case of RPG supplements, especially if it is a new company or one whose product I have not stocked previously, I want to know how many pages. Color or black and white? Is it suitable for beginning players or more experienced ones?
In both cases, I can ask my sales representative but it's woefully inefficient to expect them to go over over every items in the monthly pre-order form, especially when the manufacturer/publisher should have included such information.
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