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Message no. 1
From: Mongoose <evamarie@**********.NET>
Subject: Re: "Questions" in the RP industry
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 12:16:09 -0700
:Keep in mind that most people who do start game companies have no idea
about
:laws or buisness practices. In '95 or was it '96 FASA still had not
learned
:the trick of shopping around for printing prices. A friend of mine in the
:industry explained it to Jill Lucas, right after he unsuccessfully hit on
her.


Is there something difficult about price cutting on the scale of small
publishing? I mean, a kid making a bunch of Xeroxes knows enough not to
go to the 7-11 and use the dime machine; you get on your bike and make the
longer trip to the Kinko's. Is there some sort of hidden rocket science,
or does my homespun wisdom qualify me to run a small corporation?

Mongoose
Message no. 2
From: "M. Sean Martinez" <ElBandit@***.COM>
Subject: Re: "Questions" in the RP industry
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 14:37:55 EDT
In a message dated 9/25/98 1:11:27 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
evamarie@**********.net writes:

> Is there something difficult about price cutting on the scale of small
> publishing? I mean, a kid making a bunch of Xeroxes knows enough not to
> go to the 7-11 and use the dime machine; you get on your bike and make the
> longer trip to the Kinko's. Is there some sort of hidden rocket science,
> or does my homespun wisdom qualify me to run a small corporation?

I often wonder what FASA was thinking, but like most people they may go to the
closet biusiness to suit their needs. Printing costs in publictions can often
be confiusing. Sometimes even a few pennies here and there can make a BIG
differance and I do not think FASA ever ran the numbers to get peak
effecicentcy.

-Bandit

-Bandit

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