Shipping games from Gencon to Finland

[Eero Tuovinen]

It's that time of the year again: I'd like to buy a big bunch of indie games at retail prices and mail them here to Finland, to be sold by Arkkikivi. Being that I'm not in America myself, that means finding somebody to do the collect-and-mail part for me. This has been done three times thus far by different people, but as it's extra work and all, I don't want to specifically harry the good folks who've done it for me before. Not that you can't, if you want to!

Who can help me: if you're going to Gencon and want to take home a couple of boxes worth of new and old indie games, only to mail them forward the next week, then I want you. If you're one of the people whose games I'm buying, that saves us all some work.

What you get out of it: not much, really. I'd like not actually paying for the job (apart from mailing expenses, of course). You get to read a lot of games, though, if you're interested. I wouldn't be adverse if you want some of those games at a discount, now that I think about it. And it's really helpful for the Finnish indie scene; it's a tad difficult to get American games one by one here, and most don't bother.

So, the plan: I'm going to contact many indie game designers soon about whether you want us to retail your games. Ideally I'll also find somebody who can do the collection and mailing. Then you just give your games to said person at Gencon (or mail them to him, if you're not going), he makes a big package of them for me and mails it to Finland. I'm hoping to get closer to a hundred books, apparently.

If you have a good new game coming out and I'm not contacting you, feel free to remind me of your existence; it's possible that I've not noticed your project. I'll try to call on all the people on my list within the next 24 hours or so. If we've retailed your game before and I'm not contacting you, that's because we still have enough of the game on hand (or I've failed to find a cheaper internet connection here in Berlin).

I think that's all, I'll start with the individual contacts soon.