RPGMall opening soon!

[rpghost]

Will RPGmall items be also listed on RPGshop?
Will a customer be able to order products from both RPGmall and RPGshop catalogs and receive them together?
I'm specially concerned about overseas shipping cost.

No. RPGShop works under a different revenue model and shares revenue with affiliates and has extra costs and high volume auto-replenisment ordering direct from the distributor. In other words, it wouldn't work and it'd distrupt our business there.

We do plan to cross promote the sites heavly and we can always take manual requests to join orders. As long as we cetch them in time it's not an issue to combine an order with all our sites and thus combine the shipping charges (esp for the foriegn orders).

So I guess that's a No, but yes if you nag us.

James

[Andrea Gualano]

We do plan to cross promote the sites heavly and we can always take manual requests to join orders. As long as we cetch them in time it's not an issue to combine an order with all our sites and thus combine the shipping charges (esp for the foriegn orders).

That's good enough for me.

Anyway a suggestion for a future update would be to make it semi-automatic or at least advertise that possibility.
Such as: "Want to join orders from different RPGhost sites? click here to know how".

[rpghost]

I actually added an option on the shipping checkout page to enter your RPGShop.com order number to combine and save $3 on shipping. That should help.

James

[Luke]

i just wanted to say that I am selling my game through james at RPGmall.com and I am pretty durn happy so far. It seems be going well.

I have been selling through RPGshop.com for the past couple of months and have recently made the jump over to RPGmall.com. James made the transition quite easy. I've sold through a number of copies and James keeps reordering. A rather civilized arrangement.


-luke

[Matt Machell]

James,

couple of questions about the merchandising stuff. If I want to do a Realms or The Agency T-Shirt, do I just pass on the relevant images and you take care of the printing (ala cafepress?).

-Matt

[rpghost]

couple of questions about the merchandising stuff. If I want to do a Realms or The Agency T-Shirt, do I just pass on the relevant images and you take care of the printing (ala cafepress?).

Yes. I'm still working on the standard pricing worksheet but we can handle your order manually if you like. Price depends on the number of color/screens you need for your art. Full color stuff is 4-8 screens. Setup costs are based on that... could be $50 or more... The shirts would be sold you you at about $8-10 and you resell them for whatever you want (typically $16-20).

Again, none of this is finalized yet. I'm working through a few license deals first to get the feel for it.

James

[Matt Machell]

Thanks for the info. Definitely something I'm interested in. Let me know when you've got a solid idea of prices.

-Matt

[rpghost]

Thanks for the info. Definitely something I'm interested in. Let me know when you've got a solid idea of prices.

Well if you have solid art materials and concept done now and know what you want, I can get it quoted out. Just email me at webmaster@rpgmall.com and I'll let you know where to upload the image file so we can see how many screens it'll take.

James

[Michael Hopcroft]

James has been too discreet to mentiuon it, but since I have all the discretion of a rampaiging wildebeest I thought I'd mention that he;s giving away certain titles with orders at RPGNMall as a way to introduce people to the service.

I don't know how much longer publishers will be able to take advantage of this (I'm pretty sure he;s only doing it for one month), but it might be helpful to some publishers to get some name recognition by giving away their stuff. (I'd ask him first if he wants a title before sending it to him, however....)

[rpghost]

Here is a rough draft of the ad we'll be running in the GenCon registration book... what do you think? Suggestions?



I thought about putting a few covers on there, but it's just too busy as it is.

Are we still going to exchange flyer stacks between our booths?

James

[Walt Freitag]

Since the name is also the URL, and the only way to respond directly to the ad after the con is to type the URL into one's browser, I'd suggest tightening up the spacing between "RPG" and "Mall." If you don't like the visual effect of the RPGM... part all run together, then make the M "lower case" to match the ...all.com part.

Sure, most people know by now not to put spaces in a URL, but the spacing might leave them wondering whether to use a dash or an underline, and if they do (or if they put the space in) they'll get a "server not found" error message.

- Walt

[Adam]

The background image makes me think "miniatures", which I don't think is your intent, and I'd stick with a larger and less ornamental font for the main text near the center, without the red stroke and without the darkened background. The red text at the bottom is very hard to read.

Also, I'd put some sales text on there. Include the Dancey quote, and then explain why RPGMall exists - why should con-goers stop by the booth and why should they visit the site?

Best,
Adam