Emphasis Core Values Of:
Community - it's about bringing people together;
Use of Community Spaces where rent is subsidised by Local Council for all events including major ones - maintain a minimal private footprint during the week
Use of portable Merchant Stands and opening up Warehouses to the public
Technology - embrace technology & innovation where it helps our events and our players
e.g:
- Contactless credit cards, accept payments with PayPal
- Internet for managing events
- Smartphones to help with Counters etc …
At the same time we're not about playing computer games by yourself, technology peacefully co-exists with our physical games to bring people together to socialise
Key ~ technology & physical game
Use low cost and do not maintain expensive web sites, leverage other web sites
e.g:
- oFacebook
- o Google
Sustainability - at the same time avoid unnecessary travel cost, encourage car pooling
- facilitate second hand trading so and avoids putting more rubbish in our tips, taking items on consignment, recycling bins and recycling programs in store
Dona ability- accept donations and items too good to throw out, we accept other contributions from our community
**Profitability** - must be commercially viable and make good business sense, yet still allow our partners, investor etc ... to - keeping prices and overheads low, procure efficiently and profitably, we must use effective tax minimisation strategies, encouraging barter
Use business practices that benefits our customers, partners, suppliers (Wizards) investors and ourselves, moving lots of stock rather that it sitting there gathering dust
Distribution must cut out double and triple handling
We continually expand our customer base in many ways
Analysis of RRP for Boosters
Everything reasonable should be done to cut the price of boosters - realising our game is still a hobby
From the US in a box of 36 a booster is $2.50 - RRP should be comparable to this - WoTC could give 40% margin to stores if they hit Sales Targets!
And in the future this will increase the base to 5 x number of players!
