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Ahem. We've decided to extend this competition until the end of December to give more people a chance to join up and become popular. Also, if this wasn't made clear in the original post, the winner will only get his/her prize when they become a regular.
Cheers
Ali
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The winner will be chosen by the great Snuggly himself, no less.
To compete you have to be a Newbie. The competition can only be won by a genuine newbie joining the forums AFTER today 4 pm on November 21st.
Newbies can enter by proposing themselves on this thread.
They MUST be seconded (on this thread) by at least TWO regulars, staff or notables. Just say "I second [name] for this GAD" or similar.
The more support shown on this thread, the more likely they are to win.
Their overall performance on the forums also counts.
The WINNER will be the BEST NEWBIE as judged by Mr Snuggly on December 13th.
OKAY, go for it (Oh, you're not here yet are you).
Tell yer mates.
Ahem. We've decided to extend this competition until the end of December to give more people a chance to join up and become popular. Also, if this wasn't made clear in the original post, the winner will only get his/her prize when they become a regular.
Cheers
Ali
UPDATE---UPDATE---UPDATE---UPDATE
The winner will be chosen by the great Snuggly himself, no less.
To compete you have to be a Newbie. The competition can only be won by a genuine newbie joining the forums AFTER today 4 pm on November 21st.
Newbies can enter by proposing themselves on this thread.
They MUST be seconded (on this thread) by at least TWO regulars, staff or notables. Just say "I second [name] for this GAD" or similar.
The more support shown on this thread, the more likely they are to win.
Their overall performance on the forums also counts.
The WINNER will be the BEST NEWBIE as judged by Mr Snuggly on December 13th.
OKAY, go for it (Oh, you're not here yet are you).
Tell yer mates.
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Here's a question for you, especially for those who have joined the forums in, say, the last year or so.
The Special Reserve web site (which is now called SpecialReserve.com) gets a lot of visitors. In fact about 40,000 people come here each day. Our shops are also quite busy, but with much smaller numbers of course.
Q. Do you think as many people would go to our shops if our internet site did not exist.
(Please read the question very carefully so that you don't misunderstand it, before answering)
Your answers, opinions and experiences are important to us.
The Special Reserve web site (which is now called SpecialReserve.com) gets a lot of visitors. In fact about 40,000 people come here each day. Our shops are also quite busy, but with much smaller numbers of course.
Q. Do you think as many people would go to our shops if our internet site did not exist.
(Please read the question very carefully so that you don't misunderstand it, before answering)
Your answers, opinions and experiences are important to us.
Tony wrote:
> Q. Do you think as many people would go to our shops if our internet
> site did not exist.
I was going to say "ofc not, as your internet site promote the existence of the shops, meaning more people would go there". But then of course there's the arguement that if people know about the internet site, then they probably won't go to the shop.
Overall, I still think the former is correct. Without the website, the shops wouldn't attract so much attention from their immediate neighbourhood (to say, 3 miles out). Due to the popularity of sr.net, more people in Sawbridgeworth et al know about the existence of the shops. If I were to live within 3 miles of a SR shop, and wanted to get a game from SR, then I'd probably go to the shop to get my grubby mitts on it a day or two earlier. If I lived outside of 3 miles from an SR branch, I would probably get it from the website. Chances are, if the website wasn't there, those that lived 3 miles away or more wouldn't go to your shops anyway, and without the website the SR brand would not penetrate consumers inside that 3 mile radius, meaning less sales from there too.
As it stands, I live about 100 miles from the nearest SR shop :O[[
> Q. Do you think as many people would go to our shops if our internet
> site did not exist.
I was going to say "ofc not, as your internet site promote the existence of the shops, meaning more people would go there". But then of course there's the arguement that if people know about the internet site, then they probably won't go to the shop.
Overall, I still think the former is correct. Without the website, the shops wouldn't attract so much attention from their immediate neighbourhood (to say, 3 miles out). Due to the popularity of sr.net, more people in Sawbridgeworth et al know about the existence of the shops. If I were to live within 3 miles of a SR shop, and wanted to get a game from SR, then I'd probably go to the shop to get my grubby mitts on it a day or two earlier. If I lived outside of 3 miles from an SR branch, I would probably get it from the website. Chances are, if the website wasn't there, those that lived 3 miles away or more wouldn't go to your shops anyway, and without the website the SR brand would not penetrate consumers inside that 3 mile radius, meaning less sales from there too.
As it stands, I live about 100 miles from the nearest SR shop :O[[
FantasyMeister wrote:
> Shut the shops, go 100% e-commerce, and with the profits gained from
> rental overhead savings make sure that 'Special-Reserve.net' is the
> most highlighted link on every AOL CD that they mass-mail out in
> future.
Sorry FM, there's only so far to go with expanding a web site, and the shops are more profitable than the site. So far from closing shops we are more likely to open more.
AOL? - blah spluth phh.
> Shut the shops, go 100% e-commerce, and with the profits gained from
> rental overhead savings make sure that 'Special-Reserve.net' is the
> most highlighted link on every AOL CD that they mass-mail out in
> future.
Sorry FM, there's only so far to go with expanding a web site, and the shops are more profitable than the site. So far from closing shops we are more likely to open more.
AOL? - blah spluth phh.
Oh, the answer to your question is:
I think the number of people going to your shops would be about the same whether or not the website existed.
I think the number of people going to your shops would be about the same whether or not the website existed.
Tony wrote:
> Q. Do you think as many people would go to our shops if our internet
> site did not exist.
You've got SHOPS as well?
From my point of view I do most of my shopping online, and rarely physically visit a games shop anyhow. I suspect magazine adverts would be your biggest factor when drawing customers to your shops.
If you had NO website then I'd be using my local games shop anyway (which isn't yours in Gloucester Road as that's not local to me).
The biggest advantage of offering people the opportunity to buy over a website is the 'real money' factor, I suspect because e-buyers aren't physically handing over hard earned cash as they would in a shop that website purchases would be slightly higher per purchase in monetary value than per purchase in a shop.
Therefore:
Shut the shops, go 100% e-commerce, and with the profits gained from rental overhead savings make sure that 'Special-Reserve.net' is the most highlighted link on every AOL CD that they mass-mail out in future.
> Q. Do you think as many people would go to our shops if our internet
> site did not exist.
You've got SHOPS as well?
From my point of view I do most of my shopping online, and rarely physically visit a games shop anyhow. I suspect magazine adverts would be your biggest factor when drawing customers to your shops.
If you had NO website then I'd be using my local games shop anyway (which isn't yours in Gloucester Road as that's not local to me).
The biggest advantage of offering people the opportunity to buy over a website is the 'real money' factor, I suspect because e-buyers aren't physically handing over hard earned cash as they would in a shop that website purchases would be slightly higher per purchase in monetary value than per purchase in a shop.
Therefore:
Shut the shops, go 100% e-commerce, and with the profits gained from rental overhead savings make sure that 'Special-Reserve.net' is the most highlighted link on every AOL CD that they mass-mail out in future.
Here's a question for you, especially for those who have joined the forums in, say, the last year or so.
The Special Reserve web site gets a lot of visitors. In fact about 40,000 people come here each day. Our shops are also quite busy, but with much smaller numbers of course.
Q. Do you think as many people would go to our shops if our internet site did not exist.
(Please read the question very carefully so that you don't misunderstand it, before answering)
Your answers, opinions and experiences are important to us.
The Special Reserve web site gets a lot of visitors. In fact about 40,000 people come here each day. Our shops are also quite busy, but with much smaller numbers of course.
Q. Do you think as many people would go to our shops if our internet site did not exist.
(Please read the question very carefully so that you don't misunderstand it, before answering)
Your answers, opinions and experiences are important to us.
Flux wrote:
> Asher D wrote:
> I second SleepingLionheart
>
> Too bad Simon registered before 21st November :(
He has already seconded me
Cool out
> Asher D wrote:
> I second SleepingLionheart
>
> Too bad Simon registered before 21st November :(
He has already seconded me
Cool out
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