EDIT: WHY DOES EVERY LINK PROMPT A GOOGLE LOGIN???
I'm intrigued. I just read GMT's whiney post about how they offshored, couldn't possibly reshore due to low quality of American manufacturers, and straight up begged Americans to pay increased prices on their in-country stock. These guys look like a shed operation, but they ain't getting tariffed; that's the whole point. Board game companies are effectively glorified drop shippers at this point. Fuck em.
Not to be a dick, but are you logged in to a google account? I double checked using a diff browser. Probably shit web design. Not your fault. I'm still interested in the company.
Cool beans my man, and again, not trying to be a dick: BUT STOP WALKING ABOUT WITH ACTIVE LOGINS! That's how hey get ya! Also don't trust Brave. Their product is OK, but they have strong ties to US and Israeli intelligence. Great add blocking, but being logged into google at the same time defeats the purpose.
Hell google and the like can make "shadow profiles" even if you ain't logged in, but there's no reason to make it easy for them.
We had an earlier thread where some tabletop games that cost $20 in materials are bankrupting companies because muh tariffs, despite being sold for $120 MSRP. That's a 500% margin. How does that even happen?
Salaries. Materials don't include labor costs, theres the transport costs to the port, freight costs, custom declaration costs, tariffs, inland trucking costs, warehousing costs then distribution costs from there. But it's probably salaries
It’s hilarious to me when other company heads bitch and moan about the tariffs when they were the one who should have thought about something like this will happen sooner or later. I read the Catalyst Lab’s bitchpost that was just “America doesn’t have enough systems for our demand.” It’s was and always will be a bullshit excuse to just get things made cheap.
I tried to click an image to get a bigger version and it prompted me that I was about to publicly follow the creator. Not sure if scummy or just broken.
But it looks like there's a laser cutter and some hand operated paper sheering equipment there. If your volume is so low that you're making stuff on prototyping equipment and shipping it yourself, you're not really in the "international trade" conversation at all. A hundred bits of cardboard just isn't the same as a hundred containers full of fully assembled consumer electronics.
Honestly, if it's a mail in business with a blog and stuff for the Grogs and Nards, it should be a fairly cheap thing to start and run. 3D printers and printers are the major start up, and some good art, not amazing, just good.
Problem is the chucklefucks running these businesses don't know how to business. They let the freight company put down "misc. toys" on the manifest, then bitch about the 243% tariff or whatever the number was.
Almost like trusting a country of known cheaters in which you don't speak their language, or even go to the warehouse/port to check, is a very retarded way to do business.
This is the company that is publishing the rest of Gygax's stuff. They're good dudes, probably conservative, but none of it seeps into their products and they're not political at all publicly.
Good dudes that deserve your money if tabletop is a thing you're into.
EDIT: WHY DOES EVERY LINK PROMPT A GOOGLE LOGIN???
I'm intrigued. I just read GMT's whiney post about how they offshored, couldn't possibly reshore due to low quality of American manufacturers, and straight up begged Americans to pay increased prices on their in-country stock. These guys look like a shed operation, but they ain't getting tariffed; that's the whole point. Board game companies are effectively glorified drop shippers at this point. Fuck em.
Not even links, just clicking on the page.
Horrendous.
More than a few board games add dumb figurines and charge $50 extra (or much more) for the "premium" edition and consoomers lap it up.
I didn't get a google prompt when i opened it?
Not to be a dick, but are you logged in to a google account? I double checked using a diff browser. Probably shit web design. Not your fault. I'm still interested in the company.
i was using brave on mobile. the phone is technically logged into a gmail account on the gmail app
Cool beans my man, and again, not trying to be a dick: BUT STOP WALKING ABOUT WITH ACTIVE LOGINS! That's how hey get ya! Also don't trust Brave. Their product is OK, but they have strong ties to US and Israeli intelligence. Great add blocking, but being logged into google at the same time defeats the purpose.
Hell google and the like can make "shadow profiles" even if you ain't logged in, but there's no reason to make it easy for them.
We had an earlier thread where some tabletop games that cost $20 in materials are bankrupting companies because muh tariffs, despite being sold for $120 MSRP. That's a 500% margin. How does that even happen?
Salaries. Materials don't include labor costs, theres the transport costs to the port, freight costs, custom declaration costs, tariffs, inland trucking costs, warehousing costs then distribution costs from there. But it's probably salaries
It’s hilarious to me when other company heads bitch and moan about the tariffs when they were the one who should have thought about something like this will happen sooner or later. I read the Catalyst Lab’s bitchpost that was just “America doesn’t have enough systems for our demand.” It’s was and always will be a bullshit excuse to just get things made cheap.
I tried to click an image to get a bigger version and it prompted me that I was about to publicly follow the creator. Not sure if scummy or just broken.
But it looks like there's a laser cutter and some hand operated paper sheering equipment there. If your volume is so low that you're making stuff on prototyping equipment and shipping it yourself, you're not really in the "international trade" conversation at all. A hundred bits of cardboard just isn't the same as a hundred containers full of fully assembled consumer electronics.
Considering he's talking about tabletop, consumer electronics wouldn't really enter into the conversation for most of them
Those are for their adventure modules, their HC books all get printed by American commercial printers (usually in Missouri, close to them, iirc.)
Their last five Kickstarters have done just about $1m, the Gygax one alone did $600k
https://archive.ph/uou3j Archive
Honestly, if it's a mail in business with a blog and stuff for the Grogs and Nards, it should be a fairly cheap thing to start and run. 3D printers and printers are the major start up, and some good art, not amazing, just good.
In general printed materials qualify for very low tariff. Rule books, comics, they all wont be too affected.
Problem is the chucklefucks running these businesses don't know how to business. They let the freight company put down "misc. toys" on the manifest, then bitch about the 243% tariff or whatever the number was.
Almost like trusting a country of known cheaters in which you don't speak their language, or even go to the warehouse/port to check, is a very retarded way to do business.
This is the company that is publishing the rest of Gygax's stuff. They're good dudes, probably conservative, but none of it seeps into their products and they're not political at all publicly.
Good dudes that deserve your money if tabletop is a thing you're into.