Having a bad week? Because if you've been going to the store for 6 years and these couple of nights were all it took to deter you from returning, then it feels like there's more to the story than is being told.
It gives me a bad feeling about them since nearly every store I've ever known allows Store Credit for tournament fees.
All the stores I've ever been in never allow tournament fees to be paid in store credit. I've asked some owners about it and the fear is that if they didn't have such a policy in place, people who wind up doing consistently well in tournaments would never have to spend a single dollar in the store. I don't doubt there are plenty of people who would just buy cards online and play for free off their tournament winnings if they had the chance.
If a store really cared that much where it gets its profits from, they would give the same prize to the 6-0 player as the 0-6 player. Who cares if Billy doesn't have to spend a single dollar, taking into consideration that he has never bought a single thing at that store? Money is money and most businesses that stay in business over a year learn not to discriminate where they get it from.
*When my LGS FNMs weren't free, there was a time when I spent hardly nothing there and just used store credit for staples and fees. I considered myself one of the best customers because I made the attendance 1 greater every single FNM. My point of view hasn't changed.
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It gives me a bad feeling about them since nearly every store I've ever known allows Store Credit for tournament fees.
All the stores I've ever been in never allow tournament fees to be paid in store credit. I've asked some owners about it and the fear is that if they didn't have such a policy in place, people who wind up doing consistently well in tournaments would never have to spend a single dollar in the store. I don't doubt there are plenty of people who would just buy cards online and play for free off their tournament winnings if they had the chance.
That logic is flawed. If you collect 50$ in entry fees for a constructed event, and give out 50$ of credit total as prizes, it doesn't matter what the credit is actually spent on or who spends it. The point was that you effectively sold 50$ of stuff, be it singles, boosters, or event entries. That one guy may not have to spend 5$ on entry next time, but it doesn't matter because you already got the money for his event entry from everyone else from the event he won.
That's not how business works. Imagine that $50 if from a group of 10 regular players. Assuming that they each win an even amount of the time, then no money will be coming into the store after they all have credit saved up. With 10 people paying $5 of real money into the store each week, you generate $50 in sales, which are then redistributed as credit (i.e. inventory you owe to your buyer) to whoever wins that week. Sometimes a store will put 125% of entry into the prize pool or something like that to entice more people, but that is similar to a 20% off sale for the $X you make in the tournament.
To the OP, I'm not sure how your drafting scene is where you play, but in my are we're lucky to get 8-10 people at any of the stores for a draft. With that in mind, most drafts fire a bit late to pick up stragglers and run pods of variable size. Was the person running the tournament new? maybe he was unfamiliar with the way you guys run things.
I had a similar experience where I showed up early to a draft and the organizer still wouldn't let me enter because I was the 9th person and it "would make it a weird number." I talked to the owner after that and he basically told me "too bad," so I told him he's not getting anymore business from me. It really depends on the circumstances. In this case the organizer was being a jerk since "weird numbers" has never been an issue before; your case may be different if this is the first time in 6 years it came up.
Not sure what the OP wanted the store to do in this situation?
16 people showed up to fill the drafts, they showed up before you in advance, did you want someone else to get kicked out to replace you?
Unfortunately this is how drafts work, with 8 people exactly, you're either in our out of luck.
That being said as a customer you can take your business to wherever you see fit.
I feel like a lot of folks aren't reading the OP. He plainly states that SIGN UP time started at 6pm, He shows up at 6:01 and they already fired both pods. I'd be annoyed too.
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If a store really cared that much where it gets its profits from, they would give the same prize to the 6-0 player as the 0-6 player. Who cares if Billy doesn't have to spend a single dollar, taking into consideration that he has never bought a single thing at that store? Money is money and most businesses that stay in business over a year learn not to discriminate where they get it from.
*When my LGS FNMs weren't free, there was a time when I spent hardly nothing there and just used store credit for staples and fees. I considered myself one of the best customers because I made the attendance 1 greater every single FNM. My point of view hasn't changed.
Premodern - Trix, RecSur, Enchantress, Reanimator, Elves https://www.facebook.com/groups/PremodernUSA/
Modern - Neobrand, Hogaak Vine, Elves
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Draft - (I wish I had more time for limited...)
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Norin the Wary, Grimgrin, Adun Oakenshield (taking forever to build)(dead format for me)That's not how business works. Imagine that $50 if from a group of 10 regular players. Assuming that they each win an even amount of the time, then no money will be coming into the store after they all have credit saved up. With 10 people paying $5 of real money into the store each week, you generate $50 in sales, which are then redistributed as credit (i.e. inventory you owe to your buyer) to whoever wins that week. Sometimes a store will put 125% of entry into the prize pool or something like that to entice more people, but that is similar to a 20% off sale for the $X you make in the tournament.
To the OP, I'm not sure how your drafting scene is where you play, but in my are we're lucky to get 8-10 people at any of the stores for a draft. With that in mind, most drafts fire a bit late to pick up stragglers and run pods of variable size. Was the person running the tournament new? maybe he was unfamiliar with the way you guys run things.
I had a similar experience where I showed up early to a draft and the organizer still wouldn't let me enter because I was the 9th person and it "would make it a weird number." I talked to the owner after that and he basically told me "too bad," so I told him he's not getting anymore business from me. It really depends on the circumstances. In this case the organizer was being a jerk since "weird numbers" has never been an issue before; your case may be different if this is the first time in 6 years it came up.
16 people showed up to fill the drafts, they showed up before you in advance, did you want someone else to get kicked out to replace you?
Unfortunately this is how drafts work, with 8 people exactly, you're either in our out of luck.
That being said as a customer you can take your business to wherever you see fit.
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