Online stores and bricks and mortars

We recently received an anonymous e-mail from a coward stating how horrible we online stores are for discounting board games. How we are destroying the industry because the local stores are the 'face' of the industry and without them, we lose new gamers, etc.

Blah blah, blah blah, blah blah.

Firstly, I don't know how many of you actually ever ended up becoming a real gamer by just wandering into a local gaming store. I doubt the numbers are high.

Secondly, it's not my business to keep your local store alive. It's my business to get my own online board games store up and running and the best in Canada. And eventually, North America.

Do we want a retail location? Possibly. But once we go retail - we are so going to do it in a fashion to discount the games still. So exactly how is that going to help your case?

The thing that really gets me is the fact that he was so brave, he sent it via a non-working e-mail account. What bravery.