Michael Boze of HawgHead Comics in Fort Smith, Arkansas has been following the discussion on WotC Premier Stores and shares his thoughts.

I am/was a Premier Store since the program began simply because I ran tournaments.  I ran tournaments every Saturday without fail for years until the market changed and the player's desires changed.  I went from weekly tournaments, to every other week tournaments and finally to once a month tournaments.  All of this was due to an average turnout of 1 or 2 players.

I was cut from the WPN program on April 1st as was many others.  I accept this because it was my own fault for not paying more attention to the emails and letters.  I will also do what is necessary to regain my WPN Premier Store status.

My biggest complaint is that the new rules do not apply evenly, and no I am not even going to go to the subject of Wal-Mart or Target and WOC product, but I want something done to the ebay stores and Internet stores.  If my failure to run tournaments hurts the game and the WOC/Hasbro company, then how much worse is the retailers who sell the product at 60% of retail.

Just my two cents worth.

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