| OWNER : | Victor Melendy |
| WEBSITE : | HTTP://WWW.DISCOUNTHOBBYWAREHOUSE.NET |
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COMPANY INFO
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We purchased a
hobby shop in Buffalo Grove, IL in 1978. We sold models, trains,
rockets, and games. The games included D&D of which a big
part was the gaming Dice. We sold the games and the Dice as fast as we
could get them from the distributors. We couldn't get enought of
these wierd dice, so we ended up going to the source which a the time
was  . We started buying them by the 100's, and
then by the 500 per box. Opaques at first then later the
transparants came out. Eventually we got a 50/10/25 discount so
we started painting in the #s ans selling them to the distributors. in
plastic boxes and all. about this time raised the price pf the dice a dime. this had
little effect at first, then got word of our profits and cut us off, sowe put
up $35000 and had our own mold made. it had 16 cavities, 2 4
sided, 2 6 sided, 3 8 sided, 3 10 sided, 2 12 sided, and 4 20 sided
(numbered 0-9 twice) called a percentile die, Now we could make
all the dice that the would could use. Unbeknowenst to us severa
other people did the sam thing (Armory for one). The war was
onand the dice prices fell. We lost our distributors and then
just sold thru the Dragon Magazine for 6 to 8 years --- direct to the
gamers. About 1995 we stopped selling in the Dragon as the email
sales took over. We went dormant for about 5 years then started
selling on  .
Now with retirement looming we are going out of business. The
mold and the Business are for sale. |
