Status Update – The Beta Board Game Project

Dear Customers and Board Gaming Community,

We would first like to thank all of you for your great support of us while starting this website. Believe it or not, we couldn’t have done this without your kind words, participation in the forums, and of course, your purchases.

While we love offering all of you great games at great prices, we have yet to find a method to make it worth our time and effort. At first, we thought that we could eventually make it through the rough times and become profitable. But after months of hard work and devotion, things weren’t looking up, and up to this point we haven’t been very profitable. We tried raising prices, having a very low priced game of the day, free shipping, and a few other tactics. While some were definitely better than others, none of them were worth our time.

Don’t get us wrong, we made some money, and again, we appreciate your support. The problem was for ever hour we put in, we got less than $5 back. This just wasn’t working. Not to mention the extra costs of gasoline, and supplies (boxes, packaging, ect.).

At this time we would like to officially announce that we will be letting the Beta Board Game Project chill for the summer – as it is. You can still buy games at the prices that are listed right now, and we’ll ship your orders, we’re just going to take a break as far as aggressive experimentation goes. In the meantime we will be reviewing other possibilities so that we can continue offering you guys great prices and great customer service.

Speaking of customer service: We feel that we have resolved nearly all customer service inquiries. If you feel that you have yet to be responded to or have any further questions, please send an email to support@empireboardgames.com and we’ll get you taken care of.

Thanks again for all of your support! It’s been fun. We’re open to any suggestions you may have. Feel free to post your thoughts in the comments!

Sincerely,

Nathan Smith and Jeremy Blake

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