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Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last 2 + years you’re probably aware that McCain / Palin didn’t in fact win the 2008 Presidential election. Turns out Barack Obama won the Election. Good for him. Although we doubt it, lets hope he can make all of our wildest dreams come true.

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Looks like quite a few of you have ordered from us, and a lot plan on it soon. Thanks again for your support guys!

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UPDATE: As of 11/14/2008 we received Conflict of Heroes and all original affected customers have been notified. Most back-orders have already been shipped.

We just wanted to update you and let you know that we still don’t have a definite answer from our suppliers for when Conflict of Heroes will be available.

Again, we apologize to all affected customers and will honor the original purchase price.

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Empire is now on Facebook! Search for Empire Board Games today and add us to your friends!

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Congrats Pozy! You win the Empire Poll with 57 votes. Boards n’ Bits came in a very close second place with 55 votes. Thoughthammer came in third with 46 votes. Congrats everyone!

Customers use coupon code: pozy at checkout for $2.00 off your next order. 

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The proper way to purchase a board game (or an expansion to a board game, for that matter):

1. Find the board game you want on the website you want.
2. Copy the title of that board game.
3. Go to http://www.EmpireBoardGames.com
4. Paste board game title into the Empire search bar.
5. Click “Add to Cart” because you just scored a better deal shopping with Empire than you would have otherwise.
6. Bake yourself a cake and play some Settlers of Catan.

I have created a short little screencast (worth watching) if you need the steps above in video format. It may only be a 30 second video, but bust out some popcorn to eat with that cake.

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Hey Guys,

We’ve made it easier for you to be able to see our newly listed board games. Check out this link if you’re not sure what RSS feeds are, much less, how to access our RSS feeds.

The shortcut though, would be to click here for our latest board games. The newest games are listed at the top and second newest after that etc…

It’s definitely worth checking out. Especially with our new pricing schedule. 43% Off all games, baby!

Thanks for your continued support. We look forward to a great future with you!
- Jeremy

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Feel free to request any board game for 43% off retail! We will reply within 3 business days as to whether we will be able to fulfill your request. It may take up to 5 business days for the game to show up in our catalog after approval.

Send requests to request@empireboardgames.com

Thanks!
EMPIRE

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Hey, everybody! Race For The Galaxy: The Gathering Storm did win, but we’re still waiting on that. We’ll let you know as soon as we get it. However, the runner up was Citadels and we do have that in stock! You can purchase Citadels here for our newly updated price of $11.40. Get Citadels while it’s hot!

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After being in the game business for only a little while we have seen the lay of the land. We have been playing the other retailers game. What game? Put up a loss leader game (at below our cost) to drag people to our site, then give them a “free shipping” carrot to trick them into buying more games than they want. Drive traffic through low prices and free shipping. Change the game of the day all the time to make you check our site and waste your time looking at our page every day and obsessing over $1 here or there. Basic marketing tricks.

Rinse and repeat. Daily.

Forget that… we are going Walmart on these guys. What does that mean? LOW PRICES FOR YOU. We believe most customers are smart enough to compare shipped prices and not just a single game of the day. We will still occasionally have game specials for those who want to join our very infrequent newsletter, but starting today we are going to a flat 43% off all games, all the time (except for Mayfair’s Games which prohibit this). Figure 2.2% to our credit card processor, figure our “costs” of each game somewhere around 47% off retail, and you can figure our profit if you are so inclined. Don’t forget rent, shipping materials, or labor. We are talking slim margins.

Shipping will now be based on ACTUAL UPS shipping rates for the weight of your items and not marked up or down as others do. Why is this? With free shipping those people on the west coast were getting say $10 in free shipping while those on the east coast were getting $20+ in free shipping for the same package. We are in Utah so shipping nearer to us is much cheaper. Also realize UPS shipping starts at about $6 for the 1st pound and about $0.30 per pound thereafter. Add some stuff to your cart, check our prices, then add the same items to your cart somewhere else and compare. Come and get it!

Do you know of a game we don’t carry that you want at 43% off retail? Email us at support@empireboardgames.com and tell us. We will check availability and get it for you and email you back with a link to the game, or a reply that it is unavailable within 3 business days. Yes we are serious. Try it.

Thanks for your business and understanding.

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