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Been following the game piece discussion...and as a potential consumer,
here's my take.

I'm the father in a family of four.  Kids are in ten and eleven.  We all
enjoy playing chess, chess variants and a variety of other board games. 
We have maybe 20 fairly standard board games.

We enjoy chess variants quite a bit, and in fact enjoy inventing variants
of any board games when we feel the playing field may not be fair under
traditional rules.

If/when we need new pieces, we usually just find something around the
house, maybe from another game board, maybe from a pencil case or even the
fridge, to represent a new piece.  

Recently played Wuss II with my daughter and we used erasers as the Wuss.

Played a variation of falcon chess (8x8 board) and used lego firemen as
the falcons.

Played 8 stone chess using the Korean version of jacks (Gong - gi) as the
stones.

Much as I like the variants and the variety of pieces, think that I'd
likely just improvise instead of buying pieces.

One thing I might buy, if available, is a 10 x 8 board.  Have been able to
make do with checker + chess board, but it's a bit inconvenient.

Anyway, as a casual yet enthusiastic chess variant player, and one who
truly enjoys the alternative and obscure pieces...I'm afraid I wouldn't
be a consumer.  Hope I'm in the minority, as I'd really like to see
chess variants spread and even become a profitable venture for those
involved.