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There are some huge generalizations.
1. People have had a problem with you selling them as the people on this forum are clearly the kind of folk who would be interested in your business.
2. I am sure if someone inadvertently buys a pirate down the road which wasn't marked as such and they find out, they'll be pissed.
3. This has effected many businesses. I'd suggest you look into it further.
And not selling pirate carts would fit into the 'reputation' category.
An ideal business is one which is fun for the owner. Businesses can be fun. However, if you want that fun to last, you have to make your business work. If it doesn't work, the business doesn't work and the fun is gone.
Yep, it's a major part, but not everything.
Fair enough, it happened one time. I'm suggesting you don't make a regular occurrence of it as it will bite you in the ass at some point. You can be sure of that.
I do wish you the best of luck. The above is all simply advice - I WANT your shop to succeed as I am your exact target audience, someone who spends loads of their hard earned cash on videogames
Thanks for you advice man it's highly appreciated.
I do have a business plan as well as being affordable as being friendly and having fun.
I started off with 200 euro and could fill one table.Then I made 400 from that and so on.
Any cost of tables and other expensives I did not use profit and then when I had 1000 set aside I invested all of that back in to stock.
I go to every con/event I can get in to.
I do this to build awareness we exist.
I usually have business cards.
I'm sponsoring my consoles out to two gaming events.One is for charity.
We are partnered with someone to run a gaming con in October.Which I intend to get a well known youtuber.(can't give out any details)
We have a basic website up but we have an ecommerce one being built.
We are in talks about a physical shop or rather a market as well as online.
I remember listening to a owner of a comic store in the US who talked how just selling comics wasn't enough to keep him in business so he got in figures,video games and ran video game/card game tournaments and he was able to turn things around for himself.So we have used that as an example and deal in 3 niche markets.
We are trying our best business wise
Also if anybody messages us on adverts/Facebook and says they are from the arcade and retro forum I'll give them a discount .
We don't put everything on adverts due to a build up of 25 cent insertion fees.
But we almost have a google docs stock list to check what we have in and we get in new stuff weekly.0 -
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It definitely seems to be the way to go alright! You can see it in all lines of business now, sure just walk into an Xtra vision and look at the amount of different things they're selling :eek:
Any chance you'll be at the MCM comic con this weekend in the RDS? Wouldn't mind having a browse through your stuff.
Xtravision the shining beacon of hope for retail entertainment stores in this troubled times
In fairness to them they did try to pull out all the stops with cards, tickets, popcorn etc. they were poor on games for a long time and were heavily reliant on traded games and even more so on pvd DVDs.0 -
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Right I can totally see where the seller is coming from with someone willing to collect it from him but I still cant feel like a little bit disapointed
Hopefully this might still work out in my favour though
Anyone else got a pinball for sale? :P0 -
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Just got a mail about these...[Deleted User] wrote: »Couple of decent qanba sticks here for dirt cheap with free postage:
http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Qanba-pc-arcade-fighting-stick-97-rocker-arcade/1766197670.html
http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Qanba-street-fighter-usb-computer-melders-handle-rocker-arcade-rod/1766181894.html
May be of interest to someone with mame in mind, someone suggested putting a pi with mame inside and away ya go.
Could always change stick/buttons.
"We have suspended this seller’s account because we detected unsafe trading activities. All of your pending orders with this seller have been frozen for your security."
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These were mine for today. I did also spot someone with 5/6 copies of Metroid prime trilogy in their hand so missed out on those but they may be in other stores. A staff member was also saying she got a Wii console for €50, Id say it's the original Wii and not a Wii U, so check the console prices too.
I'll also be honest and say I was very bold and did pick up a couple of copies of Ocarina and traded them in to CEX to cover the cost of Luigis mansion as that was full price.
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The Last Story is also in this for a fiver, so said my brother. He got me a copy but won't say if its the limited edition or not and he got Metroid Trilogy as well the little blither.
Also Pokemon Park 2 for Wii is in it, I know there's at least one Pokemon lover in here.
Yeah I spotted poképark wii for a fiver too but the last copy was also in the hands of that guy that had all the copies of metroid prime.
Decided to pop back to Nutgrove just now to see if anything else was put out for the morning before the store closes. They have black wii mario kart console bundles for €99, kinects for €99, wii fit board only for €30, wii fit with game for €50, loads of mario karts for a tenner and the wii sports resort with the motion plus for a tenner. They had 2 of these left so I bought one for €50, and also picked up another tekken for Ciderman. No sign of metroid or xboxes. I've waaay overspent this month!
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Atavan-Halen wrote: »Yeah I spotted poképark wii for a fiver too but the last copy was also in the hands of that guy that had all the copies of metroid prime.
Decided to pop back to Nutgrove just now to see if anything else was put out for the morning before the store closes. They have black wii mario kart console bundles for €99, kinects for €99, wii fit board only for €30, wii fit with game for €50, loads of mario karts for a tenner and the wii sports resort with the motion plus for a tenner. They had 2 of these left so I bought one for €50, and also picked up another tekken for Ciderman. No sign of metroid or xboxes. I've waaay overspent this month!
Hey Atavan, my local Tesco hasn't got any of those Mario Kart but has the Pokemon yoke, if I can get one would you do a swap for the Mario Kart and I'd cover the difference. They also have Pokemon Rumble, that any use to you?0 -
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