View Full Version : What NES Games Do You Have? [DP Store]
digitalpress
06-25-2007, 05:40 PM
Phone call. You know how I love them."What NES games do you have?", he says."I'm not sure I understand the question.""Do you have Super Mario Brothers 2?""Yes.""What other games do you have?"Now as a ...
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dlopez9069
06-25-2007, 06:15 PM
It would of been funnier if the guy wouldve walked in and said i want em all!
Slate
06-25-2007, 06:55 PM
How many games did he buy? 50?
digitalpress
06-25-2007, 07:30 PM
How many games did he buy? 50?
More like 5. This is common for first-time visitors, they buy any Mario game there is, then some combination of Contra, Tyson, Metroid, Castlevania, Ninja Gaiden and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Sometimes there's a weird one in the small pile, in this case, Bases Loaded.
I can consistently script the buying pattern of a new customer interested in NES games, regardless of whether they call in advance or not.
Bratwurst
06-25-2007, 07:52 PM
More like 5. This is common for first-time visitors, they buy any Mario game there is, then some combination of Contra, Tyson, Metroid, Castlevania, Ninja Gaiden and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Sometimes there's a weird one in the small pile, in this case, Bases Loaded.
I can consistently script the buying pattern of a new customer interested in NES games, regardless of whether they call in advance or not.
Do you ever throw together bundles to sell for just this occasion?
y-bot
06-25-2007, 08:00 PM
Wow, that's quite a story. Since I work in retail as well I've had all kinds of odd customers too. I don't know New Jersey at all but I didn't know you were near Rutgers. I stopped there for lunch 2 summers ago on a road trip. See you in a few weeks at CGE!
y-bot
GizmoGC
06-25-2007, 08:01 PM
More like 5. This is common for first-time visitors, they buy any Mario game there is, then some combination of Contra, Tyson, Metroid, Castlevania, Ninja Gaiden and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Sometimes there's a weird one in the small pile, in this case, Bases Loaded.
I can consistently script the buying pattern of a new customer interested in NES games, regardless of whether they call in advance or not.
Funny, when I ran my store which carried classic games, it always followed the pattern you describe. Mario/Duck Hunt, and any others we actually had in-stock, followed my one of 10 other types of common games.
digitalpress
06-27-2007, 06:59 AM
Do you ever throw together bundles to sell for just this occasion?
I am ze king of bundles! Stop in sometime.
Celestial Avenger
06-27-2007, 08:37 AM
Man I'd kill to have a store like yours in the Memphis area. We only have one game store that isn't a Gamestopoly around here, and it's lackluster at best. Everything's way overpriced, especially since there's no competition, and their inventory hardly ever improves. I bought some Sega CD games a year ago that they said had been there for like 7 years. I was lucky enough to find the Lunar games for $29.99 (ACTUAL market value these days), so somebody must've been napping on that day.
Also tough to find a good online store. I won't ask if you'll ever make your database of games online, since it's probably already been considered and/or dismissed.
Oh well, my alternatives are non-existant here thanks to Starbuckstop. :(
bazariah
06-27-2007, 09:54 AM
haha yor story makes for an intersting read
i too had been caught in a similar situation a few years back when i had my games shop
some guy wanted me to list every ps1 game i had in stock only to ask for ones i didnt have in.. he came down actually a few days later though and he blew a months wages on games, he became my best customer after that day =]
and because of people like that im debating as to opening another store here