Anthony1
04-27-2004, 12:27 AM
I don't have enough games, in enough categories to do it, but I was curious if anybody has created their own video game retail store, by basically using their entire collection of games as the starting inventory!
It would take somebody willing to sacrifice a bunch of their own games, just to get the operation up and running. Also, considering it is your own collection of games, you could have a problem with overpricing the games, because it would be a subliminal way of not selling your collection.
But if you could come to the conclusion that you might have to sacrifice all your current systems, and all of your games, so that your new store has a respectable inventory, it might not be a bad idea. Obviously you are going to sell your games for more than you paid for them, so the worst case senario is that you sell your entire collection and have a ton of cash left over. You can always rebuy stuff.
I actually thought about trying to rent out a corner of a Comic Book store to try having a little mini retro gamers store inside of a freaking Comic Book store. I figure there is built in traffic of geeks that might be also interested in games, and that also might likely have more interested in "classic" games.
But in my normal job, I work too many hours to try to do this, and my collection of games isn't big enough to really do it proper. Obviously you build up your inventory by having people sell you their old SNES and Genny games for pennies on the dollar, but that takes time.
It would take somebody willing to sacrifice a bunch of their own games, just to get the operation up and running. Also, considering it is your own collection of games, you could have a problem with overpricing the games, because it would be a subliminal way of not selling your collection.
But if you could come to the conclusion that you might have to sacrifice all your current systems, and all of your games, so that your new store has a respectable inventory, it might not be a bad idea. Obviously you are going to sell your games for more than you paid for them, so the worst case senario is that you sell your entire collection and have a ton of cash left over. You can always rebuy stuff.
I actually thought about trying to rent out a corner of a Comic Book store to try having a little mini retro gamers store inside of a freaking Comic Book store. I figure there is built in traffic of geeks that might be also interested in games, and that also might likely have more interested in "classic" games.
But in my normal job, I work too many hours to try to do this, and my collection of games isn't big enough to really do it proper. Obviously you build up your inventory by having people sell you their old SNES and Genny games for pennies on the dollar, but that takes time.