I’m trying to convince my girlfriend to take over her dad’s used video game stores. He has been quite successful with them and bought a new beach house, Porsche, and a boat She says she has no interest in that kind of business and her dad is annoying and she doesn’t want to deal with him but I told her I could help her if we split the profits. Her dad is tired of running the businesses and wants to retire, also they keep getting robbed is a problem and one store got shot up last year.
>>61470973go for it if you have a knack for business management, sales, and nerd shit. you'll probably want to invest in a gun or two and upgraded security cameras/security cage
>>61470973>one store got shot up last year./vr/'s getting desperate, huh?
>>61474483This financial emergency has put me in a real Sonic Jam.I can't withdraw from my Sonic CD,And my checking is near-zero so there's nothing to Sonic Shuffle.It's sent me on an existential Sonic Adventure 2 Hell and backWe can't all be Sonic Heroes,We can't all be spared from the Sonic Chaos,And I'm in Sonic Triple Trouble.Give me all your Sonic Gems,Or I'll Sonic Blast your personnel in the face,And make this whole place go Sonic Boom.
>>61470973>my girlfriendif you marry her you become his son and it makes perfect sense for his son to take over his business. don't try to get his daughter to run the family business, that's not a womans job
>>61470973There's one of these stores in a plaza near me that looks exactly like that and I always wonder how they stay in business. Like they have at least 3 employees and probably pay $3-4k+/month in rent. Just to break even I imagine they need to be bringing in 10k/month in revenue.Margins can't be that good, each time I've went it felt like they had the same old retro/refurbished consoles sitting there, rarely anything new on the shelves that they bought used.They sell new games as well but it's just the same price at any other store, sometimes more, so why bother?
>>61470973Op, I love video games.Do you have the latest issue of Jumpu?
>>61470973grow up manchild
>>61470973I would ditch the storefront and go completely online, save a few shekels. But I don't think the market is there for it anymore, it peaked during Covid and then everyone realized they can just emulate everything
>>61470973tell him to liquidate and retire. this business wont survive.
>>61477955This, going online with a super slick website would probably be best. You don't want to be paying rent on a storefront these days. Instead find a much cheaper option to store your goods like a cheap warehouse or even a storage shed that you can set up warehouse racks in. For your website you may want to consider setting yourself apart by having really detailed photos of each game to show the condition. Maybe even have a description of the game and some screenshots, try to sell the titles. A big problem I think a lot of game stores have is that 99% of their inventory is games that people know fuck all about. Most people walk in expecting to see all the hit titles from their childhood. They see the prices on those and are a little put off, or they buy it because they know the price already and have played the game before. They don't really need to be sold on it. But then 99% of the store is just games they have no idea about, if you can sell them on picking up a new retro title they've never played before then you can clear that inventory. I go to a lot of retro stores and I haven't seen any do this.It would take a LOT of work, but having a page listing for each title or a batch of titles would be cool
>>61477877He is talking about a business, not a hobby. So your sentence does not make any sence stacy
>>61470973Does he have battletoads?
Is it 2003 again?
