Watch the video you took that thumbnail from and find out. Christ. Do you come here asking for someone to wipe your shitty asshole too?

>>98412789
>don't open a store in the US
>if you must, don't sell Yugi-Oh cards
simple.

>>98412789
>niche store
How about you carry 20 niches to sell? Variety in small areas does better. Especially match pricing for online retailers(not Etsy/Ebay/Amazon).

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>>98412822
YOU DON'T HAVE YUGIOH?!

>>98412848
>How about you carry 20 niches to sell?
That's a lot of shelf space, and you're paying rent on the shop space each and every month.

>Especially match pricing for online retailers
Ah yes, let's try to match the prices of the guy who's got significantly lower running costs than you do, but who still lives on razor thin margins. That'll work out juuuust fine.

>>98412888
>price choppers
People who grate the prices are rare.
>wallspace rental by distributors
This is something that is not common outside local (within state) distributors.

>>98412789

>Pokemon card thieves breaking into stores all over the country
>Read the one-star reviews of any LGS and there will be people accusing them of resealing packs because they didn't pull the rare they wanted

I feel like a game store has always been a big adult daycare center and card players are the dalits of the gaming world. But nowadays the card players are thinking and behaving like drug addicts. And you don't want to be on the radar of people like that.

>>98412789
if you open a card store then its best to focus on high-end stuff like graded Pokemon and MtG collector boxes

>>98412789
If you don't have the space to host 50 to 60 people Magic events then you shouldn't open a job.

>>98412804
W-w-would you?!

>>98412789
Your primary customers will be scalpers who are more interested in getting money from you than giving money to you.

>>98412789
Best case scenario involves lots of contact with card game players. How could it possibly be a good idea?

>>98412988
You're not wrong.
My old LGS had a middle aged couple who played MtG. They were there from open to close, sometimes they were sleeping outside the door. One day, only the guy shows up, looking like hell, but still drops 500$ in 2007 on cards after trading in half their collection for store credit on new packs. He disappears for a week, breaks in and steals all their cards, not just MtG. Cops found him in the nearby scraggle of trees by the highway on-ramp, OD'd on heroin, surrounded in open packs. Turns out they both lost their jobs due to heroin addiction, lost their house, and spent all their money on heroin and cards. She didn't show up because she OD'd, and he took all her cards and cash.

Don't do it OP it's not worth it. Every FLGS ownerI see looks tired and burnt out as fuck.

>>98412789
Just don't make card games your main means of profit. LGS should be the hanging out place for the nerds where you live and you should make most of your money through food, drinks and renting space for bigger groups to play or a private rooms so people can play tabletop/board games without having to pick someone's house to do it.

>>98412789
Physical card stores are beaten by online store pricing and availability 999 times out of 1000. It's dumb as hell to open physical stores for tons of stuff if moving product is your main goal.

>>98412988
Who are the brahmins of the gaming world?

>>98413640
The volunteer tournament organizers, of course. They don't buy anything at the shop, but they get others to spend.

>>98413390
Damn, nothing to even sue their estate over to recoup damages.

>>98413418
>LGS should be the hanging out place for the nerds where you live and you should make most of your money through food, drinks and renting space for bigger grou
having stinking customers sitting around your shop for hours is not good

>>98413640
American Civil War wargamers.

Battletech fans who were around when it was called BattleDroids.

>>98413418
>Just don't make card games your main means of profit.
Most stores doing what you suggest make most of their money off card sales to fat retards.

>>98413705
No, it's the opposite of "not good". Dipshits hanging around buying sodas and munchies while playing demo units and buying a copy of something they liked is indeed a great way to drum up business. However, location matters. Having that place setup next to a hair salon or other chick joint so the men and boys can skate off to drop money and hang at your joint is ideal.

>>98412804
>Only the one opinion I know you have access to matters
It's a board to discuss shit, bro. Do you come to 4chan every time you're feeling inadequate? I assure you, it won't help ya with that.

>>98412804
Have you considered that it's reverse psychology? Doing well with a card store, hm... why don't we discourage potential competition by claiming we're doing poorly?

>>98412789
>bad idea to open a card shop
Given what Pokemon scalpers will do to get the pokemon cards if they want it for free like break and enters and robberies, then yeah it is a bad idea to open a card shop.

>>98412789
>>98416583
reminds me of how people started posting hoodweeb fatigue stories. Like people not wanting to go to certain cons and stores because they attract hoodweebs

>>98412850
I thought the trans were doing that gay disney card game. Yugioh was the weebs and I saw the furfags made a diaper card game........ (What's bad is the guy who review bad and cursed card games said it was better than it should be. Like it works and it made him mad.)

>>98413704
nah its fine as long as the owners are smart.
Anything gets stolen isn't sued back, you take it to insurance, assuming you're smart enough to keep good up to date inventory logs.
While theft does suck, damage is annoying to repair, the small gold nugget in the shit is you basically just sold everything that was stolen.

>>98413418
>LGS should be the hanging out place for the nerds where you live
good way to ensure people with actual money to spend never visit your store. plus fat people will just smuggle their own food in, this is a terrible idea. the type of person who spends an excessive amount of their day hanging around a store is a leech you want to discourage from entering in the first place, legally if possible

>>98417291
I wonder how badly the recent Pokemon TCG craze has affected game stores insurance premiums

>>98417291
Where do you live where insurance is cheap, quick and easy to deal with, covers the full sales price of anything stolen, and stays cheap without demanding expensive security upgrades after the thieves have proven that they have a keen interest in your merchandise?

>>98417291
>Anything gets stolen isn't sued back, you take it to insurance, assuming you're smart enough to keep good up to date inventory logs.
Spoken like someone who has never had to make a major insurance claim. At best, insurance keeps you from being financially skullfucked so hard that you immediately lose everything. It doesn't return 100% of the value, the opportunity costs lost to being closed or inability to operate, or undo the damages.

Best case scenario is that insurance pays out a fraction of what you lost and you still have enough savings to keep operating until you can slowly, gradually recover the lost profits over the next several years, if you can stay open.

if you want to hang around a bunch of filthy. smelly, childish, card-floppers then yeah go ahead.

its insane how much money they spend on cardboard.

>>98412789
Never open a *blank* store, you fucking retard. You're competing with everyone and everything. Open a general store, or fuck off.

>>98413418
Funkopops got it

>>98418511
It's like when you see some shitty tiktok star or some xitter political hot take retard and they're raking in tons of engagement and money off the most vapid, worthless content. Sure, you could join them producing endless slop to please the algorithm, but then your life becomes consumed by slop and you have to spend all your time engaging with and catering to people who guzzle slop.

Same idea with a card shop. You could potentially make big money flipping funkos and pokemon cards to degenerate scalpers, but that means your whole life has to be consumed by catering to scalpers and learning about the latest scalper-pleasing trends and new releases. Waking up at 3am to wait outside a target so you can fistfight some other pathetic subhuman for the latest set of cards in hopes of flipping it all for a chance to one day score some holy grail rare collectible that you can sell for 6 figures, which just might offset the debt you went into just to start selling plastic and cardboard to idiots.

>>98412789
I would not open up a cardshop/hobby shop unless you had a really good Ghimmic to go with it.

Thing about hobby shops is they are super Cliche and Niche, you gotta develop a really good group of players that constantly show up there and you gotta do something that sets you apart from the rest of them.

IF~ i had the capital for it, and i was set out to do it, I would actually open up a wombo combo hobby shop + A small short stop grill. It would not be like a fully on kitchen for constant operating hours but I would fire up the grill and deep frier like every 2-4 hours, taking order like the first hour before it opens, and then pump out things like nachos, fries, burgers, breakfast burritos, really easy shit to cook but things that are cheap and hobbiests would love vs having to go some where else.

In the modern era you gotta turn your hobby shop into a place people WANT to just hang out at.

>>98417265
I'm a furfag and I go to cardshops twice a week, and I've never heard anything about this.

>>98412822
What's wrong with Yu-Gi-Oh

>>98419945
Its players stink, and some people will ignore entire sets if it doesn't include cards they want for their deck, a consequence of lacking a rotating format.

>>98412988
Owning and running a hobby store would be fun. Dealing with the loser manchildren who would be your biggest customer base would not be fun.