Owning a business is no joke, wishing your store success man. People should try to support their local game stores if possible

Man that was a nice chat - no need to apologize for this- it definitely opens up the eyes to how things are in a game store. And I appreciated you saying to not lowball customers and for a $1000 you need to give them like at least 600 or 700. That's doing the right thing.

Nice video bro, pretty chill listen as I cleaned some games myself 🤝

I will say some of the hardest things about owning a store like this, 1. All those gems you want to buy for your collection but need to resell! 2. Trade ins while great can't be your only transactions. ( I dealt with that owning a MTG store). Even with that said it's worth it to have something you love! Keep up the good work!

Thanks for sharing! I totally understand the stress and the struggles! It’s absolutely not easy, but you’re doing what you love owning your own business. You are your own boss and call the shots. Keep it up, brother!

Everyone thinks its sooooooo easy but nobody signs up for the struggle. Thank you for this RAW and unfiltered look at what it is really like. I've never seen your business before this video, but I will happily stop in and buy some stuff if I'm ever back in Houston.

Not boring! Thanks for the genuine info!!

Thanks for these videos, really cool to see the real side of things!

Thanks for being honest with us. I wish you nothing but success

Love your video and how genuine you are, keep making videos man you'll get a lot more views if you talk about games and the positive sides of owning a store. Some video ideas / questions... How often do you get large or highly collectible trades? If the customer clearly doesn't know what they have, do you low ball them to make a large profit? Do you sell online or all in your store? Have you thought about diversifying into other collectibles like trading cards? Could you give us a breakdown of how much you typically earn a month? How much more business do you get near Christmas compared to other times of the year? What's the best trade-in you've had, or can remember? How often do you deal with theft or break ins (any stories?), How can you possibly afford to pay employees? Is it really possible to pay rent, utilities, taxes, yourself, and employees? Do you still find time to play and enjoy video games personally or has your fire died out a bit since opening a store? How often do you have to adjust prices? Is it hard to compete with online prices? Do you ever offer deals? (Example, someone asks for a discount on a group of games, or someone wants a bit more trade-in credit), Are you afraid of the future, considering everything is moving to digital only / subscriptions? Let me know if you ever open a store near Dallas 😀

Love to see the trade ins bro. I used to work at a gamestore before and would see all type of trade ins too. Hope you keep at it. Things get really hard before a huge good surprise.

Not boring at all. Love seeing the in depth process of game stores and your store specifically. Keep doing good work

This was really interesting to see and to hear from your perspective. Really like the video!

I Also own my own store in Cedar Rapids iowa it is hard and yeah wish somebody would of told me all those things to. I did take some classes but that wasn't until after even with them it's hard out there not everybody wants to buy you will get alot of I'm just looking or killing time until x and I completely understand what you were saying alot of good notes about it's not easy you get people that think it is or think we are rolling in money . small game stores unite is what I say by the way we are called turtle power games.

i just sub bro, thank you for this i needed to hear this. Thank you for those words of inspiration deff opening one up soon. not to get rich but for the vibes i always loved video games.

Nah don’t quit, just do it from your home with a garage inventory setup and sell online. Keep it going man!

Dude i feel you on that , Its the down time that kills you . i own a tattoo studio and 10 years of 6 days sitting all day waiting for walkins. on book it looks fine but just the doing nothing get old fast

U got this bro

Customers can be very difficult sometimes, but as long as you have good intentions and try to stay respectful, you'll usually avoid or de-escalate customer drama.

You should change your business model. Shrink the size of your space and use your smaller physcal storefront to get inventory. Sell more games online. You could probably afford to pay 50% of pricecharting and sell for 80% of pricecharting and still do good while moving a lot of games.