dj-chuckles
Underboss
2454 Posts
    
The State that invented Spam!
 | | 06/19/2008 10:37 AM |
| Yeah, my FLGS got evicted a few months ago. Mainly due to some @#$%#@ moves by the owner in screwing over its employees. Yeah, I put in my 2 cents here and there. The owner literally abandoned the store, never paying bills, buying new product. Talk about lame. I'm quite sad by this move, but when the employees literally hand you hundreds of dollars in product the day they have to clear out was a decent thing. Unicorn Games is no more, but something new might come out of this. One of the former employees is possibly opening his own store.
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Posted By WakeXX on 09/25/2006 4:49 AM OMG DJ!This has to be the spammiest spam thread ever! 
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Fun Guy from Yuggoth
Cthulhufnord
Warlord
10855 Posts
Umass Amherst Baby!
| | 06/19/2008 10:48 AM |
| That seems to happen now and again with FLGS. [:/]
One of the places on my way to work shut down, finacial issues I think. Now several of the employees have started a FLGS co-op in Amherst. 
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vanrulzz
Commander
2504 Posts
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| | 06/19/2008 11:22 AM |
| | that sucks | | | |
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Master of the
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Teflon Jeff
Warlord
7483 Posts
Sector 2814
| | 06/20/2008 9:35 AM |
| The circle of Life...
Ingonayama baba eets onyama!
{insert baboon song here}
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Zenako
Commander
3468 Posts
| | 06/20/2008 9:42 AM |
| | One problem is too many shops like game stores are opened as an extension of a hobby and not as a real business and unless blessed with super locations and volumes of customers, will be doomed to fail eventually. The ones that endure tend to be the ones with a real business model behind them and the ability to treat the store as a real business and to make decisions on facts not emotion. | |
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Teflon Jeff
Warlord
7483 Posts
Sector 2814
| | 06/20/2008 10:35 AM |
| Run a business with a business plan?
Brilliant!
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Thenameless
Warlord
9801 Posts
The Fortress of Solitude
| | 06/22/2008 1:53 AM |
| | What Zenako said is very true. It's usually the friendly hobbyist that goes out of business. The biggest FLGS has an owner that runs a pretty tight ship. | |
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Teflon Jeff
Warlord
7483 Posts
Sector 2814
| | 06/23/2008 8:26 AM |
| This is exactly why one of my majors is business.
My wife has her bsuiness degree as well.
Some day, when I open a Game Store, I'll have my knowledge, plus her POV as well, to help keep the ship righted.
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Zenako
Commander
3468 Posts
| | 06/23/2008 9:30 AM |
| | I know some of the local hobby shops around Boston and the ones that are compeltely willing to drop entire lines of products when the demand drops too low are the ones that last. If it is not moving, stop stocking it. The ones with the piles of dusty product are soon destined for the closing/clearance sales. The advent of the internet has given some shops a new lifeline however, which can reduce the impact of location to a degree, IF they create a suitably large footprint on the web. | |
Built the addition for this addiction, now on to the "gaming table" project....
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Teflon Jeff
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7483 Posts
Sector 2814
| | 06/23/2008 9:52 AM |
| The internet can at least help you move the dead product. Maybe not at the greatest rates, but it's better than nothing.
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Thenameless
Warlord
9801 Posts
The Fortress of Solitude
| | 06/25/2008 4:19 PM |
| Posted By Zenako on 06/23/2008 9:30 AM
I know some of the local hobby shops around Boston and the ones that are compeltely willing to drop entire lines of products when the demand drops too low are the ones that last. If it is not moving, stop stocking it. The ones with the piles of dusty product are soon destined for the closing/clearance sales. The advent of the internet has given some shops a new lifeline however, which can reduce the impact of location to a degree, IF they create a suitably large footprint on the web.
This certainly looks like the new blueprint for a successful gaming hobby shop. Be both an FLGS, and an FLGS to the rest of the world. | |
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Fun Guy from Yuggoth
Cthulhufnord
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Umass Amherst Baby!
| | 06/26/2008 12:48 AM |
| | traeaties onely go up to 130. theose treaties are mvery we k andsd very seruisuo. im watching awqua teen hinger force. | |
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Teflon Jeff
Warlord
7483 Posts
Sector 2814
| | 06/26/2008 8:45 AM |
| Drunk Spam?
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Cthulhufnord
Warlord
10855 Posts
Umass Amherst Baby!
| | 06/26/2008 12:21 PM |
| | Oh..... that's what that means.... | |
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dj-chuckles
Underboss
2454 Posts
The State that invented Spam!
| | 06/26/2008 8:44 PM |
| Posted By Cthulhufnord on 06/26/2008 12:48 AM
traeaties onely go up to 130. theose treaties are mvery we k andsd very seruisuo. im watching awqua teen hinger force.
Your what hurts?
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Posted By WakeXX on 09/25/2006 4:49 AM OMG DJ!This has to be the spammiest spam thread ever!
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Sirohk
Commander
3839 Posts
USA
| | 06/27/2008 3:31 AM |
| Sorry to hear about your FLGS closing.Â
Hopefully you have another one in the area and or that another one locally opens soon.Â
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Teflon Jeff
Warlord
7483 Posts
Sector 2814
| | 06/27/2008 10:44 AM |
| We need to get a Breathalyzer installed on someones PC. Like on a car.
You blow high, you're only allowed into the drunkjen posts thread.
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Thenameless
Warlord
9801 Posts
The Fortress of Solitude
| | 06/28/2008 7:19 PM |
| | But then all of the rules lawyers would come out and say that that's unconstitutional forum wise. | |
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Teflon Jeff
Warlord
7483 Posts
Sector 2814
| | 06/30/2008 10:57 AM |
| We have a Maxminis constitution?
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Thenameless
Warlord
9801 Posts
The Fortress of Solitude
| | 06/30/2008 12:38 PM |
| | We should get Wayne to make one up. | |
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Wraithborne
Commander
3712 Posts
West Virginia
| | 07/01/2008 8:45 AM |
| Posted By Teflon Jeff on 06/30/2008 10:57 AM
We have a Maxminis constitution?
Sort of, we should adopt it anyway.
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Teflon Jeff
Warlord
7483 Posts
Sector 2814
| | 07/01/2008 10:10 AM |
| Ah yes, that should be mandatory for all forums.
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