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Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2010 11:27 am Post subject: I discussed it with my mom, I think it's a pretty cool idea |
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My mom has been wanting to invest in opening up a coffee shop (she currently sells it online), but I don't think she'd earn much doing that... what with starbucks everywhere and whatnot.
But I came up with something pretty cool. I'm going to invest in opening up a game store. The closest Gamestop is 40 minutes away from our town, so competition wouldn't be a problem.
In the store, I'd have a room where people can pay an entrance fee and play their games. Or they can test out games before they buy them.
Gamers tend to play games for long periods of time, they get thirsty... or hungry. So in that room I'd have my mom sell her coffee, as well as other stuff that gamers tend to love. The room would have arcade machines, computers, and consoles. I haven't decided on how pricing would be, I've only recently given birth to the idea.
This could work, I really think I'll go through with it. And I know lots of people that I could trust to hire (I'm also certain they'd take the job). So far, there's nothing negative about this.
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gogodr I post too much
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Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2010 11:29 am Post subject: |
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that actually sounds like a pretty good idea.
just make a little research on how you town takes in games and see if it will be really profitable .
good luck
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Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2010 11:30 am Post subject: |
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| Dude, sounds like an awesome idea for both you and your mum.\o/
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Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2010 11:33 am Post subject: |
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Yeah, I'll start searching for buildings that are for rent. I'd like to have it open 24 hours, so that's what I'll look for in the rent guidelines before I purchase.
Oh, and I may be making this sound like it's going to happen soon... it won't, but I'm planning early so that I don't fuck things up later.
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Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2010 11:34 am Post subject: |
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| GalaxyFrame wrote: | Yeah, I'll start searching for buildings that are for rent. I'd like to have it open 24 hours, so that's what I'll look for in the rent guidelines before I purchase.
Oh, and I may be making this sound like it's going to happen soon... it won't, but I'm planning early so that I don't fuck things up later. |
also make sure to be like super secret about your idea around your town.
just sayin' your idea cold get stolen.
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Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2010 11:37 am Post subject: |
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| gogodr wrote: | | GalaxyFrame wrote: | Yeah, I'll start searching for buildings that are for rent. I'd like to have it open 24 hours, so that's what I'll look for in the rent guidelines before I purchase.
Oh, and I may be making this sound like it's going to happen soon... it won't, but I'm planning early so that I don't fuck things up later. |
also make sure to be like super secret about your idea around your town.
just sayin' your idea cold get stolen. | Yeah, I will.
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Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2010 11:39 am Post subject: |
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| Only bad thing about it is the person intending to start it is you. You never follow through completely.
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Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2010 11:49 am Post subject: |
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Sounds like that store I was hanging out in yesterday.
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Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2010 11:51 am Post subject: |
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| End User wrote: | | Sounds like that store I was hanging out in yesterday. |
I wonder what gave him the idea.
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Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2010 11:52 am Post subject: |
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| I don't think I would like to pay to walk into a store.
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| MajjikelKitty loves SGL wrote: | | I don't think I would like to pay to walk into a store. |
acording to the idea of store I got the only things you would pay there are:
buying games
playing on the arcades
buying drinks and/or snacks
buying gaming gear/toys/stufz<
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| MajjikelKitty loves SGL wrote: | | I don't think I would like to pay to walk into a store. |
He said he would have a separate gamingroom with entrance fee.
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Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2010 12:18 pm Post subject: |
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| Butters wrote: | | Only bad thing about it is the person intending to start it is you. You never follow through completely. | On internet stuff, yeah. Bur irl, I almost always do what I set out to do. On the internet, some stupid shit always happens that prevents me from completing something, or I realize it's just a bad idea.
| MajjikelKitty loves SGL wrote: | | I don't think I would like to pay to walk into a store. |
It's just for the separate room. The room will have computers and stuff for you to play your games, or to test games before purchasing them. It wouldn't a large fee, just like $5 or something, maybe even just a dollar. Most of the profit would be made from the food and drinks that are bought from the room though, which is why I don't intend on having the fee be large. It will be more complex than that though. I've still got some planning to do.
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Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2010 12:56 pm Post subject: |
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| Give it a secret project name that only you and your fellow investors will use.
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Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2010 1:12 pm Post subject: |
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Biggest problem is...who's gonna run it? Do you have any idea how much work it is running a company? Not to mention you're planning on keeping it open all day long. What are you going to do, run it yourself? Do you really think that 1. you have enough time to run a company and 2. you even know how to run a company? Do you think your mom's gonna want to run it?
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