MTG: So you opened a Magic The Gathering Store...and now you Regret it ~Part 3~

Part 1 • The Process of Opening...
Part 2 • Buying Inventory...tha...
/ alphainvestments

[@ashleykitchin976]

"I would not..." What?! What wouldn't you do Rudy?!

[@AlphaInvestments69]

hahahaha

[@Dudldom]

He's the messiah!

[@YearOfTheSwagon]

I would love if that's how the Bible ended.

[@IVSAKENSOUL]

I don't even play Magic anymore, but this video was insightful, hilarious, and captivating. Keep making videos man. Great personality. I'll tell 10 friends to watch you.

[@LukeYoYoRoberts]

This series has been a really interesting watch, and I am very thankful that you put it out there. Last year I set-up my own online store selling yo-yos (yup! yo-yos are a thing). My dream has always been to open my own physical bricks-and-mortar store, where I can sell a huge variety of skill toys, juggling equipment, etc, and maybe expand into TCGs, board games, and other hobbies. The harsh truth of the matter is - opening a physical store really just isn't viable. Sure it would be fun for a while, but unless I could get dirt-cheap premesis' it's just not worth it. Luckily my online presence is growing, so maybe one day I can do this full time (by the way - working a full-time 40-hour a week job and then also trying to start up another business on the side is HARD AS SHIT) but until then I need to plod along and keep going how I am going. Keep putting out the awesome content Rudy

[@robertjamesmcleod]

Luke Roberts good luck with yo-yos mate!! Had no clue it was a thing hahaha

[@stonewall78]

Sounds like an up and down business to me.

[@Lgg130]

Robert, take that shirt off, c'mon.. don't be a timmy ;)

[@jordanlenos]

I literally have been beating my brain thinking about opening a shop for the past 2 weeks. I'm really glad I came across this video. Thank you for the honesty.

[@chimneyimp4091]

Did you end up doing it?

[@jordanlenos]

@@chimneyimp4091 I did not. Definitely thankful for watching this and being blessed with other profitable ventures.

[@chimneyimp4091]

@@jordanlenos Mind if I ask what scratched your itch for this? I would love to open up a a gaming store.

[@jordanlenos]

@@chimneyimp4091 I realized I couldn’t let my love for opening packs and collecting cards or even reselling them for high profit cloud my judgment of a business plan that was failing in every way you could possibly think of.

[@Firevine]

Aww bollocks, it got cut off. I mentioned these videos to one of the people I was thinking about opening a comic book store with. We agreed that we're both happy that plans fell through before much more than gas money was spent. The third person involved just wasn't trustworthy. One thing I mentioned at the time is that since we all have financial responsibilities, we were going to have to pull double duty. Work our regular jobs, and then run the store in shifts. We wanted to have late hours so people could come unwind after work. At the time, I was already doing that at my local comic book store. Honestly, it sucks. I was EXHAUSTED. I think after I quit doing that, as well as the 50+ hour a week normal job I had, I slept for a damned week straight. It hit me like a ton of bricks. I'd like to add to be careful of *any* B&M business you try to open anymore. I work for an inkjet and toner recycling company. *FUCK THIS SHIT*. That industry is *DONE*. It's over. It's finished. The owner checked out years ago for the most part. I was killing myself to keep the store up and running. *WHY?* Why was I doing that? It's not even mine! Years ago, I worked for a franchised Domino's, and corporate lords over you so badly that it's a nightmare to make profits. I'm at a point where I'm saying to hell with it, I'm buying a van and doing mobile consumer grade IT. I don't want the overhead of having a shop. If it's something I can't fix right there at your house, I'll have a test bench set up at home (Once the wife and I buy a house). So yeah, either that or a hot dog truck. But even then: Fuel, propane, tires, insurance, etc....that's a fuck ton of hot dogs. I'd have to be the hot dog king.

[@mikeyanddaddy]

Hotdogs...make them look and taste legendary and you can do it....stranger things have happened...lol

[@gnarrdog]

BOW DOWN TO THE HOTDOG KING 🌭

[@monsterhobbies]

Damn Rudy! Right around 2016-2017 is when my Magic : The Gathering business went sour. Wish I saw this video back then.

[@Greydt]

I'm going to assume the cutoff was a Sopranos type ending where we're not really sure what happens to Timmy's Game Shop

[@trashfire9641]

Greydt They all died.

[@HipsterianArchive]

Psychology major here: I'll chime in on why people who are pissed off will tell more people about their experience than people who are happy. People who have a good experience in a store will attribute it less to you the owner, and more to the environment (e.g., the feel, aesthetic). External appreciation is generally not something notable to people in a way that it jumps to mind in conversation (people don't just talk about how much they like the store's look/style in a normal conversation). However, if they have a bad experience in any way, they will attribute that internally to the stores owner/manager, because of their heuristic mindset (they are less likely to blame outside factors to the frustration but rather to internal problems of others ["the manager didn't say hello to me, he must be an asshole"]). In this case, many more things in casual conversation will bring that negative experience to mind, and you will want to talk about it more often. Moreover, people pay way more attention to exceptions in the stream of their daily lives. When you go to a store, it is EXPECTED that everything will be positive, and you won't remember your experience if it was positive because it wasn't an exception). But if it is negative, it would be considered an exception to a normal routine and it will be engraved in your memory. Summing up, if you want people to talk more about the POSITIVE experience they had, you must make the positivity an exception. You have to be supremely nice to people or make their day in some way or another. But as you said, working that hard to do great business can put large strains on your, and when you get burnt out and suddenly you're not the great happy owner/manager that you once were, people will think that is an exception: their experience will be negative because you were no longer overwhelmingly positive. Hope that helps

[@princelorian]

wolflowmusic a lot of the LGSes around me have an oppresive atmosphere. Where the owner will just stare at you while you browse and seem like its bothersome for you to be buying his products so i dont go there very much

[@buk6708]

wolflowmusic U smart fam. Good luck finding high paying job with dat knowledge doe. DEY gonna just give the job to a diversity hire.

[@powerlifting1012]

Pain is also much more powerful than pleasure if given the choice of 10:1 odds of going to a pleasure room for the rest of your life where it is pure bliss like heaven or going to a torture room for the rest of your life I guarantee you would not take 10:1 odds because a life of torture if far more powerful than a life of pleasure

[@bryanbonar]

You know things get serious when Rudy switches to the other side of the video.

[@willthethrill8661]

Tim, you said it in the first 2 minutes, "this industry". Some industries just don't have money in them. I happen to be an MTG fanatic, love the old beta's and stuff. But I would never trade them and expect a profit, it just to much work to ship and buy and sell. I also learned this when I had a love for Art. I just realized even though it was awesome, there was no money in it. I just accepted it and moved on. I am now in the web dev world, and it carved a path for me. Anyways, you seem like such as smart business guy with genuine intentions. Find something else you like, that is proven to be more profitable, and you will succeed greatly without the stress.

[@shawnsurmick6081]

The last five to ten minutes of this video needs to be repeated by anyone thinking that speculation and owning any kind of retail store in the collectibles business and otherwise, are the keys to making it. Thank you Rudy. This video is perfection from the heart and the mind...and very few KZbinrs have the gift to convey it as elegantly as you!

[@TheMrSlyxx]

I get daily laughs from you, Rudy...and actually learn something here and there. Thanks for the vids. Keep em coming bro.

[@nicoli3778]

I watch/listen to your videos all the time on the way to/fro work. Thanks for all the great videos. Really looking forward to more videos like this/ and about investing!

[@RisingTaide]

Goddamn, such consistent and frequent high quality videos. This video was so insightful and changed my views on things regarding businesses. Keep up the great work, man!

[@eyeseaweed]

You should make a playlist called "timmys game store" or something for all the videos.

[@ashleykitchin976]

If any of us make a game store can we agree to call it that? XD

[@LucasAlexander]

Timmys has a new format called "Shaft!" basically the same as draft but timmy gets 1st and 2nd pick every time (y)

[@nightly784]

this has been a very eye opening series as ive been planning to open a store with a friend for years now. i always felt like it was a constant uphill battle to try to open a LGS store and ive done a lot of research and nobody really talks about the reality of the struggle like you do Rudy. although i cant help but to be too passionate for wanting this to be my life. i do feel now though that i can "hope for the best but prepare for the worst" and for that i thank you.

[@jimjulagay]

I started watching your videos on KZbin, obsessively. Checked the mail for ordered cards, lo and behold Rudy's magic shop....thanks! And I hope you keep making the videos.

[@cardborder9391]

You were correct that opening up a LGS today would be foolish at best. I did some research and discovered that WOC is killing the LGS by allowing the bigger retailers to buy and sell sealed product over the internet. If I were to open an LGS here, I would be competing with stores like SCG, Deriums, etc, even though they are no where near this area. How could a local brick and mortar store possibly compete when internet stores are allowed to sell product at 10-15% less than I possibly could? They pay less due to large volume sales, and thus can charge less. The real pisser is that I cant even have an internet store because I must have a physical store front. In addition, I had an in depth conversation with an LGS owner and discovered that there are a ton of operators that are gaming the system like owning a restaurant and using that as the "store front" so they can get MTG products at distributer prices, then selling on-line. Some are even backing actual LGS's, fudging their attendance numbers then forwarding exclusive products like Eternal Masters to their backers.

[@Playahstation]

that part to Jeremy... so true.

[@ashleycurtis7741]

u have by far the best helpful videos about starting a game store on here I've seen my man!

[@hesgrant]

When the phone rang you had me cracking up, that was priceless haha. Really cool video series man!

[@FiretruykLOL]

wow thats incredible video Rudy. This is exactly what anybody interested in opening a store needs to watch.

[@KingBrachion92]

A friend of mine opened a comic book shop last year and he ran into a lot of the issues you discussed in your videos. He ended up choosing to walk away from it because of a lack of profit and because he just wasn't happy anymore, but he sure learned a lot. Keep doing what you do, Rudy. Love your content!

[@fieldy409]

This is great to listen to for me. Im not in retail but I am a carpenter in a small family business with my mum and Dad building houses. and half this stuff seems universal.

[@Tzunamii777]

20 years ago, folks had so much more disposable income. I used to work, sleep, and spend time at my local game store. We had a good handful of shops in a driving area, but one was "home base". Almost all of them are closed now, there's a couple left in Philadelphia, but too far for me to make it "my shop". I miss those days :(

[@woelke]

blue collar folks cant afford hobbys anymore.

[@Julius064]

I work construction, and I'm making less (adjusted for inflation) than what my father was making 20 years ago doing the same work. It fucking sucks man.

[@mauriandlaw]

I enjoy your channel.... And thanks for the 12 Beast Within and the 4 Phyrexian Arena i just bought from you !

[@madcatter427]

Love this series very informative with some FRESH comedy can't wait for more also would love to learn about how to do store credit any other techniques

[@jakeabel2548]

When he says the box is damaged thing. This reminds me of the fact recently I did buy some boxes and the USPS or something dropped the box and one of my boxes did get damaged. It is a real pain to get your insurance from USPS.

[@derekharris96]

I remember when a group of people stole 14 boxes from a local card store on an open play night when the guy went to the back for like 2 minutes. They were players there too.

[@trashfire9641]

Derek Harris They get caught?

[@BillNyeTheBountyGuy]

My dad used to run a card shop locally when I was a kid and I thought it was the coolest thing to go down the shop and see everyone there talking, trading, and playing. It eventually went under, but while it lasted was one of the easiest ways for me and my dad to connect. I don't think it's the normal, but I remember fondly those days.

[@63Reed]

Rudy, you are so incredibly helpful and insightful. You are helping me out with clearing up some of my own internal conflicts. When it comes to your blanket statement, I agree with you. The problem I run into is sustainability. There is no way I will be able to sustain myself by working in corporate America. Perhaps if I stayed in the game long enough, I'd be able to sustain myself financially. It's the emotional stability that I won't be able to sustain. Pardon me for saying, but I'll run into the same problem you had, I ask questions, I bring up ethics. I've needed a foundation for figuring out how to run and operate an LGS. You've given me that, and more. Even if I don't open one. I can apply your key points to any career. So maybe I won't have an LGS in a few years, or even in five. But if I want (and in someways need) this, then I'll need to come up with a holistic model. Or as you said, it's not if it works, it's if it works and is sustainable. Thank you so much for making an LGS series and makng your channel. I'll continue watching the content you make. It's quite enjoyable, also i love your humor.

[@shanjudo4510]

nice thoughts Rudy. People also forget how much effort successful business people pour into study either learnt as they go along, accounting, economics, law etc before they can run a business and turn a HUGE profit. You said you have 20+ years in finance...this is your apprenticeship for running a business. quitting a job and going into a running an own business is not sensible unless its a small risk. Losing 10k is no hassle (you cant even buy a new car for that) but dumping 500k into an unknown is a huge risk.well said rudy see you next time.

[@Pimpo168]

Talking about people letting more people know when they "hate" a store compared to when they like a store is completely true. I go to yard sales to look for records, toys, video games, stuff like that and I have had people selling records at yard sales and just tell me they randomly hate "X store in my area". Then after I got a couple records, and was leaving I heard the guy walk up to someone else looking at his record he had for sale and start again. "Do you shop at X record store? yea they are real crooks.......".

[@tylerhacking139]

I would be cool with running a business like this even if its just sustainable for my life simply cause I would know that its mine that I put my work into it

[@blasterkid2014]

great advice for any field...you rock Rudy! :)

[@UCFKnight2183]

coolstuffinc is huge here. The rewards program is nice, especially discount on singles. But everything you said rudy is why I go there outside of their cheap prices. They do pizza at events, unique addons to those events, loyalty program, consistency in people there, offer drinks, waterford and maitland are nice and new (clean), and all employees I've ever talked to actually engage in talking with me whenever I have questions about anything. It all adds up to me going back there. Love hearing you talk about the business side of things.Very excited to hear what you say about restaurants. Timmys Pizza. Keep it up Rudy!

[@ForgeofSouls]

Your channel is exploding! Congrats bro

[@snakemont]

25:00 This Thank you is coming from my burned out recovered heart. I m not joking...I took me a year or two to recovervmy heart healt....building now the sustainable life!

[@KelvinTrading]

Great series. Very good inside about how the industry works.

[@IfNedWereHere]

Absolutely. 100% right. The answer is simple. The environment has changed. It's a shadow of its former self and nothing will set it back. Only thing to do now is look to the future.

[@RingstedHedge]

You are really talking a lot of good stuff here. I opened up an online store in 2009, and i have had to learn all this the hard way.

[@streetdog75]

"A customer leaves unhappy and will tell 100 people" That's what they might have done in 1924, but in 2016 they post to Yelp!, which is 100 times worse.

[@OldBlueDragon]

some cold hard truth there... but it is truth! good, clear information and honest advise... very rare today! thanks for laying it all out...

[@TheMaverickGirlGaming]

Great video as always! Wanted to say I'm in agreements on Journey Into Nyx feeling like it has a lot of long term potential. There's a lot of seemingly strong casual/EDH cards, cube cards, and even a popular modern staple in Eidolon of the Great Revel, not to mention people wanting to play the god pack lottery. I feel the same way about Theros too. The set overall is kinda meh but has sooooo many good EDH cards and whenever I build a new cube, I'll easily grab a ton of bulk rares out of the set because they're worth nothing but amazing for limited formats. Born is still as hot of garbage as ever though lol.

[@NetherBoy13]

I love you content Rudy keep it up 👍

[@chrisg4229]

Hitting em the face with penny card sleeves 😂 come in! Lmao 😂

[@aranc23]

This series give you a good appreciation for how hard it is to run a LGS. (Or any hobby shop, really.)

[@zombiemistress]

CARD BOXES: Are another way to also get people into your store. A LOT of comic book, sports card stores sell cardboard boxes, plastic box dividers, card sleeves and plastic binder sheets, plastic binders and the like that ANY cards can be used for. Because many games and collectable cards aren't just collectable card games. HINT HINT, money is money, and there are other more diverse customers out there who might eneter your store and take a look around. I suggest looking at each customer as an opportunity and many of them are "this guy spends $200/year, that guy $1000/year" and you want more quality spenders, but more customers overall as they earn more money they MAY spend more in your store. Attend to your niche, your segment of your "territory" just like an animal. Your territory, your food source, your income. Expand, or increase your soil's fertility, what is your focus this year. Keep working, keep looking, keep thinking. "make your own luck".

[@Habeev07]

Been following the last few months. AMAZING CHANNEL and its like I'm watching a cooler version of my cousin who looks identical to you. Like I think you would flip at the sight of this Timmy. Started watching EVERY ONE of your videos in chronological order. Your story is destiny... URZA's Destiny!! XD Just getting back into MTG. Now that Iam older and never owned a video game console after the PS2, I have an old nostalgia itch from my past. However brief it was. Antiquities, Unlimited, revised (only when Unlimited cards in NM aren't available) Alliances, and all 3 URZA's blocks are what I've been fondest of. Old cards. I wasn't around at the beginning. I quit MTG in 2000 after only playing in 6th grade bc i was too young to appreciate or really just understand the game. Plus, it was cooler to be a "skater boy" (shout out Avril Lavign) I only had like 2 friends that played it. I turned 30 on the 21st - Mayan doomsday date ; ) I've bought strictly reserve list singles from Card Kingdom, only in NM condition (I want a complete Antiquities and Urza's block's Reserve List Set. Also been buying booster packs of Alliance's and URZA's block from only established sellers on ebay. Ive been on ebay for over a decade, so quite attune on how to choose the right sellers. So far, every pack passes the eye test after a good WIGGLE AND TIGGLE. YES , I SAID WIGGLE AND TIGGLE.... Thanks for the term Rudy ; ) If they were repacked all this time when I go to sell them in 20+ years, so be it. I got them lying flat in Ziploc bags and stored in a cool dark place. And my binders hanging so the pages dont get pinched. People want the sealed product. LONG LIVE THE RESERVE LIST!! and S.W.A.G: Silver, Wine, Art, Gold... not a wine drinker but its about tangible wealth.... cardboard canvas's (MTG cards are ART)... and a little thing called: blockchain. Large part of why 5G is being ushered in. Giggity!

[@michaelappleseed5569]

Those were my favorite XMan games! I miss them soo much. Your super lucky! I wish I could play those like right now. Especially X4! @SUPER LUCKY! BTW: If nobody has played X4 and X5 you need to get on that Asap! Best games ever!

[@chapmanflorida5226]

Love you Rudy, best video you ever made and ive seen alot.

[@xeoph]

I love the fucking visual of throwing card sleeves at cars driving by. lol Lawsuit waiting to happen!

[@johnlouisnagy2375]

Rudy your videos are gnarly .. Make more of them.

[@Frogkeeper0]

"The key is to make the customer as sticky as possible" -creepy Rudy 2016

[@MsLuath]

Excellent video. I would tend to believe that having the owner being actively involved in creating a lively, affordable and fun playing environment, especially for beginners, can help in being successful. Its important to sell an experience, not just products, for repeat costumers. Too many stores let the local spikes controlling the scene and ruin it for beginners. The former one I was going to went from 20 to 6-7 players when a small group of competitive players started going there at FNM and decided to make it all about competitive standard and modern. I switched to another much farther from home which focused on edh and draft and had a much bigger casual players turnout.

[@ZeStealthyPwn]

I was slightly thinking about what would happen if I started a game shop one day. My immediate thought was "How much growth is there?" and I knew the answer had to be "Between slim and none". There really cannot be very much growth unless you have a very good location, and depending on what that means based on your region, could be extremely expensive. Pretty much has exited my mind, while I definitely appreciate those who run these shops.

[@mikechurchill1071]

HashBrown#”what are you Timmy’s FATHER!!!! “ Omg I was on the ground rolling around laughing. Yes Rudy you are the truth!! Love your videos

[@januszo.2180]

I agree with you Rudy. I did the same math and ended up with not opening a MTG store 2 years ago. Interesting fact that the current online reality has brought low Margin not only to mtg but most of non-FMCG goods. The stickyness of Consumer looses with pure price driven behavior. Thanks for the vid. Hopefully thanks for your advise someone will be less miserable by not opening a low margin business.

[@blazenjestergames4025]

Much agreed about the happiness/pissed off customer ratios, that was rule one I learned when I worked for my local food store chain as a customer service rep, also even a national chain toy store I worked for shortly before they went out of business, and even the other national toy store chain over the years I did seasonal work for! The store chain that was going out of business said even know we won't be here long impacting a customer and making them have a good experience is and was still key because who knows were you may end up I myself was 17-18 and it was my "2nd" job on my last day I had a customer who was a local diner owner and guess what became my weekend job before my main job?! I juggled multiple jobs and joined the military etc etc and I have wanted to open a shop of my own for 10 years over the last 5 I have done a lot of research and it came down to it's a huge risk there's a reason why the local store is still here and that's because unless you go to Philly or 30-45 mins away that's where you will find the other lgs's

[@vbgfrnc]

you're soo good at this. I could watch hours

[@tekkaoz]

The part about a stress owner driving away customers is very true. I haven't been to my LGS (the only one within 400kms) in six months because I simply felt uncomfortable there. I'd been loyal for years and years then all of a sudden the owner had a health scare and there was a downtick in sales and he started being very curt with everyone. Use to be he was friendly, if there was one guy sitting alone in the game room he'd ask around for someone to play them, all sorts of stuff like that. But after the stress started hitting him he started doing stuff like snapping at people, complaining about people bringing in hot drinks from a nearby cafe during winter (they had some self-service coffee machine but it was crap), really going agro at people, going on rants about how people buying stuff online was disloyalty, etc. and generally being aggressive and unwelcoming. It was after he slashed prize support for magic tournaments and cut back on the number of X-Wing events (use to be 2/3 a month, now maybe once every 2 months despite a heavy player base, I guess the sales weren't enough or something) I just stopped going. I didn't need him standing there glaring at everyone like we'd farted or something. I go to a games store to *relax* and the atmosphere was anything but relaxing, you could feel the tension in the room go up when he clocked on. Things would be going fine when it was just the staff and then he shows up and bang, noise level drops, people leave, it was just not fun. So yeah, don't do that stuff because honestly even if we feel bad for your health issues we're not going to put up with your issues forever and frankly I'd rather play in my living room than deal with your crap.

[@michaelchung5388]

Run a board game cafe with a splash of MTG instead. MTG players are very price conscious customers - every time we open a pack we compare the value of cards to the price we paid for the pack and we always want the most for our money. You can't run a successful business based on non-unique product with razor thin margins and is available at every other LGS in the city. You MUST do something unique in order to create customer value. Customer service only goes so far, and most MTG players are NOT willing to pay more for a cleaner venue or "better" customer service - we tend to math out every purchase due to being conscious of the secondary market.

[@danielbrooks7764]

Politicians talk alot about making things better for small business owners and entrepreneurs... please do a video on what you think government does that is good and bad for people trying to start up. You are one of those people that they are talking about, so it would be valuable to hear what you think (if you can manage to approach it in a nonpartisan way). What you mentioned breifly about health regulation was interesting. As a consumer, I don't want ecoli, as a worker, I don't want the Jungle, so what's the trade off? Sounds like small businesses are at a disadvantage to established ones.

[@AllAboutTradingCardGames]

How did you know I was watching this on a monday morning whilest driving to work?! Creepy Rudy

[@gymleaderjake1579]

Hey, I know this market extremely well. The profit comes from the profits of selling lots of singles to tournament players. You must buy thousands of cards daily and sell them both in store and online. Collections can be purchased locally and at Grand Prix tournaments. This kind of work is boring and hard but it's the only way owners rake in cash.

[@megamanx2293]

Hell yeah Blue Bomber in the back! Woot Woot

[@Rafaelbgj]

OMG. what an amazing video. for real. thanks!

[@eyealone]

This video is truly sad. Being a kid who grew up in an LGS, it hurts to know things just won't ever be the same as I had it. Like waiting in line at the arcade to play a game and accidentally meeting a best friend...a true friend for life. I hope the online world can provide some sort of companionship but I am sceptical. Good luck kids of today...you will need it ☺

[@YodielandInhabitant710]

Great taste having megaman games on the show!

[@darkrevamtg2687]

i wish i could visit your lgs lol. you seem like a fun person to be around haha

[@darrenhill3514]

I have that same Sorin binder...holds my mythics and foil mythics...it has stayed the course.

[@julieanton6068]

really Timmy? LMFHO! love this man.

[@heronblue3577]

Totally agree. I run my own website and eBay store selling MTG and yugioh and some Pokemon. The margins on eBay are razor thin and if you have somebody try to scam you on items not shipped with tracking then it can take like 10 orders of profit to make your money back. Unless you inherit some money to buy a decent retail space to reduce overhead costs its game over really.

[@dvmaprezson]

It's one thing to own a profitable business. It's a whole 'nother thing to own a business profitable enough to give you a decent living. I don't think I'd ever open a TCG store as my sole source of income.

[@JesseCutlip]

videos are great keep them up

[@brianl2607]

this was the realest thing I ever watched in my life

[@moosec6782]

jesus christ this video hit me hard. thank you for this

[@peanutbutterpandapuffs]

This is like a video that all businesses should watch, too many shitty businesses run by raising prices to make up for losses rather than actually making their businesses benefit their customers more and raising the quality of their service.

[@GamesRule]

This video was f-ing amazing.

[@DaEvilShaman]

So thats why my sleeves are always arrive bent and warped

[@jeremybds1901]

25:00 Wizards realized there was profit that they could be seizing.

[@gainsngoblins]

Lol! "What are you, Timmy's father!?" Lol!

[@bunnyben5607]

That moment when someone dislikes the video before even watching it.

[@jhonathanmondragon7162]

I am amazed how you can set up a big discourse. that is a great ability

[@garyleavitt9203]

If you think you're going to make money doing what someone else has already done, you're not. That ship has sailed my friend.

[@kevinn4450]

Well said, although the end seems to have cut off? By the way, where can I get a Serra Angel figure like the one you have? It looks nice.

[@zmo90]

I keep looking at the Kaladesh Invention Box, *only* two more years!

[@HeiligerGrimmnir]

My LGS... I'd been going to this store since I was a pre-teen. Same three dudes ran the store from the time I was a kid and they still work there now. Every Friday I would go to that store with my step dad. I loved that place. When I got older I joined a game in the store ran buy their #1 guy. It was only 6 of us and the game went on for 6 months. I used to drive him home or pick him up sometimes before the game. Today that guy acts like he doesnt know who I am. Even if I'm like. Hey, Timmy. Whats up man... He gets a confused look on his face every time. Like we hadn't literally known each other for over half our lives or something.

[@thegametable1243]

Took a huge box of old Magic cards to a local game store, they bought a few pieces out of it but flat out told me they couldn't buy them all. I decided to piece it out online locally some store have contacted me over certain pieces and purchased them. I am making more that way, but I am sitting on the inventory longer.

[@streetfighterjones]

Great video

[@thebigjezz]

'I don't recommend ANYONE' - This is a problem for Wizards.

[@00squid00]

"I talked to the head timmy" Rofl!

[@Ultimatelocke]

I'm so confused. The video just cutoff at the end so that means I should dump my live savings into Pokemon go TCG booster boxes right? Like what could go wrong?

[@nashtccri]

One of the stores here I really like but they can't keep up. Several times I went in and we couldn't draft because they didn't have the box even though we had 8 people. But then a friend took over a store and it's flipping amazing. Everything done right. Clean, knowledgeable, singles, buy anything, always have product. But an unfortunate thing happened. A pipe burst

[@philxdev]

I don´t see a problem with combining the store with a bistro/restraurant like setting.. yeah you need to deal with the health department, but many restaurants do so every day.. this will actually diversify your business and it can work hand in hand.. that means more work and of course you cannot do it half assed but if you have some signature dishes that rock you can also use this to get more people in the door.. combining your card shop into a restaurant operations seems like a pretty viable option.

[@tylerhacking139]

8:47 thieves have allways existed

[@nomak38416]

Rudy, I know this is off topic, but what do you usually do with all of your bulk common/uncommon cards?

[@michaelmcintoshatky]

He probably sells them in bulk, my local game shop sold commons for like 10¢ a piece and many uncommons for 20¢ a few of them for more but most were only 20¢.

[@meatrace]

that ended strangely

[@GradedGem]

I GOTTA GO WORK, and I really want to watch all of this... Decisions.

[@BobDoe_69]

Part 4: Timmy's promotion strategy backfires, one of the car drivers sued Timmy for chucking penny sleeves in their car. GeeGee Timmy GG