I like your video a lot. I worked in retail for the past 25 years (Not card related) and I can relate on several of your topics. Also, 3 points you mentionned that I would like to comment: -Mass opening commander deck is a great idea. Wizard's historically always put good value into those. In the early days, store couldn't do that because of price and scarcity of those decks, but now that they overprint them, its a mini gold mine. -Hoarding boxes is more something collectors will do, not stores. Stores usually cannot afford to wait 20 years for a product to 10x its value, so you were 100% correct. Stores better sell and purchase that same kind of box 100 times (Via store credit, then sell then store credit etc) than keeping it forever. -I think if you move to a bigger space, you might keep the same % ratio. Your 30-40% brick and mortal business % might stay the same, but within a much higher overal business numbers. For example, in a more popular spot, like a big shopping center, more people will come in your store, raising you B&M numbers, but they will trade much more too, raising your online sales etc. Just be prepared to pay more rent and in payroll too (Shopping center for example requires much more staff at all time than a power center for example). I personally did the opposite (From a A+ shoping center (300+ stores) to a much smaller one (4 stores) and would never go back to the big one (Too much walk-in can be an issue too...). Sorry for the long post, continue your good work!
How do you ship the 50 card packs that your selling on amazon? Another great video and i love seeing into the behind the scenes of the card business. amazing. thank you
What is your input on running a phyzBatch and your roco. i have a magic sorter since its all i could afford at the time works great other than the scanning mis scans sets, but want to get a PhyzBatch and do that to do my initial scan then just use my magic sorter to sort set then alphabetically. to hopefully eliminate misread cards and help with not having foiled cards scanned in as no foiled and so on and to condense piles quiker to run through my magic sorter.
Really good video! I was going to ask you if you have considered going completely online? It's only been a couple months in TCG for me but it is already really outpacing our physical store, so it is a question in my mind. The other pro would be no having to have such strict hours and carrying a lot of other "filler" type products, since selling online can be much more focused where the store needs to not look empty and have many different types of things to sell. Plus the potential to exponentially grow online is so much greater than what the physical location can do... Anyway great video and keep going!
For him, he already has distributors and trust me they won't cancel him with his numbers. If you are asking for a new business, you would have to just try, I have heard southern has worked with some online only but it is up to them.
Hi I'm a fairly new seller on tcgplayer and I was wondering if you or anyone could help me solve something. I've sold out of a couple cards on tcgplayer, but when I go to my "Inventory" page, I still see the "listing" for the card but just with 0 quantity. I don't plan on restocking the card anytime soon and its just annoying to see a card I have 0 of on my live inventory. I hope I worded this question to where it makes sense, thanks!
I have just opened my B&M in april of 2023 here on the west coast and laughed so hard when you said "I feel like I never get anything done." I felt that so hard! I love your videos, been following your journey for a bit now and you have so many "gold nuggets" of truth in the industry. Thanks for what you do, you have given so much insight to a industry filled with secrets lol
I've been an Amazon seller for over 5 years. About a year ago, they shut us off from selling on most of the pokemon listings. No matter what documentation we sent them :(
Jesus, to order so many Starter decks of Lorcana to get 9 First Chapter Boxes?!?! and especially one like you growing like you do. Customers that know they got good Singles from you will also buy the boxes. Keep up the hard work and dont go all online. I like buy my boxes and support my LGs.
I had a store for a long time and something valuable i learned is to not line your walls with products and to separate your play space and retail space. I fought it for years, then tried it after GAMA and never looked back
