Video Game Store Grand Opening (I Spent $2,603) 

Folks the Whatnot stream has been moved to Wednesday the 9th at 3:00 EST! Here’s the link! www.whatnot.com/live/63c65a1d-8426-4076-91fa-721d26eefe3b?app=ios&invitedBy=phoenixresale

Watch me “support my friend’s business” by not paying asking price on a single of his items! What a guy!

“Hm let me just lowball everything I want to resell even though this guy just opened up a store, then proceed to trade in what I think are unsellable games.” Great friend.

"Let me help my friend out with seed money to help his new business ... by haggling away all of his profits so I can profit myself... im such a great friend."

Me: “I can give you 20 bucks for this” Store: “the sticker price is 21. You pay 21.” Me: “but but but Renix Pesale said opportunity is everywhere” Store: “Get out!”

"Opportunity is everywhere..." When you can get 40% off

The irony of the one dollar bins is it's probably all the cheap stuff he's traded to him before 💀💀

His idea of support is by lowballing his friend and to ensure he profited frm reselling it at e-bay….woww…such a great friend!!

Thanks for opening your store. Now a majority of good items are gone where I spent 2600 dollars on 4k in price tags! Sweet deal!

Bro is fully invested in the gaming bubble creates by WETA and Heritage Auctions. Literally spending thousands on games that are worth not even $100 realistically. Can't wait for this bubble to pop soon.

its cringe as hell watching you claim you went there to help and then asking for 35% off popular fast selling games

The seller literally agreed to every stupid price fired his way

Miss the old school reselling videos bc it gave us motivation. These videos are just pre planned to help the game store get exposure

When guys like this came into the game glorifying reselling, that’s when the scene died. It hasn’t been fun to be a collector in a long time

I have an increasingly high appreciation for editor Riff's drumroll. They are majestic AF.

This guy is the reason retro games are so expensive now! Retro games should be affordable! We shouldn’t be paying $60 for a ps2 game!

Ryan very enthusiastically: “we can definitely do that” RU-vid comments: he was forced to sell those for less

“Watch me lowball my friend to make 2 dollars profit per game”

Lol not gonna lie you low balled him on everything I’m sure the average customer won’t get these “deals”

must be nice to get all that discount to support your friend 🤣

Wait this is your friends store...and you're lowballing him so you can run your "business". Ok yeah seem like a great friendship you guys got goin on.

“Hey can you do $20 for thousand year door CIB?” Ryan: “I can do that”

I'd say that store looks way to big for the amount of games he has for sale, I give him a year b4 he goes bankrupt if he keeps selling his stock to phoenix for cheap, the owner of this store has basically just fucked over all his customers by letting phoenix buy all the good stuff before he even opens the store to the public

how is him losing 5 bucks on a game and you make 8 bucks off the game a win win?

“Don’t tell Ryan that I will be spending at least $1000 dollars to give them seed money” yeah don’t tell Ryan that I will be selling his Merch for 2x the profit and low ball him Infront of a go-pro so he’ll have to say yes

you dont need to offer lower in every game of his. Dude lost tons of money saying yes to all your deals. if it was like 5 maybe but you had to go lower on every game lol

10:33 "For you i will do $30". Wow what a nice guy, its not like he just ripped his friend off $1,000 worth of games.

Would this guy work these deals with a regular customer that came in? My guess would be no.

Hahaha I lost it on the "My Pe Pe" cut away!! Amazing job RIF!!!!!

My word I would love a game store like that here where I am in the UK. We only really have a shop called CEX these days, but that's a chain with uniform prices in every shop and no haggling so it's hard to get bargains. This is like heaven.

Dude maximo is such a throwback for me! Me and my brother used to play that game all the time as kids.

Truth be told, Call of Duty 3 was a GREAT game. The campaign for that one was awesome Edit: I will NEVER get tired of the editing on these videos

that's not supporting a friend, I would be so mad if before I opened someone came in to haggle all my prices. a friend you would go in and support and pay normal prices.

*Picks through everything thats good* hey guys, go shop here. 😏

You would have helped your so called friend way more by just setting him up with his own eBay store instead of haggling on everything….

If this price and discount continues, doesnt look like the guy is gonna be in business too long.

"This game sells for $22 on Amazon. He has it for $20. I'll get it for $15." Cool but I simply don't understand why a store owner would be like "oh you're going to sell it for more than I am? dope!" Like why would they not sell it for $22 then?

Grand Opening!! Hey man, can I get some deals?

Plugging a stream for the 7th that took place the day before this video went up 🤔

I hope my friends won't "support" my business like this guy did for his friend..

Caleb: (Says anything in relation to money) Ryan: We could do that

I'm sure if he didn't know you there wouldn't be any haggling you would have to pay listed prices.

That "My peepeee" edit had me dying. Im easily amused :) But, honestly I feel like I just watched a legal crime.

I don’t even play games or resell anything but I’m glued to these videos 😂

Nothing like going through a friends store and under cutting him on his inventory to make a profit

At first I thought everyone was tripping about disliking the video until he got the Gameboy colors for half off. That's crazy.

The week before this business opens it goes bankrupt

I lost it at 4:15 lol. damn you Riff 😂

how does this guy have so many good game stores around him there are barely any when im at with older consoles/games

It's funny: When I was shopping the Toys R Us closing sales they had tons of those Skylanders games and no one wanted them. They were worthless, you couldn't give them away. Now they're going for $50 😂

"Video Game Store Grand Opening (I Spent THOUSANDS)" Game Hub Knoxville: It's our grand opening and we're already making thousands of dollars thanks to one kind man alone : ).

Beetle Racing on N64 was such a fun game as a kid, I kinda want to find a copy now ahaha.

Me: I dont know you got away Store owner:I can do that

I find it crazy that someone will spend a long time in a store, scanning almost everything, to buy and then just sell again. What a soul destroying way to earn a living.

Ryan is to nice to put up with this as hole

Friends don’t ask friends for discounts at their business. PAY FULL PRICE

I feel kind of bad for the store owners because they might feel obligated to accept low ball offers because they are on camera.

Ur talking to Ryan like he’s an Amazon Alexa 😂

i live about 45 mins from knox! Go VOLS!

correct me if I am wrong... video drops on Tuesday Nov 8 advertising whatnot auction on Monday Nov 7...

You’re the reason why people can’t go to a game store and find these good games, you buy them all up to flip it at a higher price instead of getting an actual job .

I challenge you to go to Retro Rick's game store and see if you can find games you can make profit off

On one hand, its dope seeing you score, but the other sucks, because this the reason stores near me, have no inventory on games I need or high priced. The flippers

Those gamestop stickers on box art are the bane of my existence

I absolutely love dbz boudakai tenchaichi 3 it’s super underrated and was a huge part of my young teen years

"Hey I know you have prices on these but I want to pay less because I'm a business genius and like haggling with my friend that owns a small store so *I* can make more money, Again, business genius and great friend. I'll even clean out the good stuff from the inventory before the grand opening so they're left with what I didn't want and then I'll raise the price of an item you sold me for less because you're my friend and you're being filmed. I'm so smart and kind." If he's your friend why not just pay what he asks? He's not your friend he's a business partner. This whole thing comes off as sleazy.

Your editor is definitely unique of all the RU-vidrs

The Folks drinking game has returned and I have alcohol poisoning at 5 minutes into this video....

Bought an N64 from here a couple days ago, awesome store!

if i had a gamestore id sell to you all the games double what theyd be sold for on ebay,

Hush guys don't tell his best friend he's gonna spend thousands even though he already did and showing a fake line so he can get inventory and act like he's a gamer

Did the editor change? Videos have been feeling a lot different lately.

Bro flipped us of😂😂

Uhhhh the video just uploaded, it's November 8th and that auction already passed lol

Why don’t stores also sell online? I’m so confused

Don't know if anyone could still benefit from this advice but.... I think I spotted two(?) copies of Transformers Devastation at around the 6 minute mark during the PS4 section, 3rd row (from top) on the right. If these are at a good price (I can't exactly see what's on the sticker), it might be worth looking at since at the time Activision didn't renew the license of several games including Deadpool and Transformers. Meaning they aren't available for purchase on PSN, Xbox and Steam anymore, and physical copies could be harder to find. So, if someone's around this store I'd suggest taking a look ;) Ps, Phoenix Resale, I do love your take on all this. Starting your collection from the ground up again. It makes me think back to the time I started my collection again. Thanks for sharing your adventures! :D

Store just opened and you already hit’em with a “Dhhhanggg”

Why dont the game shops just re sell on amazon?? I'm so lost...

Bro let a reseller empty him out of his good inventory before his grand opening at a fraction of the price... It's obvious why this place went out of business in under a year. Him spending 2.6k does NOT help the store since you want interesting inventory to get locals to keep coming.

Bro wanted a 12 dollar discount on a 30 dollar product. What price do you think they buy it for? 1 dollar?

bargaining is fine but not when you buy out everything for cheap as fuck and then go and sell it for close to double the price instead of just letting people buy the games for the cheaper price.

Well it’s within driving distance for a day trip but you’ve already picked everything good over so IDK if I will go. GGs 🎮✊

I'm glad I bought my GameCube Collection when the stuff was not that expensive 😅 I have 5 GameCubes and over 200 games. 😁😍

Caleb you’re capping on some of those games you said you wouldn’t make money on… you’re just restricted from selling them… trust me I know as I’ve seen that fuzion frenzy many times lol

The Riff drumroll gets me every time lol

That's wild he passed on the Amazing Spider-man on PS3 I've always see it sold quite high.

How do I even get Amazon seller app to allow me to sell stuff? Whenever I scan anything with the seller app, whether it’s a game or deodorant, they tell me I need permission to sell it and I can’t sell anything at all.

Honestly Vigilante 8 is a Hidden gem series.

oof the stream ended a day before posting the video 😕

So i have a serious question. Why would you post a video of you getting games for much less than sticker price only to turn around and sell it on Amazon for more money. Meaning, why would anyone buy from you if they could just go and do the same thing and pay less.

Bruh you two go together like peanut butter and jelly. Keep up the amazing content. Stay blessed y'all

Ay!! I'm so happy you posted man! I love your videos I'm working on my retro collection I've so far collected a Nintendo 64 Playstation 2 slim Xbox 360 arcade and a Nintendo entertainment system with a bunch of accessories for all of them and a bunch of games for all of them you inspired me to start my collection and knowing that you live in the same state as me I hope one day we can cross paths and I could get you to sign something for me because I'm a huge fan thank you for being an inspiration Best wishes Ethan petty

Why would you post about a whatnot after it happened?

Let me buy all the games other people want before they get a chance so I can resell them on eBay for more!

Why don’t you talk about sell throw rate (how long it take to sell)

Amazing looking store!

3:57 had me in the first half not gonna lie. LMFAO

That bucket of cheap games could be good if sold in lots on EBay

Me still screaming Repent in my head 20 minutes later 12:39

at 12:20 I started dancing smoothly in the car 😅😅 I like that song great video man