Hey guys, today I am gonna talk about a Message I got from on Facebook and It tells me that there are free stores around him if they local person I believe they live in north Houston from the stores that they mentioned They're all closing and they're all closing within a very short period of time Now one of them Is maybe temporarily closed maybe they're moving to a new location But the odd two they're having their grand closing and then the day It's never good to see I think in terms of game stores I can go ahead and tell you my own version of it and Why it was so difficult to run a game store a it takes a Lot of time It takes a lot a lot a lot of time um And be in addition to taking so much time You're not really making all that much money And why you don't make money is even if you do very well You are being paid in actually content and not content not an exposure that's an artist you are being paid Basically in inventory so you never get cash because everything has to be reinvested in inventory I know a lot of people say all the game store didn't have a cafe. I'm going to show you free different game stores All in north Houston all about to close or have having closed and maybe they reopen Um, these are game stores with good reputations these are game stores that have a good community There's nothing wrong with these game stores in my opinion One of them the relocating one my I think maybe they Have too much of too much space and the rent might be too high So if they move to a cheaper place, hopefully they can be successful But the reason I closed my game store and I'm you know going to tell you this was because I got a girlfriend And when I originally got a girlfriend we I was still running my store. It was a lot of time And see really low to travel um loss Vegas Cruz Miami Miami is next So Miami plus a cruise and then spending some time in Miami itself There is a $200 buffet in Miami that sees Compton plating per person by the way. It's not obviously a couple buffet And it looks good, but it's $200 so it's a lot um When you talk about Game stores and owning the game store Unless you can find really good employees, which is really hard to do you be surprised how many people tried to steal from you You be surprised how many people really Don't care much about you or your employees or your game um Store you'd be surprised it would be crazy to me that um It's crazy to me to think about The game store is something that is going to make you a lot of money um It's not It is not something meant to make you a lot of money or something meant that you You um You put your heart you put your soul into it. It's an experience and it's something that you love to do and And that's it That is it. Uh, it's something that you love and you're doing it not for the money but because you love owning a game store It's a passion and everyone and everyone's grandmother from Alpha investments through Amazon. They're trying to run you out of business You know, there's how many youtubers promote their local game store and or tell them hey go to your local game store don't buy online Very few of every every youtuber. I know that's bigger is sponsored by a online store like car kingdom to where it can be college Or in particular maybe they have their own patreon system to sell boxes And I've always said you only have so much disposable income if you decide um If uh you decide to Buy a box from alpha investments or buy a case or whatever you're deciding not to spend that money at your local games or Same if you decide to buy Amazon. So then people turn around and there's shocked. Oh my local game store is in trouble How could that be Well, it's because you were too busy Blanking blank, you know alpha investments, right? Like you're the reason these places close and now you are um upset that it closed Well, what do you think was going to happen right if you spent all your disposal income and everyone you know Is spending their disposable income on Patrons and god forbid whatever house they're buying online Then you're the your poor store that is trying to make ends me and will absolutely need to charge more money because it has overhead Right these other vendor alpha investment doesn't have the overhead maybe a warehouse No employees, I believe So my decision was a could I see a future where this thing could actually make money No, so my girlfriend is a math and finance major and so she sat me down and we crunched numbers and and then just became like You know, there would be have to be too many things going right For a game store to make any sense at all And there's too many things that could go wrong and too many risky things that would then just bankrupt the store or are make it Unfeasible for me to continue So one the store like and people don't talk about when you only store you don't take a vacation. You just cannot If you don't have reliable employees and I went to the mall the other day Dare Burke and willow Burke mall I went to two different malls to check out anime store See how they're doing and they're doing poorly this business will be out business. No time. They don't have the community. I mean God bless the game store owners, right? No one no one going to say this I say support your local game. Sorry. No other youtube will say this because they're I turn down sponsorships all the time so I can say whatever I want to say Right there's this like small you know like even like a small channel of like a thousand subscribers They'll be sponsored by some game store online Now have that dude like support your local game support this dude right um like I don't know I don't know when the coach or got so bad Again I do know when but sounds like crazy and even cringe when I say it But I think when alpha investments they did patreon thing this before amazon dumps and amazon really just copied him Um that was the end of the game store that that really put a lot of pressure in the game store in terms of price The what $89 a box right with the $15 membership thing now you're competing how can you compete $89 a box? It costs you $89 a box from a distributor And Now people are going to buy from him a popular youtube celebrity instead of you your local game store And they're going to take the cards and open they they will open the packs at your store That's how sick it is in my personal opinion They will open the packs they got from Rudy at your store