sergentzimm

Hello. I will be there this week Nurgle be damned. Hoping to get in a game of Net Runner at the least.

It's been 7 years and Gw stuff has gone up a lot, but I used to run a simple 10% off at 100 and 15% off at 150 or more in purchases. It brought it closer in line to the 20% off of online retailer and really went a long way.

That would definitely take half the noise out.

Yeah sorry. I didn't want to worry about either this or the xwing thing causing an issue with space availability.

I really think setting up something with the local next door would work. I have been to guardian games once. It is a very large store. The 21+ gaming area is about the size of our back room gaming area plus some beers on tap. Being in Oregon, they must have different laws. I would say that bringing in xbox's to the second half of the back room would definitely change the feel of the room. It would become a very loud and busy place to play a game.

I am running a bits swapping day down at Dark Tower. Saturday April 12th from Noon to 5pm. (date changed due to Tabletop day) Rules are simple. Bring any models and bits you are looking to get rid of. Each person will have roughly half a table to show their wares. No cost to get a table. Pre-registration here on this thread is encouraged, but not required. I will give you all a heads up if it looks like we are filling up. You can trade your bits/models for other bits/models/ board games or whatever. You may not exchange items for cash. If you would like to work out a deal, you can purchase store credit to give to the person in exchange for the goods. (this keeps it possible to trade items for currency but keep the store involved.) That is pretty much it. Feel free to post here with questions or to advertise what you will be bringing.

Going to start a new topic with the date in the title, as i can't figure out how to edit the title. April 5th will be the day.

Hell we wouldn't even need to knock out a wall just put in a hole to serve drinks through.

Agreed thanks for helping. My head still feels like Im in a vise. I need to bargain to be sick more on saturdays than fridays.

I agree x-link. A fusion of Card Kingdom and AFK would work wonders here in Bellingham. If you didn't have to serve food it would be better, but stupid laws lol. Bars are damned tricky to run though so it's really a question of how much more effort it's worth to gain the revenue. Bar would be on the higher end of work and money.

I can't seem to catch a break and I am out sick again. I guess trusting those nurgle groupies was a bad choice.

Yeah it was a quick one that didn't end well, but not for lack of business. More of the experience comes from seeing the good and the bad stores in my times.

Oh I would love to try out quarriors

Ah in my cold addled brain I was off a week for the xwing tourny. I will check and see what the event organizer thinks on that one.

That is good news.

So I was able to talk to Nathaniel today. He is game on two grounds. It focuses on bartering not cash trades. If you want to include selling, we can setup a system to purchase store credit for the person in exchange for items. How does that sound? For the dates, March 29th vs April 5th, anyone have an opinion?

Wow this is quite the issue at hand. Been here before seen it before. My best example of a store is this one in Spokane http://www.thegamershaven.net/gamers_haven.php That is the name of the store I used to own, re-opened by the previous owner, long story. They have a huge gaming space and a small retail space. They can run a full 70+ card tournament and 40 person tabletop tournament at the same time, roughly. They focus on the community and let the sales come into them. They live the philosophy GW tried to teach, build a community and focus on keeping it going. It's important to have other people steering your games as well. Most people follow what the shop owner is playing, but you want a few others to keep interest in more games than you have time for. To me my biggest question is did the rent go up? Did he get scammed, like a lot do in bham, with a first year is cheap then raise it? Personally I am not sure that railroad gives you the best bang for your buck but I havn't looked at real estate lately. One thing that could do well would be to look into a beer license, though I know that requires food purchase here in Washington. I can say that I don't think the LAN space would pan out. I have looked into that many times during my life and the return on investment is hard to make work. Games are expensive for lan's. I can say Reset doesn't do this, they are a console game seller where you can test the games out, (source I use to run the joint). That is all the ramblings I can come up with now.

I will be going down to discuss the logistics with the shop tomorrow. The real question is do we do this side by side of an event or by itself. I know that the 15th of March is the 40k event and the 22nd is the Xwing Tourny. If not side by side of those, the best day would be Saturday the 29th.

Thanks it has been a rough week. I am looking forward to seeing netrunner.

I think that tin foil hat is going to be pretty main stream. I was thinking it was odd for GW to put out a model someone else has out.

So there is a 4.6" model and a 8.5" leviathan. Any chance the knight model was crafted for this? How long have the leviathans been out?

Only thing to worry about is if it freezes tonight or tomorrow night. Freezing wet roads is a disaster, especially with [big bad swear word] drivers around here.

For me I go to nurgle because I have quite a few plaguebearer/zombies that I use in 40k. I have a great base for a nurgle army and I have a GD of Nurgle all painted up and nasty. They are great stats wise as well. I can swing bringing in a core unit from Khorne and Tzeentch but I can't really base the army off them yet.

Howdy. It's coming on spring cleaning time, though ironic with snow on the ground, and I am looking to clear some space out. The best way I have found to do this is to have a bits swap and barter day. Is anyone else interested in this? I can take the head and organize it with the store. I am want to get the store buy in as I don't want it to be seen as taking business away. Might run a cost per table to lay out wares or something. Or even have a store 'currency' used to purchase items that can be switched out as store credit. All ideas I am open to and discuss. Might be good to run a gaming event along side it, such as running it on either the tourny day or some other type of gaming along with it. Multiple reasons to get people into the store. So thoughts? Timing wise I would like to try and aim for something towards the end of March or early April.

So did anyone else notice that the white dwarf digital is $3.99, more than the printed copy? That is special.