Someone suggested a while back that I should order in a few boxes of hockey cards to sell in my store, so I finally got around to doing that. It’s been slow starting, but today we sold about half a box which is very nice to see and I hope it happens more [...]
So even though work hasn’t been overly busy lately, there’s been a lot to do to keep me busy. Trying to rearrange some shelving and hopefully build some new stuff that will make better use of the space we have. Stuff is just piling up and to me it’s like a huge pile [...]
Everytime I read about Japanese gamers.. and how some would die in front of their computer or gaming system, it never failed to leave me flabbergasted. How do one get to this extreme and ignore their health and even their life. Someone that I came to know online was on disability insurance played [...]
I’ve been getting quite a collection of little gadgets building up in my store. Digital cameras, Mp3 players, game systems & controllers and so on. It’s pretty normal for this time of year though, June can be a pretty slow month with lots of people looking to sell stuff, but it turns around [...]
I see they’ve been doing some renovation work on one of the empty stores near where I work, but for the longest time there were no signs up to indicate what was going to be moving in. Earlier in the week when I had to go to the bank I saw they finally had [...]
A while back I bought a new vacuum for the staff to use in the store since we had moved to a new location with carpets instead of just a concrete floor. I didn’t want to spend much on it so I just got one at Zellers for around $65. It worked good, [...]
A number of years ago when I was starting my business I made appointments with the 2 banks I normally deal with. I was planning to buy out the inventory of another store that was closing down but I didn’t have that kind of money laying around of course. It was only $15000, [...]
A phone call we all dread to make but eventually have to for one reason or another, is to a tech support line. Long waits on hold, talking to reps who don’t speak English as a first language and sometimes even having to pay for the call are common problems with support lines. [...]
I heard rumor today that one of the other little video stores in town is closing up. The source isn’t the most reliable when it comes to rumors however, so I’ll just have to go do some snooping of my own to see if there’s any truth to it. If it does close [...]
As some people may have noticed, this site (and my subdomains) have been rather flaky lately, especially during the last few days. Emails with tech support have turned up very little useful info as to what’s causing the problem or a good long term solution. I’m getting rather fed up with it and [...]
The guys I’m renting my store from are also in the insurance business, providing home, business and car insurance. I used to get all 3 from them, but found that every year my premiums seemed to be creeping upwards. A customer/friend of ours was reminding me one day that he also sells insurance, [...]
The people we rent our store from have quite a lot of rental property investments, for example, they own the entire block where our store is located. Because of this, moving was made easier. I didn’t have to break my lease, they simply let me sign an extra year onto what was left [...]
I say it every time and yet here we are again, moving. I hate moving, I’m never moving again, blah blah blah. At least this time the move wasn’t far, just a few doors down on the same block so at least I didn’t need to hire a New York Moving Company. [...]
Been too busy at work to get a lot of gaming in for the last couple of weeks. Moving a store is a lot of work and a major pain in the ass. Most of the stuff is moved now but the new place is still a huge mess that needs sorting out. [...]
