The hobby takes over my life *rant*

[Grumbold Ironbrow]

Looking Goood!!!

Tuubje,

The store looks great. I\'m supposed to be in Brussels next year, I make an extra day to come up to Antwerp for a visit. I promise I\'ll even buy something and not tell too many boring stories lol

Cheers,
Grumb

 

[Calavera]

Wow, great work
I would like to see some outside photos as well... is it on a 2nd or 3rd floor somewhere ? There are no windows
Anyways, i see a paint rack.. what kind of paints are you selling ?

Good luck with the store !

 

[Herb the bitter]

How long have you been open and how is business going so far?

 

[Tuubje]

Originally posted by Calavera
Wow, great work
I would like to see some outside photos as well... is it on a 2nd or 3rd floor somewhere ? There are no windows
Anyways, i see a paint rack.. what kind of paints are you selling ?

Good luck with the store !

When i took the middle picture i was with my back to the window
Selling Vallejo and Humbrol.
And Herb bussiness is going great so far

 

[tooshy]

Cool shop!!

Wow Tuubje, the store looks excellent - very stylish I wish I had a store that looked so good near me

Show me the website when you have time ok

 

[Beelzebrush]

Nice shop Tuubje!!

I\'m looking around myself at the moment too. I hope I find something even remotely as nice.

Good luck with your venture!!

 

[Tuubje]

Originally posted by Beelzebrush
Nice shop Tuubje!!

I\'m looking around myself at the moment too. I hope I find something even remotely as nice.

Good luck with your venture!!

only take the building if you have a good \"feel\" about it, not a pure science, but it makes you a happier shopkeeper

 

[Corvus]

Of course, Tuub, the location of your store is great: near some schools, public transport, etc.

 

[Tiderius]

Good luck on your venture Tuubje!

The store looks really nice, and I have yet to see a gaming store with better lighting than that!

 

[finn17]

Scratch and sniff...

That\'s always a good way of recognising a gaming store, specially GW on a Saturday morning

 

[Nelson]

Originally posted by Tuubje
For those who are wondering what happened so far :
This is it now -

And if you want to know a website or anything (Still not advertising Chern )
message me personally

Whoa, the store looks great, Tuubje! It really does look like the nicest gaming store I\'ve seen!! In fact, It looks suspiciously like you cut it out of the pages of an IKEA catalogue.....

 

[Tuubje]

Some of the stuff IS from IKEA , it\'s cheap you know (but only the tables and chairs)

 

[MaestroOfMayhem]

Good Job! I hope your store has many success\'s. and you grow to be a billionaire and give us all minis free!!! No, seriously. Free, not cheap, free! In my dreams right? Maby your dreams who knows, I just thought I\'d say kudos it is a little late and I think ive been sniffing to much Citadel and Velajijo(I can\'t spell it ight don blame me). Anyways, why dont you sell GW paints, they are pretty popular. I have to go to 3 different places to get 2 different paints, I would like them all to be in 1 place, I\'m sure Europeans feel the same way. Will you have a \'poitns sytem\'? My Rogue Trader had one, I\'ve been going to about 3 years and have a grandtotal of about 5 points... only 995 until I can buy that nice Star Wars Card (storm trooper) or a nice plastic base. Anyways, mypost already seems to long and repetitive, ignore this if you want. Good luck and happy days, and what is your shop called you haven\'t told us yet. Perhaps you could even have a neon sign that says OPEN, and turn it on when your shop is open, because it is open, then people will know it is open, and you can give us free stuff. A nyways, if I am ever shipped to Europe near Antwerp for some reason I\'ll be sure to come near your store at the very least. And make sure your shop doesn\'t smell like man butt like some stores do, buy lots of air freshener and frebreeze. Well thats enough, it is late and I\'ve licked to much paint of my brush, time for me to shut up... good luck one last time, and Bon Voyage, your off the deep end.

 

[Tuubje]

Originally posted by MaestroOfMayhem
Good Job! I hope your store has many success\'s. and you grow to be a billionaire and give us all minis free!!! No, seriously. Free, not cheap, free! In my dreams right? Maby your dreams who knows, I just thought I\'d say kudos it is a little late and I think ive been sniffing to much Citadel and Velajijo(I can\'t spell it ight don blame me). Anyways, why dont you sell GW paints, they are pretty popular. I have to go to 3 different places to get 2 different paints, I would like them all to be in 1 place, I\'m sure Europeans feel the same way. Will you have a \'poitns sytem\'? My Rogue Trader had one, I\'ve been going to about 3 years and have a grandtotal of about 5 points... only 995 until I can buy that nice Star Wars Card (storm trooper) or a nice plastic base. Anyways, mypost already seems to long and repetitive, ignore this if you want. Good luck and happy days, and what is your shop called you haven\'t told us yet. Perhaps you could even have a neon sign that says OPEN, and turn it on when your shop is open, because it is open, then people will know it is open, and you can give us free stuff. A nyways, if I am ever shipped to Europe near Antwerp for some reason I\'ll be sure to come near your store at the very least. And make sure your shop doesn\'t smell like man butt like some stores do, buy lots of air freshener and frebreeze. Well thats enough, it is late and I\'ve licked to much paint of my brush, time for me to shut up... good luck one last time, and Bon Voyage, your off the deep end.

That sure is a rant lol.
The store is called \"The Game Garden\"
I don\'t sell GW paints because I allready sell Vallejo Model colour, Vallejo Game colour and Humbrol enamel paints. My cash is running low on buying another type of paint that has exactly the same names (even though they were first yes), but is inferior to Vallejo, many would agree I hope
Stinky Man butt smell will be avoided at all costs
As for the points system, I have a customer card: everytime you buy something it goes on the card, after 10 sales I calculate the grand total. Take 5% from that grand total and that\'s the discount you get on the 11th sale. It\'s not much, but I\'m pretty sharp with the prices on the products, my store is pretty and I don\'t have money anymore to spend on bigger discounts

 

[No Such Agency]

Best of luck, Tuubje! The store looks really nice, very inviting and professional. I\'d come and check it out in person but the airfare is prohibitive

On a side note, Maestro, sports bars would smell like \"stinky man butt\" too, if they didn\'t have the fragrances of cigarettes and stale beer to disguise it. Gamers aren\'t the sole offenders lol

 

[airhead]

Break a Leg

That means good luck without the curse of saying good luck.lol

Sounds like a place where I could spend some time & money. If only I was on that side of the big pond. Get the online ordering up. I want some Velajo paints.:innocent: (as long as the shipping doesn\'t make me take out a third mortgage.)

Retail has ONE serious rule: LOCATION.

If you don\'t get the drop-in traffic from something nearby (school, mall, department store, whatever) you will only get customers that are willing to go out of their way to get to you. However, if you are near one of those mommy/child magnets, you can count on some drop ins. Those are bonuses and become regulars.