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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zulithe" data-source="post: 1659175" data-attributes="member: 4708">Hello, I'm from the South Kansas City area (I live in Grandview but recently lived in Belton as well), over the last 10 years that I've lived here, I've seen 3 go out of business. 4 if you count a sports-card shop that also sold Magic.As a customer I think you should try to provide as much as your space would allow, and as much variety as possible. RPGs, CCGs, Computer gaming and war gaming being the biggest areas. I really believe that for a store like this to be successful it must fit the needs of several niche groups, because generally the audiences seem small -- with the exception of computer gaming. With a little advertising that place could be packed if the location is right. There is a used bookstore in Belton that is not a far walk from the High School, me and my friends used to walk there all the time since they held Magic tournaments and sold lots of single cards. I even met some game developers from Thunder Castle Games there (based here in KC if it still exists) and got to playtest their Towers In Time and Highlander card games. Things like that kept me coming back.I also buy LOTS of comics and we don't have a lot of shops in the area anymore so maybe keep that in the back of your mind, consider it but the problem is that they take up lots of space and while the customer base is not that big, the people that do buy comics usually buy TONS, I can testify to that!About animals in your store, I know that it makes it seem very homey and all to some people, but personally I find that I tend to trip over them since the store owners seem to not watch the animals very closely, or they jump up onto the tables begging to be petted when you're more intersted in reading the flavor text on the back of a product. I see it more as just "one more thing" to worry about when you're really trying to get your business off the ground and build customer loyalty. Safest bet is no. Don't take this like I hate animals though, I have a very cuddly cat of my own at home <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Discounts can really make the difference when there are rival stores in the area, what customer doesn't love those? Not to mention that more and more gamers buy their stuff from places like amazon.com which often give 30% or more off on every item! You're not expected to give those kind of discounts but even a little goes a long way. One of the shops that went out of business a few years ago is one that I bought comics at for about 7 years. I was there every week like clockwork and spent $150-250 a month there between comics, trade paperbacks and gaming stuff. I was never offered a discount. Not once!Just one customer's thoughts!</blockquote>

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