Given the latest scam and subsequent fallout of Boogie2988, I'm very surprised to see him featured here, and also that he is going to be at an expo. I doubt he will show...
I can't believe he's been invited to any cons for the last 5+ years. Dude has said and done so much awful stuff and blatantly lied on so many videos that I don't know why any of these places want him around.
I feel like Minty Tim is a recurring character on a sitcom. He’ll just randomly show up on the show, do his thing, and then you won’t see him again until halfway through the season. 😂
I have Fatal Inertia had no clue it was worth anything I have complete with manual and registration card I think I paid 50 cents for it a couple months ago. Sweet!!!!
There are NO Batman the Animated Series toys in your store, that might be hurting your biz 🙂 My God, I miss Kevin Conroy so much. He was perfect. I got a voice acting background and have to say that his voice has been such an inspiration for me since the Batman the Animated Series. The vocal training was tough, without noticeable results for months but actors like him are a great impulse to not give up; almost the face of Leon in those new RE games :) Great video as always.
Hey Rick. Big fan of the channel and the store! I actually run a game store that does 80% trading cards and 20% video games. And another big difference is that fact that shipping a video game is $4 minimum with usps nowadays. You can ship a trading card online that is worth less than $20 for around $1 between a top loader envelope and stamp. Hence why we buy cards worth less than $5 daily but pass on video games worth less than $10 often.
On those older lights there are LED conversion kits you can install, they are cheap, easy to install, and a much brighter and better light. Also will save you money on your electric bill and bulb costs because you’ll never have to replace them again id bet
Check to make sure there isn't a substantial voltage drop on the lighting circuit. That would cause the ballasts and lights to fail. Or put in LED low-bay/high-bay lights
You guys don't know how lucky you are to even have this many sources/places from where u can find/buy/resale/exchange games, consoles, and stuff, here in Serbia we mostly have one of two websites from which we get those(if I'm wrong someone please, correct or tell me if I'm wrong!), enjoy collecting, can wait for an opportunity to do the same! :)
In regards to the lights might want to look into your power. Might want to check your fuse box. Power conditioning might fix your issue. Locally my power company has a lot of surges that set off my fuses. Destroyed a few appliances. I could see that affecting your lighting ballasts
Do you know about the new electrical codes? They require service panels to have better breakers and have surge protection in them. Please upgrade your electrical service. Retro Rick needs to do this at his store too.
I’d like to make a suggestion with getting the games out the door and into the customers hands faster. I noticed at record stores they will post on social media note worthy trade ins and higher ticketed items. This will have people message you and you can get specific items in the floor first rather than waste time on lesser value items
I don't really understand the payoff for Minty Tim. He goes out of his way far and wide to hunt and find collections people are selling. Then once he haggles the collection down, he buys it just to flip to the game store -- which Rick needs to buy for under half market value to make anything on them, especially if he'll be sitting on all the inventory for a long time. So what kinda margin is Minty Tim getting? Is it even worth his time? Is he retired? lol...
I don't believe for one second that Tim is being honest when he talks about what he spent on this stuff. Because, of course, to your point, he'd barely make any money. It wouldn't be worth his time or effort. He's likely paying a fraction of what he claims. Resellers don't just willingly offer up what they paid for things so easily, which is why I'll never be convinced that he's being honest. LOL!
well it's either Tim sells to a pawn shop and get's ripped off, or lists it on ebay and pays for fees and shipping everything. Rick's store is probably the quicker deal. You're going to have to take a loss somewhere and not get the full value.
@@TooBokoohi I’m minty Tim. I buy collections and also Rick and me work together and mutually Benefit off way more than what you see. I hunt for the deals and also make money on the tons and tons and tons of stuff Rick doesn’t take. I make tons. I also don’t sell at 50 percent of value just an fyi. But you only see a fraction of the business I do.
Not to mention a card store is just that; cards. A video game store like yours sells, various shaped games that require shelves for that specific console, you sell strategy guides, special editions, the consoles themselves, controllers etc. And then on top of that you sell toys, cards and movies. Probably more that I didn't even think of.
Sweet trade in the the Switch collection! I love a good RPG game. In fact, quite a few of those games I've hoped either have animes to watch already or get ones soon. I thought about seeing if there's any such thing as a non-commercial disk cleaner. Do those kind of things exist? I thought it'd be nice to be able to clean up my games and movies on my own without making unnecessary trips.
This is something that really annoyed me. A guy local to me was selling a bunch of DS games he bought from a local game store. He bought them in bulk because they were going out of business. They all had the cases when he bought them, but they were inside a binder because of space constraints in the game store. Instead of him, putting them right in the cases immediately, he misplaced the cases. I bought the games and I spent three days removing stickers off the back of each one of them and cleaning them up so there was no residue. I put them up for sale, not holding my breath on getting the cases and as soon as I sold them, he calls me and says he has the cases. if I was closer to you, I'd bring them over and see if there was anything you needed lol People don't realize genuinely how long it takes you to clean and remove all stickers and residue. It took me three days to go through 500 games and it was a nightmare.
I was curious about something with your store. Understandable that certain games you can move quick, but I was wondering about the slow paced stuff. Have you ever considered listing slow moving products on places such as eBay? I know eBay gets a % cut of sales though, but I think all online stores do. eBay, Poshmark, and Mercari all take cuts.
I clean/De-sticker every game i put on ebay. So I can def appreciate the time/effort it takes. Not to mention pricing competitively! dang 'ol hidden costs i tell u hwhat.
Hey Rick, I know you’re a game store owner etc and retro game geek but could we get some footage of what games you’re currently playing? Do you even have time to play anything???
If you wait to resurface the disk until the person buys it. That would cut your time down a lot. Then you are not resurfacing disk that may sit for months or a year
Conventions look cool if you’re a UA-camr or buying supply to sell at a store but I live 4 hours from Greenville. Factoring time, gas, hotel, food, admission, etc. I’d have spent like 300-400 dollars just to walk in the door... and then to just pay eBay prices… Too expensive.
Pokemon card shops know they have have to give a bigger percentage anyway. Most card collectors who know what they have won't even entertain a small percentage number because they know someone on FB or Ebay will pay 80%+ or the full price. Percentage is if you're trying to move something immediately
Given the latest scam and subsequent fallout of Boogie2988, I'm very surprised to see him featured here, and also that he is going to be at an expo. I doubt he will show...
The scam just happened so he was already booked for the convention. Drama on the internet happens way faster than event planning.
I can't believe he's been invited to any cons for the last 5+ years. Dude has said and done so much awful stuff and blatantly lied on so many videos that I don't know why any of these places want him around.
@@TooBokoo ya dude, it’s disgraceful.
He had the longest line out of anyone at SEGE. It was crazy. I was able to walk right up to Riggs, Siccoper and Squarepegs who had no line at all.
@@outdoorsjoe lol. People are such fools.
Minty Tim is like a retro character from the 80’s. Bringing the 5 finger discount heat. lol
Really digging your videos, keep it real!
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Minty Tim redemption arc 😂
You can’t spell “minty” with out Tim
I feel like Minty Tim is a recurring character on a sitcom. He’ll just randomly show up on the show, do his thing, and then you won’t see him again until halfway through the season. 😂
minty tim is a good guy !
agreed, i'd also like to get some minty games from tinty mim's collection. You know he's got some rare bangies
It wouldn’t sit right with the other sellers if he goes there and sell cheap
Try avoid getting near Boogie2988 while your at the game convention, dude is nothing but trouble and will leech off you in a heart beat.
If the organizer a smarty tell Boogie to stay home that dude is straight-up toxic anymore
Bro who would have thought boogie would be more respected then the doc.... Mind blown
Chill it's Retro Rick we're talking about here not Mr Beast, I think he'll be good.
That’s a rude comment to make, do you know Boogie personally?
@@crobinson2624 aww a rude comment about someone who scammed people
Why dont you take a stall at your own convention and just get rid of some of the overstocks in the store at crazy low prices?
Ricky Wonka, Part 2
He would have to ship or bring the inventory when I would guess he is flying in for the event.
@@FuelHauler48 I mean the convention he's putting on in Arkansas. Presumably it's close enough to the store they could drive it
Congrats on the deal with microtel. I think that’s a great idea for all the tourists coming to see y’all. 🤙🏻
It was really great getting to stop by this store this past week and chat with you while my family and I were down in AR!
Oh god, not boogie
Is he in this video? Where at?
@@Smodlee Hes one of the panel members at the convention mentioned early in the video.
I have Fatal Inertia had no clue it was worth anything I have complete with manual and registration card I think I paid 50 cents for it a couple months ago. Sweet!!!!
There are NO Batman the Animated Series toys in your store, that might be hurting your biz 🙂 My God, I miss Kevin Conroy so much. He was perfect. I got a voice acting background and have to say that his voice has been such an inspiration for me since the Batman the Animated Series. The vocal training was tough, without noticeable results for months but actors like him are a great impulse to not give up; almost the face of Leon in those new RE games :) Great video as always.
That audition video on ur channel, is that you??
Honestly the Whole DCAU was so great.
Tim is great, He could sell ice to Eskimos 😂
Or a ketchup popsicle to a woman in white gloves
It's great that you're collaborating and not competing! :)
I love your store Rick!
It was great meeting you guys tonight, see you tomorrow at SEGE!
It was nice meeting you and Michael at pinky’s revenge tonight. Both of you are super nice and I hope to run into you again sometime tomorrow.
I would love to visit your store one day!! Thanks for the great videos
Just visited your store for the first time, amazing setup will for sure be a returning customer!
When light/ballist get installed it’s normally at the same time that’s why their all going out at the same time
Hey Rick. Big fan of the channel and the store! I actually run a game store that does 80% trading cards and 20% video games. And another big difference is that fact that shipping a video game is $4 minimum with usps nowadays. You can ship a trading card online that is worth less than $20 for around $1 between a top loader envelope and stamp. Hence why we buy cards worth less than $5 daily but pass on video games worth less than $10 often.
On those older lights there are LED conversion kits you can install, they are cheap, easy to install, and a much brighter and better light. Also will save you money on your electric bill and bulb costs because you’ll never have to replace them again id bet
Minty Tim and the Bangers
The family Truckster is a dream boat car 😂
I love that you don't put game discs in paper sleeves.
Spiderman Tim picking up web of shadows for $10 is crazy
Check to make sure there isn't a substantial voltage drop on the lighting circuit. That would cause the ballasts and lights to fail. Or put in LED low-bay/high-bay lights
You guys don't know how lucky you are to even have this many sources/places from where u can find/buy/resale/exchange games, consoles, and stuff, here in Serbia we mostly have one of two websites from which we get those(if I'm wrong someone please, correct or tell me if I'm wrong!), enjoy collecting, can wait for an opportunity to do the same! :)
Can't wait for the Minty Tim spinoff series
Going to be starting my UA-cam at ricks convention. I’ll be meeting everyone too!
Minty Tim! I love how he's constantly a salesman.
Looked for you all day Saturday at SEGE but never saw you. Son and I were hoping to meet you. Maybe next time.
I need those Xenosaga strat guides
Minty Tim the GOAT
In regards to the lights might want to look into your power. Might want to check your fuse box. Power conditioning might fix your issue. Locally my power company has a lot of surges that set off my fuses. Destroyed a few appliances. I could see that affecting your lighting ballasts
Do you know about the new electrical codes? They require service panels to have better breakers and have surge protection in them. Please upgrade your electrical service. Retro Rick needs to do this at his store too.
15:46 I was eating and almost choked when Tails was suddenly on screen.
That was a minty trade!
Always dig your videos, watching here i Norge. Seems like your quality of videos keeps going up, keep up the great work.
Minty Tim @ 3:24..."For my Son"...lol
I’d like to make a suggestion with getting the games out the door and into the customers hands faster.
I noticed at record stores they will post on social media note worthy trade ins and higher ticketed items.
This will have people message you and you can get specific items in the floor first rather than waste time on lesser value items
I don't really understand the payoff for Minty Tim.
He goes out of his way far and wide to hunt and find collections people are selling.
Then once he haggles the collection down, he buys it just to flip to the game store -- which Rick needs to buy for under half market value to make anything on them, especially if he'll be sitting on all the inventory for a long time. So what kinda margin is Minty Tim getting? Is it even worth his time? Is he retired? lol...
I don't believe for one second that Tim is being honest when he talks about what he spent on this stuff. Because, of course, to your point, he'd barely make any money. It wouldn't be worth his time or effort. He's likely paying a fraction of what he claims. Resellers don't just willingly offer up what they paid for things so easily, which is why I'll never be convinced that he's being honest. LOL!
well it's either Tim sells to a pawn shop and get's ripped off, or lists it on ebay and pays for fees and shipping everything. Rick's store is probably the quicker deal. You're going to have to take a loss somewhere and not get the full value.
@@TooBokoohi I’m minty Tim. I buy collections and also Rick and me work together and mutually Benefit off way more than what you see. I hunt for the deals and also make money on the tons and tons and tons of stuff Rick doesn’t take. I make tons. I also don’t sell at 50 percent of value just an fyi. But you only see a fraction of the business I do.
"MANUAL'S"!!!!😆😂
I must've missed you guys at SEGE on Saturday. Hope you enjoyed Greenville
If you're having that many issues with the fixtures, it might be worth looking into LED conversions that bypass the ballasts.
Not a perfect solution, but most of those Data East games in that collection are available digitally now on PlayStation & Switch.
Well it’s different cuz u sell higher then market+ on products
Yes aware, overhead, employees ect.
But that is the difference
Not to mention a card store is just that; cards. A video game store like yours sells, various shaped games that require shelves for that specific console, you sell strategy guides, special editions, the consoles themselves, controllers etc. And then on top of that you sell toys, cards and movies. Probably more that I didn't even think of.
I've learned from just collecting, gotta maximize the space, sometimes you just have to go vertical!
lol boogie going to be scamming everybody there
Boogie man
It has a Mario base and a closing top lid .It's a n64 in a case.
We like michael, he seems legit.
Minty Tim rocks 🪨 Glad he is getting some love from the community. He seems like a great guy
Sweet trade in the the Switch collection! I love a good RPG game. In fact, quite a few of those games I've hoped either have animes to watch already or get ones soon.
I thought about seeing if there's any such thing as a non-commercial disk cleaner. Do those kind of things exist? I thought it'd be nice to be able to clean up my games and movies on my own without making unnecessary trips.
take it all in the guy is living his best life
How bout you make a binder with pics of the special edition and keep them in back and set binder on the display cases
see you in hartford.
“Gets it from his dad”. Classic Minty Tim.
This is something that really annoyed me. A guy local to me was selling a bunch of DS games he bought from a local game store. He bought them in bulk because they were going out of business. They all had the cases when he bought them, but they were inside a binder because of space constraints in the game store. Instead of him, putting them right in the cases immediately, he misplaced the cases. I bought the games and I spent three days removing stickers off the back of each one of them and cleaning them up so there was no residue. I put them up for sale, not holding my breath on getting the cases and as soon as I sold them, he calls me and says he has the cases. if I was closer to you, I'd bring them over and see if there was anything you needed lol
People don't realize genuinely how long it takes you to clean and remove all stickers and residue. It took me three days to go through 500 games and it was a nightmare.
Those disc resurfacers are a scam the fact that they charge for recharge cards even after you buy the equipment
Stay away from Boogie Rick, pleaseeeee
I love Lumines!
Can you do a top 10 all time game video? Love the videos brother!
I was curious about something with your store. Understandable that certain games you can move quick, but I was wondering about the slow paced stuff. Have you ever considered listing slow moving products on places such as eBay? I know eBay gets a % cut of sales though, but I think all online stores do. eBay, Poshmark, and Mercari all take cuts.
Heat can f up electronics that are on.💜
I'd look at the little things you could do to shrink that processing time. 30 secs here and there can be hours saved over time
I clean/De-sticker every game i put on ebay. So I can def appreciate the time/effort it takes. Not to mention pricing competitively! dang 'ol hidden costs i tell u hwhat.
If you want to save a ton of cash get rid of those lights and switch to led strip lights.
If you don’t mind sharing, what inventory system do you use/recommend. I do mainly eBay and not everything has a UPC.
Convert your ballast to LED. No more ballast and the tubes last longer and don’t change color over time. Incredibly easy. UA-cam it.
"That's gonna be a pricey pricey." 😂
If he wore those glasses indoors would have made the video 100x better
I would love to find those xenosaga strategy guides in the wild. Been trying to find them decently priced for a while.
Hey Rick, I know you’re a game store owner etc and retro game geek but could we get some footage of what games you’re currently playing? Do you even have time to play anything???
Hi guys! Are we going to get a schedule for retrofest? We were planning to go one of the two days, but weren't sure which to choose.
Dude! Awesome sonic shirt 👕!
Michael looks like SKEETER from Doug
You should just switch all your lights out LEDs
Stuff and time is not free! some people don't see that , they also don't see that repairs cost money !
If you wait to resurface the disk until the person buys it. That would cut your time down a lot. Then you are not resurfacing disk that may sit for months or a year
I’m at 974 games in my collection, with about 25% of it being OG XBox/360/XB1/Series S.
microsoft is not a real gaming platform you must be gates' son
This one's an OG.
4:01 "we got some ncie cuby cube"
Hold up! That OOT Master quest disc is WORTH A LOT
Conventions look cool if you’re a UA-camr or buying supply to sell at a store but I live 4 hours from Greenville. Factoring time, gas, hotel, food, admission, etc. I’d have spent like 300-400 dollars just to walk in the door... and then to just pay eBay prices… Too expensive.
It's under rare n64.
Boogie2988 coming seriously? 😳 He’s a scammer… That not a good look for SouthEast GX
The way you handled that $100 strategy guide was pretty unprofessional and you could see it bothered him too. @4:44
Pokemon card shops know they have have to give a bigger percentage anyway. Most card collectors who know what they have won't even entertain a small percentage number because they know someone on FB or Ebay will pay 80%+ or the full price. Percentage is if you're trying to move something immediately
good luck with the mario
It’s the Peppa BandAid for me!
Boogie > Dr. Disrespect
Who would have thought.
Id like to see the buffer work.
i think it might be getting close to move the business to different building
That’s one big thing with pinball man. Unless your really lucky those things break often
Those are steel cabinets.
You need to collab with "Joe's Classic Video Games" to do an arcade/pinball repair video.
Call it the vault.
Minty Tim's the Ski Man Rickory.
I want the whole store 😅
Resellers: Buy from you cheap as possible but want full value when selling or trading!!!
Buy LED bulbs…you bypass the ballast altogether
I hate cons that have to many youtubers