3rd Quarter

Friday marked the end of our first 3 months in the new location. It was also the end of the 3rd fiscal quarter.

So, what kind of things did we sell in our first three months here? This pie chart shows the percentage of profit we got from each category.

2011 3 Quarter sales

When did we sell them? This is actually a tool we’re using to try to define when we should be open. If we sold the same amount of things every hour, this chart would be flat. But on Friday, the Magic players come in and pay for the tournament, and everyone else leaves – making purchases on the way out. This means we have a huge spike at 6:00 on Friday. It also shows that our lunch crowd doesn’t buy as much as I thought.

2011 3 Quarter timed sales

News 10/2-9/2011

Since our players can’t wait, we will be holding a Magic Draft for Innistrad both on Monday and Wednesday this week at 6:30. $15 entry, prizes for top half.

Speaking of Magic – at the request of the players, we will attempt to call first round for Friday Night Magic at 6:30 in an attempt to finish earlier.

Next Sunday at noon Jim Ruh will be starting up a D&D 3.5 game – he’s already got a couple of players but he could use more.

7th Dimension Games has decided to hire one additional staffer to train before the Christmas rush. The position is 5-10 hours a week at minimum wage. Applicants should submit their resume in person at the store. You must be 18 and have reliable transportation.

We have two discount programs, both rely on you keeping your receipts. Any time you have a receipt for at least $70 of product at full price, or multiple receipts that add up to $70 of product at full price, bring them in for a 10% discount on your next purchase. We’ll mark the receipts as used, so they can’t be used again.

The second program is called First Teacher. Buy a game and be the first person to teach that game to another customer in the store. Let us mark your receipt to show that you taught the game. The next game you buy, you’ll get a 20% discount. The list of games no longer eligible is here.

The Future

October 10 is Columbus Day, we will be open our standard hours.

Dec 3rd Tanukifest, the L5R weekend.

This week

  • Monday: Magic Draf 6:30
  • Tuesday: Evening – open board games
  • Wednesday: Paint Club. Magic Draft – registration at 6:30. D&D Encounters 6:30
  • Thursday: Legend of the 5 Rings CCG
  • Friday: 6:30 call time for FNM
  • Saturday: World of Warcraft Draft 1:30. Evening boardgames and card games.
  • Sunday: Flames of War

More Christmas

As we finished checking in 2 shipments, 2 more arrived from 2 different distributors.

We now have more single color playmats and a variety of new anime sleeves.

Sleeves & Mats

More board game restocks and a few things we can’t sell until Friday.
New Warmachine, card restocks

Elder Signs of Christmas

It is the end of September, that means it is time to think about Christmas stocking. That means we need to order lots of stuff, and it started arriving late last night.

Elder Sign finally arrived with a pile of restocks. We also got Monster Binders in for the first time to see if anyone cares.

News 9/25/11-10/2/2011

This Friday is the Magic Innistrad Release event. We will be running a sealed deck tournament. $25 gets 6 packs to build a deck. 1 booster pack per match win. Since the release date is not until Friday – Wednesday night will be the last 2012 draft.

This Saturday it looks like most of our regular players have other commitments, so we will make it an all day board game day!

It looks like Jim Ruh is getting together a D&D 3.5 game – we’ll forward any email to him if you are interested in playing.

7th Dimension Games has decided to hire one additional staffer to train before the Christmas rush. The position is 5-10 hours a week at minimum wage. Applicants should submit their resume in person at the store. You must be 18 and have reliable transportation.

The Future

We had a few Magic players ask to start FNM earlier. If people agree, in October, we will start trying to call first round at 6:30.

October 10 is Columbus Day, we will be open our standard hours.

Dec 3rd Tanukifest, the L5R weekend.

This week

  • Monday: still looking for the right thing
  • Tuesday: Evening – open board games
  • Wednesday: Paint Club. Magic Draft – registration at 6:30. D&D Encounters 6:30
  • Thursday: Legend of the 5 Rings CCG
  • Friday: 6:30 Magic Innistrad release event
  • Saturday: All day boardgames and card games.
  • Sunday: Warmachine

Dreadfleet anyone

Games Workshop is taking pre-orders for a limited edition game called Dreadfleet. We have an opportunity to order a few. Are any of our customers interested in having us hold one for you? The release date is scheduled for Oct 1.