For me it was kinda of weird
About 3 years ago I had finished my degree and was going into a part time masters. I come from a family that is very business orientated. Nearly all my family from my Great Grand Dad had their own business. There was serious pressure for me to follow in the same path.
So I decided that I wanted to be in retail and wanted to get some valuable experience. I contacted a few video game stores who listed their stores for sale, I found one willing to supply a pallet load of games. I emptied my savings and purchased the pallet of games for a good price.
To get valuable experience I decided to sell on eBay which I had never done before, it was an disaster. I got scammed by so many buyers and ended up losing £700 in a week. However out of all the sales, the only ones that were legitimate and actually gave me great feedback were the collector's looking for Limited Edition games. They also made up a nice chunk of my turnover.
It's at this point that I made the decision to change from being a normal video game eBay retailer to a Limited and Collector's Editions retailer.
I needed to do proper research and found this site, It was amazingly useful.
After seeing some of the great collections here, It inspired me to start collecting Sealed game. It would help me to get valuable information and help sell my games on ebay.
Then the recession happened, the bank refused me loans and my supply of games ran out. My day job was now my only funding for new stock, I tried to build up stock to get steady sales every month but it didn't help and the bank refuse a start up loan for the last time.
It was the end but my excitement of having these Collector's Edition was not, I kept the last of a few game and instead started to collect them. From that day I have collected games.
But my dream of a retail store is still there and I still have stock of games in storage, which I hope to sell on the opening. One day
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