![]() Now, he’s looking forward to his time abroad. “I really enjoyed doing it, and we’ve gotten a great crew and I’ll be sorry to not hangout with them anymore.” “To me, this was a really valuable thing to do,” he said of his time running the shop. White doesn’t see the closure as a failure. Until early September, the store will be discounting items to clear out its stock. Selling as low as Amazon as a small shop, “that’s just not a way to pay the bills,” he said. A Dungeons & Dragons book he stocks he purchases from a distributor for $34, and he sells it for $50, while Amazon can sell it for $36, he said. It’s virtually impossible for him to sell games for less than the price Amazon does and stay afloat, he said. ![]() Living with his parents helped him make it work, he said. “It’s hard to communicate how little money in this there is,” White said, adding he did not pay himself minimum wage. “We also want to be attentive to the fact we’re not the only landlord on Spring Street and we don’t want to create imbalance or inequality in terms of business opportunities on the street.”įor White, the effective rent increase and difficulty turning a profit with the game store would make it difficult to pass the business along to another owner. ![]() “We want a flourishing Spring Street,” he said. The college does give deals on rent sometimes to help businesses get started, said Jim Reische, the college’s chief communications officer. ![]() In the future, the college plans to change the lease for the space and charge market rate, and that would increase rent significantly from what White has been paying. “They were giving me a really good deal,” he said. White said he never came close to selling enough to pay market rate rent. ![]() EAGLE FILE PHOTOĬurrently, White pays a percentage of his sales, with a cap at market rate rent, to lease the space. "It's hard to communicate how little money in this there is," store owner Niko White said of the game store business. ![]()
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