ChiSoxFan

Reported as well.

Add me to the list of happy customers of Mike. I just finished my first transaction with him for a pair of CGC books that were shipped lightning fast and were packaged impeccably. Great communication as well throughout. I'll be definitely looking forward to more deals with him in the future.

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Way back when I owned a store (we're talking mid-to-late 1990's), Magic was big back then as well. We had a space set up for gaming tables, since we sold Magic, and we did well pre-selling new release boxes, unopened boxes after release, and packs regularly from numerous sets (not just the latest), as well as single cards (we had a whole display case set up for singles). It was a heavy driver of revenue for us pretty much every day of the week (we had become a destination store for a lot of local players who would come and play there), and when new sets released, the sales of MTG would dwarf what we sold comic-wise (those were VERY good sales days ). We would also run tournaments regularly on Sunday, and we'd charge anywhere from $5-$10 per entry (these were almost always tournaments that involved players playing with there own decks, often testing them out in competitive play before entering larger-scale tounraments, and we'd draw anywhere from 10-12 people on the low end to 25-30 people on the high end). We would take the entry money and disperse it to the winner and 2nd place in the form of store credit -- which almost always had the winners using that credit to purchase packs at full retail or single cards (which were sunk cost at that point). The tournaments were a nice source of income for our store on a day that many times could be very slow.