![]() ![]() Your best case scenario would be to buy a shop with a lot of inventory that is going out of business. The comic stores that buy the most supplies from me have a $3-5k weekly comic bill. It is very hard to determine what you will need, or what your customers will want. If you are going to have one of those shops that has everything from Backissues to Statues this might be hard. Times that by 24 months and you should have that much in the bank plus 10% as a cushion.ĭepending on the focus of your store this could be very easy or very difficult. Figure out how much your bills are going to be like Rent, Taxes, Insurance, Phones, Internet Access per month. What you should focus on is a 2 year plan. TPB's seem to sell quite well now if you have them in stock, I've noticed at my LCS that are willing to pay full price on tpbs but only if they're in stock. I'm not an expert, but having a deeper back issue selection wouldn't hurt.Īlso, you'd have to be prepared to suffer losses your first few years, due to ordering a wide selection of current books every week, you can't count on subscribers, they're pretty fickle in my experience. Let's say the potential owner already has a meager back issue supply of about 15 long boxes, mostly 80's, but a sprinkling from every age. So here's my question for you current/former shop owners: how much jack would you SUGGEST one have as starting capital for opening a shop? I'm sure it would vary be geographics, size, and any number of factor, but as a basic ballpark figure what would be a good starting point. (I can think of one right off the top of my head) Surely there are current &/or former shop owners on the boards here. I was daydreaming, as usual, about opening a brick&mortar comic shop. ![]()
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