Good time to get into the computer business

[Datech]

Good stuff Chaksq. Also, if you feel like moving to a warmer climate I'd gladly do most of the grunt work if you provide the store front in Georgia, lol.

[Mitternacht]

Funny you mention this, me and my friend Tim are starting one now here in Pittsburgh. Our name is *removed for privacy*. What are you naming yours?

[985323]

I was thinking of naming it PcPeople

[Mitternacht]

Cool, best of luck to you. I'm working on a business card design for mine now, got a logo drawn up but I gotta create a photoshop render before I have vistaprint print them up.

[chaksq]

I was thinking of naming it PcPeople

I really like the name, catchy and to the point. Relatively obvious from the name what you do.

[Datech]

I was thinking of naming it PcPeople

You might want to google that name first. There are a few people ahead of you, heh.

[aintnothang]

I'm pumped for you guys.

[985323]

hmmm good point datech, how about Dynamic-pc

[aintnothang]

http://www.entrepreneur.com/starting...cle170050.html

[Twigsoffury]

make sure you live on 1337 such and such street.

the motto for my little home business is

"Can't Beat our prices we'll do it for free"

Lol throws a stick in most of the local reatailers when customers go back and forth with the big stores for prices.

but you know when you point out for that same 950$ you can get triple the processing power and four gigs of ram instead of two most people go with me.

Another thing i've noticed people like to do. Is you give them a Favorites list with all there computer parts and they purchase and hold all the items until they have them all accumulated. then they bring those in and I'll build it and set it up.

I'm not sure why But I think people just find it fun to hand out a shopping cart worth of boxes and get a complete working computer the next day or so.

seems they are more trusting that way you know. Because they arn't just purchasing phantom items. They get to see and hold the motherboard and stuff. kinda takes that ol' mighty scary magic box type of feeling away for them.

well all i can say is don't order computer parts in bulk. PC-mart did that and sure enough went out of business after there 800$ amd cpus all of a sudden lost 80% of there value. they never recovered from that. D'oh.

Yea so the way i understand it is buy single "display" items. like you know a couple bad ass boards and cpus to have in your cases or along the shelves. and order everything else off the internet thats needed.

Theres a computer place here in the city that hosts lan parties along with selling items at there store. I can assume it makes them pretty good cash and there reasonable people to. (lol you can smoke in there after hours) but its sorta a mom and pop kind of deal.