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Texas-Sized Opinion: Play-N-Trade

September 14, 2008

Texas-Sized Opinion is a semi-weekly opinionated article where I stand on my soapbox and disperse my view of something from the video game industry. Enjoy.

Play-N-Trade: Not the New GameStop

Because GameStop is succcessful.

Lemme share with you guys a story. This started as a response on a forums, but it was so long I decided to post it here. Enjoy.

I used to work Play-N-Trade here in San Antonio. I took the gig after quitting a better paying job that I hated. I cashed out my 401 of 8,000 bucks and decided it was time for me to take a chance on something I might like to do one day: Own a video game store. So I invested in “Play-N-Trade”, which was a start up game place by my house. I decided that even though the pay would be bad I could live off my 401K for the few months and then once the owner got the ball rolling we could talk more cash.
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