anyone ever run a video rental store?
 

so theres a young guy opening a video store nearby, i originally thought he's bound to fail miserably then i found out he is going to have a nice sized adult dvd section too.. fucking genius.. married men will be lining up.. anyway do any of you have experience in the rental business? like whats the initial startup costs for a business like this?

im curious to know :Graucho

alot

buy a bunch of DVD lots on ebay.. startup cost is $4 per DVD max

rough figure?

I wanted to take over the video rental store that I worked at during my studies, but eventually decided not to do it.

It doesn't really take a lot of investment because movie companies lease out their new stuff to the stores, so what you pay is a fee for everytime someone rents one of the new vids/dvd's. And after like 2 months you can choose how many of the videos you actually want to buy.

Adult video rental was only like 5% of the total revenue, but maybe that was because the store is in a small town.

The reason that i decided not to do it was that it would bring me only little revenue (you definitely can't get rich of 1 video store), good and trustworty personnel is hard to find (mostly students, it doesn't pay very well) and to stand there myself would be faaaaaaaaar too boring.

:)