The Nexus (Sylva’s TCG store) said they could probably give sell us boxes at wholesale price ($75 for 36 packs (rough 2.1 a pack)) if we advertise for them at events. What we could do is buy a box at the beginning of a semester and hold $4 entry tournaments, and then put 1 pack into the prize pool for each person who enters. So, we’d break even after 19 entrants, possibly split over several tournaments. After all packs are given away for prizes, we’d have 69 dollars profit. If we went this route, I’d try to go for monthly tournaments separate from LANs.
I’m going to Brainstorm Entertainment (Franklin’s TCG store) tomorrow and going to discuss possible cooperation with them.
There’s also Quantum Games (Dillsoborough’s TCG store) that I could talk to, but they aren’t open for business yet.