IDEA: GAME RENTAL

I don’t know about you, but with two kids in our house, not including the millions that come over daily to hang out, there are a lot of video games lying around. I believe we have 120 or so. Between the gameboy, psp, wii, game cube, playstation, and the PC, there are a lot of games to play. As much as my brother wishes he could, we can’t play all of these games at once. So we tried renting them out. Many parents want their kids to try a game before buying it. You can be their main source. There are a few ways this can be done.
There could be an individual fee. For each day a game is taken out, a certain amount could be charged. This would be great if there is quick use of each game. If you expect someone to pick out a game every day, I would try this. It also makes payment easy to keep up with. The other idea would be to charge a monthly fee. This would secure regular customers. Customers would be able to borrow as many games as they wanted and pay a flat fee on a certain day every month. The only thing that you would have to establish is that only one game may be taken out at a time. This can even result in sales of games if people get interested. If there is a game you are done with, then you can sell it to buy new games.
An extension of this would be to provide a physical arcade. By paying for a setup at a local flea market or other venue, multiple small TV’s can be set up to be played on. Kids can pay to use your games while parents shop. If a flea market venue is paid for, one could also sell foods and crafts while renting out game time. The only cost here would be the venue rate and the TV’s. As a hint, most people will sell online for cheap. Going on Craigslist.com or the classifieds, people will get rid of small TV sets for as little as $10. Sometimes, even free. As always, when a business is set up outside the house, have a parent come along. You do not want to get cheated and ripped off.