Sometimes I wonder if it all is worth it and often times I keep feeling like maybe it isn’t. I’ve spent almost a full three years with this business I call The Lich’s Lair and I have been through more emotional and psychological strain than I have in all my relationships combined.

When we started this business we started it with mentality that the business would grow into something that other people would be proud to be a part of. One of the first things we tried to do was put into place a membership program which would make people feel more like this place was their own. It didn’t take long before we had thought we achieved that. People seemed to be very proud of The Lair and so were we.

In 2009 the we became I. In 2009 I lost dozens of players and I almost closed the business because by October of that year it looked like all hope would be lost. We managed to scrape by in October and the following few months would be a struggle for us to reach bare minimum.

In the beginning of 2010 the I which had become we again returned to being mostly I. I had gained and lost two partners who both felt as though they weren’t getting compensated well enough. Remember that I have yet to be compensated BTW and when I brought on people as partners I informed them that the business gets kept first not us.

This is not a money making venture. Our current partner Ryan knows that as well. He gets a slight form of compensation every few weeks to reimburse him for his fuel costs. Notice I use the word form because money is not something this business can afford to give away. He seems to be understanding for now, but I just wish the business could do a little more.

This isn’t some scheme to guilt trip; I just needed a way to speak out about the last few years and try to help us decide whether to continue keeping the doors to the Lair open, since I keep getting phone calls from people asking if we stock boxes of extra M11 for sale. Especially when you tell them a box is only $90 and you can have it for them as little as 2 days after they order it and they still want to act like you are making them an unfair deal. I’d like to see you get that from ANY other retailer. ANY. 2 days, $90, Box-In-Hand. People buy boxes from the internet for $95 and wait 3-5 days to get them and they only get them if they are home when UPS come by. Fuck off if you think these prices are unfair.