I'm not sure about market feasibility of such a venture in Phoenix, but
some friends and myself had talked about doing something such as the
"internet cafe/lan part gig" as well.  I'm not sure something like that
could turn a decent profit (if at all) without appealing (stooping?) to the
general herds of the aol-ish user type audience.  It's an interesting idea,
but unless you could compete with pricewatch.com kind of pricing, or at
least offer a certain level of convenience/selection on site to offshoot the
difference, I don't think most of us geeks would buy into it.  I know a lot
of us in the tech field would often go to this place called Dave and Busters
back in Cali, basically a Gameworks-type of place, with a full service bar
in the middle of a huge arcade, with a nice resturant as well.  We'd go
there often and just geek out, eat, drink, and play video games.  I'll bet
you do something like that and throw in a grip of 100base ports (wireless?)
for lan gaming (BYOBoxen) and you could draw a decent geek gathering.
Having a hardware store near the bar might do well for sales and impulse
buying as well.  >=)

	I'd be interested to hear what you have in mind though and possibly help
out as I personally would like something cool like that to perhaps hang out
at.

-mbutash

-----Original Message-----
From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
[mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of Codie
William Masters
Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2002 1:29 PM
To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Subject: Re: Linux Computer Store!


Love the idea. A friend of mine in Austin just started a similar venture
focusing around a internet cafe\lan party gig. It's seems to be working
out well for him and I suppose it would work out great here. Also, I'd
be willing to help out.


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