Joysticks & d20s — Local services in Gardendale

Edit: Added a pic of the owner's response in case he loses his nerve. I feel his reponse just proves my review. And I bought something because I wanted to support a local small business. I guess that's what I get. I HIGHLY recommend checking out Gamer Geeks in Warrior. They have been friendly every time I have visited.

I was visiting gaming stores in the area, and this is the only one I had bad vibes from just approaching the entrance. The front windows full of crazily stacked collection boxes, obscuring the entire inside of the store. It barely looks like a store from the outside.

Upon entering, we were gruffly greeted by the person running the store. No smile, no welcoming vibes, nothing. Just a sense of "why are you even here?"

Ignoring this, we walked around and looked around for awhile. We felt likes his eyes were GLUED to us the entire time we were there. It felt fairly hostile.

I wound up buying a few things, and there was no conversation or connection made with the person working. It felt like we were an inconvenience to him.

As a small business, being able to talk to people or at least be welcoming is really important, and this shop had none of these things. I will not be going back, and have warned a few people off from this store. We were hoping it could be a regular place to shop, but that is not...

We literally purchased items in your store that we were happy to pay for……so it doesn’t make sense that now you say you’re so confident that we were stealing. If you TRULY DO feel as if we were stealing, then why didn’t you send that security footage you have to the police? Or call them immediately when you suspected? Or just show the footage? I think you should definitely show it if you believe you can prove anything illegal going on there. I know nothing would happen to us because it was literally just a person looking in their purse for their phone at the unlucky and wrong time I guess of being in your store. But send it to the police. They’d agree it looks like a person just opening their purse to grab something out of it, but GOD FORBID they do it without thinking of pointing towards the store owner first so he’s not scared you’re a criminal. Because apparently if you “loudly rifle” through your purse in public to get your phone without looking at/pointing towards the store owner, you’re suspicious/stealing. I didn’t even think about it when I was reaching for my phone tbh because usually no one would take something like that as “bad”. Just something normal I did without thinking that it would apparently make me out to be a...

Friendly service and lots of product! Stopped by on a whim on my way home from a weekend trip. I ended up spending hours looking through cards. Such a robust stock of singles, packs, precons, and other card accessories.

I have never been to another store that aligns their rares on the wall alphabetized and sorted by color. Such a great attention to detail with the display. This was a truly amazing way to browse rares for me.

So many cards, if you're looking for singles they have multiple boxes of color coded sleeved singles sorted by price ranging from $1-$4. They also have bulk boxes of the cheaper singles for browsing as well.

Will most definitely visit if I'm ever near there again. I really beefed up my commander collection with format staples. Was a great way to spend a...