TATE'S Gaming Satellite — Local services in Lauderhill

I have been playing Yu-Gi-Oh! since 2003. I started Three J's Sportscards in Anaheim, California. I gave all my cards away to my friend Eduardo because it would cost too much to shipped them.

I moved here to Hollywood, Florida a month ago. Now that I settled down. I was at the Gamestop and one of the worker told me about this store called Tate's Gaming Satellite. He was giving telling about them buying and selling Yu-Gi-Oh! cards. I was really excited because I wanted to build up my Yu-Gi-Oh! collections again.

My sister drove me there and I went into the box with Yu-Gi-Oh! common cards for 10 cents each. I was so excited and I grab three boxes full of cards. The box have the number on the bottom with 800 counts. So I said okay this is not bad for $240.

We went to check out and the cashier said I have to count them, lol. I did not tell you that it was on Tuesday when they have the Yu-Gi-Oh! tournament going on from 4:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. We were checking out about around 4:00 p.m. Event the other worker was shock he was going to count the cards.

We walked around the store to buy 2 dice, Dragon Shield Sleeves classic style which is the shinny kind. They only have white and midnight blue. They did have some more colors for the matte which is not shinny. The classic gives glare if the light is on. A lot of people do not like that. But for me I like it. I got a 5,000 box to put my cards in. He said that I can not have the box 800 count . These boxes are so old and it on cost a dollar. I think that they have a sticker on the box that read monster, spell, traps, fusion, synchro, xyz, and link. I think they do not want to go there and print a new sticker for it. I got 3x Dark World Structure Decks.

My vision is not that great so I wanted to get some bigger dices. They had a lot of them but only the size 16mm. I wanted at least a 19mm or a 25mm size.

After ten minutes later he said, okay it is ready. My sister said "really?" I looked behind the counter to see some more Yu-Gi-Oh! cards. There was 6 dark world structure deck, 2 egyptian god structure deck, and maybe 6 booster boxes. I have seen more Yu-Gi-Oh! products in Walmart.

I ask him if they are doing a Yu-Gi-Oh! sneak peek Saturday. He said yes at 11:00 a.m.

My sister ask me to count the cards to see how long it would take. I did not mind because I love these Yu-Gi-Oh! cards. So I did while watching YouTube videos. It took me 1 hour and 25 minutes to count them.

Saturday have come. This store is 6 miles from my house. I got up early and took the bus there to Tate's Gaming Satellite. I was there 9:30 a.m. just waiting. Finally at 11:00 a.m. the store open.

The way Yu-Gi-Oh! sneak peek works is that you get 5 packs and a field center card. Konami have these promotion playmats for the store to give out. I gave hime $22.50 for it. He said next. I asked him what about the promotion playmat. He said I had to scan the QR code. Give my email and name. If I get the email, that means I win the playmat.

Call me old-school. But all these years I have been going to these sneak peeks. The have these Yu-Gi-Oh! sneak peek about every 3 1/2 months. Most of the people that go these events are teenagers and kids.

Even if I did enter and win. The means I have to come back again just to get a $30 Yu-Gi-Oh! playing mat. Not only that but my email and name is out into the internet to the highest bidder?

Pros: get 2x OTS Yu-Gi-Oh! packs for entering the tournament for $10.

Cons: sad, unhappy, lazy, and unknowledge workers. No products what so ever. I have wanted to always support local shop. I will have to give it a pass after spending over $400.

Hopefully I can find another Yu-Gi-Oh! store to play the tournament. I have to pass on this store.

If you do not care about my experience. You just wants to go play Yu-Gi_Oh! and go home. This store is...

The staff lacks any knowledge -what-so-ever- about any of the products that they sell.

For example, I asked if they had a particular miniature. The staff member tries to look it up on the computer and tells me "No - we are sold out of that one." I then go over to the mini's rack and spend nearly an hour looking until BAMF - I find the mini of the EXACT NAME i was looking for on the rack.

Example #2, I came in asking if they had any Kobold Press books for 5E D&D. The guy behind the counter acts like I'm speaking another language. I remind him how they used to have an area just for 3rd party publishers. He's clueless and seems to only think in Pokemon cards. He says he'll look it up on the computer and then asks me how to spell Kobold.

He looks for a while and then tells me, "No - we don't care anything like that here." SO then I walk over to the D&D section and start looking trying to find 3rd party books. I find an area where they are just showing covers and kinda corner stacked on each other. I keep look until - I found one - and it's a Kobold Press book, with Kobold Press in big letters on the spine of the book. I walk over to the counter and say, "This - this is Kobold Press," and show him the book. He looks like he's annoyed because it's not a Pokemon card.

Yeah - that's my experience with this store.

Love Tate's. Just not a fan of the staff at the...

If you like Warhammer & you’re looking at Tate’s for new minis for your pile of shame, this place is it. I came here in the past couple of nights & my God it’s peaceful to paint upstairs. Next time I want to paint with some people.

For managerment, I do have some recommendations:

Tower of Games in Boca Raton has a sale wall & they put a WHOLE lot of good stuff on their sale wall that starts at 25% all the way to 75%. (I bought Ordo Xenos Battleforce Box on sale for $165, Ork Boys box for $35) Tate’s needs this. Compounding sales generates larger inventory & more clientele.

Paint options: Yes, Warpaints is great, Citadel, but please consider on finding a vendor for Monument Hobbies & AK Interactive paints. Wouldn’t hurt to hold Red Sable Brushes & Kolinsky Sable Brushes either, just no synthetic brushes.

Warhammer events: No one is usually upstairs. Start hosting a paint night every week. You can even do biweekly events & get 3D printed miniatures, charge $10 per person & provide everyone with cheap paint & brushes from Hobby Lobby & see who paints the best mini. Paint classes, even if you’re an AMATEUR painter, charge $1, $3, $5 & host an hour or two event where people can bring their own mini & paint & teach them something...