Hi all,
I am the creator of a kids card game (for ages 9-15) called "Quest Adventure Cards(tm)" (website: www.questccg.com).
The game is to be sold in booster packs of ten (10) cards per pack. My master packs are 100 individual boosters. Each pack retails for about $5.00 (store cost is $3.25).
I have been trying to get toy stores to sell my game without any luck. I am now focusing on "game stores" and so far have conducted one (1) in-store game demonstrations for kids to learn how to play our game. The demonstration went okay (only two (2) kids came to the demonstration), however I have tried to get the store to buy ten (10) packs (investment < $40.00) without any success.
Does anyone have any tips or strategies to help me sell my game? I know the kids that play the game like it (it has a unique card matching mechanism that kids really enjoy). However without any store shelves featuring my product, I doubt my product will have any success...
Some people "imagine" that if they sell the product, I am going to make a mint with it... To be really honest, I would make more money with a full-time job rather than trying to sell these cards... My interest in the game is for it to become popular enough so that I may release an expansion to the game and new editions. I would want the brand to be "recognized".
Thank you for your help/guidance.
Well the $3.25 includes packaging (booster pack), costs involved in industrial printing (paper & ink), costs involved in laminating (high quality cards), costs involved in die cutting (rounded card edges), costs involved in collation of cut cards (labour intensive), costs involved in shrink wrapping collated cards, cost of printing packaging, and lastly costs involved in packaging (booster pack).
I deal with 4 different companies to get my product manufactured: the printer, the collation company, the packaging guy and his printer.
I wish I would have gotten my cards for $1 a pack... But this seems IMPOSSIBLE dealing with the companies I have dealt with. Just the collation company costs a lot because it is labour intensive to cut the cards and the collate them together.
The price point has NOT been a factor. One store said the approximate retail price for the item would be $4.95. The cards are bilingual something that few cards can say. If the stores need to import cards from France (because they want them in French), the price is rather high also...