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| - You know those stores that seem to have something for everybody? Those stores that you can walk in with a big group of people of all different tastes and interests, and everybody will leave with an experience that put a smile on their face?
Well sadly, Sentry Box is definitely NOT one of them.
Yeah, this is a total niche market store, catering almost exclusively to a level of nerd-dom that almost assures most of it's clientelle spent many an afternoon inside a locker in their youth. But if you're one of those people, this place might as well have big pearly gates and a floor made of clouds.
Essencially the idea of Sentry Box is catering to the world of role playing, trading card, and certain niche board games. (We're not talking Scrabble or Operation here.) and if you're into that kinda thing there's a 90% chance this place has what you're looking for, most likely organizes playing sessions for you meet others of "your kind", and undoubtably have the most knowledgable and (usually) friendly staff you could ever hope to find.
Take myself for example. In high school, I got sucked into a trading card game that I hadn't played since... but after looking at a few cards of the latest expansion set, my curiosity was peaked, so I headed down to Sentry and into the lower level to the card desk. At the time, they had a tournament going on and the sole employee of this department was catering to one of the largest gatherings of players in the city WHILE running the desk by himself. He still found time to answer all of my naive, rookie-like questions, give me a bunch of great advice on how to get started back (I gave away all my cards when I gave up the game the first time), and gathered every item from their stock he thought might interest me and laid them all out on the counter for me to peruse at my leisure. I've been to a number of stores that handled these kinds of games over the years, and NEVER recieved that kind of service.
Now, as for pricing I can't really speak for the rest of the store, but as for the cards department I can say this much. If you're buying in small ammounts you'll pay pretty much what you would anywhere else... however, I've found that if you buy in the bigger product packs you will actually save a few bucks. It's much, but it's still a plus for 'The Box'
All in all, if you play these kind of games and haven't been to TSB... go. If you don't? Drop by and check it out if you're in the area. It's still a really cool store in a fascinating building that I can only describe as a library of all things nerd. Just don't expect to do a lot of shopping.
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