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Re: So, i want to open up a head shop, but im not sure how much money it would take up front.... [Re: ZippoZ]
    #7810657 - 12/29/07 02:12 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

Good luck with your business !!! I say go online, and with the headshop/hooka bar with a place to blow in the back or somewhere else. Not to mention custom blows! Also have glass blowing classes and start an army of blowers to expand your business around the globe. Soon everyone will be smoking from one of your companies pieces.
Keep up the momentum!


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Re: So, i want to open up a head shop, but im not sure how much money it would take up front.... [Re: ZippoZ]
    #7810665 - 12/29/07 02:17 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

yeah thats a good idea! plus you could play the "local/community" card by having a little area for local events to put promotional stuff. this always attracts people looking for somehting to do on an idle evening.

check out www.rollingpaperwarehouse.com, lots of good deals on papers and blunt wraps!

another suggestion (if you dont mind) would be to have a decent stash box section. find a wood working guy. it took me forever to find a decent stash box, and i ended up just using an old mahogany jewlry box my mother had when she was a kid.

quality wood with organized/padded/glass ect stash boxes are the most overlooked paraphenalia item.

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Re: So, i want to open up a head shop, but im not sure how much money it would take up front.... [Re: ZippoZ]
    #7810750 - 12/29/07 02:56 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

Make sure you have a decent online shop that reflects the physical shop.. a lot of the ones on the internet are shady. If you can do that it will promote your business beyond your expectations easily :smile:


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Re: So, i want to open up a head shop, but im not sure how much money it would take up front.... [Re: Cepheus]
    #7810843 - 12/29/07 03:33 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

man everyone always sells online.
but really, thats a horrible fucking idea.
look up operation pipe dreams,
everyone that was selling pipes online went to jail along with tommy chong


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"People do it every day, they talk to themselves ... they see themselves as they'd like to be, they don't have the courage you have, to just run with it."

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Re: So, i want to open up a head shop, but im not sure how much money it would take up front.... [Re: ZippoZ]
    #7811188 - 12/29/07 05:34 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

is paraphernalia illegal in american then?


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Re: So, i want to open up a head shop, but im not sure how much money it would take up front.... [Re: Cepheus]
    #7811239 - 12/29/07 05:57 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

yes.

its a fine line between legal glass pipes and illegal glass pipes.

the line is solely in the discretion of the perception of whatever leo happens to come your way


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"in times of widespread chaos and confusion, it has been the duty of more advanced human beings - artists, scientists, clowns, and philosophers - to create order. In such times as ours however, when there is too much order, too much m management, too much programming and control, it becomes the duty of superior men and women and women to fling their favorite monkey wrenches into the machinery. To relieve the repression of the human spirit, they must sow doubt and disruption"

"People do it every day, they talk to themselves ... they see themselves as they'd like to be, they don't have the courage you have, to just run with it."

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Re: So, i want to open up a head shop, but im not sure how much money it would take up front.... [Re: ZippoZ]
    #7811279 - 12/29/07 06:11 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

Here in the UK pipes, bongs, grinders, rizzla, baggies, stash tins and everything else you could possibly use for drug abuse is legal.. it only becomes illegal when it has residue of illegal drugs on it.. Most of the time if the pigs catch you with a bong and it smells like bud they won't confiscate it.. but the paraphernalia is legal..

We need a good one stop online headshop that isn't a rip off over here..


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Re: So, i want to open up a head shop, but im not sure how much money it would take up front.... [Re: Cepheus]
    #7811366 - 12/29/07 06:45 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

if only, i know of several people who have had cases of clean pipes confiscated.
just the other day, a gas station that was selling grinders and some cheap indian glass was raided by the local town cops. seised abot a grand worth of merch.

then again, i have been pulled over with a case of clean pipes, been searched and let go on 2 occasions.


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"in times of widespread chaos and confusion, it has been the duty of more advanced human beings - artists, scientists, clowns, and philosophers - to create order. In such times as ours however, when there is too much order, too much m management, too much programming and control, it becomes the duty of superior men and women and women to fling their favorite monkey wrenches into the machinery. To relieve the repression of the human spirit, they must sow doubt and disruption"

"People do it every day, they talk to themselves ... they see themselves as they'd like to be, they don't have the courage you have, to just run with it."

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Re: So, i want to open up a head shop, but im not sure how much money it would take up front.... [Re: ZippoZ]
    #7811380 - 12/29/07 06:50 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

you should put up a glass wall so people can watch you make glass objects, but not bother you while working. then have a sign up somewhere that says, 'support local artisans'. also, you could hold local sculptors shows, art events, etc.


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Re: So, i want to open up a head shop, but im not sure how much money it would take up front.... [Re: automan]
    #7811384 - 12/29/07 06:51 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

yeah, there are alot of options out there for how i could go forward with this. the space totally supports a viewing room.

but looking at that shit straight up without a $100 pair of special glasses will seriously damage your vission.


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"in times of widespread chaos and confusion, it has been the duty of more advanced human beings - artists, scientists, clowns, and philosophers - to create order. In such times as ours however, when there is too much order, too much m management, too much programming and control, it becomes the duty of superior men and women and women to fling their favorite monkey wrenches into the machinery. To relieve the repression of the human spirit, they must sow doubt and disruption"

"People do it every day, they talk to themselves ... they see themselves as they'd like to be, they don't have the courage you have, to just run with it."

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Re: So, i want to open up a head shop, but im not sure how much money it would take up front.... [Re: ZippoZ]
    #7811427 - 12/29/07 07:03 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

Word of mouth is the best possible advertising a head shop can get IMO. You could dump a bunch of money into advertising in various places but would it really be worth it? Sounds like you already got a good network so that's definitely in your favor. All the head shops I've bought pipes and stuff from, I always heard about through a friend first.. because the place had a good rep for good service and quality glass.


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Re: So, i want to open up a head shop, but im not sure how much money it would take up front.... [Re: Shroomism]
    #7811637 - 12/29/07 08:20 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

yeah, if i was going to advertise in any shape or form, it would be on the local alternative radio station. have them come out and set up shop, smoking hookhas and what not.

i really wish that i could make the shop a smokers lounge, but its such a small space allready, and as i said earlier, illinois is going smoke free jan 1 st...


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"in times of widespread chaos and confusion, it has been the duty of more advanced human beings - artists, scientists, clowns, and philosophers - to create order. In such times as ours however, when there is too much order, too much m management, too much programming and control, it becomes the duty of superior men and women and women to fling their favorite monkey wrenches into the machinery. To relieve the repression of the human spirit, they must sow doubt and disruption"

"People do it every day, they talk to themselves ... they see themselves as they'd like to be, they don't have the courage you have, to just run with it."

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Re: So, i want to open up a head shop, but im not sure how much money it would take up front.... [Re: Cepheus]
    #7811668 - 12/29/07 08:29 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

Quote:

Can I still allow smoking if I declare myself a retail tobacco store?
Retail tobacco stores are exempt from the law, but to be considered a retail tobacco store you must meet the following requirements:

* The establishment must not hold any type of liquor, food, or restaurant license
* The establishment must that derive more than 80% of its gross revenue from the sale of loose tobacco, plants, or herbs and cigars, cigarettes, pipes, and other smoking devices for burning tobacco and related smoking accessories
* The sale of other products is merely incidental, and
* The establishment may not be part of the tobacco department or section of a larger commercial establishment.

Are hookah bars included in the law?
To be exempt from the Smoke Free Illinois Act, a hookah bar must meet the requirements (defined above) for a retail tobacco store. If it does not meet the requirements for a retail tobacco store, a hookah bar will be required to become smoke-free.




sweet hookha bars are exempt from the new laws!


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"in times of widespread chaos and confusion, it has been the duty of more advanced human beings - artists, scientists, clowns, and philosophers - to create order. In such times as ours however, when there is too much order, too much m management, too much programming and control, it becomes the duty of superior men and women and women to fling their favorite monkey wrenches into the machinery. To relieve the repression of the human spirit, they must sow doubt and disruption"

"People do it every day, they talk to themselves ... they see themselves as they'd like to be, they don't have the courage you have, to just run with it."

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