Help Deadly Seven Games survive COVID!

 

 

 

I'm actually putting this GoFundMe together not just for Deadly Seven Games (DSG), but for my brother's sake. I've never done anything like this, but I feel like I need to do -something- to try to help with this.

COVID has been hard on all of us, with varying degrees of lockdowns and restrictions, limited social interaction and difficulty in staying in touch with our friends and loved ones. During the Fall and Winter of 2020, I watched my brother (who is my best friend) become more depressed and listless. He's always been close to his friends and lives for spending his time having fun with them. Missing out on that for months was slowly killing him on the inside, and it was difficult to see him hurting so much.

 

Deadly Seven Games became a haven for him during this time. Not only did they provide safer indoor conditions for playing games and tournaments among their clientele, they went above and beyond to establish ways to join in the fun from a distance - online tournaments with webcams and special rules to make it work. Once my brother was able to resume his regular interactions with his friends and their shared hobbies, he started to come out of the rough emotional place he was in. Things are still hard of course - even now - but DSG has really been a lifeline for him for two years now.

 

 

 

 

Unfortunately, DSG is a small, locally-owned business and it's struggling to stay afloat in the pandemic. The owners have applied for pandemic assistance loans multiple times, but keep getting rejected due to the broken system for disseminating those loans. At this rate, they probably only have a few months left before giving up the store and the owners' longtime dreams of running a fun, community-building game store.

 

I don't know for sure if I can fix things. I think DSG could get by with a boost like this GoFundMe, using it to hire a third staff member who could process online orders full time and increase revenue throughput without the owners having to work 15 hours days to keep up. I believe that with whatever funds and attention I can bring to them, they can keep going for another month, another season, another year. They've kept my brother going through some very hard times, so I want to at least try to return the favor.

 

Please, if you can, lend me a hand on this. Whether you want to support them because it's a small local business slipping through the cracks of the system that should be helping it, or because it's important to keep alive these little hubs of community and friendship wherever we can, or because you've known someone who needed a similar lifeline just to get through each emotional low life can throw at us... whatever you can do, it will help. Help me try to save this little hobby store on the edge of town in Boise, Idaho. Thank you so much!

 

If you would rather support them in a different way, you could always shop on their website and order things online for gift-giving season (http://deadlysevensgames.tcgplayerpro.com/) But the level of overtime they're already working means being able to afford another staff member would probably make the biggest difference of all.