Ste Staley's video: Entrepreneur Life Vlog - My First Business GameSeek In pictures 2002-2018

Timeline: 2000: November; Established as an affiliated website whilst i studied at university 2002: October; Established as a Retail website. £53 capital in bank. £0 Loan. Oct 7th; First Trade 2004: New Business Location (moved from parents to my newly purchased home in Winsford) 2005: First Warehouse Unit in Hartford rented (1100 SqFt) 2008: Bought New Warehouse on Winsford Industrial Estate 2011: Mezzanine Expansion (increase of 1500 SqFt, Total 4200 SqFt) 2013: Moved into New Warehouse (12000 SqFt) Multiple Play.com Machinery purchase 2015: Focus on Growth; £80k Mezzanine Expansion purchase (increase of 8,000 SqFt Total 20,000 SqFt) £100k+ WMS Conveyor Networks purchase. £322k Amazon loan taken and paid back within 6 months 2016: WMS Installed July 2016, Warehouse 365 days/12hrs Shifts Start; Full Tracking now on most UK deliveries 2017: New GameSeek Website Go Live, New Marketplace Live 2018: Global Expansion and multiple new websites and marketplaces live. ... yet i was never able to make 2018 happen. GameSeek was a specialist retailer of Video Gaming and Toy products. It became most important Video Games Company in the UK after GAME; built by Stephen with all his savings; £53! - launching soon after he left university in 2002. By 2013 the company was on a massive upward trajectory and with the closure of Play.com, Stephen jumped on the first plane to Jersey and bought automated packing machinery worth £1m GBP including 2x iPAC B+ Machines, 2x Dexion Paternosters and more; including a PKK Machine able to pack 1,200 Video Games an hour. In the same year the business moved into what eventually became a state of the art 20,000 Sq Ft HQ in Winsford, Cheshire. Valued at £9.5m GBP ($12.3m USD) in Q3 2016 the company was going from strength to strength. The same year the company was shipping as many as 7,500 items a day at peak. Sadly personal tragedy struck in May 2017 ultimately started a chain of events that led to the end of the company. Within 12 months, the dream had become a memory. Stephens vision was to make one of the biggest marketplaces in the world by building and linking together a further 7 e-commerce websites selling collectively everything; but each one specialised and leading its own sector. All 8 marketplaces would be joined via SAAS Marketplace Platform‎ Mirakl that had already been purchased. It would of been a unique and special offering for global retailers that will now unfortunately not come to fruition. GameSeek proudly put the customer first for years, smashing Amazons pricing on new releases by as much as £15 per unit; famously selling the Nintendo Switch at launch for £198.50 and being the goto place for a massive community of loyal Video Gamers; amassing over 3 million customers during its lifetime with zero outside investment. View and interact with the GameSeek website, as it was in April 2018: https://web.archive.org/web/20180420113635/https://www.gameseek.co.uk/ Let’s connect: YT: https://www.youtube.com/stestaley FB: https://www.facebook.com/stestaley TW: https://twitter.com/stestaley IG: https://www.instagram.com/stestaley Email: ask@stestaley.com –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Audio: By Fredji. DJ & Producer from Sweden. Thankyou. Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/fredjimusic Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fredjimusic/ –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– THANKYOU. In video links and references are provided where possible. If you believe I have forgotten to attribute anything, please let me know so I can add it. Apologies if I have missed anything out. Errors and omissions excepted.