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this week's episode. What is up, everybody? Welcome
into another episode of Reseller's Mindset Podcast.
Mike sitting next to Johnny. We are staying up
on the current news, although this will come
out seven days from the recording, so this may
not be a thing, but it is. a big thing currently
in the world of amazon if you're an amazon seller
um things have changed significantly over the
past you know this whole year johnny has kind
of been a whirlwind and we talked about in 2024
like there's always going to be another curveball
thrown our way and the recent one is buy box
changes right so when you go on a listing to
buy something from amazon We call it the buy
box. It's a little button to the right. There's
usually a new buy box and a used buy box. And
usually it used to be if you use fulfillment
by Amazon, Amazon FBA, you would most likely
get the buy box over somebody that doesn't use
Amazon FBA that fulfills items from their house,
kind of like an eBay business. And they just
have lower prices and they charge shipping and
the transit times are longer. But that has completely
been thrown upside down across the board on Amazon
for the past. probably two weeks now and it is
hurting a lot of people's bottom line and thankfully
for me i don't know what it is i'm kind of barely
staying afloat and john even said it before this
call like they're coming for you and i'm just
like if it stays this way everything has to change
in our business and it's crazy to think that
you know this business we have been doing for
uh well over five years now like It's going to
have to look completely different pretty fast
if this sticks. And the bigger problem is, before
I let Johnny go, is there's no communication
from Amazon. They don't tell you that, hey, we're
doing this or, hey, we broke the code or, hey,
we're going to. They don't even tell you if it's
ever going to be fixed, if they ever even acknowledge
it's a problem. So, I mean, think about it. If
your livelihood comes from a platform like Amazon
and they do these changes and there's no communication,
I mean. Yeah, everybody's been in panic, especially
if you don't have any fallback money or a different
plan to kind of, I don't know, Johnny, take us
away. Yeah, and circling back, I mean, end of
2024, no additional fees, they said. Okay, yay,
celebration, parades in the street, glitter everywhere,
fun times. Roll into this year and we get hit
with the API change. February and January. And
then this month we're getting hit with this buy
box shifteroo. And it's like, man, what's going
to happen in April? What is going to happen in
April? Because they're making changes left and
right. I'm all for improvement changes or adapting.
But this one is. Severely business impacting.
It's not a minor shift. It would be a major shift
if this were to stick. Now, there are tons of
conspiracy theories out there. I will address
them in brief. There's the FTC conspiracy theory.
If you don't know what that is, that's them saying
Amazon has a monopoly. When they clearly don't,
there are other market spaces, Coff, eBay, Coff,
Etsy, Coff, whatever. They're out there. So they
don't have a full -on monopoly. Are the majority
of purchases done through Amazon and e -commerce?
Yes, they are. So that's the big complaint there.
The other one is, hey, this is a glitch. Here's
the back end of the code. Or here's me digging
down deep into the buy box selection. It's just
a simple code fix. Well, that's great and all.
And if that is true, and it seems to be, Amazon.
Just has to change a couple of things. Just like
we said, there's zero communication. We can't
really communicate with people with any power
upstairs. Just the lower rung people and no disrespect
to them. It's just they can't do it. They have
no power. There's nothing that they can do. Amazon
top chairs have to give some executive orders
there. And then the other theories is. It doesn't
matter if it's any of these other two. This is
an intentional change, and this is what Amazon
wants. But why? They would get less money. Well,
maybe they want to downsize their warehouse and
get rid of all warehouses. This is a good avenue
to that. Hey, we don't want to store your stuff
anymore, guys. You need to shift over there.
Because they could keep Prime. Everybody still
gets free shipping, right, through Prime, and
they just don't do FBA anymore. I haven't heard
much on that, but that's been one of my theories
I've been cooking back. But again. These are
all theories. Nobody really knows. What's fact
is the buy box is going over to merchant. What
are we going to do? For me, it's too early to
make a major shift. And if you decided to pull
the plug out of Amazon, good for you, I guess.
Less competition for me. Or you decided to shift
heavily into merchant fulfilled or cross -listing.
Again, I think these plays are too early, but
it's good to have plans to, well, If this is
the new law of the land, I'm going to have to
shift to a new landscape. Or maybe we get more
into eBay and all these other things. We get
into new products because new products aren't
affected on Amazon. We shift categories where
the buy box shift doesn't matter if it goes to
merchant or not. It's pretty much the same. Or
a category that doesn't offer merchant fulfilled.
It's like new only. Or refurbished only, whatever
they call that. Renewed programs. There you go.
So, don't panic. Wait it out. Hold the line.
William Wallace said that. Hold with his big,
giant -ass sword. Hold. You could make some changes
in your repricer if you're not liking the prices.
Change your bottom or change what it's rotating
to, what you're matching if you're playing that
game. Up to you if you want to do the penny undercutting.
i don't think it matters you're never being able
to go as low as the merchants honestly so yeah
uh i think if this sticks it's goodbye to 90
of media sellers that's crazy for me to sit here
and say that if this buy box change sticks 90
of media sellers are not it there's no there's
no path forward i guess right because you're
never going to be able to sell it so for example
i'm using fba i have a dvd at 12 .99 fba uh and
i was looking before we we hopped on the zoom
uh and i went and there's somebody with the buy
box at four dollars and 5 .99 shipping so it's
almost the same exact price it's going to take
three times as long for this person to go pick
and pack the order for it to actually get delivered
to the customer. So like Johnny said, in theory,
it doesn't make sense for Amazon to keep this,
but we don't know what Amazon wants to do. Maybe
they want to get out of the warehouse space.
At least maybe in the media category, they want
to get out of the warehouse space, but it's not
even just the media category. Other categories
have been crushed by this. Video games is one
of them. Anything that's got to use Buy Box is
seeing this change. And I mean, It's crazy to
think about, but we've done the podcast where
you need to have some type of other plan to kind
of make things work. And I'll tell you right
now, I am not running no major merchant fulfilled
operation. I'm not running a huge eBay operation.
So if I can't figure this out, how to continue
to grow my business on Amazon, then I will probably
just switch categories or, you know, flip only
new items on Amazon because it is. I'm not I
don't enjoy making a dollar, two dollars an item
when I have to pack and ship and go to the post
office and deal with the customer. And that's
the reality of that business. A lot of it is
just lower dollar stuff. And a lot of these huge
players get shipping discounts. So it is a huge
thing. I hope it works itself out. But I mean,
I don't I don't know which way it's going to
go. I'm not leaning one way or another here because
we've seen things like restock limits where,
you know. People that were making millions and
millions of dollars every quarter four were limited
to 1 ,000 units. So as much as we can sit here
and say, they're losing all this money, I don't
think they lose any sleep over it. What's up,
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the link in the description below. No, not at
all. I mean, just look at the sheer amount of
Section 3s we've seen happen to bigger sellers.
We're like, we don't want your business anymore,
but we make you millions of dollars a year. We
don't want your business anymore. Okay, I guess
I'll go elsewhere. Yeah, I mean, I don't know
which way it's going to fall on the other, but
I'm leaning towards, since it's happening in
other categories, not just media, that it is,
in fact, a glitch. And it's just a, well, it's
just a coding thing they need to fix. That's
where I'm primarily leaning. If we were just
seeing it in media, I would think different,
but it's happening in all categories. I tend
to think it's on the glitch side. Just my personal
opinion. I have no facts to back this up other
than what I just said is a friendly observation
to you folks. But how long, I mean, I guess that
gets you to the question of how long do you hang
on for, right? Because listen, every day, you
know, we're out there spending money on inventory
to send. And it's funny because some of the,
I guess, the actual facts behind it shows that
it's a glitch, right? When we still scan items
or list items, it shows the buy box is going
to the FBA offer. But when you click on the actual
page in Amazon Seller Central, it's showing that
it's going to the merchant. So clearly there's
some kind of disconnect going on somewhere in
the system. But I mean, how long does this stay
this way? And I think every week that passes,
I mean, some people are seeing 50, 75 % decrease
in sales. And I mean, if this is your livelihood
and you've done nothing different and maybe you're
even somebody that's ramping up the business,
you have to honestly take take a look at, OK,
well, what's my plan? If this stays the same
for the next 30 days, what's my plan? What about
45 days? What about 60 days? You got to start
thinking ahead of the curve here because you
don't want to. quit right because if you quit
and all of a sudden then you see what happens
johnny i quit today and then it's fixed tomorrow
right that's exactly like after this call i mean
i want to get more money in that's how it would
work so i don't want people to rush and be like
oh this is you know this is the end of times
but i do understand people that rely on the money
and you know i mean like i said i still Amazon
is my biggest source of income. I have other
opportunities to make money, but it's still the
biggest chunk of my income. So it's tough to
tell somebody to stick it out if they don't have,
you know, if you're living dollar to dollar,
like you can't afford to stick it out. Right.
And there's nothing you can do to fix this situation
because you can't compete with the merchant offers.
If you sell something that low, you literally
will lose money on Amazon. So if a merchant selling
it for five dollars, you sell your item at five
dollars FBA. you are actually losing money. So
it's tough. I just I know it's a big hot topic
issue. And I just I'm in the boat with Johnny
where it's business as usual for the foreseeable
future. Come maybe the end of April, May, if
nothing has changed, then we have to start thinking
about what is the next step, right? Like, what
are we going to do instead of used media? And
if it comes to that point, so be it. And I like
to think people that are entrepreneurs can be
entrepreneurs in anything. It's not just, you
know, you're not just one good, you only had
one good entrepreneur business ever, right? Usually
you can translate your skills to another type
of business or even another category. And for
me, I would still probably sell on Amazon. I
would just sell something different and kind
of go down a different avenue, but it's still
way too early to kind of jump there. But I do
see a lot of small time people that rely on the
hundred. to $1 ,000 they get every two weeks,
it sucks 100%. And I feel bad for people in that
situation. And I wish there was something we
can do. I wish Amazon would at least communicate,
but they don't have to communicate, right? We're
on their platform. eBay never communicates shit.
No platform ever does. So you just gotta, I don't
know, pray to Jeff Bezos every night that it
gets fixed. Right? I mean, here's my personal
opinion on what you should do. Continue business
as usual until the beginning of April. Beginning
of April, evaluate. Look at your books. Can you
survive another 30 days? Can you go from April
to May? And then you need to make a call if the
answer is no on what you're going to be doing,
again, if this is your full -time income. If
you can, I would say write it out in an additional
30 days. Unless Amazon comes forthcoming like,
yo, this is the new way, then yeah, shift out
earlier. Hold the line. I'm not saying have a
knee -jerk reaction. We're talking about weeks.
We're talking about months, right? We're planning
for the long haul. So make your decisions based
off the long haul. But in order to do that, you
have to look at the short term of, can I pay
my bills? If you can't, you clearly need to do
something else. You either use overspent and
didn't plan for the barren. uh crop season that
is amazon right now and you need to shift into
something else if you got a little bit of reserve
well it's time to live off that reserve for a
minute your business reserve that is and and
just hold out until we know more definitive answers
because right now there's nothing they're slow
they're like congress right it's going to take
them a minute to say something one way or the
other they will eventually say something it will
be addressed because this is a big thing Or it
just magically fixes itself and it's just bumping
the road is all this was. Again, we kind of listed
your options. You can go new. You can do a merchant
operation. You can shift to a different platform.
You can shift to an entirely different business,
even outside of reselling. There are options
for you. So just be a patient's the wrong word
here. have the wherewithal to endure the amazon
nonsense that is in fact amazon uh and honestly
the people left standing they're gonna win oh
yeah if you're the last people standing and maybe
there's 20 of us versus the 3 000 of us you guys
win it's uh it's funny because like you said
right we dealt with the whole api debacle now
we got uh they're regating a lot of the popular
brands right and one of the big one is universal
studios so anybody that watches any type of dvd
movies now a huge majority of them are universal
studios and a lot of people are being regated
in that brand so uh but yet again that was another
thing with no rhyme or reason no explanation
some people got it some people didn't there's
no correlation between those who got it and those
who didn't i i we're living in crazy times you're
right it's like If you can survive this and it
does fix itself, then you're going to be leaps
and bounds ahead of everybody. That's why for
me, it's just business as usual. I'm still buying.
I'm still going out, running my routes, still
spending money on inventory, still packing as
usual, still pricing the way I price. Nothing
has changed. Now, we have this conversation in
April, May. Maybe things start looking different,
but I'm here to tell you, if there's no used
buy box going to FBA offers, then the whole business
model of... selling items fba used books cds
dvds is 100 dead and gone pretty much it's accurate
i mean we could scream we can yell we could be
very annoyed but that does us no good um i'm
saying going in a closet do it for a couple minutes
then come back out and get to business roll up
your sleeves and get to work one way or the other
um This is out of our control, folks. There's
nothing you can do. The only other thing is if
your repricer is, I don't know, undercutting
or going pretty low right now, you may consider
changing how you reprice just for a stability
thing. Like, do you really want to sell things
at your floor and make a quarter or not? But
that's a personal business choice you got to
make. I can't answer that for you because...
You can make the argument some money is better
than no money, right? That's a perfectly valid
argument. Or you could say, you know what, I'm
just going to hold out. I'm going to plan for
the best. Maybe I'm going to raise it up a dollar
on the bottom end floor. If you don't know what
a floor is, basically that's the lowest it'll
sell for. I'm curious, what is your plan if it
stays the same way? I'm rolling into Merchant,
Omnichannel, cross -listing everywhere and anywhere
kind of deal. And I'm probably going to get some
more storage units. I'm actually going to, I
had planned to do Merchant anyway this month.
So I'm just going to go down to Lowe's on Saturday
and pick up some bricks and boards and get that
going. It's crazy that we're having this conversation.
For me, Johnny will be the media man. I'm moving
on to greener pastures 100 % of this sticks.
It's just too much work for me. and not enough
pay and i have other opportunities to make money
um it's it's tough it is it's weird being in
this situation because i've seen we've seen glitches
come and go right like we've seen amazon categorize
items as like hazardous material or this or that
and it seems like once a month there's always
something breaking on the back end but when it's
something this big and i mean we're both friends
with people that you know do seven figures a
year on Amazon, and their sales drop offs have
been even more astronomical than our smaller
people, our smaller guys and girls that are just
trying to make, you know, 10 to $20 ,000 a month
selling on Amazon. And I guess, if we do hang
on for as long as we possibly can, and, you know,
Unfortunately, 90 % of people go away, Johnny.
When it comes back, we're going to be rich. It's
going to be like the gold rush, right? We're
going to be out there. We're going to be getting
more for our items, less competition. But I don't
blame the person that says, okay, I've given
this. I think you got to, we always tell everybody,
you got to give something a realistic amount
of time. I would not just quit this week or next
week or the week after. At least you got to at
least see it through March at the bare minimum
to see if this thing kind of works itself out.
But, I mean, you got to do what you got to do
to support your household. If you ain't got no
money coming in, then guess what? You need money
coming in. And if I didn't have no money coming
in, then I would just go get a job because at
the end of the day, money needs to be made. Bills
need to be paid. Absolutely. You got to do what
you got to do. You got 15 children. You got to
feed. Time to put on that Starbucks, that Mickey
D's hat, an apron, and all that fun stuff. Survival
mode's a real thing. Survive. You can worry about
thriving once you stabilize. You got to do the
necessary things you need to do. That's not a
knock. That's just reality. People have different
circumstances. They have different income needs.
They have different budgets, honestly, and different
bills. If you're living in the... If you live
even in regionality, if you live in New York
or Washington, you got a lot different problems
that people living in Virginia and Texas just
cost a living difference alone. Yeah, it's it's
tough. I will say this. I did see one thing or
somebody said maybe the warehouses are backed
up. So that's why they're switching the buy box
to merchants. I don't think that really. i don't
think their warehouses are backed up like that
i think i think it's something wrong in the matrix
the problem is do they send neo into the matrix
to fix it all that is the problem and there's
no direct answer that we can give or that anybody
can give and i'll tell you right now if you go
in any of the amazon reselling groups it is the
sky is falling it's time to i don't know figure
something out because this is not going to work
and i just caution everybody not to jump to these
crazy conclusions when things like this arise
sure it sucks hopefully the suck is only temporarily
and if not then we just we pivot to something
else you got to be ready to always be moving
somewhere something but until that i mean there
there's no like official day though right like
john we're sitting here talking about well maybe
two months three months it's like at what point
do you actually make the decision that like for
somebody like me or you right like I got a pile
of money. I could live off it for however many
years. Theoretically, I could just drag this
business along for that long. At what point do
you just assume that this is what it is and it's
time to 100 % pivot? I would say probably when
you're at 30 % of your cash reserves. yo, I got
to make a play. I've held out as long. That's
reasonably as long as you can, about 30 % because
you've dwindled. And you may want to even do
it at like the 50 % mark. Like I've cut through
half of my cash reserves. I don't know. And then
you make the decision if I'm going down to 30
% or not. I would say that'd be a fair evaluation
because you're still going to get billed for
Amazon fees. You're still going to get. Your
storage fees, if you've got a facility or a warehouse
or a storage unit, you still got all the software
fees, right? And let's not forget good old Amazon's
$40 a month subscription just to even play ball
here. It's just how long can you stand? The people
I feel bad for the most are the employees in
an FBA operation, because I'm going to say it
as a business owner. employees are the first
thing that people look at to cut when trying
to save on expenses they may be out of jobs because
of this nonsense because you as a business owner
didn't have cash reserves in the bank well bills
are coming due it's me or them and you're always
gonna or you or them and you're always gonna
choose yourself and it's just a matter of fact
you can do everything you can um now there's
gonna be some people that are gonna argue getting
a credit card or taking out a loan to weather
the storm. Don't do that. No, please don't. You
should have had the cash reserves in advance.
If you were building up a business and never
got to the point of cash reserves, well, you're
probably in a better position to pivot than anybody
who's been at it in the long run anyway. Don't
take out a loan to survive. It's a bad juju.
Don't do it. But yeah, the employees are probably...
For people that have employees, they're probably
going to be impacted the most by this. And that's
sad because they're working for an hour, right?
They're already doing the McDonald's, Starbucks
life like we were talking about, but they're
working for you. It's a much better working environment
than those other two places. Yeah, it's crazy,
man. It's crazy that we're having this conversation.
And maybe by the time this podcast comes out
next week, maybe it's all fixed and we just put
out this podcast just to waste everybody's time.
That's what we're hoping for. It's all lies.
That is what we're hoping for, but it is by no
stretch of the imagination either way. And anybody
that tells you one way or another is just kind
of giving you the runaround and what they hope
for or what they think is going to happen. And,
you know, we just got to kind of just sit here
and, I mean, not get caught up in it because
it's easy to get caught up in it. I mean, even
in our group, we have people spiraling, you know,
and rightfully so, because like we said, if you
don't have the cash reserves and you're relying
on that. money to come in from Amazon to pay
your bills. And all of a sudden that paycheck
gets cut in half. I mean, I'd be pissed off too,
right? I'd be trying to figure out what can I
do or what did I do wrong? And the actuality
is any platform, any job, listen, it's an at
-will employer. And here in Pennsylvania, you
could go to work and they could fire you for
nothing. You are an at -will employee. They are
an at -will employer. And it's the same exact
thing when you're selling on a platform. You
think they ask any seller, hey, should we make
this change first? No, they don't care. The change
gets made. And this is just another kind of transition
of being an at -will employee. You can get fired
for anything, any single day. This is just a
little different. They're not firing you because
they're still taking your damn money. They're
just paying you less. but they change how their
platform works. So everything you used to know
no longer is valid. So you're kind of dead weight
to them and they don't want you around no more.
So let me put it this way. This is the equivalent
of you working in a corporate job and they say,
we want you to double your hours for half your
hourly wage. This is what this is if you choose
to stay. Yeah, we want you to work harder for
less money per hour. But you can have more hours,
as many as you want. That's what this is. If
you're looking at it, if it stays, that's what
you're looking at. Do you want to work more hours
for less money per hour compounding? But you
can have unlimited hours. You can work 17, 18
hours a day. Sure. That's so true. And listen,
I'm not signing up for that, dude. They're going
to pay me half of what I make now, and I have
to do double what I do. Yeah, I don't do a lot,
but I have no intentions on working. 60 hours
a week just to make, you know, 75 to 100, 110
K every single year before taxes like that. There's
much there's you can go get a much comfier job
doing a whole lot less making that type of money
than spinning your tires, trying to be self -employed
and, you know, just going nonstop just to make
this business work just to so you can be self
-employed. I think we have opportunity more than
ever. And I think maybe something like this for
an Amazon seller kind of opens their eyes. There's
a million different ways you can make money in
this lifetime. And this isn't the only way to
do it. And if you do decide to stay on Amazon,
like we said, you can just pivot to another category.
I can just start selling groceries if I wanted
to. Something that's brand new, sealed. It is
what it is. I wish I wish there was a rhyme or
a reason or a straight up answer I could give
you to here's exactly what's going to happen.
The dates is going to happen. How long you should
hang around, how long you should keep sourcing.
Right. Because that's another thing, Johnny.
People are going to stop sourcing because why
am I going to continue sourcing? I'm going to
wait until this gets sorted out if it ever gets
sorted out. And I mean, if you're spending a
lot of money sourcing, right, maybe then you
got to pause a little bit. But if you take your
foot off the gas and you kind of come to a stop,
it might – I don't know, man. What do you think
about people slowing down sourcing when something
like this happens? No, opposite. Because, okay,
I'm going to say I'm not risk averse. I'm pretty
much the opposite. I like swimming in risk all
the time. But if you're going to double down
on something when the sky is falling mentality
amongst the crowd, that is the best time to do
it. Now, is this me giving you the – advice to
go do that? No, you got to make that choice for
yourself. Me, this is what I would do. I would
double my sourcing. I would double my box send
right now because I'm banking on putting myself
in a very short window of big gain. Because if
I'm the only one pumping out and everybody else
is pumping the brakes, like you said, I'm going
to win and I'll be laughing. But I could be wrong
and I spent money on fees. I spent money on inventory.
There is that fact. You could be wrong, but I
like to hedge my bets and just let's double down
here. Let's do it. Let's go. Let's go. It's funny
you say that because I literally, I did my biggest
bulk buy just yesterday. I got to go pick it
up again because it was five car loads of disc
media that I bought. So it's, I guess you could
say I doubled down because I knew this was going
on and I'm just like, listen, if the opportunity
is there, I'm going to take it. So for me. I'm
not, you're not going to see any slowdown from
my operations. And the worst comes to worst,
I got to sell my DVDs at, you know, $7 .99. I'll
still make a dollar, which is, you know, 10x
what I paid for it. So I guess in worst case
scenario, I guess that's a good thing about this
business is it doesn't take a lot of money to
kind of keep it afloat, right? So like if you
just did one box a week or two boxes a week,
maybe that's like 50, 100 bucks a week to kind
of keep it afloat to see where it kind of rides
out. Yeah, and I'm saying double down, so $100,
$200 extra. Because, yeah, because while everybody
waits for the green light to go, you've already
been going at yellow and red and you got all
the warning signs to, Bork, don't do it. That's
a perfect opportunity, in my opinion, to do those
kind of things because the payoff's bigger for
you because they're looking at transit time,
packing time, check -in time, and you're already
through the gates on that. You win. You've won.
But I can't condone me telling you to do this.
I'm saying this is what I would do. And again,
I live in the world of risk and love it. I think
you just have to give things a chance to sort
themselves out before you make any crazy rash
decisions. Right. I mean, it's just you can't
just go off the first thing that that happens.
Like, oh, my God, like this is it. Like you got
to give things time to see if they stick and
if they stick. And if you're the person that's
like, I know this is how it's going to be, right?
You're convinced that this is not a glitch. This
is the new Amazon. I still would challenge you
to give it some time to see if it plays itself
out. Even if you think you're 100%, right? I
think making quick rash decisions, especially
in small businesses, that's how you kind of screw
yourself over. Like if somebody comes to me today,
he's like, hey, what are you doing? Are you staying?
Are you going? you can't like, I can't give you
a straight up answer right here, right now. Right.
Like there's not, there hasn't been, it's been
like 10 minutes since it started. Yeah. I mean,
this is going to be a slow change. I'm saying
given it till April to make a decision where
you're going to lean one way or the other. And
one of those options is to, well, I'm going to
write it out another month. And that's probably
a smarter play than, you know, unless you got
no money. If you've got no money, you've got
to do something different. Plain and simple,
honestly. The people that are going to quit right
away are the ones that were already out the door
anyway. They were looking for a reason. Exactly.
Amazon's given sellers that are looking for the
reason a lot of reasons this year to quit. That
benefits somebody like me or Johnny that sticks
it out, sees it through trials and tribulations.
I still think it's not as bad as restock limits.
Restock limits literally They told you this is
how it's going to be. And there was no getting
around it. There was no hopes and prayers of
this or that. And they literally, that was the
worst thing that could have happened. And honestly,
if restock limits probably stuck around, like
our businesses would look completely different
today. So if this sticks around. I wouldn't have
long -term storage fees. Yeah, our businesses
would have to look completely different today.
I don't know what's going on. Johnny don't know
what's going on. We just wanted to talk about
it. Calm down, take a chill pill. let it coast
out for a month. If you don't have the capital,
then now's the time to start another side hustle,
get some other type of income coming in. We live
in a world where you can go drive Uber Eats any
time of the day, make some money, put it in your
pocket. It's much better than when I used to
work at Macy's for $7 .25 an hour. So the opportunity
is there, but at the end of the day, you're still
gonna have to work for it. And even if you do
go drive Uber, they can say, hey, guess what,
Johnny? You're not getting as much for each delivery
now. Gotta get another part -time job. It's the
world we live in. It is the world we live in.
Anywhere you work, they can switch it up on you
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