Welcome back to another episode of the Reseller's
Mindset Podcast. My name is Mike, also known
as the Used Book Guy on YouTube, along with my
friend and fellow full -time reseller, Johnny
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this week's episode. What is up, everybody? Welcome
back to another episode of Reseller's Mindset
Podcast. Mike sitting next to Johnny, an important...
topic coming from my side of the universe today,
although it really does not relate to me, but
it kind of does because I appreciate these types
of resellers. How do part -time resellers survive
in the ever -changing realm of reselling? If
you're in the Amazon space, I'll just dive in
first here. The writing's kind of been on the
wall. They basically gate you in categories.
So one week you can sell For example, a recent
one was like universal branded DVDs. We know
a lot of movies are universal, made by universal,
sold by universal. And I guess it seems like
they are putting those behind gates for smaller
sellers than larger sellers. So the struggle
is if you're part time, you're not making as
much income as the full timer. So you can't afford
to buy in these situations. They want you to
buy 100. of Universal branded DVDs and submit
your invoice. And there's no guarantee that your
invoice is even going to be accepted. So I think
it's important to kind of talk about how we can
navigate the new landscape in Amazon as a part
-timer. And I think even just reselling in general,
I think the part -timer now has to be a lot more
calculated than the 2020, 2021 part -timer where
you could get away with almost buying junk and
selling junk. I think the landscape has changed
now. And I think part timers, there's lots of
them. There's a lot more part timers and full
timers. And a lot of them go away. They wind
up not having the thriving business. And I think
there's ways you can avoid this. And it's just
focusing on the one thing you have as a part
timer. And the one thing you don't really have
is you have the capital, but you don't have the
time. So you have to be, I think the biggest
thing that you can do part time. is to basically
raise your asp only go for the the the triples
and the home runs no more singles maybe a double
here or there if it's something that has a super
fast sell through but i think the days of just
going to a thrift store as a part -timer and
spending three dollars to make three dollars
if it requires you just putting it in the car
it's already too much work yeah i'm and that's
where i was going to go with it as well i think
you're Sourcing has to really be on point. You
have to be the cherry picker's cherry picker.
Your Rolodex has to be on fire. Now, you won't
have that off the gate, obviously. But after
doing this for a minute, you have an idea of
what consistently and always sells for good money.
Your trigger set, I think, needs to be high.
And again, like he said, fast sell through rate,
no questions asked. Yeah, so you're... Cost of
goods, I think, can be high as well as the case
may be because you may have to pay five bucks
to get a $50 item versus like me coming along,
doing a library sale for pennies to get the same
item. But you don't have to deal with everything
that's left over. Your time is more precious
than mine, I guess. It is, dude. Yeah, yeah.
I think you hit it on the head. I think that's
another huge route you go is you spend more money.
but you have less work right so you buy the item
for 80 bucks to make 40 bucks right like that
that 100 it's not as exciting though right like
that's the big thing we get back to there's no
glory with that model not at all there's no like
you walk in and you find the dollar gold bar
that you can sell for a thousand dollars right
but There's sell through that comes with this.
You buy this item for 80 bucks. You know that
this vintage T -shirt sells at minimum for 120
and it'll be out of your house within two weeks.
Like that is the part timer that wins. Right.
Or you may go the scheduled appointment, personal
collection pick versus walking into a thrift
store and hoping for the best. uh because you
can strike out at a thrift store but if the facebook
craigslist next door guide made some decent photos
and you can eyeball it and like know there's
money there and you go in and you just pick out
what you want if they're allowing that they may
be a buy it all deal but if the price is right
you may have a little bit of junk that way but
you know ahead of time what you're getting you
already know if you have to buy it all this bookcase
alone is worth the time you'll have to spend
either getting rid of or doing big lots with
the remainder, honestly, versus a library sale.
But again, where that's just another mixed bag,
like a thrift store, there's going to be some
highs, there's going to be some, well, there's
gonna be a lot more lows, but yes. I think you
got to niche down within a niche as well as possible,
right? So like, I'm going to be the part -time
toy seller, but like, I can't be the guy that
sells My Little Pony, SpongeBob. Ninja Turtles,
right? Like maybe go for like an error of toys.
So you have the information ahead of you, right?
We all have downtime, whether we're working our
job and we can kind of listen to different podcasts
and kind of understand the market. It's going
to take knowledge. But I think niching down,
being an everything part -time seller, you may
think it sounds glorious, right? Like I can go
in any store and I can shop anything. I'm here
to tell you it is so inefficient. You're not
going to last. No, it'd be a big headache. And
you're right. Maybe you're the antiquarian seller,
but beyond that, you're only for like farming
antiquarian or prep work like canning. There's
lots of good books about canning that are worth
really good money. Or how do you make your own
cans? Like from the glass formation to making
the lids to sealing it and all that. Yeah, I
think you're right. Being a niche person, especially
if you're on eBay, is highly important. Shotgun
approach for part -time, that's a hard game.
Doable, but again, hard. And your work time and
your dollars per hour is just going to go down
because the difference between me doing a big
haul in like a week, it's going to take you months.
It's just too slow, in my opinion. Either speed
it along or narrow your scope. And I think narrowing
the scope's better. It's tough to balance it
because we get so excited, especially if you're
part -time and you just started selling. But
I think another hard kind of realization is that
you're doing this part -time, so you can't expect
full -time results, right? Like you're only doing
this 10 hours a week, maybe five hours a week.
Of course, you're not going to be pushing the
crazy numbers you see on social media. So you
have to be like, okay, well, this is... this
is who I am, right? It's kind of like how I am,
even though full -time like this is who I am.
These are the numbers I'm going to have kind
of, this is where I'm going to max out at. This
is kind of where my minimum is. And that's a
okay. But I think it's a hard pill for a lot
of people to swallow when you're like, well,
I'm doing this and I see other people that have
more, more better results. And here I am doing,
you know, an extra 200 bucks a week. But I'm
here to tell you, I mean, if you get 200 bucks
a week, you're spending five hours, 40 bucks
an hour. That's, you know, your take home after
all your costs and overhead and taxes like that's
pretty damn good. Johnny, these jobs ain't paying
much. Hate to break it to you. Go look on Indeed,
wherever they post jobs anymore. They're not
paying much. So if you can get 20 bucks an hour
after your cost of goods, taxes, fees and everything,
and you're putting in 5, 10, 15 hours a week.
I mean, that that's no, you know, nothing to
be shamed about. Like, let's go like that's decent
money. I was watching a video of a millennial
lady, which is my age bracket. I know I'm offending
half our audience. But anyway, she was going
over what 20 bucks used to mean. Like when she
was a teenage girl, her mom would give her 20
bucks. Drop her off at the mall. She can spend
all day there. She can go to the movies. She
can pick up a couple items of clothes, get some
food at the food court, and still probably have
five bucks left over by the end of all that.
You can't even buy a movie ticket for hardly
under $20 just for yourself anymore. I mean,
it's hard. It's hard, man. It's hard to make
money. And I think reselling is spun in a way
where it's like kind of a get rich quick. You
can make a lot of money reselling in a short
period of time. It's just going to take a knowledge
base. Like thinking you can just start today
and walk into a thrift store and make $1 ,000
is farfetched. I think the game has changed a
lot. And I think as the platforms continue to,
I mean, there's still so many advances with AI
we haven't even seen yet, right? Not only are
the part -timers going to get crushed when AI
gets better for the mega sellers, like people
like me and you, we're going to be paying. And
we have been right. We sell media. There's people
out there that have conveyor belts. Me and Johnny
can't compete with conveyor belt people. Right.
So as technology advances and the AI gets better,
you know, we already got like Google lens. You
can just take a photo. It says what it is. Who's
to say that. You know, eBay doesn't come out
with something where you just take a photo and
it lists it automatically for you. It automatically
knows the dimensions, the size, men's, women,
whatever. It may suck at first, right? They got
the AI description now, which sucks. It just
pulls your item details and puts it into some
bogus paragraph. But these things are only going
to get better. I love part time. There's part
timers that are absolutely crushing it. So for
like every five that quit, there's usually one
part -timer that's doing like 10K in profit every
single month. And I'm just like, the possibility
is still there. You just have to be calculated.
Don't get discouraged when these things happen,
right? Like everybody's pissed off. I can't sell
universal. They want me to buy a hundred. Well,
what can we do to kind of counteract that, right?
Like, what are you going to do with all the items
you can't sell? You can sell them on eBay, get
some money for them, lot them up, and then put
that money towards getting ungated in that brand.
I think a lot of part -timers just, when they
get a little bit of resistance, the instant reaction
is just like, well, this is it. This is another
thing that's happening. And I say the opposite.
Our fees are going up. I'm out of business this
year. You've already taken the steps to build
the business to this point. So don't let another
little kind of jab that a platform throws at
you or like life throws at you. Like, well, this
is it. I'm just like, no, this is the furthest
thing from it. Sure, you have to adapt and change
some things, but. I mean, everybody's doing that
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Look what's happening at thrift stores. I mean,
the good stuff is starting to become less and
less out on the floor. You can't even get your
hands on it because they've already decided to
sell it in the back room somehow, some way. And
you never even get a chance. The chances and
opportunities, they aren't as abundant as they
were anymore. Because like you mentioned, technology
is coming along. These bigger corporation chains
that we all shop from, they're starting to get
more savvy with it. So the game is getting harder.
Same game, just harder. So you have to broaden
your horizons. And like we were saying, from
a full -timer, go from a less shotgun approach
or chainsaw to a more scalpel surgical approach.
Yeah, yeah. And knowledge is going to be your
best friend as you niche down as a part -timer
and not just being, oh, I can sell the board
game. I can sell the lamp. I can sell the VCR.
I can sell the book. Like that is, you don't
have enough time. You're part -time. Pick one.
Pick one of those. Don't do them all. Pick one.
Pick one and do it real good and understand that,
hey, now I'm an expert so I can go on Facebook
marketplace and I can see that. the Sony VCR
that somebody's selling for 50 bucks, I can get
150 bucks on eBay for it. And I can offer them
even lower than $50. And you already know the
profit when you see the item because you understand
that you're not the person. I see this all the
time, Johnny, in every damn thrift store I'm
in. Here I am on my phone on the eBay app and
I'm looking up a million different things in
my cart. I have no idea, but I'm just going to
sit here all day and look up every single item
on eBay and hope that I can find one. that might
sell for more, right? Like it's crazy to me how
much time we can waste. And part -timers, that's
the big challenge, right? Johnny just said it.
The thrift stores ain't what they used to be.
You can't just go into a Goodwill anymore and
grab two shopping carts and fill it up with stuff.
It does not exist. They sell online. They have
backdoor relationships. Somebody's taken all
the lamps. Somebody's taken all the books. If
you don't think this is happening, or maybe it's
not happening in your area right now, right?
You're like, Well, my thrift stores are still
good. Well, I'm going to be the bearer of bad
news. It ain't going to last. And you'll notice
this even in estate sales. You walk in and everything
is priced at eBay prices because you know what?
The eBay price comped it before they opened the
doors to you. They're catching on. Flea market
people, how many of you guys have seen it at
the flea market even? It's worth $5 on eBay.
Well, they did it wrong. They're pulling up listed
prices, and then you toggle over to solds, and
then they're like, okay, fine, give me my $3.
Technology is in everybody's pockets. Now, the
laziness factor has started to kick in because
they thought they were getting screwed, and you
know what? They're right. And so now they're
learning the technology not to get screwed. And
it's not like we were doing anything wrong. Everybody
agrees to a number. You get monies exchanged,
goods are exchanged, and everybody goes on their
way. But people want more money as all, like
we mentioned, 20 bucks ain't what 20 bucks used
to be. So they got rent and they got mouths to
feed too. So they've had to adapt with the times.
And you know what? It comes out of our pocket
at the end of the day. And by that, I mean dollars.
you're either going to have to pay up for things
or broaden your horizons or narrow your scope.
So I just pulled it up. The average hourly wage
in the US is $36. Now that's probably skewed
because there's a lot of rich people in this
country. It says the median hourly wage is $29.
So it means half of all workers make... More
than $29 per hour, half make less. That's factoring
in all hourly workers. So you're talking your
engineers versus your Starbucks workers. Yes,
exactly. You're going to meet in the middle at
$29. So I think a good starting point for anybody
is to be making $20 an hour after everything.
I think is a good starting point to going. Because
I'll tell you right now, central Pennsylvania,
the jobs, finding a job that's going to pay you
$20 an hour that isn't like backbreaking, you're
the trash guy type labor. That's hard to come
by. So I think $20, I mean, if you're in California,
that's peanuts, right? But minimum wage here
in Pennsylvania is $7 .25, right? Nobody in their
right mind can live off $7 .25. No, they can.
They just need three jobs. Yeah, yeah. Just work
120 hours a week, right? You'll be fine. I think
it's a good starting point in not getting caught
up in the value in your time. And I guess the
other side to that is you're not going to find
as much, right? You're not going to be, you know.
You're not going to find as many items. You're
not going to be buying as many items, but you're
not going to be storing the junk. You're only
buying the good quality stuff. Even if you pay
a little bit more, that's actually going to sell.
You're actually going to list the item, put it
in your little storage system or send it off
to Amazon and it's actually going to sell, which
means you're actually going to make money. The
part -time trap is you just go buy everything.
You got too much junk. None of it sells. You
spend way too much time in the business. And
then you think that reselling don't work. Well,
it's just your whole business model don't work.
Right. And you still can't bring a home a carload
on part time hours. It's just you're going to
have a very busy route is what we're going to
call it. And you may pick up 10 items here, five
items there, zero items. But at the end of 48
hours, your car is full. And you're going to
be dying off coffee exhaustion because you got
to get up and go to work the next day. And the
following days, you got to list all that stuff
and do it again. You're going to have what we
call the part -time grind. And it will be a grind,
but you will, lack of a better, be an expert
in your field, the better and more time you put
into it if you've narrowed down what you're buying.
For sure. And we got part -timers that are in
the group and they buy in bulk. They'll buy bulk
DVDs, bulk CDs, bulk books, and they'll throw
them in the garage because... you're part -time
you don't have time to go run the thrift and
route right so you have the inventory there but
that also can be a trap because you think to
yourself well now i don't have to work on it
it's going to be in my garage forever it's a
new member of the family and right when you level
up from that let's say you got some money in
the bank finally because i'm assuming you're
starting from basically zero dollars maybe 20
bucks and now you got a couple grand sitting
in there okay you can Swap the 48 -hour grind,
pump that couple grand into an Easton Press collection,
and then resell that. It's less items, but they're
primo items, right? And maybe you're paying $20,
$22 per, but they are all going to sell, and
they are all going to sell for decent money.
And then you can level up again and again and
again, buy larger, bigger, more pristine collections.
But you got to go through the trenches if you're
starting it. I only got 20 bucks that I can spend
in the business. You got to start there. Unless
you already got money in the bank, you can't
go from level one to level two, lickety split.
Yeah, it's going to take time, right? I mean,
think about it. It's just, it's basic math. You
can't break the math. If you only start with
a hundred bucks, you got to turn the hundred
into 500, right? And that's going to take X amount
of time. Then you're going to turn the 500 into
a thousand, X amount of time. It's a journey.
I guess that's what it comes down to. It's not
something where you're going to start reselling
part -time and you're going to have all this
crazy success instantly. Sure, you might find
some gems, sell something, get excited about
it. But overall, your reselling journey is a
lot more than the first year of your actual business.
We all look back at the first year and we're
just like, it was just chaos. You're just doing
things, you're doing things wrong, but it don't
matter. You paid some learning expenses, you
screwed up. The goal is, to your journey reference,
don't stop believing. If you're the part -timer
now that feels like you're up against the world
or like the platforms just aren't what they used
to be, I would challenge you all to take a step
back and look at your business model and seriously
ask yourself, right? Like if I was doing this
part -time and I was doing $500 a month on eBay
up until 2025 and now my sales are down to $250
a month. I think you have to really take a look
at your business model, what you're selling,
the platform you're selling it on. Don't keep
dragging something out and keep putting in more
work and not getting the results. At some point,
dude, it's a -okay to just pack it up and move
on. Right. I mean, take a hard look. And are
your prices too high? Maybe you need to come
down in prices. Yeah, that $20 item really sells
for $12. I've marked it down to $12. They're
all selling. And you only, or you're like, huh,
when I do a half off sale, all my stuff sells.
Why doesn't it sell for full price? Well, probably
good indicator your price too high. Other things
is stop listing $12 items, man. Go for realistic
items. Because, you know, I don't believe you
have the time to do the huge volume game with
the lower margin stuff. So you need to move it
up. Again, become a specialist. So take a pause,
do some research. Like there is a sold list on
eBay every day. Go to your category and just
scroll through that sucker and see what's selling.
Because you'll see some repeat offenders on those
lists. And that goes into your mental rolodex
when you're out shopping. You need to pick these
things up because they sell every day. Now, the
one -offs, the two -offs, that's good to have
as well. But if you're seeing, I don't know,
Stephen King sells every day for 20 bucks on
the nose. Doesn't matter what it is. Well, maybe
you just start picking up Stephen King. Maybe
you make a route and just pick up all the Stephen
Kings you can. Do that. Do that for one day.
One sourcing day. See if you can bring home a
box load, a box worth of Stephen King. List it
all for 20 bucks and see what happens. I take
great pride in surviving, I guess it would be
the great reseller purge of 24, because I think
a lot of resellers kind of, right, we look back
during the pandemic, you could sell anything.
Everybody was making buku bucks. I could sell
Nora Roberts during the pandemic, and I did.
Everybody was making buku bucks. And I think
we see a little bit of residual effects here
now from the part -timers that kind of hung on
this long, and they're still not getting results.
That market was not realistic, right? It's like
a bubble, the bubble burst on reselling, I guess
you could say. So like Johnny was saying, you
got to reevaluate, go back, look at what you
got. I mean, there's no reason we should be storing
this, especially if you're an eBay seller, like
storing the pair of sneakers in your house for
longer than I do for six months. Six months is
all I get my stuff on Amazon. So I'm going to
stand my ground on the eBay front as well. You're
doing shoes. I accept this. Six months. Let's
get rid of this stuff. Let's move these items.
It's got to be defeating. If I come home every
day, I work a full -time job. A lot of part -timers
have families they take care of. We've got a
lot of part -time moms out there that do this
business. A lot of part -time retired seniors
as well. I know it's defeating when you come
in and you see all this junk sitting in your
house. i spent money on this right like this
is my money sitting here not doing nothing for
me like your inventory sitting at home not selling
is literally costing you money because you paid
for those items another thing i see happen and
it's a hard lesson to learn but i've seen people
not learn it for decades of they're buying stuff
that they assume is cool and they they like it
and appreciate it and they do have it for sale
But it's not worth anything. And the desirability
of people who also like it is really low. So
again, they got to change up what they're selling,
in my opinion. Now, you bought these things.
They aren't selling. What do you do with it?
Do you take all these listings down? You could,
but in my opinion, you've already done the work
and you should just let them slowly sell off
and transition to things with a faster sell -through
rate. hopefully a higher ASP to boot. It's nice
to have them both. But if you had to choose one,
STR would be, because that's repeatable, right?
It's a formula. Yeah, you need stuff that actually
sells. And I think you're right there. People
are just so accustomed to listing anything. And
I think a lot of new sellers, especially in Amazon,
they get discouraged because they can't sell
a lot of the stuff, right? Amazon kind of wants
you to give a little bit of, put in a little
bit of sweat equity before they let you sell
a lot of items. And now... Now they're even gating
people that have been part -time on Amazon for
five years. Over five years, all of a sudden
they can't sell XYZ product. And I struggle with,
okay, well, if we've been selling for five years
or even a year on Amazon part -time, I consider
part -time like, I guess one box every two weeks.
So between 30 and 100 items every two weeks.
You should have some type of capital by now.
So when you do get gated in Universal. If it's
a huge part of your inventory, right? Another
thing that we've seen specifically in a group,
like they did Universal, Scholastic, and Hallmark.
And I went and looked at my inventory when these
happened. Universal is like 110 items. I didn't
get gated. I don't get gated in none of this
stuff. I just attribute that to being an older
account. And like Johnny said, sell through.
Amazon wants you to sell your items. That's how
they get paid. And I am the most aggressive repricer.
Six months, it's the lowest price it's going
to sell, basically guaranteed. And I don't run
into any of these gates that other people run
into. So you should have money set aside to get
ungated, right? Universal is going to cost you
what? You go find DVDs, usually on sale for like
three, four bucks a piece. So you're looking
at three, four hundred dollars if it's a huge
part of your business. But people are freaking
out. And I go, I search my inventory. I got 100
Universal. Not a huge deal. I got over 5 ,000
items. Would I get ungated? Yes, for sure. But
I have the capital and I'm full time. Then it
was like Hallmark. I had like three or four Hallmark
DVDs. Sure, they're profitable, but they're not
everywhere. Right. Like, I don't know anybody
that carries a large Hallmark DVD inventory because
they actually sell because they're not printed
in mass. Right. And then the other one was Scholastic.
I have like three Scholastic. So we're talking
about a tiny bit of a tiny bit of a tiny bit.
But you get the email, dude, and that's it. This
is it, Johnny. I can't sell Universal. What's
next? What do they want? They want one of my
cats. They want my blood. Like, what's next?
Unfortunately, I missed those, but I did get
hit with Disney. And that was, ouch. Disney was
a lot of decent items, and I was sad. But you
know what? Life goes on, and there's other means.
I can contact somebody who's open in Disney.
Like, yo, I got a bunch of Disney. You want it?
I'll make you a deal. yeah part -time doesn't
have to be as painful if done right i mean we're
making it sound terrible with all the research
and this that and the other but you chose to
do this at the end of the day you chose to be
a reseller and it comes with a fair bit of work
uh either you're sweating or your brain's sweating
because you're doing a ton of research and you're
trying to retain it all right uh knowledge is
power in this game um also even in amazon land
What are you sending in repeatedly that you're
finding in your area? And how do you target just
that stuff and leave everything else alone? Because
if you can get it by the truckloads, you're basically
just printing money. But you got to figure that
out. You're the one that has to figure it out.
Nobody's going to give you this magical bolo
list. I hate bolo lists. You know why? Because
once somebody makes the list, everybody knows.
Good job ruining the market, bolo list people.
You too can eat a big one. Well, that's every
YouTuber in the history of reselling because
everybody blames reselling YouTubers for Goodwills
and thrift stores keeping everything back. And
to an extent, I agree. But at the end of the
day, it's still out there for the taking, right?
Like Goodwill is not going to the estate sales.
Goodwill is not building the one -on -one relationships
with the libraries. you know, Goodwill isn't
going upstream. That's literally the last spot
before it goes to the landfill. So like, if you're
relying on the last spot before the landfill,
like - You might miss the boat, my friend. You're
already in trouble here, right? Like you're already
on thin ice. It's tough. I appreciate part -timers.
I still think there's a lot of opportunity, but
I do think, like you said, it has to be a surgical
approach and you have to be willing to change
things if they're not working. Because if it
ain't working, Johnny, if I'm reselling and I
ain't making no money, dude, I'm out. There's
other ways to make money. It's A -OK. There's
nothing wrong with that. Get yourself an Uber
or a Starbucks job. You'll make more money. Honestly,
no shame in that, really. I mean, you're making
more money and your whole demeanor will change
because that's why you did this in the first
place. Not necessarily because you fell in love
with reselling, but because you needed extra
money. And if you got to go work at Starbucks
to do that because you couldn't cut it in reselling.
That's OK. You found that out that you are not
good at reselling and everybody acknowledges
what they're not good at. I would make a horrible
surgeon. I can't do it. I would just take my
chainsaw, cut you open and be like, where's the
crazy glue? And I'd be a failure as a surgeon.
Don't try it, dude. And if you do, let me know
when you're in office. So I know to not not leave
my house and be wrapped in bubble wrap. So I
don't wind up on your table somewhere. Waste
disposal I'd probably be good at, but the surging
part, not so much. But anyway, back to the point,
acknowledging what you're not good at and moving
on from that, that's how we learn, right? So
you tried reselling, you weren't good at it.
Okay, maybe it's time to move on. And it doesn't
have to be Starbucks. We're not meaning that
to sound demeaning. It could be, I don't know,
manager at a Ruby Tuesdays or... Maybe you're
really good at engineering and you're a hobbyist
engineer. Well, maybe you shift over to making
that a full -time career now. I sucked it. I
still suck. It's not even past tense. I suck
at eBay. I had to move on from it. And it's not
like you're a bad reseller. You're just a bad
eBay reseller. Could I have an eBay business?
100%, the answer every time is yes. Everybody
can. But will it be efficient and profitable?
And will you hate yourself the whole time? Exactly,
dude. That is the thing. So I just remove myself
from it fully and I'm perfectly okay getting
some of that money by sending my stuff to you
and I don't have to deal with it because I accept
that I suck at eBay. I don't want to waste time
on eBay. It doesn't interest me and I can make
more dollars per hour doing something else, right?
So don't be the part -time reseller. Like Johnny
said, maybe you are a nurse and instead of reselling,
you just go work eight hours overtime. or pick
up an extra shift, right? Like if the whole goal
of what you're trying to do, your side hustle
is to make more money, then let's make more money.
Don't necessarily have to be reselling. But if
you are reselling, then let's make more money
reselling than we're doing anything else, right?
Because the possibilities are there. And I have
seen this. I have seen people shift from reseller
to sourcer for a reseller because they are bad
at the reselling part, but they're a great sourcer.
They're five stars. full compliments, salute
when it comes to buying the stuff. As far as
getting it up, as far as inventorying it, as
far as running an actual business, F, B minus.
Dude, that's me. I don't want to list nothing.
Really bad. Stop it now. No photos, no listing.
And they realize that and they make the shift
and they connect with the reseller. They get
a steady paycheck every week. They go source
every week. They shifted to what they were good
at. And kudos to you if you can figure that out.
Man, I don't think there's anything wrong with
it. We're going to wrap this episode up here.
We appreciate all you part -time hustlers. And
just remember, the opportunities out there, bet
on yourself. I think being an entrepreneur is
one of the biggest risks. You're going to learn
a lot about yourself because you're your own
boss. You actually got to get up and put in the
work. There's a million different ways you can
make money part -time reselling. And we'll talk
to you all in next week's episode. Thanks for
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