WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.160 Welcome back to another episode of the Reseller's 00:00:02.160 --> 00:00:04.559 Mindset Podcast. My name is Mike, also known 00:00:04.559 --> 00:00:06.559 as the Used Book Guy on YouTube, along with my 00:00:06.559 --> 00:00:08.599 friend and fellow full -time reseller, Johnny 00:00:08.599 --> 00:00:11.169 B. We help people start and grow their reselling 00:00:11.169 --> 00:00:13.589 businesses from the ground up. We also have a 00:00:13.589 --> 00:00:15.570 weekly Zoom call and private Discord for all 00:00:15.570 --> 00:00:18.469 YouTube members. Head on over to youtube .com 00:00:18.469 --> 00:00:20.829 backslash usebookguy to join the channel and 00:00:20.829 --> 00:00:23.429 gain access to the full -length podcast, Zoom 00:00:23.429 --> 00:00:26.109 call, and private Discord today. Let's get into 00:00:26.109 --> 00:00:28.489 this week's episode. What is up, everybody? Welcome 00:00:28.489 --> 00:00:31.089 back to another episode of the Reseller's Mindset 00:00:31.089 --> 00:00:34.380 Podcast. Mike next to you. johnny and this is 00:00:34.380 --> 00:00:37.799 an exciting episode for both me and johnny so 00:00:37.799 --> 00:00:41.920 uh i am getting back into the ebay game but not 00:00:41.920 --> 00:00:44.700 by any stretch of the imagination as you all 00:00:44.700 --> 00:00:46.740 think so i was like mike you're going to be listening 00:00:46.740 --> 00:00:50.299 stuff no no no he's been a diligent student at 00:00:50.299 --> 00:00:53.780 my ebay calls attends every single one I refuse 00:00:53.780 --> 00:00:57.299 to list another item on eBay, but I do want the 00:00:57.299 --> 00:01:01.799 benefits of selling some items on eBay. And that's 00:01:01.799 --> 00:01:04.140 where this guy sitting next to me comes in. And 00:01:04.140 --> 00:01:07.260 this new endeavor he is taking upon himself. 00:01:07.280 --> 00:01:10.200 So I'm excited for the details you're all about 00:01:10.200 --> 00:01:14.060 to get because I will be participating. So, Johnny, 00:01:14.200 --> 00:01:19.049 take us away. Yeah, I decided I'm going to. dip 00:01:19.049 --> 00:01:21.870 my toes into consignment here. I've done it here 00:01:21.870 --> 00:01:25.409 and there for some friends and stuff. My processes 00:01:25.409 --> 00:01:28.390 are pretty good, and I feel confident I can now 00:01:28.390 --> 00:01:32.109 offer my services to the masses at large, which 00:01:32.109 --> 00:01:36.150 is you, the listeners here. Basically, I'll take 00:01:36.150 --> 00:01:39.090 your books, your magazines, your comics, your 00:01:39.090 --> 00:01:42.329 ephemera, your DVDs and CDs, and I made it pretty 00:01:42.329 --> 00:01:44.569 simple where you just put it in the box, put 00:01:44.569 --> 00:01:48.260 a little envelope on top with your consignment 00:01:48.260 --> 00:01:52.560 id and you get that by emailing uh me and that'll 00:01:52.560 --> 00:01:56.400 be in the comments somewhere and also how you 00:01:56.400 --> 00:01:59.540 want to get paid and then i get it i unpack your 00:01:59.540 --> 00:02:02.340 stuff i list your stuff i sell your stuff and 00:02:02.340 --> 00:02:05.579 then i send you money how does it work uh basically 00:02:05.579 --> 00:02:10.340 it's for the books and magazines um anything 00:02:10.340 --> 00:02:14.969 else it's just a raw 50 50 split now Not everything 00:02:14.969 --> 00:02:18.129 will be listed in a buy it now price. I mean, 00:02:18.129 --> 00:02:21.229 if you send me a $5 book, I may decide to do 00:02:21.229 --> 00:02:24.270 that as a $1 auction or a Facebook marketplace 00:02:24.270 --> 00:02:27.930 $1 thing. So if you send me junk, expect to get 00:02:27.930 --> 00:02:32.330 junk prices. So you may not beat the shipping 00:02:32.330 --> 00:02:34.129 label if you send me junk. So be a little bit 00:02:34.129 --> 00:02:37.550 more diligent. But why send me your stuff instead 00:02:37.550 --> 00:02:40.939 of you doing it yourself? Time may be a factor. 00:02:41.060 --> 00:02:43.120 You may be just full on Amazon like Mike and 00:02:43.120 --> 00:02:45.300 just don't care about eBay, but realize there's 00:02:45.300 --> 00:02:47.699 eBay dollars to be had. Well, that's where I 00:02:47.699 --> 00:02:51.800 come into play. Some things like ephemera, I 00:02:51.800 --> 00:02:53.620 don't want to list that stuff because usually 00:02:53.620 --> 00:02:57.099 it's normally lower end, but I do have connections 00:02:57.099 --> 00:02:59.300 who will just buy it sight unseen for me for 00:02:59.300 --> 00:03:02.259 a flat fee. I'll get the fee and then I'll split 00:03:02.259 --> 00:03:05.020 it in half between me and you. Now, the 50 -50 00:03:05.020 --> 00:03:08.800 is after all fees, of course. And some stuff 00:03:08.800 --> 00:03:11.860 I may merchant fulfill, eBay, or put it on Ape, 00:03:11.860 --> 00:03:13.300 or do a little bit of cross -listing just to 00:03:13.300 --> 00:03:16.699 move it along faster. I may run a sale. I may 00:03:16.699 --> 00:03:19.400 throw in coupons. My goal is to move the items 00:03:19.400 --> 00:03:22.960 along to get you your cash flow faster. But, 00:03:23.039 --> 00:03:26.659 yeah, I mean, I'm taking the research. I'm doing 00:03:26.659 --> 00:03:29.099 the shipping. I'm doing the storing. So you don't 00:03:29.099 --> 00:03:32.479 have to, essentially. Also, if you send me damaged 00:03:32.479 --> 00:03:34.800 items, like I open the book and it shatters into 00:03:34.800 --> 00:03:37.400 a million pieces. Unless it's worth a lot of 00:03:37.400 --> 00:03:39.360 money shattered in a million pieces, I'm probably 00:03:39.360 --> 00:03:42.599 going to put it in the trash. So, again, be a 00:03:42.599 --> 00:03:46.280 little diligent when you put in your stuff. Same 00:03:46.280 --> 00:03:49.560 for the comics. I may wholesale that off or depending 00:03:49.560 --> 00:03:51.759 what it is. If it's valuable comics, I do have 00:03:51.759 --> 00:03:54.099 some comic knowledge and or magazine knowledge. 00:03:54.159 --> 00:03:59.259 It'll get run through eBay per normal. What else 00:03:59.259 --> 00:04:01.379 do you want to say there, Mike? Dude, for me, 00:04:01.520 --> 00:04:04.960 the biggest thing for me. is I don't have to 00:04:04.960 --> 00:04:08.219 do no work besides put it in the box. And we 00:04:08.219 --> 00:04:10.639 were joking before we started this and Johnny's 00:04:10.639 --> 00:04:12.400 like, just get it in the box. I was like, hey, 00:04:12.439 --> 00:04:14.080 are we rocking and rolling with this? Because 00:04:14.080 --> 00:04:16.720 we've been toying with this idea. He's been toying 00:04:16.720 --> 00:04:19.379 with this idea, this business model, probably 00:04:19.379 --> 00:04:21.899 now for a few months. And he's like, yeah, I 00:04:21.899 --> 00:04:23.939 already got stuff headed my way. So I was like, 00:04:23.959 --> 00:04:26.019 all right, I just got to get it in the box. You 00:04:26.019 --> 00:04:28.420 mentioned it to just a couple people. I got stuff 00:04:28.420 --> 00:04:30.699 for you. I'm like, that's not what I wanted to 00:04:30.699 --> 00:04:33.060 talk to you about, but sure, I'll take it. I 00:04:33.060 --> 00:04:36.519 like the idea, right? Because, you know, the 00:04:36.519 --> 00:04:39.120 libraries I work with, I get the antique books. 00:04:39.220 --> 00:04:42.120 I even, I'm going to send you some and I don't 00:04:42.120 --> 00:04:44.439 have to, I'm just throwing it in the box. I could, 00:04:44.459 --> 00:04:46.620 I have no idea what it is. I don't know if it's 00:04:46.620 --> 00:04:48.639 a thousand dollar book or it's one of the ones 00:04:48.639 --> 00:04:50.620 he's going to throw as far as he can out his 00:04:50.620 --> 00:04:53.139 front door. But I think that's the huge benefit 00:04:53.139 --> 00:04:56.939 because in Resound, we just burn our time and 00:04:56.939 --> 00:05:00.579 I'm a firm. believer that time is the most precious 00:05:00.579 --> 00:05:02.620 thing we have so if i just have to put it in 00:05:02.620 --> 00:05:06.000 a box and ship it to you like okay well i'll 00:05:06.000 --> 00:05:07.600 find out what it's worth when you sell you do 00:05:07.600 --> 00:05:10.040 all the research and i i'll tell you this like 00:05:10.040 --> 00:05:14.360 i've tried this in the past and i know the quality 00:05:14.360 --> 00:05:17.079 of listings that you put out there on ebay like 00:05:17.079 --> 00:05:21.439 no one's no one's even coming close to the quality 00:05:21.439 --> 00:05:23.779 of listings you're going to put out there and 00:05:23.779 --> 00:05:27.120 i think another huge benefit is that like everybody 00:05:27.120 --> 00:05:29.100 knows where to get a hold of you right like you're 00:05:29.100 --> 00:05:32.319 in all the big i can't hide like people are going 00:05:32.319 --> 00:05:34.360 to be commenting on my channel like hey where's 00:05:34.360 --> 00:05:37.139 johnny like he literally has calls in the group 00:05:37.139 --> 00:05:38.779 that i have through the youtube channel you can 00:05:38.779 --> 00:05:42.220 literally talk his ear off every every basically 00:05:42.220 --> 00:05:44.420 they're going to be like turned into where in 00:05:44.420 --> 00:05:46.500 the world is carmen san diego except it's where 00:05:46.500 --> 00:05:49.480 in the world is johnny v Yeah, Johnny's monthly 00:05:49.480 --> 00:05:52.240 calls in my group every other week are just going 00:05:52.240 --> 00:05:55.459 to be him covering people asking questions about 00:05:55.459 --> 00:05:57.959 his commission -based business. And I don't think 00:05:57.959 --> 00:05:59.060 there's anything wrong with that. I think it's 00:05:59.060 --> 00:06:01.339 actually a huge upside that you're out there, 00:06:01.459 --> 00:06:03.699 you're responsive, and you're a straight shooter. 00:06:03.860 --> 00:06:07.560 People trust you. And I think that goes a long 00:06:07.560 --> 00:06:10.000 way, especially in the space we're in with resale. 00:06:10.019 --> 00:06:12.300 There's a lot of shady people out there, unfortunately, 00:06:12.560 --> 00:06:16.220 in this space. But I'm just excited to not have 00:06:16.220 --> 00:06:17.920 to look anything up because I'll tell you what, 00:06:18.019 --> 00:06:20.459 I would just, I got a stack. It's probably like 00:06:20.459 --> 00:06:22.439 20, 30 books high. It's a storage unit. It's 00:06:22.439 --> 00:06:25.160 all antique books that like I have to actually 00:06:25.160 --> 00:06:28.160 sit there, open my eBay app, type in the title 00:06:28.160 --> 00:06:30.300 and the year and then do the comps and do the 00:06:30.300 --> 00:06:32.259 right listings. Like the fact that I could just 00:06:32.259 --> 00:06:34.319 throw it in a box and to help with it, pay 20 00:06:34.319 --> 00:06:36.319 bucks, fill up a Lowe's box, send it your way 00:06:36.319 --> 00:06:39.860 and then just wash my hands of it. Dude, it's 00:06:39.860 --> 00:06:42.360 foolproof. Like the fact you're doing the research. 00:06:43.339 --> 00:06:46.680 amazes me right because most commission -based 00:06:46.680 --> 00:06:49.740 situations they want to know like the person 00:06:49.740 --> 00:06:51.139 selling it wants to know what they're getting 00:06:51.139 --> 00:06:54.319 ahead of time right because uh what happens if 00:06:54.319 --> 00:06:57.439 150 boxes of junk show up on your doorstep well 00:06:57.439 --> 00:06:59.660 you've made it clear like hey like if it's junk 00:06:59.660 --> 00:07:02.160 and i can't sell it for a dollar then it's getting 00:07:02.160 --> 00:07:04.180 treated like junk that i can't sell it's going 00:07:04.180 --> 00:07:08.339 in the trash can yeah like uh i will try to sell 00:07:08.339 --> 00:07:10.670 if you send me a nora roberts book Hopefully 00:07:10.670 --> 00:07:12.850 you send me more than one where I have a chance 00:07:12.850 --> 00:07:15.269 at making a dollar. But keep in mind, you are 00:07:15.269 --> 00:07:18.129 paying the shipping. So you may not outpace the 00:07:18.129 --> 00:07:19.689 shipping fee just because you send me a whole 00:07:19.689 --> 00:07:21.930 box of Nora Roberts. It could try to be funny. 00:07:22.329 --> 00:07:26.310 Well, I will give you a funny sale price when 00:07:26.310 --> 00:07:28.170 it comes back to me. You'll get half of whatever 00:07:28.170 --> 00:07:30.209 I get. So you'll be in the negative and I'll 00:07:30.209 --> 00:07:33.449 be going. Anyway, you gave me you gave me an 00:07:33.449 --> 00:07:37.060 idea. So if my box has any space, I got. plenty 00:07:37.060 --> 00:07:39.480 of romance novels i'm just gonna throw in there 00:07:39.480 --> 00:07:43.120 just for fun you do you mike i will handle the 00:07:43.120 --> 00:07:47.100 books however i see fit um yeah another thing 00:07:47.100 --> 00:07:50.079 is yeah you do you do pay shipping if you would 00:07:50.079 --> 00:07:52.360 like your items back let's say a year rolls by 00:07:52.360 --> 00:07:55.240 and so once every two years sale that's fine 00:07:55.240 --> 00:07:57.500 um but you will have to pay the return shipping 00:07:57.500 --> 00:07:59.779 i'm not going to pay any shipping in this at 00:07:59.779 --> 00:08:01.980 all but if you'd like your stuff back i'll be 00:08:01.980 --> 00:08:04.040 more than happy to mail it back to you but it's 00:08:04.040 --> 00:08:07.439 on your dime How can I get paid? What's that? 00:08:07.620 --> 00:08:10.839 How can I get paid? I'm going to cater to every 00:08:10.839 --> 00:08:15.720 form of payment except cash. Cash is the one 00:08:15.720 --> 00:08:18.360 I can't do because of IRS reasons. So if you 00:08:18.360 --> 00:08:20.120 want a check, I'll write you a check. If you 00:08:20.120 --> 00:08:23.779 want Cash App, Cash App. Zelle, Zelle. PayPal, 00:08:24.040 --> 00:08:26.439 PayPal. Just keep in mind the appropriate fees 00:08:26.439 --> 00:08:28.279 for the platform. I want to get you the most 00:08:28.279 --> 00:08:31.959 money, so I recommend check. as it's instant 00:08:31.959 --> 00:08:34.340 but it does come with the caveat that you do 00:08:34.340 --> 00:08:39.299 have to um go to the bank uh paypal for sure 00:08:39.299 --> 00:08:42.759 for me 100 percent um uh i even paid the paypal 00:08:42.759 --> 00:08:46.259 fees but yeah yeah i mean it is what it is it's 00:08:46.259 --> 00:08:48.679 stuff that i otherwise are not going to sell 00:08:48.679 --> 00:08:50.460 right i think that i think the big upside to 00:08:50.460 --> 00:08:53.879 this is it takes the workload off of the person 00:08:53.879 --> 00:08:55.919 that's sending it to you because no research 00:08:55.919 --> 00:08:59.460 no listen no pack and no shipping i think like 00:08:59.850 --> 00:09:02.110 you might get overwhelmed with stuff, honestly. 00:09:02.590 --> 00:09:05.669 Yeah, no, I've thought about that. So the way 00:09:05.669 --> 00:09:08.929 it'll work, well, before I get to that, I'll 00:09:08.929 --> 00:09:11.110 do payouts every Monday. I've set aside a four 00:09:11.110 --> 00:09:13.350 -hour time block. I won't need that at the start, 00:09:13.389 --> 00:09:16.049 obviously. But every Monday, I'll issue the previous 00:09:16.049 --> 00:09:20.429 week's payments. If it takes more than four hours, 00:09:20.529 --> 00:09:22.149 fine, so be it. I'll finish the payments for 00:09:22.149 --> 00:09:26.059 the following week. But the... The whole thing 00:09:26.059 --> 00:09:28.940 is just about you get paid as soon as possibly 00:09:28.940 --> 00:09:32.840 can. If there's a return, well, I eat that cost. 00:09:33.080 --> 00:09:35.019 But it's now my product, assuming I get the book 00:09:35.019 --> 00:09:37.419 back and I'll resell it however I need to sell 00:09:37.419 --> 00:09:43.759 it. But, yeah, taking the storage out. And there 00:09:43.759 --> 00:09:46.139 was a second thing I said pause for a minute. 00:09:46.200 --> 00:09:48.600 What was it, Mike? I like the idea, though, that 00:09:48.600 --> 00:09:50.480 what you're saying, right? So, like, you sell 00:09:50.480 --> 00:09:54.029 the book. You know, like one of the, I got actually, 00:09:54.110 --> 00:09:56.490 I got my, some of my stuff I'm going to be sending 00:09:56.490 --> 00:10:00.389 your way here, right? Like Star Wars Ewok Adventures 00:10:00.389 --> 00:10:02.610 here, brand new sealed. I can't sell on Amazon, 00:10:02.750 --> 00:10:05.269 but it's like a $40 DVD. So you sell this DVD 00:10:05.269 --> 00:10:09.909 and you cut me my 20 bucks, keep your 20 bucks. 00:10:10.169 --> 00:10:12.750 Next week rolls around, you get a refund for 00:10:12.750 --> 00:10:16.049 this. You ain't coming back for me for the $20. 00:10:16.070 --> 00:10:18.470 You've been paid out. It's now my Star Wars CD 00:10:18.470 --> 00:10:20.889 and I'll resell it again. You'll probably keep 00:10:20.889 --> 00:10:23.799 this for yourself. Probably. I like Star Wars. 00:10:24.019 --> 00:10:26.539 I remember watching that movie as a child. Dude, 00:10:26.580 --> 00:10:28.580 you kind of, now that I'm looking, like, you 00:10:28.580 --> 00:10:31.519 could have been an Ewok. I could have been, and 00:10:31.519 --> 00:10:34.559 I may have an Ewok costume in my closet. I'm 00:10:34.559 --> 00:10:38.480 just saying, like, it's, I'm, listen, it's selfish 00:10:38.480 --> 00:10:40.980 of me to say, like, I'm glad, even if, you know, 00:10:40.980 --> 00:10:43.000 even if nobody else does it, I'm just glad I 00:10:43.000 --> 00:10:46.659 could send you this shit. Yeah, I mean, yeah, 00:10:46.700 --> 00:10:48.720 send me your books, your magazines, your comics, 00:10:48.899 --> 00:10:50.919 your firmware, your DVDs and CDs. I'll take care 00:10:50.919 --> 00:10:53.820 of it. You send me an email ahead of time and 00:10:53.820 --> 00:10:55.820 I send you what I need and you just print out 00:10:55.820 --> 00:10:59.580 that, put it inside the box so I know whose box 00:10:59.580 --> 00:11:02.820 is who. Oh, that was a thing, incoming. So yeah, 00:11:02.879 --> 00:11:06.200 you said I may get backed up. I will send correspondence 00:11:06.200 --> 00:11:09.279 when I start to process your items and then when 00:11:09.279 --> 00:11:11.639 your items have been listed. So you're kind of 00:11:11.639 --> 00:11:14.360 notified along the way where I'm at. So if you 00:11:14.360 --> 00:11:16.960 send me a box, but I got three pallets ahead 00:11:16.960 --> 00:11:19.940 of you. I'm normally going to try to do it in 00:11:19.940 --> 00:11:21.440 the order they receive. But for three palette 00:11:21.440 --> 00:11:23.980 guy, I may stop for a second to do your box because 00:11:23.980 --> 00:11:26.059 your box is going to be quicker than his three 00:11:26.059 --> 00:11:28.480 palettes. Three palette guy may take me a minute 00:11:28.480 --> 00:11:31.600 to get through. Just because because it's a lot 00:11:31.600 --> 00:11:33.259 of organizing, a lot of sorting. And that's before 00:11:33.259 --> 00:11:35.679 it even goes through the photography and listening 00:11:35.679 --> 00:11:38.700 phase. Because, again, that's how I list because 00:11:38.700 --> 00:11:41.240 the processes make it go faster. So I'm going 00:11:41.240 --> 00:11:43.039 to put all of his, I don't know, Stephen King 00:11:43.039 --> 00:11:45.279 books together and all his Easton's together 00:11:45.279 --> 00:11:47.059 and all that. And then it's just going to run 00:11:47.059 --> 00:11:50.519 through the pipeline. But yeah, for right now, 00:11:50.580 --> 00:11:53.899 you can send me as much as you want. Plan to 00:11:53.899 --> 00:11:57.360 notify you along all the little phases. You get 00:11:57.360 --> 00:11:59.500 notified when I pay you even. I mean, you'll 00:11:59.500 --> 00:12:01.039 get an alert, but you'll also get an email from 00:12:01.039 --> 00:12:04.700 me. Also in the email I'll send you is a bajillion 00:12:04.700 --> 00:12:07.279 probably Q &A things that I could think of, and 00:12:07.279 --> 00:12:09.559 I'll probably add to it as time goes on, as people 00:12:09.559 --> 00:12:13.460 ask me things I haven't thought of. And that's 00:12:13.460 --> 00:12:16.580 fine. What's up, Amazon sellers? We wanted to 00:12:16.580 --> 00:12:18.899 take a second to talk about GoToLister, the software 00:12:18.899 --> 00:12:21.399 me and Johnny both use to list and manage our 00:12:21.399 --> 00:12:24.500 inventory and grow our businesses. With the fastest 00:12:24.500 --> 00:12:26.460 listing speeds out there and built -in profit 00:12:26.460 --> 00:12:29.860 analytics, it's a no -brainer. Easily and quickly 00:12:29.860 --> 00:12:32.759 have items available for sale using 2D barcodes 00:12:32.759 --> 00:12:35.080 and get more for your items with its built -in 00:12:35.080 --> 00:12:37.620 smart pricing. Make sure to check out the 30 00:12:37.620 --> 00:12:40.519 -day free trial at gotolister .com backslash 00:12:40.519 --> 00:12:42.940 Mike or using the link in the description below. 00:12:44.069 --> 00:12:46.870 I plan to lot up things that are valued under 00:12:46.870 --> 00:12:50.529 $10 singleton by themselves. That's in the outline 00:12:50.529 --> 00:12:52.830 as an example. Or again, I may marketplace it 00:12:52.830 --> 00:12:54.289 because it'll just move better at marketplace. 00:12:56.250 --> 00:12:58.250 Yeah, I get your items. I put them on the selling 00:12:58.250 --> 00:13:00.690 platform that I see fit. Sell your items. You 00:13:00.690 --> 00:13:05.009 get paid half essentially. I'm curious here. 00:13:05.210 --> 00:13:07.090 So you're going to be doing lots and everything 00:13:07.090 --> 00:13:10.100 like that. Are you going to be on eBay? Do you 00:13:10.100 --> 00:13:12.980 have a flat promotion rate? Are you going to 00:13:12.980 --> 00:13:15.620 be using promoted listings? I will be using promoted 00:13:15.620 --> 00:13:18.480 listings. And it depends what it is, because 00:13:18.480 --> 00:13:21.019 there's really no reason for me to promote an 00:13:21.019 --> 00:13:23.279 Eastern Press, more or less, unless it's an undervalued 00:13:23.279 --> 00:13:27.759 one, because it'll just sell on its own. if it 00:13:27.759 --> 00:13:29.899 takes it a little while, I'll start to bump the 00:13:29.899 --> 00:13:31.799 promoted listing. Cause again, it's about getting 00:13:31.799 --> 00:13:34.000 you your cashflow and me, my cashflow. Cause 00:13:34.000 --> 00:13:37.000 you get it to me, right? My man. So I'll have 00:13:37.000 --> 00:13:38.840 to move it down the road eventually and promoted 00:13:38.840 --> 00:13:40.720 listings may help it move down the road just 00:13:40.720 --> 00:13:44.320 a little slightly. I don't plan to go above like 00:13:44.320 --> 00:13:48.139 12%. Like it's, it's like a five year sell through 00:13:48.139 --> 00:13:50.679 rate. So that thing may be go up to 12 % right 00:13:50.679 --> 00:13:52.759 off the gate. Just to get it along. Because do 00:13:52.759 --> 00:13:54.620 you really want to wait five years for your money? 00:13:54.659 --> 00:13:56.440 No, I think you just want whatever money for 00:13:56.440 --> 00:13:57.860 it because else you would have slung it yourself. 00:13:59.039 --> 00:14:02.399 So for those that aren't going to see the description 00:14:02.399 --> 00:14:05.100 of the YouTube comments and you wanted to know 00:14:05.100 --> 00:14:08.659 the email address he has that he's using specifically 00:14:08.659 --> 00:14:12.899 for this business, it is bookshepherding at gmail 00:14:12.899 --> 00:14:17.929 .com. That's book shepherding. S -H -E -P -H 00:14:17.929 --> 00:14:21.769 -E -R -D -I -N -G at gmail .com. And everything 00:14:21.769 --> 00:14:24.129 is done through there. But I mean, for those 00:14:24.129 --> 00:14:26.269 that are a member of the group, or I know you're 00:14:26.269 --> 00:14:28.429 in a text group as well, I'm sure you're going 00:14:28.429 --> 00:14:30.889 to be vocal about that over there. So anywhere 00:14:30.889 --> 00:14:32.909 you can find this guy, you can - Actually, I 00:14:32.909 --> 00:14:34.929 won't. I'm not allowed to sell stuff, including 00:14:34.929 --> 00:14:37.850 services there. I can briefly mention that I'm 00:14:37.850 --> 00:14:40.370 doing consignment. Yeah, but I mean, yeah. So 00:14:40.370 --> 00:14:42.070 like if somebody has a message and they're in 00:14:42.070 --> 00:14:43.909 that group and they listen to this podcast, like 00:14:43.909 --> 00:14:45.309 I don't know how it works over there. I don't 00:14:45.309 --> 00:14:46.850 know if you can direct message people in the 00:14:46.850 --> 00:14:48.970 group kind of like you can on Discord. But I 00:14:48.970 --> 00:14:50.629 mean, just reach out to them or you can reach 00:14:50.629 --> 00:14:53.570 out to me or comment on any one of my videos 00:14:53.570 --> 00:14:55.809 and I can easily. If you're watching this video 00:14:55.809 --> 00:14:57.909 or you need to head on over to the YouTube channel, 00:14:57.990 --> 00:15:00.970 I put it as my video name right now. It's literally 00:15:00.970 --> 00:15:05.169 on the screen right underneath my dumb mug. Yeah. 00:15:05.610 --> 00:15:08.009 everybody can just bug me for uh for your contact 00:15:08.009 --> 00:15:11.350 information um i just think dude for me it's 00:15:11.350 --> 00:15:13.750 just a time saver and it's money i have sitting 00:15:13.750 --> 00:15:15.250 here because i'll tell you what my ebay stuff 00:15:15.250 --> 00:15:17.129 has been sitting at the storage unit and under 00:15:17.129 --> 00:15:19.409 this desk now probably for like five or six months 00:15:19.409 --> 00:15:23.190 and i just i don't want to do the research i 00:15:23.190 --> 00:15:25.230 make more money going out scanning items for 00:15:25.230 --> 00:15:28.049 amazon than i will ever make looking up antique 00:15:28.049 --> 00:15:30.070 books on ebay i don't come across them enough 00:15:30.440 --> 00:15:32.320 But if I can just say, all right, well, this 00:15:32.320 --> 00:15:35.139 book is antique. At least to me, it looks like 00:15:35.139 --> 00:15:36.759 it. And I could just throw it in a box and get 00:15:36.759 --> 00:15:41.259 it to you. I mean, it don't get no easier, honestly. 00:15:41.379 --> 00:15:43.240 I think that's the biggest takeaway from this 00:15:43.240 --> 00:15:46.879 is move your stuff one way or another. And he's 00:15:46.879 --> 00:15:50.000 telling you, you don't know his listings are 00:15:50.000 --> 00:15:51.580 the best. And if you don't believe me, Johnny, 00:15:51.759 --> 00:15:54.419 what is your eBay store so somebody can go look 00:15:54.419 --> 00:15:55.960 at the quality of your listing? Oh, my name's 00:15:55.960 --> 00:15:59.340 stupidly long. It's Maury Anders, Dangerous Bookshop. 00:16:00.159 --> 00:16:02.659 um you want out here i'll put it in the chat 00:16:02.659 --> 00:16:05.700 it's so long that will also be in the description 00:16:05.700 --> 00:16:08.039 and the comments below if you don't believe me 00:16:08.039 --> 00:16:09.940 there's nobody going to touch his book listings 00:16:09.940 --> 00:16:14.019 uh item details everything the descriptions the 00:16:14.019 --> 00:16:18.940 photos uh it's literally top five all -time book 00:16:18.940 --> 00:16:21.740 listings on ebay and you know the competition's 00:16:21.740 --> 00:16:24.620 out there but it's not even close i'm excited 00:16:24.620 --> 00:16:27.279 dude uh what's your what do you feel like you 00:16:27.279 --> 00:16:29.860 know the response is going to be Like now that 00:16:29.860 --> 00:16:31.580 you started this and what do you feel like some 00:16:31.580 --> 00:16:33.440 of the challenges are going to be like as you 00:16:33.440 --> 00:16:36.960 continue to grow your own business while now 00:16:36.960 --> 00:16:40.480 adding on a business where you are doing commissions 00:16:40.480 --> 00:16:44.019 for other people? I think it'll open up a lot 00:16:44.019 --> 00:16:46.179 more networking opportunities like for people 00:16:46.179 --> 00:16:48.879 I don't normally talk to because whatever reason 00:16:48.879 --> 00:16:51.500 they're running a well -oiled machine, I'm in 00:16:51.500 --> 00:16:53.720 my lane doing my well -oiled machine, but maybe 00:16:53.720 --> 00:16:56.879 we cross paths and more business adventures can 00:16:56.879 --> 00:16:59.779 occur from that. As far as maintaining my own, 00:16:59.980 --> 00:17:03.779 I have so many. If you go to my eBay store, that's 00:17:03.779 --> 00:17:05.460 what you're probably rarely going to see is a 00:17:05.460 --> 00:17:08.119 bunch of paperbacks. But that's where I've learned 00:17:08.119 --> 00:17:10.920 to do detailed listings. I know how to do antiquarian 00:17:10.920 --> 00:17:13.440 stuff. I don't come across it too often, but 00:17:13.440 --> 00:17:15.500 I sling them up there when I can. It's the same 00:17:15.500 --> 00:17:18.519 process. Maybe a little bit harder to do a book 00:17:18.519 --> 00:17:20.700 description on those, but I try to include a 00:17:20.700 --> 00:17:22.700 book description on every single listings, even 00:17:22.700 --> 00:17:25.630 if it's the dumb table of contents page. Not 00:17:25.630 --> 00:17:27.670 the whole page, mind you, but just enough to 00:17:27.670 --> 00:17:31.150 give the consumer or buyer an idea of what the 00:17:31.150 --> 00:17:32.569 heck they're buying because they may not know 00:17:32.569 --> 00:17:34.809 what they're looking at. Yeah, it's tough to 00:17:34.809 --> 00:17:38.630 kind of continue to grow your own business. And 00:17:38.630 --> 00:17:41.470 this is within the realm of your business. It's 00:17:41.470 --> 00:17:43.869 just other people's stuff, right? So it's almost 00:17:43.869 --> 00:17:46.890 like an extension of your own business, which 00:17:46.890 --> 00:17:49.309 in turn, I guess, is real nice because it's not 00:17:49.309 --> 00:17:52.509 like you're selling like... women's dresses right 00:17:52.509 --> 00:17:54.950 like this is stuff you actually know about so 00:17:54.950 --> 00:17:57.250 it's easy for you it's it's business as usual 00:17:57.250 --> 00:18:00.210 for you but for somebody like me who don't ever 00:18:00.210 --> 00:18:02.109 want to deal with it it's like all right well 00:18:02.109 --> 00:18:04.470 this is literally free money i have sitting here 00:18:04.470 --> 00:18:06.109 and i don't have to do nothing besides pay the 00:18:06.109 --> 00:18:10.009 20 bucks to get the big ass box sent to you right 00:18:10.009 --> 00:18:12.109 and i think i'll see some stuff i haven't seen 00:18:12.109 --> 00:18:14.210 before which would be nice as a bookseller i 00:18:14.210 --> 00:18:16.680 always like consuming knowledge and expanding 00:18:16.680 --> 00:18:18.900 my mental rolodex of things to keep eyes out 00:18:18.900 --> 00:18:21.259 for there's just stuff uh in portland there's 00:18:21.259 --> 00:18:23.440 stuff up in new york new york i probably never 00:18:23.440 --> 00:18:26.359 even seen don't know what it is until i'm looking 00:18:26.359 --> 00:18:31.700 at it um and that'd be great as well as like 00:18:31.700 --> 00:18:35.480 you said it's business as usual um and then we 00:18:35.480 --> 00:18:39.069 always always say the hardest part about potentially 00:18:39.069 --> 00:18:41.069 antiquarian, is getting your hands on the stuff. 00:18:41.170 --> 00:18:43.190 How do you scoop up enough of it? This enables 00:18:43.190 --> 00:18:45.970 me to do so. And me doing a 50 -50 split on some 00:18:45.970 --> 00:18:49.309 more older books, that's fine with me. Even on 00:18:49.309 --> 00:18:52.089 the junk stuff, I have solutions there if it's 00:18:52.089 --> 00:18:55.069 junky junk like Nora Roberts. You know, we need 00:18:55.069 --> 00:18:56.750 to get her on the podcast and she's just going 00:18:56.750 --> 00:18:59.210 to go to town on us one of these days. But anyway. 00:19:00.910 --> 00:19:02.829 But yeah, that stuff just may hit the marketplace. 00:19:03.799 --> 00:19:05.680 And if it's store credit, guess what? You're 00:19:05.680 --> 00:19:07.460 still getting your hard -earned money in cash, 00:19:07.660 --> 00:19:09.680 50 -50 split, even if I have to take it to a 00:19:09.680 --> 00:19:12.660 store credit person. What's the turnaround time, 00:19:12.819 --> 00:19:16.799 right? I'm going to be sending you the lowest 00:19:16.799 --> 00:19:19.299 boxes, right? 16 by 12 by 12. It'll probably 00:19:19.299 --> 00:19:24.859 be like 30 -ish pounds, some DVDs, some books. 00:19:25.039 --> 00:19:28.099 What's the turnaround time can I expect for all 00:19:28.099 --> 00:19:31.099 of my items to be listed, just like one box worth? 00:19:31.849 --> 00:19:35.930 I mean, right now with no backup or backlog I 00:19:35.930 --> 00:19:38.349 have at the moment, it'll be done within inside 00:19:38.349 --> 00:19:41.190 a week. Photographer come in, do his photos for 00:19:41.190 --> 00:19:44.430 the day, including my photos, my own stuff. And 00:19:44.430 --> 00:19:47.470 then I'll actually list your stuff first, probably 00:19:47.470 --> 00:19:50.250 before my own stuff, just to get it up and like, 00:19:50.349 --> 00:19:53.069 yo, I listed it. Yay. But when there's a backlog, 00:19:53.170 --> 00:19:55.210 I don't know the answer to that just as yet. 00:19:56.109 --> 00:19:58.410 Just because you mailed it to me and it's arrived 00:19:58.410 --> 00:20:00.900 at my doorstep. It doesn't mean I have started 00:20:00.900 --> 00:20:03.119 to process your stuff. Again, if you're the Gaylord 00:20:03.119 --> 00:20:04.559 guy, it's going to be a Gaylord. It's going to 00:20:04.559 --> 00:20:06.319 take me a minute to get through the processing 00:20:06.319 --> 00:20:09.099 phases. And there may be smaller batches that 00:20:09.099 --> 00:20:11.480 come in that I can do within 10 minutes. And 00:20:11.480 --> 00:20:12.980 then if the photographer's here the same day, 00:20:13.039 --> 00:20:15.799 I can get that at least photographed and partially 00:20:15.799 --> 00:20:20.660 listed. So maybe in a two -day window. But basically, 00:20:20.779 --> 00:20:24.079 unless it's a large shipment, I'm going to process 00:20:24.079 --> 00:20:26.099 the stuff in the order it's received. So the 00:20:26.099 --> 00:20:28.579 sooner you send it in, the faster it will get 00:20:28.579 --> 00:20:34.089 up. Yeah, that's the best answer I can give right 00:20:34.089 --> 00:20:38.130 now inside a week. Dude, if my stuff shows up, 00:20:38.190 --> 00:20:39.970 I don't care who else is in line. You better 00:20:39.970 --> 00:20:43.190 say, oh, maybe I'll put a big sticker on my face 00:20:43.190 --> 00:20:44.869 on the side of the box so you know. Do you guys 00:20:44.869 --> 00:20:47.289 think I should give Mike VIP access? Should he 00:20:47.289 --> 00:20:49.309 cut to the front of the line for everything he 00:20:49.309 --> 00:20:52.109 sends in? Leave a comment in the comments. Don't 00:20:52.109 --> 00:20:56.509 do that. If anything, put me to the back of the 00:20:56.509 --> 00:20:59.490 line. I'd rather have somebody else. You have 00:20:59.490 --> 00:21:02.009 to take into consideration, like, you're doing 00:21:02.009 --> 00:21:03.569 the research, right? So there's going to be items 00:21:03.569 --> 00:21:05.809 I'm going to send you that, like, they're just 00:21:05.809 --> 00:21:08.569 antique books, probably not worth nothing. So 00:21:08.569 --> 00:21:11.130 you're going to sit down, open up the book, do 00:21:11.130 --> 00:21:13.970 the research, and waste maybe two or three minutes 00:21:13.970 --> 00:21:15.829 on the item to find out it's not worth it. So, 00:21:15.849 --> 00:21:17.789 like, I guess. And it goes to the pile with the 00:21:17.789 --> 00:21:19.630 other worthless books you've sent me. And then 00:21:19.630 --> 00:21:22.349 I look at that pile. Can I make a lot out of 00:21:22.349 --> 00:21:25.519 it? No? Okay. Well, I'm probably going to need 00:21:25.519 --> 00:21:27.480 to marketplace this and hope for the best or 00:21:27.480 --> 00:21:29.119 decide if it needs to go to store credit lane 00:21:29.119 --> 00:21:33.539 or answers. Yes, I can do a lot. And then I got 00:21:33.539 --> 00:21:36.099 to, okay, what's my lot worth? Question mark. 00:21:36.200 --> 00:21:39.359 So all that think power time goes from you to 00:21:39.359 --> 00:21:43.160 me, essentially. Yeah, that's a huge benefit 00:21:43.160 --> 00:21:46.380 to this whole thing is there's no research. There's 00:21:46.380 --> 00:21:49.339 no knowledge base. And everybody I know can tell 00:21:49.339 --> 00:21:51.099 whether a book is antique or not. There's no 00:21:51.099 --> 00:21:54.809 dust jacket in 95 % of the cases. You just throw 00:21:54.809 --> 00:21:58.569 it in a box and let him do it. As bad as it sounds, 00:21:58.670 --> 00:22:02.190 this is what he's signing up for. So I could 00:22:02.190 --> 00:22:04.130 care less. And now I see an antique. Or it's 00:22:04.130 --> 00:22:07.529 super old. But is it the $1 ,000 old version? 00:22:07.549 --> 00:22:10.049 Or is it the $100 old version? I got to figure 00:22:10.049 --> 00:22:12.809 that out. I think that's why it's beneficial 00:22:12.809 --> 00:22:15.630 that you've put yourself out there over the past 00:22:15.630 --> 00:22:20.150 three years. We're 160 -ish episodes in the podcast, 00:22:20.410 --> 00:22:22.990 right? So maybe I send you the $1 ,000 book. 00:22:24.259 --> 00:22:26.900 And, like, people might be like, well, what if 00:22:26.900 --> 00:22:31.079 he keeps it for himself? Like, come on. You're 00:22:31.079 --> 00:22:33.660 a stand -up straight shooting guy. And I'm curious, 00:22:33.940 --> 00:22:36.559 is this stuff going on your actual, like, eBay 00:22:36.559 --> 00:22:38.740 store, right? Like, so are you going to have 00:22:38.740 --> 00:22:40.799 a separate eBay store for the items we're sending? 00:22:40.839 --> 00:22:44.119 Like, say if I want to go see the item that you 00:22:44.119 --> 00:22:46.980 listed for me, is that possible? Yeah, I'll send 00:22:46.980 --> 00:22:50.200 you a link for it. Most of the stuff will go 00:22:50.200 --> 00:22:53.170 through my primary email. ebay account i do have 00:22:53.170 --> 00:22:55.430 a secondary one that the stuff may funnel into 00:22:55.430 --> 00:22:58.150 for it's just built up differently for different 00:22:58.150 --> 00:23:00.509 things um it's probably where i may send the 00:23:00.509 --> 00:23:04.509 cds or dvds the ones that are valued um the ephemera 00:23:04.509 --> 00:23:06.990 stuff you won't see i get a wholesale offer and 00:23:06.990 --> 00:23:09.190 i'll take it because it's just they they're buying 00:23:09.190 --> 00:23:12.490 it by sight unseen once they open the box they 00:23:12.490 --> 00:23:15.910 do a quick eyeball eval send me the money um 00:23:15.910 --> 00:23:20.089 yeah same for probably the comics a lot of them 00:23:20.089 --> 00:23:22.900 um The higher end ones will go up on the eBay 00:23:22.900 --> 00:23:24.900 store, obviously. And same for the books and 00:23:24.900 --> 00:23:27.400 the magazines. But yeah, if you request a link, 00:23:27.500 --> 00:23:29.119 I'll give it to you. I mean, he's putting my 00:23:29.119 --> 00:23:31.279 store link in here, but if it's on that secondary 00:23:31.279 --> 00:23:34.319 store, I can provide you a link to your items 00:23:34.319 --> 00:23:37.539 once you've requested it. When you pay me for 00:23:37.539 --> 00:23:39.000 all the stuff I'm going to send you, because 00:23:39.000 --> 00:23:40.539 I got really good stuff. I know it's going to 00:23:40.539 --> 00:23:42.880 sell right away. So like, I'm going to be doing 00:23:42.880 --> 00:23:45.799 PayPal, right? So like, is it going to be like... 00:23:46.319 --> 00:23:49.079 johnny b sent you 80 like am i gonna are you 00:23:49.079 --> 00:23:51.279 gonna tell me what items sold like as part of 00:23:51.279 --> 00:23:54.480 that payment i will email you the line items 00:23:54.480 --> 00:23:56.579 when i notify you they've been paid as far as 00:23:56.579 --> 00:23:59.279 paypal goes i'm probably just gonna send you 00:23:59.279 --> 00:24:02.119 to 80 bucks but you will be you will get an item 00:24:02.119 --> 00:24:04.680 list you'll get an email because there's any 00:24:04.680 --> 00:24:07.220 questions are you gonna paypal email me a question 00:24:07.220 --> 00:24:08.740 now you probably want to hit your email yeah 00:24:08.740 --> 00:24:11.480 yeah i was just curious like it like uh because 00:24:11.480 --> 00:24:13.519 in previous experiences i would just get like 00:24:13.519 --> 00:24:16.279 an amount and not like it and like what sold. 00:24:16.460 --> 00:24:18.220 I wouldn't know what sold. I would just get the 00:24:18.220 --> 00:24:20.940 dollar amount, which in my case, like I really, 00:24:20.980 --> 00:24:23.019 I don't care about that type of stuff, but I 00:24:23.019 --> 00:24:25.440 know other people's cases, right? Well, cool, 00:24:25.519 --> 00:24:28.059 you paid me 50 bucks. Well, what actually sold, 00:24:28.119 --> 00:24:30.400 you know, right? Like I feel like it's important 00:24:30.400 --> 00:24:34.500 to know what item of mine that you actually sold. 00:24:34.599 --> 00:24:36.660 So I do like - Right, like your ephemera box. 00:24:37.000 --> 00:24:39.200 I'll probably just put ephemera box sold for 00:24:39.200 --> 00:24:41.319 50 bucks. It's not going to be an individual 00:24:41.319 --> 00:24:44.529 line item of, I don't know. scrap piece of yeah 00:24:44.529 --> 00:24:47.609 1988 because again it was a wholesale deal it 00:24:47.609 --> 00:24:50.089 just went down the wholesale pipeline yeah yeah 00:24:50.089 --> 00:24:52.950 i agree but then if it's like a dvd you know 00:24:52.950 --> 00:24:55.829 if it was your ewok dvd it sells for 40 bucks 00:24:55.829 --> 00:25:00.210 i'll say ewok dvd 40 bucks uh after fees were 00:25:00.210 --> 00:25:03.509 at 30 15 you 15 me or you could just send me 00:25:03.509 --> 00:25:05.930 a photo of you in that ewok costume you got stored 00:25:05.930 --> 00:25:09.789 away i mean we're not on my only fans mike i'm 00:25:09.789 --> 00:25:13.440 just saying all right like what's what's your 00:25:13.440 --> 00:25:16.319 temperament behind this dude because i'm i'm 00:25:16.319 --> 00:25:19.960 pumped up that you finally uh i won't you know 00:25:19.960 --> 00:25:23.559 i won't take credit for the idea because i know 00:25:23.559 --> 00:25:25.420 you've been pondering it for a while but i will 00:25:25.420 --> 00:25:28.460 take credit and kind of bring it up nagging me 00:25:28.460 --> 00:25:31.200 about it and pushing me about it for a while 00:25:31.200 --> 00:25:33.299 i have been thinking about it a little bit longer 00:25:33.299 --> 00:25:36.000 than that my answer was tentatively no on that 00:25:36.789 --> 00:25:38.390 It's always been on the back of the mind, but 00:25:38.390 --> 00:25:40.609 it's changed over this last year because of Amazon. 00:25:40.769 --> 00:25:43.869 I'm seeing a lot of section threes getting it 00:25:43.869 --> 00:25:46.029 out, divvied out left and right. I always say 00:25:46.029 --> 00:25:48.930 myself, our time is up at Amazon whenever they 00:25:48.930 --> 00:25:52.029 see fit. I'm not in charge of that. See you later. 00:25:53.509 --> 00:25:56.309 So you got me thinking I need and I plan to stay 00:25:56.309 --> 00:25:59.230 in the book game for as long as I'm allowed to 00:25:59.230 --> 00:26:03.509 in life. So I need to prepare myself a business 00:26:03.509 --> 00:26:06.289 when Amazon tells me to take a walk. I'm okay 00:26:06.289 --> 00:26:08.450 for the Amazon taking me a walk. So it's just 00:26:08.450 --> 00:26:11.609 another one of my little pieces on the board 00:26:11.609 --> 00:26:15.230 to keep me safe in the unfortunate demise of 00:26:15.230 --> 00:26:17.730 my Amazon business. Because I know it'll come 00:26:17.730 --> 00:26:19.970 someday. I can't tell you if it's tomorrow. I 00:26:19.970 --> 00:26:21.690 can't tell you if it's 10 years. I can't tell 00:26:21.690 --> 00:26:24.210 you if it's never. So having just more streams 00:26:24.210 --> 00:26:26.470 of income like we always talk about is a good 00:26:26.470 --> 00:26:30.210 idea. And I see this as another adjacent thing 00:26:30.210 --> 00:26:32.789 to keep books going as far as a business for 00:26:32.789 --> 00:26:37.500 me. So I send you the Ewok DVD. It's been a month. 00:26:37.500 --> 00:26:40.940 It doesn't sell. I can easily just message you 00:26:40.940 --> 00:26:43.000 and be like, hey, can you send that back to me? 00:26:43.059 --> 00:26:46.240 And then I just cover the shipping. I'll pull 00:26:46.240 --> 00:26:50.079 down the listing and I'll mail it to you. What 00:26:50.079 --> 00:26:52.359 if Ewok never sells, dude? Is there like a time 00:26:52.359 --> 00:26:55.640 frame at some point where you're like, okay, 00:26:55.720 --> 00:26:57.960 you reach out to me and say, dude, it's been 00:26:57.960 --> 00:27:00.720 12 months. Nobody wants your crusty Ewok DVD. 00:27:01.500 --> 00:27:03.619 you either have to have it returned to you or 00:27:03.619 --> 00:27:05.759 I'm liquidating it, which means it's coming down 00:27:05.759 --> 00:27:08.259 off the store because it's taking up storage 00:27:08.259 --> 00:27:10.460 space, right? Because theoretically, if items 00:27:10.460 --> 00:27:12.420 aren't selling, you don't have an infinite amount 00:27:12.420 --> 00:27:14.319 of storage space. So there has to be some point 00:27:14.319 --> 00:27:17.640 where things have to either go back to the co 00:27:17.640 --> 00:27:21.519 -signee or like just be liquidated. And basically, 00:27:21.660 --> 00:27:23.160 I don't know. I don't even know what that looks 00:27:23.160 --> 00:27:25.220 like. I may take it down. It may go through a 00:27:25.220 --> 00:27:26.960 different sales channel. It may go to Marketplace. 00:27:27.019 --> 00:27:29.359 It may go to the store credit. You get paid your... 00:27:29.690 --> 00:27:32.970 in shekels and actual dollars. I'll keep my Monopoly 00:27:32.970 --> 00:27:36.450 dollars to spend how I see fit. I'll message 00:27:36.450 --> 00:27:40.549 you and be like, do you want it back? And other 00:27:40.549 --> 00:27:42.869 things I get, like if it's my paperbacks, I may 00:27:42.869 --> 00:27:44.849 offer you just a cash offer. Like, look, you 00:27:44.849 --> 00:27:47.890 sent me 30 of these. Here's my normal rate when 00:27:47.890 --> 00:27:49.730 I just buy these from people. Do you want it 00:27:49.730 --> 00:27:53.480 or do you want me to consign it? When I make 00:27:53.480 --> 00:27:55.220 that deal, I know how long they'll probably sit 00:27:55.220 --> 00:27:58.180 for is why I'm angling that way. It's not to 00:27:58.180 --> 00:28:00.039 get more money. I mean, that's just a bonus, 00:28:00.099 --> 00:28:03.240 sure. But it's like, look, you're going to be 00:28:03.240 --> 00:28:05.720 waiting a year or two, maybe three for this item 00:28:05.720 --> 00:28:07.420 to sell. It's probably going to sell in a buy 00:28:07.420 --> 00:28:11.839 two, get two. I'm offering you 30 bucks right 00:28:11.839 --> 00:28:13.839 now for it all. Do you want it or do you want 00:28:13.839 --> 00:28:15.839 me to continue the wholesale route and you'll 00:28:15.839 --> 00:28:18.039 get a dollar here, a dollar there kind of deal? 00:28:18.539 --> 00:28:21.200 Yeah, I think this gives people so many options 00:28:21.200 --> 00:28:24.819 to focus on, especially us Amazon sellers or 00:28:24.819 --> 00:28:28.019 especially people that do eBay and maybe get 00:28:28.019 --> 00:28:30.220 more inventory than they can handle. Right. Like, 00:28:30.240 --> 00:28:32.079 I don't I think it'd be great even for somebody 00:28:32.079 --> 00:28:34.240 that just does eBay only. And it's like, well, 00:28:34.299 --> 00:28:37.680 I can only do 15 listens a day. But like, I have 00:28:37.680 --> 00:28:40.059 an infinite supply of books, which you all know 00:28:40.059 --> 00:28:41.980 is basically the truth. Right. Everywhere you 00:28:41.980 --> 00:28:44.339 look, there's books. And I think having a business 00:28:44.339 --> 00:28:46.579 like this will also be able to probably open 00:28:46.579 --> 00:28:49.160 up more doors for you. Other libraries, maybe 00:28:49.160 --> 00:28:51.480 you start doing consignment with other libraries, 00:28:51.700 --> 00:28:54.160 other thrift stores, things like that. I think 00:28:54.160 --> 00:28:56.339 it's going to be beneficial to everybody around. 00:28:56.579 --> 00:28:58.799 And the fact you do all the work, dude, yet again, 00:28:59.000 --> 00:29:02.140 that is literally the icing on the cake. Just 00:29:02.140 --> 00:29:04.799 throw it in the box. You can figure it the hell 00:29:04.799 --> 00:29:07.279 out. I don't know what it is. I know it's old. 00:29:07.400 --> 00:29:09.240 It might be a million dollars. It's probably 00:29:09.240 --> 00:29:11.619 zero dollars. And that's why this is beneficial 00:29:11.619 --> 00:29:14.200 because I've sat there and I looked up antique 00:29:14.200 --> 00:29:16.000 books. I used to look up every single one I would 00:29:16.000 --> 00:29:18.859 get. Sure, some of them might be 20, 30, 40 bucks, 00:29:19.000 --> 00:29:21.920 but a lot of them are just a waste of time. And 00:29:21.920 --> 00:29:25.900 the fact that I can waste your time instead of 00:29:25.900 --> 00:29:29.799 mine, dude. You're just excited to waste my time, 00:29:29.799 --> 00:29:31.920 Mike. There's no better feeling in the world. 00:29:31.960 --> 00:29:33.599 You know what? Your box is definitely going to 00:29:33.599 --> 00:29:36.859 the back of the line now. Waste of time box. 00:29:37.400 --> 00:29:40.440 No, no, no. It's true though, man, because we 00:29:40.440 --> 00:29:42.380 got to focus on what's working, right? And we 00:29:42.380 --> 00:29:45.440 only can work within our constraints. So even 00:29:45.440 --> 00:29:49.039 if you're the Amazon person and you don't want 00:29:49.039 --> 00:29:51.259 to deal with eBay, which most of us don't like, 00:29:51.279 --> 00:29:54.119 the fact we can send it to you, get an invoice, 00:29:54.319 --> 00:29:56.920 know what's selling. We know the listings are 00:29:56.920 --> 00:29:59.740 being taken care of properly. We know they're 00:29:59.740 --> 00:30:02.200 being promoted. I'm a firm believer in promoted 00:30:02.200 --> 00:30:05.420 listings. I don't care what anybody says. We 00:30:05.420 --> 00:30:07.460 got to sell our stuff if we want to make money 00:30:07.460 --> 00:30:09.740 at the end of the day. And if promoting listings 00:30:09.740 --> 00:30:12.160 is going to help us, then that's what we got 00:30:12.160 --> 00:30:14.960 to do. I think it's just... It's just so beneficial. 00:30:15.180 --> 00:30:16.920 Even if you're the eBay person, I just got too 00:30:16.920 --> 00:30:18.900 much inventory. Just send, send what you got 00:30:18.900 --> 00:30:21.359 to Johnny, let him deal with it and get paid. 00:30:21.420 --> 00:30:23.819 And you keep, keep, you know, if I was the person 00:30:23.819 --> 00:30:26.000 and I was doing eBay, well then all of a sudden 00:30:26.000 --> 00:30:28.440 maybe my minimum goes up, right? Like I'm not 00:30:28.440 --> 00:30:30.700 listing stuff that's under $30. All that stuff 00:30:30.700 --> 00:30:32.400 goes to Johnny, right? You kind of can get a 00:30:32.400 --> 00:30:34.740 little bit more picky on the quality on your 00:30:34.740 --> 00:30:36.900 end and then send everything else to Johnny to 00:30:36.900 --> 00:30:39.079 kind of deal with on his end. I mean, that's, 00:30:39.079 --> 00:30:41.869 that's kind of how I see it. Yeah. But again, 00:30:41.970 --> 00:30:44.630 you don't want to send me a pallet of all but 00:30:44.630 --> 00:30:47.529 one book is Nora Roberts. You're probably going 00:30:47.529 --> 00:30:49.549 to lose money. You're going to lose money. Yeah, 00:30:49.670 --> 00:30:52.069 100%. 100%. If you're okay with losing money 00:30:52.069 --> 00:30:56.730 just because for your own reasons. You're not 00:30:56.730 --> 00:30:59.289 a magician. You can't turn junk into dollars, 00:30:59.450 --> 00:31:01.349 right? Like it still has to be something that 00:31:01.349 --> 00:31:05.029 has some type of sell through demand because 00:31:05.029 --> 00:31:06.390 you can't. I mean, I'm going to need to sell 00:31:06.390 --> 00:31:09.210 a charity. This is for cancer research children. 00:31:10.639 --> 00:31:13.799 auction let's do it that's what i'm saying yeah 00:31:13.799 --> 00:31:15.720 yeah it is good to bring that up though right 00:31:15.720 --> 00:31:17.779 because i'm sitting here selling you i'm just 00:31:17.779 --> 00:31:19.900 sending you whatever but i could care less right 00:31:19.900 --> 00:31:23.119 because i know you're an evil man the good stuff 00:31:23.119 --> 00:31:27.240 in the box will easily cover you know the random 00:31:27.240 --> 00:31:30.480 and even then the random and aquarium books i 00:31:30.480 --> 00:31:32.539 get like one of them is definitely going to cover 00:31:32.539 --> 00:31:34.160 the box for me, right? Like, if I got a whole 00:31:34.160 --> 00:31:36.400 box of that stuff, like, one of them is at least 00:31:36.400 --> 00:31:38.299 going to cover the box. Well, you toss in that 00:31:38.299 --> 00:31:40.740 book you showed me the other day, that Houston 00:31:40.740 --> 00:31:42.779 book. That's more than going to cover everything. 00:31:43.059 --> 00:31:45.359 I got it. I'm going to show everybody live here. 00:31:46.000 --> 00:31:49.059 Yeah. Yeah, he asked me on the call how much 00:31:49.059 --> 00:31:52.200 that book's worth. That's a $400 book, roughly, 00:31:52.259 --> 00:31:54.339 he's looking at. I still don't know how to pronounce 00:31:54.339 --> 00:31:59.980 it. The Nag Hammadi Scriptures. I mean... that's 00:31:59.980 --> 00:32:03.779 that's close mike somewhere around there i paid 00:32:03.779 --> 00:32:06.380 uh i paid a dollar for this you paid a dollar 00:32:06.380 --> 00:32:11.079 for that wow it's shiny even they would mark 00:32:11.079 --> 00:32:13.539 up for shiny i cheated this was from one of my 00:32:13.539 --> 00:32:16.019 early access i'm the only person i didn't even 00:32:16.019 --> 00:32:19.240 get to the floor oh that is cheating that is 00:32:19.240 --> 00:32:22.960 i know it's uh I have to say that a shiny is 00:32:22.960 --> 00:32:25.420 worth at least $5 at the thrift store. Yeah, 00:32:25.559 --> 00:32:27.920 dude, I got a bunch of stuff. I got decent stuff. 00:32:28.099 --> 00:32:30.160 I got a lot of one thing that is going to be 00:32:30.160 --> 00:32:32.019 coming your way that I really never really messed 00:32:32.019 --> 00:32:34.599 around with before. It's like signed books, right? 00:32:34.700 --> 00:32:38.079 Like I got so many signed books I come across 00:32:38.079 --> 00:32:41.980 and I used to just send them into Amazon because 00:32:41.980 --> 00:32:46.759 it's Mike D's book. I don't do eBay. Yeah. So 00:32:46.759 --> 00:32:49.299 like I got so many signed books in at the storage 00:32:49.299 --> 00:32:52.799 unit and. whenever i see like a popular author 00:32:52.799 --> 00:32:56.400 in uh thrift stores i always see if they're signed 00:32:56.400 --> 00:32:59.799 right we got uh dwight from the office oh okay 00:32:59.799 --> 00:33:02.259 yeah yeah yeah yeah like this this type of stuff 00:33:02.259 --> 00:33:05.779 i come across all the time and i'm honestly straight 00:33:05.779 --> 00:33:08.059 up too lazy to list it right like it's just a 00:33:08.059 --> 00:33:11.680 matter of facts i and i honestly make more money 00:33:11.680 --> 00:33:13.819 if i just go scan more stuff for amazon than 00:33:13.819 --> 00:33:16.920 me listing on ebay first off my quality My listings, 00:33:17.059 --> 00:33:18.660 they're not terrible, right? And they're not 00:33:18.660 --> 00:33:21.740 the worst, but they suck, right? And then I got 00:33:21.740 --> 00:33:24.079 to pack it and ship it. It's too much for me. 00:33:24.140 --> 00:33:25.339 So you're going to be getting off. Sign stuff 00:33:25.339 --> 00:33:27.680 can be a little bit tricky. By and large, a lot 00:33:27.680 --> 00:33:30.859 of it's not worth a whole lot of money just because 00:33:30.859 --> 00:33:34.160 they oversign. But the guy that is now deceased 00:33:34.160 --> 00:33:37.680 and or never really signed too often still doesn't 00:33:37.680 --> 00:33:39.140 sign too often. That's where it's worth money. 00:33:39.500 --> 00:33:41.980 But for me to inject that in my store, a sign 00:33:41.980 --> 00:33:44.529 book, it's always at least a $20 bill. If it 00:33:44.529 --> 00:33:46.769 so happens to be worth more, I'll list it for 00:33:46.769 --> 00:33:48.710 more, obviously. That's what I'm saying. That 00:33:48.710 --> 00:33:51.430 stuff's out there. I come across it all the time. 00:33:51.470 --> 00:33:54.349 I got a bunch of NASCAR drivers I never heard 00:33:54.349 --> 00:33:55.869 of. I don't know if they're worth anything, but 00:33:55.869 --> 00:33:57.890 they're signed. So it's like, whatever. Johnny 00:33:57.890 --> 00:34:01.450 can figure it out for me. Just give me my money, 00:34:01.589 --> 00:34:04.970 dude. Send me my Babe Ruth signed copy autobiographies 00:34:04.970 --> 00:34:08.150 that he never wrote. Go right ahead, Mike. The 00:34:08.150 --> 00:34:11.710 open line of communication is huge. Like we said. 00:34:12.110 --> 00:34:13.949 He's got the email address. You can comment on 00:34:13.949 --> 00:34:15.949 the channel. You can find him in all the reselling 00:34:15.949 --> 00:34:18.050 groups. He's got two calls in my group every 00:34:18.050 --> 00:34:20.070 single month. You can ask him about anything 00:34:20.070 --> 00:34:24.409 related to his new endeavor here and sell him 00:34:24.409 --> 00:34:26.630 the stuff for you, which I'm sure he'll probably... 00:34:26.630 --> 00:34:29.010 Your next call should just literally be you talking 00:34:29.010 --> 00:34:34.250 about that. Yeah, I can address the people's... 00:34:34.929 --> 00:34:37.769 concerns, questions, comments, emotional outbursts. 00:34:37.769 --> 00:34:39.809 All of the information, even if you're on the 00:34:39.809 --> 00:34:42.550 podcast platforms, it all should be in the description 00:34:42.550 --> 00:34:46.510 of the actual podcast platform of the description 00:34:46.510 --> 00:34:48.429 of the episode that you're listening to. If you're 00:34:48.429 --> 00:34:49.869 on YouTube, you'll see it in the description 00:34:49.869 --> 00:34:52.909 and in the pinned comments. You got anything 00:34:52.909 --> 00:34:54.969 else for us? I think we kind of covered everything. 00:34:56.450 --> 00:34:59.929 I'll just give the cliff note summary. Send me 00:34:59.929 --> 00:35:04.050 the books, magazines, comics, ephemera, DVDs, 00:35:04.050 --> 00:35:07.289 and CDs. You don't want to do yourself. Put it 00:35:07.289 --> 00:35:10.630 in a box. Put the required information, meaning 00:35:10.630 --> 00:35:14.710 who are you, your email address so I can correspond 00:35:14.710 --> 00:35:17.030 to you, the methodology of which you want to 00:35:17.030 --> 00:35:20.190 get paid. Seal the box up, mail it on to me, 00:35:20.250 --> 00:35:22.849 and then get paid. It's a 50 -50 split after 00:35:22.849 --> 00:35:26.679 eBay fees. or platform fees, whichever the case 00:35:26.679 --> 00:35:31.260 may be. And I'll do payouts on a weekly basis 00:35:31.260 --> 00:35:34.420 of previous week's solds. And if you ever want 00:35:34.420 --> 00:35:36.780 your items back, you'll have to pay for shipping. 00:35:37.000 --> 00:35:39.800 You'll have to pay and backing things up from 00:35:39.800 --> 00:35:41.639 the point of origin. You do have to pay shipping 00:35:41.639 --> 00:35:43.679 to get it to me. I'm not handling shipping. That's 00:35:43.679 --> 00:35:46.679 on you. Again, just to handle the Nora Roberts, 00:35:46.760 --> 00:35:49.079 all box people that send me that, because I know 00:35:49.079 --> 00:35:53.780 it's going to happen, unfortunately. Yeah, and 00:35:53.780 --> 00:35:56.920 I'll correspond you via email once I've got it 00:35:56.920 --> 00:35:59.800 listed or started processing it, and I'll send 00:35:59.800 --> 00:36:01.980 you invoice line items for when things have sold. 00:36:02.480 --> 00:36:06.780 Easy, easy, lemon squeezy. We'll talk to you 00:36:06.780 --> 00:36:09.829 all in next week's episode. 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