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
B. We help people start and grow their reselling
businesses from the ground up. We also have a
weekly Zoom call and private Discord for all
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call, and private Discord today. Let's get into
this week's episode. What is up, everybody? Welcome
back to another episode of the Reseller's Mindset
Podcast. Mike next to you. johnny and this is
an exciting episode for both me and johnny so
uh i am getting back into the ebay game but not
by any stretch of the imagination as you all
think so i was like mike you're going to be listening
stuff no no no he's been a diligent student at
my ebay calls attends every single one I refuse
to list another item on eBay, but I do want the
benefits of selling some items on eBay. And that's
where this guy sitting next to me comes in. And
this new endeavor he is taking upon himself.
So I'm excited for the details you're all about
to get because I will be participating. So, Johnny,
take us away. Yeah, I decided I'm going to. dip
my toes into consignment here. I've done it here
and there for some friends and stuff. My processes
are pretty good, and I feel confident I can now
offer my services to the masses at large, which
is you, the listeners here. Basically, I'll take
your books, your magazines, your comics, your
ephemera, your DVDs and CDs, and I made it pretty
simple where you just put it in the box, put
a little envelope on top with your consignment
id and you get that by emailing uh me and that'll
be in the comments somewhere and also how you
want to get paid and then i get it i unpack your
stuff i list your stuff i sell your stuff and
then i send you money how does it work uh basically
it's for the books and magazines um anything
else it's just a raw 50 50 split now Not everything
will be listed in a buy it now price. I mean,
if you send me a $5 book, I may decide to do
that as a $1 auction or a Facebook marketplace
$1 thing. So if you send me junk, expect to get
junk prices. So you may not beat the shipping
label if you send me junk. So be a little bit
more diligent. But why send me your stuff instead
of you doing it yourself? Time may be a factor.
You may be just full on Amazon like Mike and
just don't care about eBay, but realize there's
eBay dollars to be had. Well, that's where I
come into play. Some things like ephemera, I
don't want to list that stuff because usually
it's normally lower end, but I do have connections
who will just buy it sight unseen for me for
a flat fee. I'll get the fee and then I'll split
it in half between me and you. Now, the 50 -50
is after all fees, of course. And some stuff
I may merchant fulfill, eBay, or put it on Ape,
or do a little bit of cross -listing just to
move it along faster. I may run a sale. I may
throw in coupons. My goal is to move the items
along to get you your cash flow faster. But,
yeah, I mean, I'm taking the research. I'm doing
the shipping. I'm doing the storing. So you don't
have to, essentially. Also, if you send me damaged
items, like I open the book and it shatters into
a million pieces. Unless it's worth a lot of
money shattered in a million pieces, I'm probably
going to put it in the trash. So, again, be a
little diligent when you put in your stuff. Same
for the comics. I may wholesale that off or depending
what it is. If it's valuable comics, I do have
some comic knowledge and or magazine knowledge.
It'll get run through eBay per normal. What else
do you want to say there, Mike? Dude, for me,
the biggest thing for me. is I don't have to
do no work besides put it in the box. And we
were joking before we started this and Johnny's
like, just get it in the box. I was like, hey,
are we rocking and rolling with this? Because
we've been toying with this idea. He's been toying
with this idea, this business model, probably
now for a few months. And he's like, yeah, I
already got stuff headed my way. So I was like,
all right, I just got to get it in the box. You
mentioned it to just a couple people. I got stuff
for you. I'm like, that's not what I wanted to
talk to you about, but sure, I'll take it. I
like the idea, right? Because, you know, the
libraries I work with, I get the antique books.
I even, I'm going to send you some and I don't
have to, I'm just throwing it in the box. I could,
I have no idea what it is. I don't know if it's
a thousand dollar book or it's one of the ones
he's going to throw as far as he can out his
front door. But I think that's the huge benefit
because in Resound, we just burn our time and
I'm a firm. believer that time is the most precious
thing we have so if i just have to put it in
a box and ship it to you like okay well i'll
find out what it's worth when you sell you do
all the research and i i'll tell you this like
i've tried this in the past and i know the quality
of listings that you put out there on ebay like
no one's no one's even coming close to the quality
of listings you're going to put out there and
i think another huge benefit is that like everybody
knows where to get a hold of you right like you're
in all the big i can't hide like people are going
to be commenting on my channel like hey where's
johnny like he literally has calls in the group
that i have through the youtube channel you can
literally talk his ear off every every basically
they're going to be like turned into where in
the world is carmen san diego except it's where
in the world is johnny v Yeah, Johnny's monthly
calls in my group every other week are just going
to be him covering people asking questions about
his commission -based business. And I don't think
there's anything wrong with that. I think it's
actually a huge upside that you're out there,
you're responsive, and you're a straight shooter.
People trust you. And I think that goes a long
way, especially in the space we're in with resale.
There's a lot of shady people out there, unfortunately,
in this space. But I'm just excited to not have
to look anything up because I'll tell you what,
I would just, I got a stack. It's probably like
20, 30 books high. It's a storage unit. It's
all antique books that like I have to actually
sit there, open my eBay app, type in the title
and the year and then do the comps and do the
right listings. Like the fact that I could just
throw it in a box and to help with it, pay 20
bucks, fill up a Lowe's box, send it your way
and then just wash my hands of it. Dude, it's
foolproof. Like the fact you're doing the research.
amazes me right because most commission -based
situations they want to know like the person
selling it wants to know what they're getting
ahead of time right because uh what happens if
150 boxes of junk show up on your doorstep well
you've made it clear like hey like if it's junk
and i can't sell it for a dollar then it's getting
treated like junk that i can't sell it's going
in the trash can yeah like uh i will try to sell
if you send me a nora roberts book Hopefully
you send me more than one where I have a chance
at making a dollar. But keep in mind, you are
paying the shipping. So you may not outpace the
shipping fee just because you send me a whole
box of Nora Roberts. It could try to be funny.
Well, I will give you a funny sale price when
it comes back to me. You'll get half of whatever
I get. So you'll be in the negative and I'll
be going. Anyway, you gave me you gave me an
idea. So if my box has any space, I got. plenty
of romance novels i'm just gonna throw in there
just for fun you do you mike i will handle the
books however i see fit um yeah another thing
is yeah you do you do pay shipping if you would
like your items back let's say a year rolls by
and so once every two years sale that's fine
um but you will have to pay the return shipping
i'm not going to pay any shipping in this at
all but if you'd like your stuff back i'll be
more than happy to mail it back to you but it's
on your dime How can I get paid? What's that?
How can I get paid? I'm going to cater to every
form of payment except cash. Cash is the one
I can't do because of IRS reasons. So if you
want a check, I'll write you a check. If you
want Cash App, Cash App. Zelle, Zelle. PayPal,
PayPal. Just keep in mind the appropriate fees
for the platform. I want to get you the most
money, so I recommend check. as it's instant
but it does come with the caveat that you do
have to um go to the bank uh paypal for sure
for me 100 percent um uh i even paid the paypal
fees but yeah yeah i mean it is what it is it's
stuff that i otherwise are not going to sell
right i think that i think the big upside to
this is it takes the workload off of the person
that's sending it to you because no research
no listen no pack and no shipping i think like
you might get overwhelmed with stuff, honestly.
Yeah, no, I've thought about that. So the way
it'll work, well, before I get to that, I'll
do payouts every Monday. I've set aside a four
-hour time block. I won't need that at the start,
obviously. But every Monday, I'll issue the previous
week's payments. If it takes more than four hours,
fine, so be it. I'll finish the payments for
the following week. But the... The whole thing
is just about you get paid as soon as possibly
can. If there's a return, well, I eat that cost.
But it's now my product, assuming I get the book
back and I'll resell it however I need to sell
it. But, yeah, taking the storage out. And there
was a second thing I said pause for a minute.
What was it, Mike? I like the idea, though, that
what you're saying, right? So, like, you sell
the book. You know, like one of the, I got actually,
I got my, some of my stuff I'm going to be sending
your way here, right? Like Star Wars Ewok Adventures
here, brand new sealed. I can't sell on Amazon,
but it's like a $40 DVD. So you sell this DVD
and you cut me my 20 bucks, keep your 20 bucks.
Next week rolls around, you get a refund for
this. You ain't coming back for me for the $20.
You've been paid out. It's now my Star Wars CD
and I'll resell it again. You'll probably keep
this for yourself. Probably. I like Star Wars.
I remember watching that movie as a child. Dude,
you kind of, now that I'm looking, like, you
could have been an Ewok. I could have been, and
I may have an Ewok costume in my closet. I'm
just saying, like, it's, I'm, listen, it's selfish
of me to say, like, I'm glad, even if, you know,
even if nobody else does it, I'm just glad I
could send you this shit. Yeah, I mean, yeah,
send me your books, your magazines, your comics,
your firmware, your DVDs and CDs. I'll take care
of it. You send me an email ahead of time and
I send you what I need and you just print out
that, put it inside the box so I know whose box
is who. Oh, that was a thing, incoming. So yeah,
you said I may get backed up. I will send correspondence
when I start to process your items and then when
your items have been listed. So you're kind of
notified along the way where I'm at. So if you
send me a box, but I got three pallets ahead
of you. I'm normally going to try to do it in
the order they receive. But for three palette
guy, I may stop for a second to do your box because
your box is going to be quicker than his three
palettes. Three palette guy may take me a minute
to get through. Just because because it's a lot
of organizing, a lot of sorting. And that's before
it even goes through the photography and listening
phase. Because, again, that's how I list because
the processes make it go faster. So I'm going
to put all of his, I don't know, Stephen King
books together and all his Easton's together
and all that. And then it's just going to run
through the pipeline. But yeah, for right now,
you can send me as much as you want. Plan to
notify you along all the little phases. You get
notified when I pay you even. I mean, you'll
get an alert, but you'll also get an email from
me. Also in the email I'll send you is a bajillion
probably Q &A things that I could think of, and
I'll probably add to it as time goes on, as people
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I plan to lot up things that are valued under
$10 singleton by themselves. That's in the outline
as an example. Or again, I may marketplace it
because it'll just move better at marketplace.
Yeah, I get your items. I put them on the selling
platform that I see fit. Sell your items. You
get paid half essentially. I'm curious here.
So you're going to be doing lots and everything
like that. Are you going to be on eBay? Do you
have a flat promotion rate? Are you going to
be using promoted listings? I will be using promoted
listings. And it depends what it is, because
there's really no reason for me to promote an
Eastern Press, more or less, unless it's an undervalued
one, because it'll just sell on its own. if it
takes it a little while, I'll start to bump the
promoted listing. Cause again, it's about getting
you your cashflow and me, my cashflow. Cause
you get it to me, right? My man. So I'll have
to move it down the road eventually and promoted
listings may help it move down the road just
a little slightly. I don't plan to go above like
12%. Like it's, it's like a five year sell through
rate. So that thing may be go up to 12 % right
off the gate. Just to get it along. Because do
you really want to wait five years for your money?
No, I think you just want whatever money for
it because else you would have slung it yourself.
So for those that aren't going to see the description
of the YouTube comments and you wanted to know
the email address he has that he's using specifically
for this business, it is bookshepherding at gmail
.com. That's book shepherding. S -H -E -P -H
-E -R -D -I -N -G at gmail .com. And everything
is done through there. But I mean, for those
that are a member of the group, or I know you're
in a text group as well, I'm sure you're going
to be vocal about that over there. So anywhere
you can find this guy, you can - Actually, I
won't. I'm not allowed to sell stuff, including
services there. I can briefly mention that I'm
doing consignment. Yeah, but I mean, yeah. So
like if somebody has a message and they're in
that group and they listen to this podcast, like
I don't know how it works over there. I don't
know if you can direct message people in the
group kind of like you can on Discord. But I
mean, just reach out to them or you can reach
out to me or comment on any one of my videos
and I can easily. If you're watching this video
or you need to head on over to the YouTube channel,
I put it as my video name right now. It's literally
on the screen right underneath my dumb mug. Yeah.
everybody can just bug me for uh for your contact
information um i just think dude for me it's
just a time saver and it's money i have sitting
here because i'll tell you what my ebay stuff
has been sitting at the storage unit and under
this desk now probably for like five or six months
and i just i don't want to do the research i
make more money going out scanning items for
amazon than i will ever make looking up antique
books on ebay i don't come across them enough
But if I can just say, all right, well, this
book is antique. At least to me, it looks like
it. And I could just throw it in a box and get
it to you. I mean, it don't get no easier, honestly.
I think that's the biggest takeaway from this
is move your stuff one way or another. And he's
telling you, you don't know his listings are
the best. And if you don't believe me, Johnny,
what is your eBay store so somebody can go look
at the quality of your listing? Oh, my name's
stupidly long. It's Maury Anders, Dangerous Bookshop.
um you want out here i'll put it in the chat
it's so long that will also be in the description
and the comments below if you don't believe me
there's nobody going to touch his book listings
uh item details everything the descriptions the
photos uh it's literally top five all -time book
listings on ebay and you know the competition's
out there but it's not even close i'm excited
dude uh what's your what do you feel like you
know the response is going to be Like now that
you started this and what do you feel like some
of the challenges are going to be like as you
continue to grow your own business while now
adding on a business where you are doing commissions
for other people? I think it'll open up a lot
more networking opportunities like for people
I don't normally talk to because whatever reason
they're running a well -oiled machine, I'm in
my lane doing my well -oiled machine, but maybe
we cross paths and more business adventures can
occur from that. As far as maintaining my own,
I have so many. If you go to my eBay store, that's
what you're probably rarely going to see is a
bunch of paperbacks. But that's where I've learned
to do detailed listings. I know how to do antiquarian
stuff. I don't come across it too often, but
I sling them up there when I can. It's the same
process. Maybe a little bit harder to do a book
description on those, but I try to include a
book description on every single listings, even
if it's the dumb table of contents page. Not
the whole page, mind you, but just enough to
give the consumer or buyer an idea of what the
heck they're buying because they may not know
what they're looking at. Yeah, it's tough to
kind of continue to grow your own business. And
this is within the realm of your business. It's
just other people's stuff, right? So it's almost
like an extension of your own business, which
in turn, I guess, is real nice because it's not
like you're selling like... women's dresses right
like this is stuff you actually know about so
it's easy for you it's it's business as usual
for you but for somebody like me who don't ever
want to deal with it it's like all right well
this is literally free money i have sitting here
and i don't have to do nothing besides pay the
20 bucks to get the big ass box sent to you right
and i think i'll see some stuff i haven't seen
before which would be nice as a bookseller i
always like consuming knowledge and expanding
my mental rolodex of things to keep eyes out
for there's just stuff uh in portland there's
stuff up in new york new york i probably never
even seen don't know what it is until i'm looking
at it um and that'd be great as well as like
you said it's business as usual um and then we
always always say the hardest part about potentially
antiquarian, is getting your hands on the stuff.
How do you scoop up enough of it? This enables
me to do so. And me doing a 50 -50 split on some
more older books, that's fine with me. Even on
the junk stuff, I have solutions there if it's
junky junk like Nora Roberts. You know, we need
to get her on the podcast and she's just going
to go to town on us one of these days. But anyway.
But yeah, that stuff just may hit the marketplace.
And if it's store credit, guess what? You're
still getting your hard -earned money in cash,
50 -50 split, even if I have to take it to a
store credit person. What's the turnaround time,
right? I'm going to be sending you the lowest
boxes, right? 16 by 12 by 12. It'll probably
be like 30 -ish pounds, some DVDs, some books.
What's the turnaround time can I expect for all
of my items to be listed, just like one box worth?
I mean, right now with no backup or backlog I
have at the moment, it'll be done within inside
a week. Photographer come in, do his photos for
the day, including my photos, my own stuff. And
then I'll actually list your stuff first, probably
before my own stuff, just to get it up and like,
yo, I listed it. Yay. But when there's a backlog,
I don't know the answer to that just as yet.
Just because you mailed it to me and it's arrived
at my doorstep. It doesn't mean I have started
to process your stuff. Again, if you're the Gaylord
guy, it's going to be a Gaylord. It's going to
take me a minute to get through the processing
phases. And there may be smaller batches that
come in that I can do within 10 minutes. And
then if the photographer's here the same day,
I can get that at least photographed and partially
listed. So maybe in a two -day window. But basically,
unless it's a large shipment, I'm going to process
the stuff in the order it's received. So the
sooner you send it in, the faster it will get
up. Yeah, that's the best answer I can give right
now inside a week. Dude, if my stuff shows up,
I don't care who else is in line. You better
say, oh, maybe I'll put a big sticker on my face
on the side of the box so you know. Do you guys
think I should give Mike VIP access? Should he
cut to the front of the line for everything he
sends in? Leave a comment in the comments. Don't
do that. If anything, put me to the back of the
line. I'd rather have somebody else. You have
to take into consideration, like, you're doing
the research, right? So there's going to be items
I'm going to send you that, like, they're just
antique books, probably not worth nothing. So
you're going to sit down, open up the book, do
the research, and waste maybe two or three minutes
on the item to find out it's not worth it. So,
like, I guess. And it goes to the pile with the
other worthless books you've sent me. And then
I look at that pile. Can I make a lot out of
it? No? Okay. Well, I'm probably going to need
to marketplace this and hope for the best or
decide if it needs to go to store credit lane
or answers. Yes, I can do a lot. And then I got
to, okay, what's my lot worth? Question mark.
So all that think power time goes from you to
me, essentially. Yeah, that's a huge benefit
to this whole thing is there's no research. There's
no knowledge base. And everybody I know can tell
whether a book is antique or not. There's no
dust jacket in 95 % of the cases. You just throw
it in a box and let him do it. As bad as it sounds,
this is what he's signing up for. So I could
care less. And now I see an antique. Or it's
super old. But is it the $1 ,000 old version?
Or is it the $100 old version? I got to figure
that out. I think that's why it's beneficial
that you've put yourself out there over the past
three years. We're 160 -ish episodes in the podcast,
right? So maybe I send you the $1 ,000 book.
And, like, people might be like, well, what if
he keeps it for himself? Like, come on. You're
a stand -up straight shooting guy. And I'm curious,
is this stuff going on your actual, like, eBay
store, right? Like, so are you going to have
a separate eBay store for the items we're sending?
Like, say if I want to go see the item that you
listed for me, is that possible? Yeah, I'll send
you a link for it. Most of the stuff will go
through my primary email. ebay account i do have
a secondary one that the stuff may funnel into
for it's just built up differently for different
things um it's probably where i may send the
cds or dvds the ones that are valued um the ephemera
stuff you won't see i get a wholesale offer and
i'll take it because it's just they they're buying
it by sight unseen once they open the box they
do a quick eyeball eval send me the money um
yeah same for probably the comics a lot of them
um The higher end ones will go up on the eBay
store, obviously. And same for the books and
the magazines. But yeah, if you request a link,
I'll give it to you. I mean, he's putting my
store link in here, but if it's on that secondary
store, I can provide you a link to your items
once you've requested it. When you pay me for
all the stuff I'm going to send you, because
I got really good stuff. I know it's going to
sell right away. So like, I'm going to be doing
PayPal, right? So like, is it going to be like...
johnny b sent you 80 like am i gonna are you
gonna tell me what items sold like as part of
that payment i will email you the line items
when i notify you they've been paid as far as
paypal goes i'm probably just gonna send you
to 80 bucks but you will be you will get an item
list you'll get an email because there's any
questions are you gonna paypal email me a question
now you probably want to hit your email yeah
yeah i was just curious like it like uh because
in previous experiences i would just get like
an amount and not like it and like what sold.
I wouldn't know what sold. I would just get the
dollar amount, which in my case, like I really,
I don't care about that type of stuff, but I
know other people's cases, right? Well, cool,
you paid me 50 bucks. Well, what actually sold,
you know, right? Like I feel like it's important
to know what item of mine that you actually sold.
So I do like - Right, like your ephemera box.
I'll probably just put ephemera box sold for
50 bucks. It's not going to be an individual
line item of, I don't know. scrap piece of yeah
1988 because again it was a wholesale deal it
just went down the wholesale pipeline yeah yeah
i agree but then if it's like a dvd you know
if it was your ewok dvd it sells for 40 bucks
i'll say ewok dvd 40 bucks uh after fees were
at 30 15 you 15 me or you could just send me
a photo of you in that ewok costume you got stored
away i mean we're not on my only fans mike i'm
just saying all right like what's what's your
temperament behind this dude because i'm i'm
pumped up that you finally uh i won't you know
i won't take credit for the idea because i know
you've been pondering it for a while but i will
take credit and kind of bring it up nagging me
about it and pushing me about it for a while
i have been thinking about it a little bit longer
than that my answer was tentatively no on that
It's always been on the back of the mind, but
it's changed over this last year because of Amazon.
I'm seeing a lot of section threes getting it
out, divvied out left and right. I always say
myself, our time is up at Amazon whenever they
see fit. I'm not in charge of that. See you later.
So you got me thinking I need and I plan to stay
in the book game for as long as I'm allowed to
in life. So I need to prepare myself a business
when Amazon tells me to take a walk. I'm okay
for the Amazon taking me a walk. So it's just
another one of my little pieces on the board
to keep me safe in the unfortunate demise of
my Amazon business. Because I know it'll come
someday. I can't tell you if it's tomorrow. I
can't tell you if it's 10 years. I can't tell
you if it's never. So having just more streams
of income like we always talk about is a good
idea. And I see this as another adjacent thing
to keep books going as far as a business for
me. So I send you the Ewok DVD. It's been a month.
It doesn't sell. I can easily just message you
and be like, hey, can you send that back to me?
And then I just cover the shipping. I'll pull
down the listing and I'll mail it to you. What
if Ewok never sells, dude? Is there like a time
frame at some point where you're like, okay,
you reach out to me and say, dude, it's been
12 months. Nobody wants your crusty Ewok DVD.
you either have to have it returned to you or
I'm liquidating it, which means it's coming down
off the store because it's taking up storage
space, right? Because theoretically, if items
aren't selling, you don't have an infinite amount
of storage space. So there has to be some point
where things have to either go back to the co
-signee or like just be liquidated. And basically,
I don't know. I don't even know what that looks
like. I may take it down. It may go through a
different sales channel. It may go to Marketplace.
It may go to the store credit. You get paid your...
in shekels and actual dollars. I'll keep my Monopoly
dollars to spend how I see fit. I'll message
you and be like, do you want it back? And other
things I get, like if it's my paperbacks, I may
offer you just a cash offer. Like, look, you
sent me 30 of these. Here's my normal rate when
I just buy these from people. Do you want it
or do you want me to consign it? When I make
that deal, I know how long they'll probably sit
for is why I'm angling that way. It's not to
get more money. I mean, that's just a bonus,
sure. But it's like, look, you're going to be
waiting a year or two, maybe three for this item
to sell. It's probably going to sell in a buy
two, get two. I'm offering you 30 bucks right
now for it all. Do you want it or do you want
me to continue the wholesale route and you'll
get a dollar here, a dollar there kind of deal?
Yeah, I think this gives people so many options
to focus on, especially us Amazon sellers or
especially people that do eBay and maybe get
more inventory than they can handle. Right. Like,
I don't I think it'd be great even for somebody
that just does eBay only. And it's like, well,
I can only do 15 listens a day. But like, I have
an infinite supply of books, which you all know
is basically the truth. Right. Everywhere you
look, there's books. And I think having a business
like this will also be able to probably open
up more doors for you. Other libraries, maybe
you start doing consignment with other libraries,
other thrift stores, things like that. I think
it's going to be beneficial to everybody around.
And the fact you do all the work, dude, yet again,
that is literally the icing on the cake. Just
throw it in the box. You can figure it the hell
out. I don't know what it is. I know it's old.
It might be a million dollars. It's probably
zero dollars. And that's why this is beneficial
because I've sat there and I looked up antique
books. I used to look up every single one I would
get. Sure, some of them might be 20, 30, 40 bucks,
but a lot of them are just a waste of time. And
the fact that I can waste your time instead of
mine, dude. You're just excited to waste my time,
Mike. There's no better feeling in the world.
You know what? Your box is definitely going to
the back of the line now. Waste of time box.
No, no, no. It's true though, man, because we
got to focus on what's working, right? And we
only can work within our constraints. So even
if you're the Amazon person and you don't want
to deal with eBay, which most of us don't like,
the fact we can send it to you, get an invoice,
know what's selling. We know the listings are
being taken care of properly. We know they're
being promoted. I'm a firm believer in promoted
listings. I don't care what anybody says. We
got to sell our stuff if we want to make money
at the end of the day. And if promoting listings
is going to help us, then that's what we got
to do. I think it's just... It's just so beneficial.
Even if you're the eBay person, I just got too
much inventory. Just send, send what you got
to Johnny, let him deal with it and get paid.
And you keep, keep, you know, if I was the person
and I was doing eBay, well then all of a sudden
maybe my minimum goes up, right? Like I'm not
listing stuff that's under $30. All that stuff
goes to Johnny, right? You kind of can get a
little bit more picky on the quality on your
end and then send everything else to Johnny to
kind of deal with on his end. I mean, that's,
that's kind of how I see it. Yeah. But again,
you don't want to send me a pallet of all but
one book is Nora Roberts. You're probably going
to lose money. You're going to lose money. Yeah,
100%. 100%. If you're okay with losing money
just because for your own reasons. You're not
a magician. You can't turn junk into dollars,
right? Like it still has to be something that
has some type of sell through demand because
you can't. I mean, I'm going to need to sell
a charity. This is for cancer research children.
auction let's do it that's what i'm saying yeah
yeah it is good to bring that up though right
because i'm sitting here selling you i'm just
sending you whatever but i could care less right
because i know you're an evil man the good stuff
in the box will easily cover you know the random
and even then the random and aquarium books i
get like one of them is definitely going to cover
the box for me, right? Like, if I got a whole
box of that stuff, like, one of them is at least
going to cover the box. Well, you toss in that
book you showed me the other day, that Houston
book. That's more than going to cover everything.
I got it. I'm going to show everybody live here.
Yeah. Yeah, he asked me on the call how much
that book's worth. That's a $400 book, roughly,
he's looking at. I still don't know how to pronounce
it. The Nag Hammadi Scriptures. I mean... that's
that's close mike somewhere around there i paid
uh i paid a dollar for this you paid a dollar
for that wow it's shiny even they would mark
up for shiny i cheated this was from one of my
early access i'm the only person i didn't even
get to the floor oh that is cheating that is
i know it's uh I have to say that a shiny is
worth at least $5 at the thrift store. Yeah,
dude, I got a bunch of stuff. I got decent stuff.
I got a lot of one thing that is going to be
coming your way that I really never really messed
around with before. It's like signed books, right?
Like I got so many signed books I come across
and I used to just send them into Amazon because
it's Mike D's book. I don't do eBay. Yeah. So
like I got so many signed books in at the storage
unit and. whenever i see like a popular author
in uh thrift stores i always see if they're signed
right we got uh dwight from the office oh okay
yeah yeah yeah yeah like this this type of stuff
i come across all the time and i'm honestly straight
up too lazy to list it right like it's just a
matter of facts i and i honestly make more money
if i just go scan more stuff for amazon than
me listing on ebay first off my quality My listings,
they're not terrible, right? And they're not
the worst, but they suck, right? And then I got
to pack it and ship it. It's too much for me.
So you're going to be getting off. Sign stuff
can be a little bit tricky. By and large, a lot
of it's not worth a whole lot of money just because
they oversign. But the guy that is now deceased
and or never really signed too often still doesn't
sign too often. That's where it's worth money.
But for me to inject that in my store, a sign
book, it's always at least a $20 bill. If it
so happens to be worth more, I'll list it for
more, obviously. That's what I'm saying. That
stuff's out there. I come across it all the time.
I got a bunch of NASCAR drivers I never heard
of. I don't know if they're worth anything, but
they're signed. So it's like, whatever. Johnny
can figure it out for me. Just give me my money,
dude. Send me my Babe Ruth signed copy autobiographies
that he never wrote. Go right ahead, Mike. The
open line of communication is huge. Like we said.
He's got the email address. You can comment on
the channel. You can find him in all the reselling
groups. He's got two calls in my group every
single month. You can ask him about anything
related to his new endeavor here and sell him
the stuff for you, which I'm sure he'll probably...
Your next call should just literally be you talking
about that. Yeah, I can address the people's...
concerns, questions, comments, emotional outbursts.
All of the information, even if you're on the
podcast platforms, it all should be in the description
of the actual podcast platform of the description
of the episode that you're listening to. If you're
on YouTube, you'll see it in the description
and in the pinned comments. You got anything
else for us? I think we kind of covered everything.
I'll just give the cliff note summary. Send me
the books, magazines, comics, ephemera, DVDs,
and CDs. You don't want to do yourself. Put it
in a box. Put the required information, meaning
who are you, your email address so I can correspond
to you, the methodology of which you want to
get paid. Seal the box up, mail it on to me,
and then get paid. It's a 50 -50 split after
eBay fees. or platform fees, whichever the case
may be. And I'll do payouts on a weekly basis
of previous week's solds. And if you ever want
your items back, you'll have to pay for shipping.
You'll have to pay and backing things up from
the point of origin. You do have to pay shipping
to get it to me. I'm not handling shipping. That's
on you. Again, just to handle the Nora Roberts,
all box people that send me that, because I know
it's going to happen, unfortunately. Yeah, and
I'll correspond you via email once I've got it
listed or started processing it, and I'll send
you invoice line items for when things have sold.
Easy, easy, lemon squeezy. We'll talk to you
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