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
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call, and private Discord today. Let's get into
this week's episode. What is up, everybody? Welcome
into another episode of Reseller's Mindset Podcast.
Johnny's topic today. He likes to pick these
nitty gritty ones and they're always fun to get
into because he's always right. Like we're going
to talk about things that suck in reselling,
right? Like the things that Johnny really hates
doing, the things I hate doing. And I think the
things most resellers hate doing, I know for
a fact, I'm probably going to hate. I think my
hate list is a lot longer than Johnny's. Johnny's
got more passion than me about the reselling,
right? The books, right? He's got a little bit,
you know, he's got a little happiness that me,
I'm like. Oh, I actually got to do this. So I
guess I'll throw my big one out there first is
driving. I think this pertains to a lot of resellers.
Not so much Johnny because he does his consignment
and he's got his little local libraries he works
with. But for me, driving sucks. I used to not
mind it. But now I'm running longer routes. Like
when I go run my routes, it's at least one hour
one way, whether that's highway, whether that's
back roads. it sucks like yeah i can listen you
know i have my dave ramsey podcast playing and
then i get an hour 20 minutes out there my first
store's got two items and i'm just like yay me
i love the fact i chose to be a reseller this
is glorious why don't i drive another hour and
20 minutes to find two dvds to sell so that's
my first big one i know a lot of people hate
driving but These are things like everything
we talk about in this podcast is going to be
things that you got to do to get results at scale.
Right. Like I can't just rely on my local three
thrift stores. I got to be driving all over Pennsylvania
to kind of get it done. So I'm going to throw
it over to you, Mr. You know, listen, you've
done some crazy road trips. Yeah. All road trips
suck. I'll be honest with you. I don't like them
either. We got to do them. Because the whole
time I'm thinking I could be working right now,
but I'm driving. I could be working right now,
but I'm driving. Doesn't feel like I'm being
productive, even though I am. But yeah, I mean,
I'm not much of a fan of the travel either. That's
why I like to stay in my dungeon and work out
of that versus going out in the sunlight like
Mike. But one of mine is like. Interruptions
drive me insane. Like I have a routine and I
have a schedule. Anything that gets in the way
of that pisses me off. Like I'll get a phone
call from somebody. I got to take because they
would take my phone call if I had one. And I'll
be on the phone for 30 minutes. I'm like, well,
this is 30 minutes. I got to stay up later. Or
there's an unplanned delivery or they're a day
early. I'm like, oh, great. They're a day early.
Yeah. World's smallest violin for me, right?
Or they're a day late, which throws me off again.
So either way, it's messing with my routine.
It's messing with my schedule. I do not like
things not happening at the time interval they
are assigned. It makes me angry. Mike's the total
opposite. He probably loves that. I don't mind
it as much as you, but I have become more like
you when it comes to that. type of thing. Because
like you said, you do, you lose, you lose productivity
and you lose, you know, getting shit done. And
I still suck at it. And I really, with Amazon,
you can get away with being interrupted, right?
Like you kind of can slack off. I think it's
probably the laziest way to make money reselling
if you really think about it overall. So you
can, you can allow interruptions, right? Like
I can list all the books today, like not. I can
get pulled. I can go pet the cats. I can pull
up some YouTube videos. I can do whatever the
hell I want because all I got to do is throw
a label on it and put it in a box, right? It's
out the door. There's no thought process. Like,
I'm just mindlessly. You can eat it later if
you wanted. You can have replens. You can have
a prep center. It's just clicking a couple buttons,
drinking your coffee. My work's done. Let's make
a million dollars. Yeah. Yeah. So I got one.
This one, I mean, I guess this does pertain to
you because you're basically a... you know, reselling
personality. And, you know, thing that kind of
I just think about all the time that sucks for
us is when you see other people saying that your
business model doesn't work when you've been
doing it for X amount of years and you've gotten
crazy results and you see other people get crazy
results. Right. So I this doesn't affect me as
much as it used to, although there still are
people out there that piss me off about this
because it frustrates me because. I know this,
I know it works, right? Like everything's out
there for this to work. So when I see other resellers,
they're like, oh, this doesn't work. And this
just, this isn't it. I'm like thinking to myself,
like, no, it actually does work. It's just, it's
situational based on the fact that if you don't
do things the right way and put in the right
amount, like then that's it. And it drives me
nuts. And I hate, hate seeing it because people
are attracted to negativity. And maybe that one
negative post stops somebody else from trying
this business and potentially stopping them from
making tens of thousands, if not hundreds of
thousands of dollars. Yeah, and I often wonder
on those people if they're just like, well, it
just makes money slower versus it doesn't work
entirely. Because maybe they found a way to make
money faster for them. And maybe they tried your
way or my way or 10 other ways. And they were
never really successful except this thing they're
doing that they are highly successful in. Like
we say, all business models work. Some machines
are faster than others. Some are more profit
per hour than others, honestly. And it just depends
what your preference is and if you're making
money. And if your preference is whatever and
then you're still making money, you've won. at
the end of the day um another one that makes
me angry is when equipment malfunctions um it
kind of goes into what i was on my first one
here but well there goes an hour of my time while
i troubleshoot making the printer work or there's
a paper jam or The computer won't turn on. Why
won't it turn on? What button do I need to press?
What do I need to unplug? This, that, and the
other. And it's just so annoying. Like, everything
is going smoothly, and then wham! Machine technology
gets in the way. Dude, it's so true. Like, it's
the biggest thing that Amazon businesses rely
on, right? And it completely sucks that sometimes...
Amazon just isn't up, right? It's not working
properly. Or your scanner, you're all the way
out there and your little scanner all of a sudden
doesn't want to work, right? The equipment and
the software we use, just one of them could throw
a kink in the hose for the whole day. Yes, and
it sucks that we have to deal with this, but
this is the life we choose to live. Sure. You
know, I was, I was trying to print my last box
I was doing yesterday. Johnny is a perfect example.
I got everything done. I just needed to print
the two shipping labels. Right. So I switch out
my labels, right. My, my role of, I go from like
the little labels to the big labels in the diamond.
All right. I got food. My food's heating up in
the microwave. This should be a two second process.
Uh -huh. You know what happens, right? I switched
the labels. That doesn't print. It starts just
pulling the labels through like nonstop. I'm
just like, here we go. All right. So I got to
roll them back up and put them back in the pile.
I don't even do that. No, I rip them off and
I throw and I'm like, all right. So I got to
unplug the dymo for at least 10 seconds. And
then I got to plug the thing back in and then
I got to repub. Dude, it sucks. But that's like,
that's just life, right? You think you got it
figured out and you get smacked upside the head
as a reseller with equipment and just little
things that they just piss you off. And I'm to
the point now, like, I just want to throw money
at problems and like, just so they go away. Like
everybody knocks me for loving my Rolo. You know
what? I never have a problem with the Rolo. The
problem you just described a paper jam. It just
works, but I am forced to use a Zebra for my
ASIN labels. And you know the problems you just
described, I have it with that. And if I could
just use another Rolo with it, I totally would,
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description below. Yeah, it's these little things,
and we get so mad at these little problems, right?
But if you explain this to a normal person, like,
that's not a problem. I can't pay the electric
bill. That's a problem. Versus us, where we throw
a fit or a tantrum over just these little minor
things. Because I think we value our time a lot
more than a normal person does, honestly. Like
10 minutes of not being productive in our productive
schedule just throws us off versus the guy that's
stuck in traffic for an hour, right? I mean,
we're both yelling scream, but is one more valid
than the other? I don't know. It's an interesting
one to ponder on, but let's get out of the philosophical.
I got one for everybody. The things that we hate
as resellers and it sucks as resellers and it
frustrates us as resellers, but it's necessary
evil is... higher prices from the places we source
like thrift stores right like uh i think this
has been like i don't know it's been over talked
about so i won't take long on it but i don't
know ladies and gentlemen let's take a look around
nothing is going down in price ever again all
right let's let's just get that out of the way
nothing again is ever going down in price ever
no matter what it is No, you're right. Reseller
inflation is the worst, whether it's potion stamps
or labels or it's sourcing or you know what?
We're going to charge more for the tool you've
been using forever. You know, the annual subscription
of yours, we're going to crank that up. You've
already paid, but we're asking for more. um or
amazon fees going up it's like come on you're
bleeding me dry here i gotta work harder i gotta
send in two extra boxes this year to make up
for your nonsense that's really what it's happening
but it still makes me angry i think though like
everything we're talking about today i think
there's like uh what would it be a there's a
cure for every reseller disease we're talking
about today that we hate dealing with. And it's
like slowly consuming our soul and our bodies.
Like the thrift store prices go up and yeah,
it sucks, right? Like I missed the 49 cent paperbacks
at Goodwills. And maybe there's one Goodwill
out in the middle of nowhere that still has it,
but like doesn't exist no more. It's all three
bucks around me, if not $5. And it really sucks.
And it pisses me off because you just think about,
you know, how different. I guess it's kind of
eye -opening too, right? Like how different my
business model was and how viable it was, you
know, four years ago when books were 49 cents
and Amazon fees were, you know, next to nothing
compared to what it is today. I think it has
gotten a little bit harder. And I think that's
another thing that kind of sucks in reselling
and people don't want to deal with it is that
I think everybody can admit that it's harder
to be a profitable reseller today. than it was
say four or five years ago yeah and even four
or five years ago we would have said the same
thing i mean everybody previous to us in previous
times to us had it easier than the person that
just hopped on the train so every year it's the
same thing i mean right now we're seeing a few
gates fall and the guys last year they just came
on they're less than a year old they're like
man it used to be easy it's getting harder And
it harder and harder and harder. But that does
send out the herd. I do think it keeps newer
people away, honestly. So the pool of newer people
joining, I think it's smaller and smaller every
year. It'll always continue to grow. And then
you're always going to have those stubborn people
that are determined to learn. Honestly, those
people are going to make it. Anyway, one of mine
that gets really annoying is when I see. False
information being distributed. And this probably
is only going to really affect people that are
in social groups like ours. And I'm going to
have to correct it. I'm going to have to explain
why it's wrong because they didn't see the writing
on the wall as the falseness was being explained.
And then they got to decide if they want to agree
with me. And sometimes it's things like. moral
conflict reasons like sending in you clearly
used items as new or shrink wrapping it to me
that's wrong but anybody newer or maybe they've
been adamant and they say that's okay for their
business Everybody's free to run business how
they see fit. Me, I'm opposed to it. So there's
that moral conflict. Is it really a business
decision? You get in those kind of discussions
and it's annoying when they happen or repetitive
at least because you're saying the same thing
over and over again. They're saying the same
thing over and over again. Both of us just go
to our corners and call it a day. It's funny,
right? It sucks that we see the misinformation
and it frustrates us because we know it's not
true, right? Like we know you shouldn't be. selling
the book that's got the stamp on the bottom for
those watching on YouTube, like as new, right?
Like this book is not new by any means necessary.
And people do it and people get away with it.
And I think that does frustrate and kind of infuriates
a lot of resellers when people break the rules
and get away with it. But that doesn't mean you
should kind of go down the same route. And I,
thankfully that I've made thousands and thousands
of YouTube videos. I honestly, Johnny, I'm to
the point now where if somebody has a question,
they can just go pull up. my playlist and watch
a video about selling media on amazon and i'm
pretty sure i've covered every single thing under
the sun when it comes to it so i'm just like
hey if you want to like there's no shortcuts
right the shortcut is watching the videos right
like other than that i i don't know what to tell
people it does you know it sucks for everybody
because And we look at ourselves as profitable
business owners. I think a lot of resellers don't
see it that way. I think the overwhelming majority
of resellers just think it's some type of get
rich quick. I don't got to put in much time or
effort. I'm going to go buy things for five bucks,
sell them for $50. And that's not true. So we
do kind of get, I guess, pissed off and slighted
by the fact that it's spun in a light that it's
really not, no matter what platform you're selling
on. Yeah, absolutely. And another one that's
interesting to me is lines. Everywhere I go,
there's a line. The few times I got to leave
the Batcave, I got to stand in line at the post
office. There is a car in the one unloading place
at the UPS drop -off point, and now I got to
go around and park and then... Oh, and the ladies
have hung around with the owner. And I got to
wait my turn in line to put my stupid Amazon
boxes in the cage. And it annoys me so much.
I hate lines and people getting in. I hate things
out of my control because I very much want to
be in control. And when I see something simple
like that, my brain explodes because it's interfering
with my day. And I'm a selfish bastard. You are.
the epitome of an old soul and a young guy's
body and i think that's a -okay because i do
think the efficiency right like Maybe I'll start
comparing you to like the Terminator or something,
right? Like you're a machine and you're just
calculated to do things, right? Like that's it,
right? You got to go. You got to get this done
in this time frame where like that's it. Like
something's going to happen. You know, you're
going to start scanning people with your robot
eyes and people are going to get terminated.
99 % of the things you're going to hear me talk
about today have to do with my time. It's true.
It's like you're getting in the way. I have a
schedule to keep. You're throwing it off. You're
wasting my time. Here's one, and you'll probably
agree with me, and I've seen you talk about this
both publicly and in the videos and in the group.
It's just simple etiquette when you go shopping.
Don't leave the shelves a mess. Put books back
where you got them from. Don't shove people out
of the way or go digging through their carts
or being rude to the store owner. No, no, come
on. people none of that please just be a normal
decent human being i've said it probably starting
three years ago maybe even earlier in my book
selling career besides the small group of you
know members we have and youtube subscribers
we have and you know the the friends we made
from doing this the majority of people in this
space are slobs and they don't care about anything
or Anyone around them. And that's just my personal
experience for doing this for years and years.
I've gone to every type of sale. I've been at
every type of thrift store. These people do not
care. Zero. Zero percent care about anything.
I got a good one. We all hate it. But we have
to deal with it. And that is paying taxes. Oh,
man. I got to pay taxes. All right. I guess I'll
preface this by saying paying taxes sucks 100%.
I've paid the most taxes I ever have in my lifetime
over a year span for last year, which means this
year I'll pay more because my numbers are up
over last year, right? Gotta get your tax bracket
down, Mike. Gotta get your tax bracket down.
It 100 % sucks, but it is necessary for any business.
right like sure we can all sit here and we can
say well the big guys don't pay taxes yada yada
yada well we can't afford the cpas and the professionals
to get all the loopholes and all the write -offs
so that we don't have to pay taxes this is just
a necessary part of having a profitable business
if you're paying taxes that means you actually
made money congratulations right if you don't
pay any taxes on paper your business is not making
any money right now with resell We can get a
little wishy -washy with the things we can write
off, personal expenses and things like that.
We're not going to get into that. But overall,
I know we all hate paying taxes, but just know
the more taxes you pay, the more money you made
that year. And don't ever buy something just
for a tax write -off. And yeah, you know, the
limits are going down, right? It used to be 20K.
if you used to be used to sit pretty right i'm
gonna sell nineteen thousand nine hundred ninety
nine dollars and then i'm shutting off my ebay
store and that's kind of changed and it sucks
but you know you you set it aside you as you
go you should be saving money shouldn't be blowing
all your money at the casino that you make because
it's it's like uh you know It's funny, one back
up on Dave Ramsey. It's not like we don't know
Christmas is coming, right? So you don't have
to go into crazy debt to buy Christmas presents.
It's not like you don't know the tax man's coming
to get you every year, right? So you just set
that money aside. So when it comes, I find my
taxes once I get them. I get all my 1099s from
like the 30, McDonald's sends me my 1099, all
the places I work on the side, Burger King, Wendy's,
whatever it may be. I get all my W -2s, my 1099s.
Once I got them all, I file it right away because
I don't want to even think about it. I want it
all done as quick as possible. Take all my money,
whatever the government does with it, burns it,
whatever it may be, as long as I don't wind up
in jail and I'm all square, so be it. Now, I
hate paying taxes, too. It's something I got
to do. And I'm semi -bad on this. I guess Cheryl
will yell at me later. But I honestly just do
all my taxes. On one day of the year, it takes
me about seven hours to compile everything. And
then I spend an additional one to two hours with
my tax rep and then we're done. I need to get
better at that or I need to hire somebody to
be better at it for me, honestly, because I shouldn't
wait to the last minute on those. But I'm pretty
good with the spreadsheet. I'm pretty good at
filing things. So I think it has worked for me
every year. I do realize to get the most out
of it, I should probably either A, set some time
away or upgrade my tax professional or get a
second or get a bookkeeper, honestly, to give
to the tax professional. It's so annoying. I
hate doing it. Like I made all this money, right?
Now I got to validate it all. I'm like, why?
Why? I did all the hard work. You're making me
work extra. It does feel like extra work, right?
That's I'm not a fan of doing extra work when
it comes to I've already done the necessary work
because I'm a simple man, Mike. I like simplicity
in my work life. And that is unsimple. I do all
I I do, you know, QuickBooks self -employed.
Right. And I maybe I should just hire somebody
to keep track of it all. But I just trust my
own judgment because I've been doing it since
I started that. It takes time, right? Like I
got a pile of receipts, like an old man in my
wallet that I got to upload. I got a receipt
box up there. I just throw it in there until
that once a year rolls around. Yeah, yeah. So
like it sucks and it's a time sink, but it's
necessary if you're going to treat this like
a business, even if not, right? Even if you're
part -time now, you're still going to have to
pay taxes on the shekels you made. And, you know,
it's just another thing that sucks being a reseller,
but this is. at the end of the day you don't
got to be a reseller everything we're talking
about that you don't got to drive an hour you
don't got to file your taxes you don't got to
deal with rising prices at thrift stores it's
funny like every this is a choice like i guess
we're just a glut for punishment like hey you
know this is what it is a thing that sucks for
resellers for me especially in the book game
is dealing with large pickups i used to love
them i first started dude oh man i get a bulk
buy i'm like i can make a youtube video out of
this i'm gonna get famous and now i'm like i'm
the opposite i get a bulk buy i'm like i'm not
pulling out the gopro because i want this going
as quick as possible and i could care less what
the youtube world thinks about this but It's
necessary in our business, right? Because we
have to scan thousands and thousands and thousands
of items to find the profitable ones to resell.
So having relationships, bulk relationships is
great, but it also sucks when it's 95 degrees
out. You know what it is, dude, you're down in
Texas. I can't even really complain about the
heat up here, but I was in the storage unit this
past week and the heat index was like over a
hundred. And I'm like thinking to myself, like
who the hell in their right mind wants to, who
wants to? Be me right now. There's nobody on
Earth. Well, since you brought that up, I'll
bring up some of the banes of my existence. Stairs,
hills, attics, basements. Hate them all. Hate
them all with a passion. Because usually, if
they have this, I'm doing a bulk buy, like Mike
mentioned. And those things get in my way, slow
me down. And it caused extra pain on my body,
usually. And I hate them. Going to a library
with a half -flight of stairs, because you're
going to go up and you're going to go down, and
you're not going to be carrying light things
more than likely doing that. I went to one where
there was the front stairs, it had a basement,
and the walkway staircase to get up from the
basement. Was two flights of stairs. So I'm looking
at three flights of stairs. I was doing the mic
routine. Except I wasn't at my home. I was at
a library. And it was a great deal. But I would
have passed. If I would have known. There was
three flights of stairs. Like it registered.
But I'm like this is too good of a deal. And
then I do it. I'm like I would have passed. I'm
halfway through. I should have passed on this
deal. I should have. And it was. Anyway. ptsd
moment ladies and gentlemen stairs suck ban in
my existence and i hate them it's uh i've come
to live with the stairs because i've been living
with the stairs since i started this but the
next one i want to jump into that i personally
don't deal with but i know a lot of resellers
hate it um that is prepping your items for photos
uh and just prepping your items in general so
amazon land there's no prep all right like The
books you use book, right? Like it's gone. I'm
not doing, I'm doing absolutely nothing, right?
Like it's just a sticker on eBay land. And even
in Amazon land, if you do this in Amazon land,
you're a fool. I don't care. I said this a million
times. All your books are used good condition.
Condition means absolutely nothing on Amazon.
It's not going to let you get an extra dollar.
It's not going to let you get an extra anything.
You know what's going to let you get? A whole
damn lot of wasted time. From yourself. That's
what it's going to get you. But it's a collectible,
Mike. It goes in a collectible condition. Dude,
this book's by Carl Sagan. Don't you know who
he is? Why don't you lick this clean before you
send it? This needs to be in pristine condition.
I think this is very good. Wait a minute. But
he signed it, Mike. He signed it. It's worth
$10 more. Wait, there's one page highlighted.
It's not like new now. It's very good. Oh, wait.
Note that. I can erase that. It's like new. Oh,
there we go. Dude. I know it sucks and that's
why I don't do it because it's not required in
Amazon land. That's why I love Amazon. That's
why I love it. Just send a little sticker on
the back, send it on its way. I don't even, I
don't even waste time with any of it. All right.
If there's like dog -eared pages, nah, I'm just
leaving them dog -eared. One page at a time.
No, like I'm not playing the games and I know
a lot of people do and I feel bad for eBay sellers
because. You know, if you don't sell books or
even if you sell books, if you're selling collectible
ones, they need to be like the photos got to
be representative. You want to have a good product
photo. And I just think people are like they
buy the clothes or the shoes and then they got
to take them home. They got to wash them. Right.
Then you got to dry them. Then you got to hang
them for the photos. Dude, I'm out. I quit. I'm
going right back to McDonald's. So for your eBay
sellers here, because I had to do this last night,
I'm going to I'm going to give you a little tip.
To save your life. So, what you're going to need
is a pocket knife. Hopefully it's sharp. And
when you get some library books that are going
to go to eBay, cut that Mylar cover off. Because
that's where all the stickers are, ladies and
gentlemen. And all you're left with is a dust
jacket. And your job of trying to sticker peel
is over. Um, because without the Mylar cover,
that's usually where all the stickers are. It's
rare that they sticker the actual dust jacket
and not the Mylar cover. You cut that sucker
off, you throw it away, and you smile and move
on to the next one. Because now your book looks
brand spanking new. It's still going to have
library pockets and library marks, but for photo's
sake, the stupid library stickers suck. If you're
brand new, I give you a pass. You can clean all
your books, your CDs, your DVDs. No, no passes.
Not even for the new people. They should be better
day one. Dude, Carl Sagan's like their firstborn,
right? Like they're sending him off to go be
a grown boy somewhere. Baby wipe it, yeah. Yeah,
yeah. But, I mean, as you scale this business,
processes, that's how you're going to eliminate
the suck when it comes to photos and prepping.
And I promise you it's a waste of your time unless
you're selling something that really needs to
be cleaned and prepped. Let's just get it listed.
If it's desirable and it's just one photo, right?
And this is a super desirable book, for example,
it'll still sell, right? As long as the photo
is decent, you don't got to do all these extra
steps. And I hate to break it to you, but the
customers are not going to come back to your
store. Like, I wonder what the percentage of
return customers on eBay and Amazon is. I know
an Amazon is like zero. Right. Because nobody
tracks your storefront on eBay. You can have
a storefront. You got people follow your storefront.
So it's probably a little higher there. But I
still think it's way over exaggerated. The hopes
and 33 percent over the course of the year. Yeah.
Yeah. So like it's it's it's crazy to me that
the things that can frustrate us as resellers.
You got one more for us before I wrap this up.
I mean, things I like, I like sorting the books
for photos, and that's enjoyable, but it does
get tedious. It is a necessary evil in my line
of work, especially with adding in consignment,
because I've got to keep people's stuff separated.
So yeah, I'll speak to that. So as you do this
for a minute, you're going to network, you're
going to make friends with other resellers, and
eventually you're going to buy from these other
resellers. Now, spite... what you think in your
head your your personal standards when shipping
a box are not theirs oh yeah you get a box with
a hole in it it's going to be busted open it's
going to have zero dunnage in there and it's
half full and it ruined half the book because
they bounced around like a moon bounce in there
and they hit one another and punched each other
in the face and now you can't really sell that
book so or here's my favorite They didn't check
for water damage. It's clearly, you can see the
exterior. The interior people, interior one's
a little bit more obscure, so I'll give people
a pass on that. But if it's clearly water damaged
on the outside, don't send it to me. You wasted
your shipping money or I wasted my shipping money.
More importantly, you wasted my time. Don't waste
Johnny's time. Please and thank you. End of rant.
I'm going to be straight up with you. When I
fill up your box like I did yesterday or the
day before, I forget what day it was. I don't
care, dude. I just throw the stuff in the box.
I know you got to deal with it, right? Like the
first box I sent you, I know there was still
stickers on the shit. I'm just like... I took
them off. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You look at your
photos, there's no stickers in them. But at the
end of the day, like, you know, he gets his cut,
I get my cut. And there's so many things that
are necessary that suck at reselling. And we
all have to deal with them if we want to continue
to grow our business and make more money. And
it's really not that bad, right? if you compare
it to going to work a job, especially like here
in Pennsylvania, where the job markets got awful,
the jobs are terrible. They want you doing a
million things. They want to pay you 12 bucks
an hour. And I think to myself every time, like,
why would somebody work for $12 an hour when
I'm going to sell Carl Sagan that I paid 49 cents
for, and I'm going to make over $12 and I'm doing
like no work. So appreciate the suck, right?
You know, it sucks, but. It could be a lot suckier,
I guess, is kind of what we want to get at today.
And these are things we deal with, but they're
all overcomable. Is overcomable even a word?
Overcame in his past tense. Overcame? I don't
know. I suck with words. Overcomable is the word
of the day. Overcomable. Maybe that'll just be
the topic or just be the title of the video.
Overcomable. And all the grammar Nazis are going
to leave us a comment. It's going to be great.
Listen, I just tell everybody I was born in Philly
in the ghetto. They don't teach these types of
things in the city, right? I just, you know,
I'm just a city slicker that I just labels things
and sends them off to Amazon and I get money
that flies back at me. So that's going to do
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