Welcome back to another episode of the Reseller's
Mindset Podcast. My name is Mike, also known
as the Used Book Guy on YouTube, along with my
friend and fellow full -time reseller, Johnny
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i found johnny it was like an unsolved mystery
for a week we had to do without him i had to
drive around texas for hours and hours and hours
and i finally found the guy and today's topic
is an important one and it's moving too fast
as a reseller and i have personal experience
with this. So I guess I will just go first here
and get it out of the way. So many, many moons
ago, probably 2023, maybe 2022. I'm not good
at remembering things. We kind of just joked
about that before we started this. I got ungated
to sell CDs and DVDs on Amazon, right? So big
thing. Yay, yay, yay. I can now send in CDs and
DVDs. Well, I was so anxious and so excited that
I forgot that you're not BuyBox eligible when
you... are brand new to a used category. So I
was sending all of the junk that you, you know,
the CDs that sell once every month, once every
two or three months, like it's just not going
to work feasibly. But I was so elated and so
excited that I could be more than just the used
book guy that I just said, to hell with it. I'm
going to send in all of this slow moving junk
on Amazon land. You get punished if you don't
have the buy box for sending in slow moving junk.
So it should have took maybe a month to three
months to get the buy box. It took me, I think
it was right about six or seven months because
I front loaded everything. I ran out to every
store. I scanned every CD, every DVD. And it
took me that long to actually get the buy box
just because I was new to the game. And I was
so excited. And I went and spent all my money.
And I was left sitting there wondering what the
hell is taking so long. Well, it's too late.
By the time it's already sent, like to have it
sent back to you would have cost me hundreds,
thousands of dollars. So I already, I screwed
myself over by being new and not new to, like
I knew the rules. I 100 % knew that I should
not have done this, but I was just so excited
that nothing else mattered. And I paid the price
and it probably cost me a couple thousand dollars
in sales. Now that I look back on it, it was
100 % stupid. And I guess I paid the stupid tax
so everybody else doesn't have to, because when
people now are brand new in a used category,
I say, hey, hold up. You can't go crazy with
this. You got to you got to be a little bit smarter
than a used book. I was just because I was I
was a fool. So, yeah, that was my real life experience.
True, true life. You know, reselling mindset
podcast style. Johnny, take it over. So there's
an old quote from a scholar, I'd like to say.
More money, more problems. So if you have more
money, you're like, oh, I have more opportunities
to do more things. And it's really tempting to
blow your backstock of money on either more inventory.
Hey, maybe I'll get a smallish warehouse thing
that I'll cobble together. Now I got rent overhead.
Or maybe I will hire an employee. I got enough
to pay him for a week. You inherit these problems
with excess cash if you decide to grow too quickly,
I'd say, or move too fast. And it's a downfall
spiral because you'll fail and then you try to
figure out how to prevent yourself from failing
because you can see it coming. And getting yourself
out of that hole is terrible. And then I see
other people that, hey, like, I got these credit
cards. It's like Monopoly money. I can grow my
business super quick. I'll spend $2 ,000 in credit
cards and I'll get it back in a month because
my sales are great. And then something happens
or like the buy box fiasco. And then like, oh,
my prediction was wrong. What do I do now? I
guess I got to schedule one -on -one with Mike
and Johnny. No, no, don't do that. I think it's
so true, man, because I can't spend all the money
I make on Amazon. I can't spend it cherry picking
in my area, right? Everybody yelled, Mike, just
do both. Just do both. I can go on Facebook marketplace
right now. And like there's people that literally
sell gay lords of media within like an hour of
me. Right. So like what Johnny's saying, I could
go spend all my money. But I see the problem
is, Johnny, dude, they don't care what we say.
They don't care what nobody says because they're
going to do it the right way. And they're they're
one opportunity is unlike any other that's ever
existed. So it's so hard to get it through to
people that. uh like it's it's all right to slow
down because i think all resellers want to grow
so fast and always be growing and growing and
growing but i do believe 95 of them think that
their situation is going to be different even
though me and johnny have loaded the car with
books had to carry books up and down multiple
flights of steps thousands of pounds of books
and 110 degree heat their situation is going
to be different. Even though it says, even though
the weather channel says it's going to be 110
degrees, their situation will be different. There's
going to be millions and trillions of dollars
to be made. And me and Johnny are like, don't
you dare, don't do that. But to them, it's like,
it's hard to convince somebody else. especially
a reseller when an opportunity in quotation marks
is sitting right in front of them. And it seems
too good to be true. How could I ever lose money?
I'm just like, all right, let me know how that
goes for you. We've seen it happen over the years.
Yeah. And if you're up North, like Tommy boy,
and you got the dog sled on the way to the estate
sale, trying to load that thing up jokes aside.
I mean, it's an inherent problem because it.
if you buy the truckload of books for the first
time just because you have the cash flow to do
so it you don't account for all the labor that's
involved in there or the space or you're like
i'll deal with the space if i need to and then
you need to because you overbought or you miscalculated
or something and now you're paying rent at least
a storage unit i mean you've created temporary
problems with yourself that the key word in there
is problems um And we're not saying don't ever
do these things, but you have to be prepared
and don't blow your entire reseller savings on
experimenting and growing and stuff of that nature.
And it's hard because what we do, it has a bigger
rate of return than the stock market. And it's
hard not to just go full hog on. Let's see how
fast I can compound my money by buying as much
product as humanly possible and working a ridiculously
amount of hours until I fall over debt. It's
hard not to do that. Like Mike said, opportunities
are right in front of you. Why not? Well, the
answer is you're not ready. You need to grow
into that. I think you honestly do. I think the
only way people learn this lesson is by doing
it. And absolutely wasting three weeks of their
life trying to get through it. Because we see
it, right? We see it in the Discord. Like people
post and they're like, look at all this stuff
I just got. And like, I know like that person
is so excited. I'm excited for them. And I think
to myself, don't come to my house. don't back
that truck up to my house because there is no
shot. You can pay me to unload them damn books
and get, you know, five to 10 % that are good
for Amazon. Like I've been there, but I guess
you got to experience. And you know, here I'm
the person now I am a little bit more weary.
Like if somebody says, Hey, you know, here's
like, Deb does it all the time. Like that's probably
not a good deal. Or you'll tell me, Hey, I probably
wouldn't buy that stuff or Hey, buy that stuff.
I do listen more than I used to. But even still,
every once in a while, Johnny, I'll come across
that Facebook marketplace list and I'm like,
what could go wrong? All right, there's no way
I lose money. You won't lose money if you just
go like penny for penny. You never lose money
and resell them penny for penny. But how much
damn time? and how much work is going into this
one. If you just went and ran your route, went
to your thrift stores, went to your libraries,
you'd be way better off. Instead of getting,
I don't know, $50 an hour, you're now down to
$4 an hour just because of all the manual work.
And yeah, those photos, man, I see them, I'm
like... Yeah, those are the before photos. Where's
the after photos where that truck is empty and
that person is drinking a Gatorade sweat dripping
down their brow and they got the rocky bandana
on and they just look like they've been through
it. Where are those photos? We never see those.
We just see the look how much stuff is in the
truck or car or U -Haul or whatever. It's media,
right? I try to get this through to everybody.
This stuff is everywhere. Nobody else is going
to buy this stuff off Facebook Marketplace. You
can offer next to nothing for it. It will sit
there forever. I've seen it happen. I've made
some good deals because of it. And I think just
because you have the capital, I try to tell us
because a lot of people grow pretty quick. And
all of a sudden, they go from making $1 ,000
a month to $5 ,000 a month. I try to tell people,
be strategic with your money. Just because you
got more coming in, just because I made more
money than I ever have in my Amazon career this
year, it's not like I'm out. just throwing money
around, right? You still have to be smart with
your money. And there's always going to be another
opportunity. This isn't going to be the only
time somebody has a house full of books. This
isn't going to be the only time somebody's selling
a Gaylord of DVDs or CDs. When the time comes
and maybe you can't get it from your sources,
maybe you try the route. But I think another
thing is, there's no like, people don't do test
buys, right? People are just like, just give
me it all, right? It's not like, hey, can I come
over and take a look at it? They're just like,
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Here's the money. I'll deal with it, right? It's
never like, I'll take one Gaylord. It's like,
well, you got five of them. I guess I got to
take all five. It's like, you've never even done
a single one. It's your wallet. You're the one
in control, not them. And it's not even our business
of reselling that this is an issue. And we see
it happening in sports and movies. People get
a lot of money and they don't know how to handle
it. And they blow it all. I mean, like MC Hammer.
nick cage i love me some nick cage but damn does
he not know how to hold on to a dollar um and
even in the music industry it's all over the
place anybody who's who hasn't had excess money
before tends to mismanagement until and maybe
that's a necessary evil they mismanagement and
then they figure out never again and they have
to go through that um it's just like us saying
no don't do it and they do it anyway they gotta
learn from themselves right but and The other
thing I see happen is they bring on staff or
they hire a person and then, I don't know, a
month to three months later, they have to let
that person go. That is not fair to that person.
Because you were incompetent enough not to forecast
correctly or you guessed and your guess was horribly
wrong. I've seen this happen a lot. I'm not talking
about the poor Philippines VA. I'm talking about
some guy to help you or girl come in and help
you process and or photograph or do something.
They're let go in one to three months time because
you couldn't, you didn't give the business enough
time to fully pay them indefinitely. And you're
kind of trying to rush it into profitability
to pay for them. You got a little bit of money.
It's a buffer. But when that buffer runs out,
it's like you were them and it's always them
that gets cut. That's unfair, unfortunately.
Yeah, I think you're right, too, because a lot
of people. are so quick to get an employee and
i think i think it could be very beneficial to
businesses if you have it laid out but i feel
like the percent of people that have it laid
out versus the percent that don't the resale
space is like 10 to 90 and 10 being the people
that actually have things calculated because
i'll tell you what most people if you dropped
an employee off of their door today that said
they need an employee They would say, oh, yeah,
you can go over there and you can work on this.
And it's like, what the hell? A lot of these
people, even if they were resellers before, they
don't know your expectations. Do you have SOPs,
what you expect from them, when they're going
to work, how often they're going to work, whatever.
Resellers are the most lackluster. Sit back business
owner operators ever and they don't understand
that there needs to be processes in place. I
mean, you've you've been through the ropes when
it comes to employees before. And I know for
a fact you have everything laid out that people
just don't show up. And then you're like, well,
let's see what we're going to do today. And you
sit there for 30 minutes and try to figure out
where you're going to send that employee to go
work. Yeah, you can't have them just twiddling
thumbs because you're just burning money at that
point and also burning their time. So we said
when not to do it, but when should you do it?
When should you do it? It's probably, you got
at least six months of them working 40 hours
a week in the bank. And even if you bring them
on part -time, so that's a year essentially.
I would say that's a good starting point, but
you got to make sure you can continually bankroll
on top of that six months. It can't just be six
months and then we'll think about paying them
again. Once that six months is up. No, you got
to keep funneling it in so they can continue
to work. But I would say a six month head start
is a good starting point. You could do it with
less, but I'm being conservative in my number
here. And let's go for conservative because we
want to keep Mr. Billy or Miss Sally employed.
I think I think it works. The idea that tracking
your employee, tracking your. extra income because
if you bring somebody on right you should be
making extra money uh is important it's the same
if you're just buying the product right so you
have two aspects getting employee quick or buying
too much product quick you should track both
of these because if you're going to continue
to buy more You should be able to say, hey, I'm
making X amount of dollars per hour. Here's how
much more inventory I'm listing, selling, sending
to Amazon, listing on eBay. Same with the employee.
How much more revenue? How many more listings
am I doing now that I have an employee? How much
more money am I making now that I have an employee?
I forget what the rule is. I know I'm bad, but
I forget. For every one employee, you should
make X amount of dollars that they're actually
being paid. I don't know what it is, but I know
it's more than one X because then you're just
breaking even, right? But I think a lot of people
just hire somebody or buy a lot of inventory
and they don't track those things. I think if
I have an employee, we better at least be doubling
what we're doing. So I don't care what that person
makes per hour. I want to double my actual revenue
coming in from the business, whether that's eBay
or Amazon. If they make $20 an hour, yeah, I'll
track how much I'm paying them. But my overall
revenue should be doubling because theoretically
we're doing double the work. Right. And that
leads me to what I was going to say here. You
can't do the same thing you were doing by just
bringing on another person because then you're
making negative dollars. You're producing more.
Now there's two of you. So either you need to,
if you're overbuying, you're in a good place.
You don't have to up your inventory purchasing.
So they've come on to help you with that. If
you're underbuying, like you're able to do all
the work, well, then you need to buy more. That's
another expense you've just brought on because
your cost of goods is now, well, probably doubled
at this point. And then the packaging supplies.
I don't care if you're doing Amazon or eBay,
you're going to have to buy more because you're
going to sell more. Assuming the listings go
up either in eBay or Amazon, we'll call a box
a listing, I guess. And the outflow has to be
more. It cannot be the same because you're just
going to put yourself in a bad position and you're
now. You don't have excess money now because
you've given all the excess money to the employee
or maintaining excess money, and you're not growing.
You're maintaining and you're kind of getting,
well, I'm just going to say it, lazy. Don't be
the lazy reseller. Be the efficient reseller.
Use them to enhance your business, not maintain
the status quo. There's other problems that come
with both hiring an employee and buying too much
inventory. If you hire an employee, if we're
doing more work, we're probably going to have
to buy more inventory. You're not accounting
for that. You're going from 20 listings a day
to 40 listings a day or one box a week to five
boxes a week. And it also works the other side.
If you're buying too much inventory. Well, like
Johnny said, you're going to be sending more
inventory. You're going to be listing more inventory.
You're going to need more packing supplies. So
it's not just that initial, oh, I buy more inventory
or, oh, I'm hiring an employee. There's like
so many subcategories of expenses that you don't
think about. You just see the glorious employee
and, hey, I can I can do this now. And all of
a sudden you're like, well, well, you come into
work and we got nothing to list today because
my five listing that I had projected out for
the next three months, it's all it's all done
now. Maybe this employee. is a superstar and
you're like oh maybe we can only get maybe this
person i'm expecting like 10 15 listens a day
and this person shows up and they're doing like
they're like oh i can do like 50 of these a day
and you're like shit i ain't got the inventory
for that right all of a sudden you create more
problems by doing either one of that all -star
overachiever employee which you want but you
can't keep up with them and they don't know yeah
dude you create other problems by this and You
can't account for everything, right? Me and Johnny
are not sitting here. Every decision we've made
when it comes to bulk or employees, 100 % was
like, oh, this is guaranteed to work. There's
no guarantee in this, but you can sort of forecast
things out. Kind of like any business that has
a theft, right? They call it shrink. Every business
accounts for three to 6 % shrink. Just stuff
that walks out the door disappears. It's the
same in resale. And you're going to have these
sunk cost categories where it just is what it
is, but you can be like. I mean, if I was to
hire an employee, dude, I would do exactly what
you said, right? We have wages set aside for
six months. How much more productivity am I going
to get? Well, you really don't know that because
you don't know if your employee is going to be
great. Maybe you got to get rid of this person.
Right. You're going to have turnover. And also,
we haven't even talked about training time. You're
going to be moving slower during training time.
You're going to get less done during training
time. But it's a necessary evil in order to,
in fact, train them. I mean, you can have efficiencies
in place where it's pretty. We'll call it stupid
proof, but it's their first time with it. And
if they've never been a reseller before, they
have no idea what's going on. They're going to
ask you questions, unnecessary questions, but
they're curious and it is okay. And it is fair
to answer those questions because they're there.
They have no idea what's going on. They're like
lost in the swarm of, wow, this is reselling
life. What's that over there? What's this over
there? What's this do? Can I press the red button,
Johnny? Yes. I do think though, I think one thing
that is true is if you're a newer reseller and
you get one of these crazy big opportunities
to buy a bunch of stuff, I think you do get through
it quicker and more efficiently because it's
like your first time, right? You're motivated.
I just think about, we got a guy in the group
Sigil. He's like a musician and his first bulk
buy was like 14 ,000 CDs. And like 95 % of people
would have just folded up and been like, yeah,
this is way too much. But I think because he
was a musician and it was like his first big
pickup, he was just like, I love this shit, right?
But that's like, that's a percent of a percent
like we've been talking about it. When we've
been doing this long enough, it's hard to convince
me and Johnny to come to the basement. And just
take all your books blindly, right? We're a tough
sell when it comes to you just throwing a bunch
of work at us and us just being like, yeah, let's
do it, right? Because we have the relationships,
we have the inventory already. So we take away
from what we are doing now that produces income.
And it's always fun to roll the dice. That's
why we resell. That's why Storage Wars was like
one of the biggest shows ever because I'm gonna
roll up the door, Johnny. It's cool for YouTube,
but most of you ain't doing damn YouTube. So
don't, and even then, don't waste your time.
In one hiring phase I did way back when, it wasn't
that long ago, it was two years ago. It's what
I call bullpen hiring. This is a thing where
you hire a bunch of people and you only plan
to keep a small percentage of them. In my case,
it was one. I hired four people at once. And
I was looking for the best person that was going
to fulfill everything that I do in my business.
I was looking for who can I mold to be my clone.
You know what? On paper, it was this other guy.
He didn't make it. He was really good in certain
aspects, but he wasn't good in all aspects. And
you know what? He complained a hell of a lot.
But on paper, he had the most experience. Then
I had another person that was really good at
only one thing and garbage at the others. And
then I had another person that was just. They,
I don't know, they got sick a lot or they're
the kind of type that just didn't want to come
in all the time. And then the one person who
I considered the weakest link at the top of my
list ended up being the one I kept because she
would always hustle. She would ask questions.
She would get better. I only have to really give
her instructions once and refine her over time.
But she was the youngest one. This was her first
job, technically, quote -unquote job at the time.
And she was the best of the best, even though
on paper she was the worst of the worst. But
I wouldn't have known that unless I did what
I did. That's the thing with turnover. You don't
realize what you have and what's better unless
you do something like that. I'm not saying do
bullpen hiring because that costs a lot of money
to do because I was letting one go a week. No,
it was two weeks. Yeah. I gave him two weeks
and I let one go. The team got smaller and smaller.
When I got the last two, they finally asked me
what's going on. But yeah, it's, I think that
the problem with people hiring is it gives them
an excuse for like. you can almost blame everybody
else, right? Like if I go buy a bunch of shit,
right? Like a bunch of CDs, DVDs, or do a book
pickup, right? There's nobody to blame but myself.
But if you have an employee, dude, how many failed
resellers that have employees just sleep at night
knowing and blaming that, oh, it's my other employee
that's dragging me down because most people can't
have hard conversations, right? Most people never
been in a situation where they have to let somebody
go or have like a corrective action talk. I've
been store manager at CBS. So like you have to
do these things, right? Like there's reviews
and there's corrective actions and there's level
one, level two, level three. Like most people
that are resellers have never had to go in and
be like, Johnny, by the way, like you are dog
doo doo at your job, buddy. And I'm going to
have to, you're either going to have to wake
up and smell the roses or I'm going to have to
kick you in the bottom and send you on your way,
right? Like we can sit here and joke about that.
And we've had these conversations with other
people and actually have had to let people go.
But like 99 % of resellers, yet again, they will
hang on to the, here goes another thing we can
get into, hanging on to bad employees and hanging
on to bad inventory when it comes to running
into these things right away. One more quick
thing. She couldn't type, guys. I had to teach
her how to type. She was a pecker. The all -star
guy, he was a college kid, you know, from Godfather.
Hey, college boy. He was one of those, right?
But he's not the one. Again, just because you
don't know how to do something, but you have
the ability to learn how to do something, that's
more valuable to me. I'd rather have somebody
that knows nothing than somebody that knows everything
worked for me. Because it's harder to unlearn
something than to learn something. It's the bigger
difference there. But let's see, outside of employees,
what do we got about going too fast? Yeah, there's
something to be said about not necessarily overbuying,
but overpromising with your connections that
you're building. We always say make connections,
but if you make too many of them, you're then
quote -unquote obligated to pick up when they
want you to. and or you've got five people to
pick up and they're two hours away in five different
directions um that's a long day you've just built
for yourself unfortunately and also there's a
space factor maybe you miscalculated how much
space you'll need with all these connections
you've just been grinding out over the past three
months i'm not saying don't make connections
but you need to make sure you can handle the
connections you've acquired because You may have
to drop the ball on one of them. Like, look,
I can't pick up today. I have no space to put
your stuff. That's not their problem. That's
a you problem. Or there's a scenario of I overbooked.
Sorry, I'll be there next Tuesday. They're going
to cut you loose. And that may be the best connection
you have. Yeah, I guess we can round out the
call here with this one is having to have every
damn fancy bell and whistle that you see on social
media. reselling content, right? Like you just
listed your first 10 items on eBay. Do we need
the $250 heavy duty six tier metal storage rack
from Home Depot? No, we do not. Okay. Do we need
the souped up Dymo 20 XL, XS, XP, whatever it
may be, thermal printer. No, we do not, right?
Johnny, this happens all the time. I have so
many one -on -ones. People are brand new. I tell
them, start out as cheap as you can. We don't
need to put all the money into something until
we can figure out, does this business model work?
Do I enjoy doing this? Do I have enough of around
me to sustain this business model? I can't tell
you how many people have literally went out.
And they've had more expensive stuff than I do.
And they've never sold a damn thing on Amazon.
I'm sitting here like, you guys are crazy, right?
I'm like, I've seen that so many times. Like,
are we on the prices right? Am I supposed to
like pick out how much you spent per item there?
That's a table full of money. And how, if you
sit in your first box, nope, but I'm ready. I'm
like, no, you're not. Dude, it's, I don't know.
It's like kind of like HGTV, like. compare your
stuff to stuff and i'm here to tell you none
of that means anything we're not even talking
warehouse life we're talking they brought themselves
a dedicated work computer brand new it's probably
like two grand you got the dymo printer there's
hundreds and hundreds of dollars there and then
i don't know a year's supply of rolls that you'd
sit in one box yeah um and then they got their
an equal amount of stuff on those racks you mentioned
of those low small boxes ready to go and it's
like my god you've spent thousands and thousands
of dollars and you've you may be sitting in one
box but you believe in it so much you were willing
to no no stop it do it slow i mean i'm a i'm
a skeptic when it comes to trying new things
right so like I've tried other businesses in
the past and I have some I work on in the background
now. But even when I started the ones that I'm
continuing on the background now, like I still
want to keep my overhead so damn low. I don't
know. I'm too cheap. One hundred percent. Right.
It's just how I how I how I was raised and the
financial times I've got through. But I just
can't justify throwing a. out even if it's hundreds
of dollars uh on on something i have no idea
whether or not it's going to be work i should
have told people in the beginning take advantage
of free trials buy a five dollar bluetooth scanner
don't use any software you don't need it you're
brand new you can suffer through seller central
listing your boxes and the hand the amount of
people that probably actually do that is a percent
of a percent most people are just like well I'm
getting the softwares. I'm getting this. And
then a month from now, it is, well, my overhead
cost is like $500 a month. And I'm like, well,
let's see what you're paying for. You're paying
for shit you don't need. A couple of things here.
You should start with Seller Central because
your software can be down and you have operations
to maintain. And if you don't know jack all about
where things are in Seller Central, or at least
an idea because they keep changing the user interface.
You're going to spend the day trying to figure
out where, what is what, where is where, how
do I do this? So I would say for at least your
first thousand units you ship in, just do it
all through Seller Central so you at least know
the quote -unquote process. Yeah, that process
will change as they update the UI, but at least
you have a baseline to go off of. The other thing
is it's a tightrope or a seesaw balancing act
of low cost, no cost. well i'm holding myself
back by not upgrading this thing here and i have
the funds to do so and it's not going to hurt
me to maybe upgrade to a thermal printer instead
of like the brother printer yeah or or maybe
i can get a faster listing software now i'm at
that stage um though you can do all these things
without what i just mentioned without these upgrades
it is a performance enhancement that gives you
your time back to then go make more money with
and or quality of life free time if that's your
angle so but knowing when to do that knowing
when you should do that whether it's affordability
or you're at that stage where it's you're holding
yourself back you're hindering yourself identifying
that from you yourself it's hard maybe you need
to ask somebody like and i don't know ask mike
mike like yeah it's time spend the money You're
good to spend the money. Or we're like, no, you
just started. It's not time to spend the money.
I thought it would never exist in eBay land,
but it does now because how many brand new eBay
sellers just use the listing software, right?
I feel bad for those people. I'm just saying,
dude, I never thought it would exist. Like I
always thought eBay would be, you have to list
your shit yourself. And now they have the software,
which is comparable to the listing softwares
on Amazon. And there's people out there that
will never actually go in and wait. Johnny, do
I move up in the – I got an eBay selling tier
question, right? Like I used to be down in the
dumps, right? Like lowest level, right? Like
I'm grade F. Does me listing items on eBay through
my phone move me up the ladder to D and new sellers
that never list any items through their phone
that just use the cross -listing AI listing,
are they now F or am I still F? I think you're
all failing. I would say if you use a listing
software, whether that's through your phone or
desktop or whatever, your listing is going to
be 70 % to 80 % correct. That's probably as good
as they are right now. There are some nuances,
and that includes you having to go in and correct
a few minor tweaks here and there. We're not
at the point yet where it does 100%. build your
own and silo it to your just yourself and code
it yourself you are not never going to be 100
best of the best listings at present state now
will that percentage increase over time well
absolutely but we're not there yet all right
i tried i'm still an f student on ebay and i'm
i guess i'm Until something else stupid comes
along that everybody's using. I'm stuck here.
It's my job to crush your dreams, Mike. It's
my job. Listen, the day will come when I'm no
longer an F student and it is what it is. So
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