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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this week's episode. What is up, everybody? Welcome
to another episode of Reseller's Mindset Podcast.
Mike next to Johnny. Today's topic is going to
be a fun, disappointing, uplifting, everything
type of topic and kind of the things we've seen
over the... the years of what caused people to
ultimately fail in their reselling endeavors.
Now, I've been doing this for five years. John,
you've probably been doing it well. I mean, I
guess publicly, I've been doing it for five years.
But like reselling, I probably did a couple years
before I actually started the YouTube channel.
But I really never got to understand why people
would fail, right? And it happens from time to
time. But now that we've had a group for years,
it's... You see people will be like open about
it every once in a while or somebody will just
fall off the face of the earth and you kind of
can go back and like decipher their last messages
or like their last questions to figure out what
caused them to fail. And there's so many ways
that you can, you know, have a small business,
which we are, that can cause your small business
to fail. And I think I'll jump in with the first
one here. And I think it's people not selling
the stuff they actually source. I think a lot
of people love sourcing. They love it. If they
could just source every day, all day in every
thrift store and every garage sale, there would
never be a problem. And when I say not selling
the items, it's a caveat because it's not just
you don't sell it. I think a lot of people have
death piles that are unimaginable. Even in Amazon
land, I know this exists where people have. hundreds
if not thousands of units that were profitable
when they bought them that for whatever reason
they haven't listed thrown in a box and sent
off to amazon and you have cash tied up i'm not
even we're not even getting into the idea where
you send it and then you're not priced correctly
and it doesn't sell i'm just talking about the
basic you go buy it spend your hard -earned money
and you never even get around to listing it now
i think I think they'll always list like the
super, like that one item they get that's really
expensive. Like, of course that gets listed,
you know, the same day, but I think everything
else, which is, you know, you paid for it and
you need items listed to actually sell them.
And maybe it's not the most exciting stuff, but
we talk about it all the time. Like cashflow
is cashflow. That stuff kind of gets left behind
and it drives me crazy, man. Like I try. every
week to get everything out. Like if I go source
this week, it's all out same week, right? There's
really no leftovers. I've maybe had one or two
weeks in the past two years where I just didn't
send anything out because I didn't feel like
doing it. I must've been in a rotten ass mood.
Something was going on, right? But we're talking
one or two weeks out of over a hundred weeks
that nothing got sent in. And you better believe.
That shit went in the next week. It's not like
it sat there in perpetuity forever. Right. That
stuff was like, all right, it's time to go. I
don't know, man. I see this all the time and
it drives me crazy. Yeah. I mean, when I first
started getting into reselling, I've only been
doing it for four and change here. It's death
pile is definitely a thing then it's. at least
in the ebay circles i run and it's less of a
thing now it's more about what people are listing
the quality of the items that's the new problem
i would say as a whole um i'm not sure that's
probably a problem in amazon too people don't
have their trigger set right but yeah death pilots
normally was a thing for a lot of people i saw
a lot of people struggle with this like they
they would go out and buy and buy and buy and
it was more of I saw people get thrashed for
that too. Like, why are you buying? Why'd you
go out? We've, we talked about this. You got
a problem. You need to go to a meeting or something.
12 steps fucking program. But, um, those people
had problems. Be the same repeat offenders. Um,
I think people like. the imaginary feeling of
they bought it therefore it has it's holding
its value when it's not it's not for sale first
of all nobody can buy it so the value is a pile
of trash until you list it or send it in that's
all it is right now it has not converted money
um and there's a difference i think between like
a queue and a death pile a queue is much more
Reasonable, like you have an abundance of stuff,
but it's in an assembly line to go out versus
it just sits there and there's no plan for it
getting listed in the near future. It just grows
and grows and grows cumulatively. For mine, what
I've seen people fail over the years at is they
tend to, I don't know, break what's working.
They want to try something new. they go try something
new and they're unsuccessful at that new thing
and they left their old thing that was working
perfectly fine behind and then they'll try another
new thing because that new thing failed and another
another and then sometimes they'll come back
to what was originally working it's kind of like
starting over again and I'm for trying new things
but I'm also for keep what's working going and
then add on something if you got the bandwidth
which I guess is a another one of And I'll toss
it over to you is overextending yourself. If
you're you can only be do so much in the same
24 hours and be so many places at once. Right.
And either you need to bring on somebody or you
need to take your foot off the gas and relax
a little bit and scale into it naturally versus
trying to force the scale. I'll hush now because
I can go on and on and on. It's it's hard, though,
right, because. people you know what's their
bandwidth everybody wants to you know grow at
the speed of light it's like they want to be
seven figure resellers yesterday and like people
are not willing to accept the fact that things
take time like businesses take time to grow especially
what we're doing it's going to take time it's
just a sheer volume game of how many items how
many quality items can you find so i i understand
it to a degree when it comes to hey you know
stay focused but today's society dude everywhere
you look listen turn it's like another crazy
idea or another crazy thing that's popping up
in front of us so like you're the person that
sells crappy used books dude it's like it's not
like it is the lamest thing you possibly can
do like even if you are somebody that loves books
you're just sitting there with these books all
day longer you know, three hours a day. And you're
just like, this is boring as all hell. And I
want to do something that's more fun. Right.
And then it's like, even if you are making money,
right. Like you're saying, like, it's a successful
business, but it's still not enough because that
isn't enough. Like the dopamine is not going
off in their brain. So it's like, yeah, sure.
It looks great. Right. I'm making my thousand
dollars a month that I want to make. But like,
you're like. Well, this is boring as hell. Like
maybe I can go do something else that's going
to make me a thousand dollars and it's going
to be more exciting. But the problem is, even
if you go do something else and you find and
you make that successful, you'll get bored of
that too. And then eventually you'll have to
move on to something else. It's like a never
ending cycle of chasing the next thing. I think
people that like move on from reselling to go
like, you know, do a vending machine business
like that last for six months and then they move
on and then they're doing something else. Right.
It's like they're always just. I don't know,
just, I guess, turning over businesses. It's
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description below. Yeah, or they pull out right
before it's about to start to work because we
all know there's that on -ramp to build it up
and they pull out too soon. If you're an average
bookseller or media seller, it's like a six month
pathway to success between you signing up for
the account. Do you start getting some steady
paychecks? Do you start getting some all right
paychecks? And then later on, it's like, oh,
here's the big paycheck. I just needed to stay
the course. And some people pull out way too
soon. That's another reason for failure is adjusting
way too soon. yeah i mean we say how many times
amazon like you're looking at three to six months
to even get your first dollar in profit back
to you i know that doesn't sound glorious and
i say in every video join my channel and i'll
help you make money on amazon but i've literally
done videos where you know i lay out my numbers
and I can tell you right now, it's a three to
six month runway, three months on the early end
for you to actually start making money. I will
say this now that I've been doing a little bit
on eBay, getting paid like after you ship yourself
is pretty cool. Yeah, that's great, isn't it?
It doesn't exist in Amazon land, right? I'm like,
oh, I got some money. I go buy me a pizza. But
I think even that, I don't think like making
sales is enough for these people. These people
that are always looking for the next thing, like.
I don't think that's enough. I think they're
just wired to always be trying different things.
And the problem with that is you really can never
see the full potential of a business you had
that maybe could have been one where you kind
of could have just coasted or outsourced to work
and kind of made it run itself. And you really
wouldn't have to be involved in the business
all the time. And then you have the flip side
of like people that are quote unquote working
in their business all the time and they get no
results. But like. they're not working right
if you actually sat down and said hey like give
me everything you're doing and how long it takes
you to do it they're just kind of meandering
and like i'm guilty of this like i have weeks
like where i'm listening my stuff uh would go
to listen like i'll have like a youtube video
on it that's like turn that shit off and get
the listen i'm like yeah you're right like instead
of instead of me taking like forever to get stuff
listed it's done like that quick But yet again,
we live in a society where it's all everything
around you all the time. You can't just sit here
in the quiet with nothing else on and just do
the task that's at hand. Right. And another failure
point I see people do is either they try to become
a spreadsheet millionaire and they're constantly
noodling with their spreadsheet, but there's
no action. There's no action behind it. There's
no results to monitor because you're too busy
tweaking your spreadsheet and or watching YouTube
videos to make enhancements to your spreadsheet.
I'm all for improving your business, but at some
point you got to actually perform. You got to
go out and do the roll your sleeves up kind of
work. You can't just type away or. Lately, it's
ChatGPT or Gemini or whatever. People just get
stuck in there. They're trying to build a business
model, a better business model, a better business
model. And it's a tool, don't get me wrong. And
yeah, research is good. ChatGPT is great. Watching
some key gold YouTube video that you've never
heard information about before or a new take
or a new spin, that's great. But it shouldn't...
take you eight hours of your 12 hour work day
to do all that that's maybe like an hour or after
hours honestly that's that's you sitting in a
chair right and typing at the computer and or
i don't know leaning back and watching a video
yeah and trying to uh trying to maintain my amazon
business and grow my uh influencer business like
when you're really maxed out on time like I can't
even tell you, like, the last reselling YouTube
video, like, I actually watched because I want
to get my shit done, dude. And then, like, I'm
trying to check out, right? Like, I throw in
the Discord at night, like, I'm out of here at,
like, 7 p .m. I'm gone. Whatever the hell y 'all
are doing after 7 p .m., like, I'm trying to
get in bed, watch a movie, relax. But, like,
the other hours of the day, I'm trying to get
everything done in a certain time frame, right?
And it's, like, people are probably, like, What
do you mean you're off Discord at 7 p .m.? Well,
listen, I don't want, I'd rather go sit down,
watch a movie at night with Deb and enjoy my
evening than instead of just sitting here kind
of meandering and dragging out my work through
the day. And yeah, does it suck that, you know,
sometimes during the day I'm working when other
people aren't, friends, family, right? You know,
like work every weekend, basically. Most people
take off weekends. We're recording this right
now on the weekend. We are literally. basically
i've recorded all the podcasts on the weekend
and some people like refuse to work on the weekends
well i take the same approach to not work in
evenings right me and deb have tv shows and movies
we like to watch every single night and i think
if you have that reason to get your work done
in a reasonable like a quick amount of time you're
going to be more motivated to do it but if you're
just like yeah whatever it gets done when it
gets done you know yeah i got shit laying around
and it's uh yeah whatever you know it'll just
kind of work itself out but then like They still
go out and you still keep sourcing and you're
not listing. And I think listing is the easiest
it's ever been, right? I mean, I think about
sell similar, all these listing tools, all these
listing softwares, whether eBay, Amazon, whatever
it may be, the tools have made reselling the
easiest it's ever been to actually get the job
done, right? So it's like, why aren't we actually
getting the job done? And that takes us to what
you said earlier. We're just buying junk items,
right? I don't know why we do it. It's, I only
care about sell through. So junk items, do I
take some risk on quote unquote junk items? At
least everything I've ever bought really has
at least sold once in the past six months. But
I'll tell you what, people list things that have
never sold. And I'm just like, what the hell
are we doing? Like, do we not understand the
basics of you listing something? You actually
have to have a buyer for it. Just because you've
listed doesn't mean you get paid. I list it,
it will sell. No, that's not how that works.
Yeah, and it's... I don't know. I just think
some people lack the fundamentals from the get
-go, and they continue to lack the fundamentals,
and they just spiral into obscurity, honestly.
Either we never hear from them again, or they
just struggle, and they don't listen to what
people are saying. Like, you need to do this,
this, and this. And this, this, and this don't
ever change. It's just you've never decided to
do it. um for whatever reason that for whatever
reason i can never understand and and it's kind
of sad and i don't know how that can be helped
you gotta choose you gotta want to get better
um and i can't make you want to get better for
you i've tried i've tried to force you're gonna
get better this is how but i'm not there holding
their hand dragging them along and that's what
some people want i guess i don't know That's
always been a hard one for me to wrap my brain
around. The other one is I've seen some people
try to scale way too fast. They hire a bunch
of people and they have no plan to pay for this
person past three months and all their money
is going to their employees essentially because
they didn't account for scalability to bring
in somebody on or they're getting the warehouse
or they, God forbid, taking out one of those
awesome eBay and Amazon loans with 33 % interest
on them. worse and they can't afford their bills
because they're too busy trying to make their
loan payments honestly and then they take out
another loan to pay for that loan and it's just
a downward spiral i haven't like seen what the
consensus is with these new ebay promoted listings
right like i see like tech put out a video a
lot of the other big ebay sellers put out a video
as well dude i think this will literally cause
part -timers small sellers to stop reselling
because people my opinion on it is it's just
the cost of doing business right so full transparency
uh i've sold 744 on ebay whatever past 90 days
i really haven't been listening for more than
a month so we'll just say 744 the past 30 days
and uh when it pops up i just do like whatever
it tells you right like recommends it Right.
So I go through the listing just to make sure
everything looks good, even though I'm using
listing software. And then at the bottom, you
click the little promoted promoted listings button
and it says we recommend you promote it, whatever
percent. Right. But I always known like since
promoted listings have been a thing since the
beginning of time, like for some reason, smaller
part time sellers are like so against it. And
I guarantee you, you're going to wind up not
getting sales just because you don't have. your
2%, even if you want to be the cheapest at 2%,
promote a listing set on because you feel like
eBay is just trying to get more money out of
you. Maybe it's just me, dude, but I seriously
think it's just the cost of doing business, honestly.
Yeah, and... You promote all your stuff, right?
Yeah, that's a no -brainer. What I've seen the
people you're talking about... They're not bailing.
They're just turning the promoted listings off,
and they're like, that'll fix them. I'll show
eBay, and then they're going to get zero sales.
Dude, I'm just like, why? I get it. It's an added
quote -unquote fee, and sure, it's scammy the
way they calculate it or whatever. Basically,
everything you sell forever now is going to be
quote -unquote promoted if you have promoted.
Well, there's the stupid Amazon referral fee
that I don't know what the hell that does, but
they take a cut anyway. We need to start our
own website. How many times I've seen that in
YouTube comments. I'm just like, yeah, that's
not going to happen. I just I hate it because
like you, it sucks when people don't really see
it to fruition. But I learned after probably
two and a half years of being a content creator
and quote unquote coach in the space that you
can't save them all, dude. And unfortunately,
some people are just too stubborn and hard headed
to. Just step back and actually look at what
the benefit is that you're getting from paying
this extra fee versus not doing it and trying
to stick it to corporate America because I don't
want to pay the extra percent. And I'll tell
you right now, most of them they recommend anywhere
between like 8 % and 12 % is usually what they
recommend when I just go through the listing
on the computer and activate the promoted listings.
I haven't done media. and none of my stuff is
media. Actually, it is. I got one DVD set listed,
but I haven't done any media, but everything
seems to be between 8 % and 12%. I mean, dude,
that's a lot out of your pocket. You just take
the average of an extra 10%. It's a dollar for
every $10 sales price that you have. But here
we are again. We're listing absolute junk stuff,
right? I mean, what should be the immediate,
like, what is the absolute bottom somebody should
list something for on eBay? I think $30 or more
these days. Unless you're doing like a true bulk
eBay operation and you're just listing and you
don't have any. Yeah, it's $30 or more. Even
if. I don't think you can get away with $5 .99
free ship for DVDs anymore because the median
mail price is already $5. Even if you do $10
free ship, I mean, I don't want to run an operation
at $2 .50 a unit. I mean, there's an argument
that said just list a million units. Sure, you
can go off and do that if you want. That'll work.
But you still need to list a million units. Good
luck with that. It ain't going to happen overnight
either, right? No, it's going to take your time.
It's going to churn, churn, churn. You got to
get like $20 ,000, $30 ,000 that way. active
listings that's crazy dude 30 bucks like when
you first said it it seemed high to me right
but the more i think about it like you gotta
you gotta have your packing supplies i use free
cardboard i don't care right you still are taking
the time to recycle your cardboard it's taking
time out of your life even if you aren't losing
any type of money you gotta take the stuff to
the post office Dude, my post office comes and
picks it up for me. Like everybody's got these
stupid hacks that justify selling junk or even
listing junk because usually the junk doesn't
sell. Like everybody will go to the greatest
lengths to justify why they should list a $10
item instead of just going to find a better quality
item. Then none of this shit is relevant. Then
you can afford to buy uniform boxes. Wow, what
an amazing thing when you have a uniform box,
right? Like people, I see people on Amazon, they're
like, there's there's two people in our group
always like go at it about dumpster diving for
boxes and one to do is like hey i'm saving money
dumpster diving other guys like just buy the
damn boxes and just keep them i've always used
the lows box right the low small boxes 16 by
12 by 12 and like i had a different size box
every week johnny oh my god my efficiency dude
Let me out the damn window. I basically know
I can fill that box up with books and it's going
to be under 50 pounds. I know basically how many
DVDs, how many CDs are going to fit in there.
I know exactly how to pack that box. If you started
throwing me a different box every week, dude,
it would be an absolute nightmare. I would have
to have Deb pack these things because I need
organization and it speeds up how efficient we
are. And we just justify why we should sell the.
the $5 item, the $10 item. And I'm just like,
no, just go get better stuff. Like I have so
much stuff I can list that's under $30. And I'm
just like, that was literally my cutoff. Like
when I started listing on eBay again, I said,
if I can't list this at at least $30, I am not
even bothering with it. My average sales price
right now is 41 bucks on eBay. So like as much
as I thought $30 was high when you said it, like
that is literally what I do. Unless you're scanning
your items. Like with the machine or you're doing
the barcode scan, it's got to be $30. Because
those other two models, you're doing massive
volume. Because like card sellers, they have
machines that literally feed it. Like $4 ,000,
they can do an hour or some crazy number. Even
media sellers, they do the conveyor belt model,
right? And that's both for Amazon and eBay because
usually those guys are cross -listing that stuff
to both platforms and or more. But you're going
to have to have a huge warehouse. And that's
the other thing. When you're doing eBay, you're
in the storage game. And if you're doing the
rental model, yeah, your item's got to be $30
plus. Even if you're doing a simple storage unit,
people start off in their home, but I'm telling
you, you outgrow your home pretty darn quick.
Yeah, I mean, unless you've got really desirable
items. I don't know if people use this either.
When I go in on eBay, there's a thing where it
can auto -reduce your price every so many days,
right? So like, I always turn this on for every
listing because I don't give a shit, dude. I'm
just like, I want to sell everything. Like our
mindset as resellers should just be literally
to sell everything today, if not yesterday, because
we can go find more of it, right? But for some
reason, it's like, I know what I got and I'm
not going to lower my price. I know what I got.
Yeah, that's this year's phrase right there.
It is, dude. It is. It's the same in the Amazon
space. Like people don't want to reprice their
stuff. to be aggressive it's like guys we're
not getting it's costing us money every single
day to store this item and to not sell it but
we still refuse to reprice correctly even though
we know price is the biggest factor that amazon
cares about we still refuse to do it and we're
just like you know it's kind of To be a profitable
reseller now, you got to have business sense.
It's not like it used to be, like Johnny said
earlier, like list it and forget it. And it'll
sell no matter what type of garbage. You want
to be the McDonald's toy seller? You know, 2020,
maybe you can list everyone and they would sell.
But nowadays, people got more options, too. There's
more platform. I would say COVID, you can get
away with that. Even pre -COVID. Post -COVID,
nah. It's all a balancing act. at the end of
the day, when it comes to setting yourself up
for success and like failure comes in so many
shapes and forms, people switching platforms
just because they're, I don't know, like, I guess,
bored of the platform. No, I've seen this live
stream. Selling has become such a big thing and
it's, it's cool. It's hit Johnny to go and sell
things live. And it's cool when it's hit. I hate
people not doing it. You can't make me. Yeah.
Well, I mean, I think you should. I think you
should so we can have like an insider, a real
look of basically giving your stuff away for,
you know, 25 % of its value. But it's cool. You'll
be cool. You'll feel cool. You might look cool
if you get dressed up. I don't know, dude. I'm
just saying. I don't want to. I hate you. It's
boring, dude. That's all this comes down to.
What I've been doing for the past five years
and growing for the past five years. It's boring.
I go in the same stores. Like I said, I recorded
a YouTube video the other day and I was outside
the Salvation Army. I'm like, I even said, I
said, I come to the Salvation Army once a month
for the past like six years. I literally know
the blueprints of this goddamn place. I literally
know where everything is, what sections, what,
exactly what's going on in all of these stores.
And that is the truth for every single store
I've been going. I've been going here for six
years. There's nothing exciting. It's not like
I walk in and the walls are painted a different
color. It's literally like Groundhog Day. Every
time I pull up to one of these thrift stores,
I go in and it's the same. A lot of the times,
it's even the same people checking me out for
the past years. And I'm just like, hi, yes, another
boring day. Yes, I'm buying this shit nobody
else is going to buy. Like, it's so unexciting
and lame. But if it pays the bills, dude, like
the money should excite people. Like that pile
of stuff you have sitting there, you should be
like, man, if I actually listed this stuff. I
can make an extra $100 this week or $100 this
month. I don't think people appreciate making
money anymore. I think there's just so much.
credit cards out there and so much debt that
people are just like, well, whatever, you know,
yeah, sure. It's a thousand dollars, but you
know, I'm really not worried about it. I'm out
here like, wait, I can make three bucks, Johnny.
And I spent a dollar. I can make it. I can make
that $3 in less than three days. If I give you
a dollar today, Johnny, you give me $3 in three
days, sign me up. And people are like, nah, I
can't, I'm not doing that. It's too hard. It's
too hard. It's very hard. People are, I don't
know. People are weak -willed. They don't have
the hustle muscle. I'm pulling out some of the
cringiest terms ever. Hustle muscle is required
if you want to be successful in any type of entrepreneur
endeavor, whether that's reselling, whether that's
vending machines, landscaping. You actually have
to put in the work. And for us, as Amazon sellers,
the work is scanning. Thousands, tens of thousands,
hundreds of thousands of barcodes in a yearly
basis. That's literally our job. That's all we
do. And it's not exciting. It's the most monotonous
thing. I think I got it. I think the true separation
is both you and I did this to get out of something
and to do it for a career for betterment of ourselves.
Other people are doing it for spare change. And
they're not interested or they don't think they're
interested or they have no aspiration to leave
whatever it is they're doing outside of reselling.
I think that's the fundamental difference. And
until you're prepared to make that shift, you're
not going to do as well. Yeah, I think you're
right, too, because if you're just floating through,
because we have a lot of people that are retired.
And they're still like, hey, I'm going to make
X amount of dollars so I can go on a cruise or
I can go on vacation or I can do this or I can
do that. I think I think you're right. Like if
you don't have a purpose or you just see the
video and you want to just go to the thrift store
and you're just going to buy stuff, you're just
going to listen. Like you really never really
treated it like a business anyway. But I think
there's people that also have been doing this
for. you know, 10, 15 years that have still never
really made any type of progress. I'm just thinking
to myself, like you wasted so much time, like
so much, you wasted so many years of your life
and never really realized the potential of something.
And usually, this might come up. I don't know
if you could say usually, sometimes. Usually
these people. can be the loudest crybabies in
the room, right? Like we've seen it all the time.
You get these people that are like, I've been
selling on Amazon for 15 years. I don't give
a shit what happened three months ago, rather
yet 15 years ago. And if you're always going
to compare the past to the present, guess what?
You're going to be in for a miserable, miserable
life, especially in the world of reselling because
fees go up every year. Shipping goes up every
season. I mean, you cannot compare today. to
the beginning of 2025 and resale like it is two
completely different realms of existence and
i think those people crack me up because they're
always like i've been doing this for 15 years
and it sucks i'm like what did you really like
ever really try and like you ever try to source
good stuff and like actually make the effort
and to them maybe they did but at the end of
the day like i know if you go out and you scan
thousands of units every single week, you will
be successful, but you have to do the work as
much as I sit here and tell people, here's what
you got to do. Here's the exact blueprint. Like
I can have a dial down. Like if you go out every
week and scan 3 ,462 items, you will eventually
on average find 342 items to send in. And then
if you send those items in, you can expect to
make X amount of people still want to do it.
Nope, not at all. And. I don't know. I just think...
And there's nothing wrong if you're doing the
part -time and it's just spare extra money for
you. Nothing wrong with that. Unless you think
you're trying to do the other thing, then yeah,
it's a problem. Unless you think you're running
a business and you're not, and you're doing the
floater mentality, then no, it's not. But if
you're just doing it for spare change or you
don't want to go over your Social Security or
budgetary allotment, but you're self -aware...
Totally one thing versus what we see a lot, and
it's not great. And you notice those people that
have been doing it 15, 20 years, they're crabby
and miserable. And I just kind of want to look
them in the eye, like, if you try not being miserable.
You can't, though, because it's like, you know,
they're just stuck in their ways, man. That's
just the reality, you know. I mean, I'm stuck
in my ways to a degree, but, like, at the end
of the day, I've grown the business every year.
It is what it is, but I understand that it actually
takes me actually going out and doing the work
and actually listing the stuff. I never would
have a death pile of weeks, months, days. You
got to get things listed and sold. You got any
final thoughts or was that your final thought?
My final thought is you dumb fuck. Yes. Unbelievable,
dude. You got to do the work to get paid. There's
lots of distractions. We've seen it all happen.
I'll throw one last one in here just real quick
in my final wrap up is you wanting to do bulk
before you even sold 100 items. You will fail.
We've seen it time and time again. Do not mess
around with bulk until you have a clear understanding
of what the business requires of you at a much
smaller scale. And you'll be OK. Bulk is not
the worst thing in the world. But if you're not
prepared, you will never even get off the ground.
We've seen it. eBay, Amazon, both will sink you.
You will never make a penny. You will go bankrupt.
We appreciate you all. We'll talk to you all
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