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What is up, everybody?
Welcome into episode 11, 11, 11, 11, 11 of the Resellers
Mindset podcast.
Mike here with Johnny B. Over there.
Today's topic is kind of like a combo cane.
We have reselling health.
We're not talking about top rated seller and IPI scores.
We are talking about your physical health,
so your health as a reseller.
And we're also going to talk about the forgotten types
of media that kind of get overlooked in the reselling
world.
So I think first we're going to get into the health part
because that's much more important than the forgotten
types of media.
So personally for me, health is a big issue, right?
It's weird because a lot of people kind of overlook it
and you just kind of go, go, go.
You're always eating on the go, not the best eating habits.
Most of us don't go to gyms because our work is a lot of work
and you kind of worn down to a point
where you don't feel like going to a gym after you've
been listening on eBay all day or sourcing all day.
You kind of think in your mind that what you're doing
is enough, but a lot of the times it isn't,
especially with media where books are not the latest
things to sell.
They're probably the heaviest things
unless you're selling weights or cement bricks
or something like that.
So personally, just a little background for me.
I'm on the third floor of the penthouse suite
here in the apartment.
So for the past, since I started this business,
all my Amazon stuff has come all the way up to the third floor
and all the way back down to the car to get shipped out.
And that is a lot of lifting.
There's no easy way to do it.
Everybody is giving me different options, a dolly or something.
But I don't want to drag dollies down the steps.
It's one of those things where you have neighbors,
you don't want to destroy the carpet in the hallway,
anything like that.
So I usually carry it down one box at a time.
So there was weekends when I packed my stuff.
I'm taking 15 45-pound boxes down to the car.
So it's like 15 times up and down those steps,
one box at a time.
Because listen, I don't care unless you're
Arnold Schwarzenegger, you ain't carrying two 45-pound boxes.
And I just carry them on my shoulder.
That's better for me than trying to hold them in front of me.
Because that's when you really get your back.
But that's kind of a little insight
on how health was really affecting me.
And that was kind of a big thing for getting the storage unit.
Because when I used to do book buys,
I would bring a lot of that inventory up to even scan it.
So I was bringing up thousands and thousands of CDs, DVDs,
scanning them up here, taking them all back down.
It got to a point where it was just too much for me.
But that was kind of my biggest headache
when it came to my health.
And I still feel it today.
When you pull something in your back,
it kind of sticks with you for a while.
That's why Deb always tells me, stretch
before you do any heavy lifts to make
sure you're stretching at least a little bit before you
go do this bulk buy.
And now I have a little dolly that I got from Home Depot
for like 45 bucks.
And if I'm ever out doing anything bulk buys
and there's heavy boxes, I just throw them right on the dolly
and just drag it to the car.
That's the easiest way.
What do you got going over there,
like your biggest concern with health and media?
So my biggest concern with health is my back, man.
Because I put, I probably, I have like 27 gallon tubs
is what I use as my default. No suckers can range anywhere
depending what I put in them, between 80 and 150 pounds each.
And when you're stacking them for high or higher,
it can get to you.
So I've hurt my back several times
where it set me out for days.
I'm like, no, I can't do it.
It's hard to even get up and sit down.
How I've done that, how I fixed that a little bit
is I have carts like your dolly and stuff
where it makes, instead of me manually hauling it,
I just have to lift it up slightly, get it on there.
Because they all stack like Legos.
I made sure when I got these tubs that it could do that.
It's not as hard.
And since I stack them sort of high, like the first two,
I could just slide on the back of my truck.
The other two, I do have to kind of like deadlift them on there.
But again, these are 80 to 150 pounds of books, like you said,
cement bricks, right?
I've done the shoulder thing too.
That has helped alleviate back instead of lifting it up
or dragging it.
Because dragging it can ruin your whatever container
you're doing in it.
The other thing I've done is I do stretches now,
just like you mentioned.
That does help before and after, I've noticed.
I thought about going to the gym more just
to strengthen my back muscles up.
Because my only workout is lifting and moving books,
right?
I'm sure I can get some better exercises in that
can prevent pain.
And I don't think we mentioned this, but both you and I
are in our mid-30s.
So we don't heal as fast as we did in our 20s.
Like when I hurt myself, it takes like a month
to heal versus a week or a couple of days
if I was in my 20s.
I imagine it's only going to get worse
as we get into our 40s and 50s, et cetera.
But now.
It's crazy, right?
We have a lot of old timers in the group.
That's what I like to call them, right?
The old grumpy men.
They're not really grumpy, but they're a lot older.
You're grumpy.
What are you kidding?
They're grumpy.
They're a lot older than us.
And it still sticks with me, right?
They say health is the most important thing you have.
And they all swear by that.
And I think to myself, when I get out there to their age,
living on the third floor 100% is not feasible.
There ain't no chance that that's going to happen.
So it's like, start taking care of yourself now.
So in the future, maybe you'll be in better shape
to maybe lift a little bit more.
You're never going to be able to do the same amount as you
get older.
Just it's not physically possible.
Your body just, you're getting older, right?
But it does go to show that it can be done
if you're smart about it.
And it might take a little bit more work, more trips,
but it's still feasible.
And you just got to be smart.
Stretching is such a huge thing.
And one thing I do want to bring up
that you brought up to me before I got the storage unit
is that you have all your things on wheels.
Yes.
That is so key because I have to,
when I was doing storage in it, and still in this warehouse,
everything is on wheels.
It can be on wheels.
Lugging around that stuff, dragging it around,
moving everything off, and then moving the table or whatever,
I mean, moving over to the other side and then reloading it,
that got old so quick.
And I was so tired.
And it's a waste of time, to be honest.
So if you put things, if you make all your stuff mobile,
it's a game changer.
It really is.
All my bookcases are on dollies and wheels.
All my tables are on wheels.
You can buy table leg things.
Most of them, you're going to have
to do a little modification.
And here's a big secret.
You just take a little PVC pipe cup thing,
screw it into those table wheel things,
and then you put the legs in them.
Because they have little indentions in them, most of them.
They just fall right off.
It's the most useless thing I've ever seen.
But the principal sound, yeah, and just
drill a little cup on there and put the table leg inside cup,
and then they won't fall out and wriggle out.
There you go.
There's your cheat code for making everything mobile.
So I guess with that is kind of make your setup as not taxing
as possibly for you, right?
So you want to have, basically, you got your stack of stuff.
You're sending out of your listing,
kind of left to right flow.
You don't want to be getting up, twisting, turning.
People make it a whole nine yards of nonsense
when you can just have one table.
Everything gets done there.
Left to right or right to left, whatever works best for you.
Kind of keep your twisting and minimums,
or your movements to a minimum.
And listen, I know you're sitting here probably saying,
who gives a crap if you twist in your chair?
Well, have you ever twisted the wrong way one time
and you just fall flat on the ground
and you're like, I can't move for 20 minutes?
It's like somebody tased you.
Yeah, then you'll understand the importance.
It's the same thing with your back.
I remember.
You 20-year-olds listening to this
may not know what we're talking about, but you will.
You'll do it once and then you'll know forever.
And it used to get me a lot at CBS,
because I would be unloading these trucks by myself.
And I remember when you lift something the wrong way
and your back is just done.
And literally, I would just lay there
on the ground for 20 minutes in pain.
Please go away.
And I've had it to the point, like you said,
where I can't even move for three days.
You're just done.
If you bend a certain way, you're just like, it's painful.
Yeah, I used to work at Lowe's in the unloading department.
We used to have to unload refrigerators.
Remember my first week there?
They hired two of us.
We were both new.
And we're trying to unload these refrigerators
in a very stupid way.
And this old timer comes.
I'm like, nah, man.
And here's the tip that's about to come.
Use gravity as your friend.
So how we unload them is move them to the edge,
let it gradually flow, and then we
pin it to the back wall of the other boxes
and just let it slowly slide down.
Instead of us trying to manually haul these things off,
same can be done with books or bookshelves.
That's how I unload bookshelves these days.
I just move it to the edge, let it slowly tip down,
and then just push it up.
That's so much easier.
So much easier.
Another thing, I don't know if we're promoting anything,
but I use for my pain reliever, a leave from Bear.
Please sponsor this video.
That's good.
Yeah, like whenever I do a huge day of bulk buy,
I pop two of those at the end.
And I'm good usually, unless I have injured myself.
But that usually gets me through it.
Another thing is I'm bad about this.
Once I got the employee, she noticed
I was doing things by myself because I'm
used to doing things by myself.
She stopped my ass and like, no, we're doing this together.
That's way too heavy for you.
I'm like, OK, I guess you're right.
So knowing when to ask for help, which I'm still
trying to get used to, and letting others help you
is a good thing.
If you're at an estate sale, you can ask the head person,
hey, this is heavy.
Would you mind helping me?
I mean, it's different.
She's a little old lady, sure.
But if it's a grown man or a decently aged woman, yeah,
ask for help.
They can't help you if they're willing.
That's one benefit to getting old, right?
When I get old, I'm just going to be like, oh, I
can't move this.
Can someone help me?
And then some young used book guy will be like, yeah,
I can load all 25 bookshelves of books to your car for you.
And then I'll give them like a $2 tip, right?
Because two hours back in my day, it was a lot of money.
So keep on to the Sizzler.
Keep on to the Sizzler.
I mean, that's a, but yeah, definitely, especially
for older people or people that don't have the strength
to lift heavy, heavy things.
I mean, books, one box of books, just the box that we use,
16 by 12 by 12.
If you fill that to the top, you probably
could get 75 pounds of books in there.
And that's a lot of weight.
It might not seem like it when it's just sitting in the box.
But I try to lift that from the ground up.
And you're going to be in for a rude awakening.
So I think that kind of covers basically your physical health.
And now we're going to get into one that's just as important.
Maybe even more important in this game
is mental health with reselling.
Yeah.
I'll let you take this away first.
That one's hard.
A lot of this is solo.
And you can be your worst enemy because of that.
Because you have nobody telling you just keep going.
Just keep grinding.
You're going to get through it.
You're going to make it.
You have to do that for yourself instead
of going in the negative mindset of you had a bad sales day.
You're wasting your time.
Why are you doing this?
Self-doubt just starts to creep in and eat at you.
And you have to tell that we're recording.
So you have to tell that SOB to scram and go
more with the positive.
And that's a hard thing to do.
Because I've had bad days.
And it's hard to get out of that negative mindset
once you're there to dig yourself out of that.
Because once you get a good day, that whole negativity
just goes away like that.
But getting from A to B mentally is hard.
It's a lot easier to give up than continue on.
I mean, all you got to do is just
stop doing what you're doing.
And that's it.
You're done versus continuing on.
You got to keep doing everything you're doing.
That's kind of why I preach making everything easy
and kind of being carefree about it.
I don't want this to be something
that I hate doing or I'm miserable about doing.
I don't want to be like, oh, man, I
got to go do this today for my resale and business.
That's not like, I don't know.
That's not the angle for me.
I kind of want it to be carefree.
I still want to make money.
I'm not just doing this as a joke.
I take it seriously.
But I don't want to be like, oh, I had no sales today.
Well, it's time.
This is the end.
And my experience with, I mean, I have the YouTube channel.
I started YouTube.
I had no subscribers.
I think when I started, I had 14 subscribers from day one.
And that's friends and family or whatever.
So it's like, when I'm making videos
and you're getting 10 views, five views, it's like,
it can be discouraging.
But you have to look, I guess maybe it's just a mindset thing.
I'm thinking long term.
I'm not thinking short term gains.
Thinking, oh, what's this going to be in three months,
six months, a year?
And that's kind of the mindset you have to have.
I don't think reselling is instant gratification.
Maybe when you're outsourcing, but the actual work
on the back end, I mean, how many items do we list
and they sell instantly?
It's less than 1%.
So there's no instant gratification.
And I think a lot of human nature kind of is attracted
to the instant gratification.
That's why people love the phone apps.
We'd go out and scan books and you would hear that green
accept sound in your ear and you're like,
it's like a dopamine.
You're like, whoa, let's go.
You're riding high, but you don't realize everything else
that you have to do.
Right.
Oh, your prime example of this, at least on the eBay end.
Two weeks ago, I had a $50 sales day.
This is terrible, guys.
$50 is terrible to me.
And the very next day, I had a $490 sales day.
And I think we focus on the bad ones a lot more than we
do on the positive ones.
But if we look at the month as a whole, we're doing OK.
And you got to trick yourself into knowing and believing
that.
And when I'm having a bad day, and I think
I've shared this with you, I have a motivational song
and speech playlist that I listen to that gets me
a little pumped up and continue to grind,
get me through out of that negative mindset.
And that only works, I'll let you know,
motivational speeches and all that only
works if you believe what they're saying.
If you don't believe what they're saying,
it does nothing for you.
And it's a waste of your time.
So that's what works for me, may not work for you.
Maybe that is the single benefit to the Facebook Discord groups
is that you as a reseller no longer feel alone
because you're in this group of people.
But the problem with those is you
get sucked down these rabbit holes
and then you don't do any work.
And then you're in limbo.
And if you're not in the group every day,
you're going to be miserable because your business is not
doing what you expected to do.
But that is a benefit, I would say.
You're being around other people,
kind of like the Discord group we have.
You can kind of chime in or throw a sale out there.
You didn't have sales today.
And people kind of pick you up, right?
If you post something, they're going to be like,
oh, you know what?
It's just today.
It's just the week.
Everybody, maybe I'm a little slow too.
So it's not a big deal.
We'll all get through this together.
It's kind of like a team mentality versus if you're not
on any of these and you're not out there with anything
else or anybody else, it can be taxing on your mind.
Like you can get in the dumps real easily reselling.
And it happens more often than not.
And you just got to kind of look to the next day,
the next week, look at what you're building.
You're building a business by yourself, most of us.
Or maybe it's two of yous.
And you got to kind of block out all the noise.
And at least on my end, I'll give personal experience.
Reselling, like my family still thinks
it's kind of like a joke, right?
It's just like, oh, yeah, you're a scalper.
You're basically ripping people off.
It's one of those things like, well, listen,
block out the noise.
Who cares when anybody says?
You know what you got.
You know the money you're making.
I don't care if the president shows up today and says,
you don't know what you're doing.
You ain't got this.
Ain't no business.
Beat it, dude.
You don't know what I'm doing.
Like you don't know what I got going on.
People from the outside.
I'm going to ask to borrow books.
Back off, president.
People don't understand the work that goes into it,
especially for a lot of resellers.
Because a lot of resellers, especially related to eBay
and even Amazon, waste a lot of time.
And they buy a lot of stuff they shouldn't even
waste time listing.
So you feel like you're working.
You feel like, hey, I did 20 listings today.
Well, if it's 20 items nobody wants,
and you're not priced competitively or anything
like that, it means nothing.
It's like you almost wasted your day,
because these items are never going to sell.
I remember when I first started, I
was really big into African burnout.
Still a huge fan.
Still watch your stuff.
And I thought I was going to be a huge success.
I'll just do what she did.
She does a lot of lots.
She does a lot of copy table books.
But guess what?
Stuff out here ain't that.
So I had to adjust through it.
What do I have?
What's making me money on what I have?
And focus on that.
Because I don't have access to what she does.
She has beautiful books.
Most of mine are acceptable books.
That's an eBay term.
I think Amazon may have that as well.
So I had to adjust off that.
OK, what can I sell in the acceptable condition
that sells frequently and for less money?
And just get more of that and concentrate on that.
And that's been my focus.
I think a lot of people watch the YouTube things.
And again, I think we've mentioned this before.
Try to copy and paste.
That doesn't always work, especially in my case.
I just gave it for instance of that.
So you got to adjust what works for you.
And as far as the group goes, no, I think it's great.
We all complain when it's a bad day all around.
But we all realize it's just for the day or for the week.
And we'll get through it.
And I think that group mentality is beneficial.
Now, you did mention the negative,
where you could just sit on Discord and chat all day.
That is the negative.
No, get to work.
Realize, OK, I'm not the only one.
Because I think we feel that way, that we're the only one.
We're alone when we're not, especially
if you're in groups like this one.
And having somebody there, like if I'm having a bad day,
sometimes I'll message Mike, like hey, Mike,
I'm having a bad day.
Or warehouse Mike, I'll message him too.
And then he pumps me up.
And then when he's feeling low, I pump him up.
And it's just kind of like a partner, I guess.
Yeah, so that helps.
It does.
Yeah, it definitely doesn't.
I mean, if you're listening to this,
you clearly are half decent with technology
to find the YouTube channel or the podcast on one
of the platforms at its own.
So maybe look at one of these free Discord groups,
something like that, Facebook groups.
There's lots.
There's tons of them out there.
And you have a crappy day.
You say, hey, today sucks.
I only got no sales.
I did all this work.
And there's always going to be somebody like me or Johnny B.
in these groups that says, hey, who cares?
We roll with it.
We've all had these kind of days.
And then that's kind of your pick me up.
When you get in these holes where
you think you're the only person that's
having these types of days and your business is not
getting the results you wanted to get,
and you feel like there ain't nowhere else to turn,
that's when you get into trouble.
Right?
It's like, oh, man, is this really going to work?
And then you start second guessing.
And then your effort goes away.
And then your business goes away, basically.
So it's a full circle.
And you got to kind of just get through the tough times
and look to what you're building, not today.
It's good that you did stuff today for your business.
But what you're doing and what you're building towards
is so much bigger than today, tomorrow, the week, the month.
Right.
It's on your worst day where you buckle down,
you do what you need to, and then you do extra.
That's what's going to make you succeed above and beyond
your own plans.
I guarantee it.
You do that side project you've been putting off.
Get your mind off of the gradual routine.
Yeah, do your daily eBay listing if you're an eBay person.
Do your daily box if you're an Amazon person or both,
if you're both.
But maybe do that side project to just distract yourself.
I do that a lot.
When I'm in negative stuff, I mean, I do the chat stuff,
too.
But if I'm still there, still in the bottom of the ocean,
and I feel like I'm drowning, I'll pick up a project
and get that done.
And I feel a whole lot better once it's done,
because hey, I did something that
was on my personal list for the day.
That's now done.
And I feel better.
Yeah, and worse comes to worst, comment on one of my YouTube
videos, and I will see it.
And I will respond to it within a day.
And I'll give you, I've got plenty of good jokes.
I keep a little book here, and Deb doesn't allow me to tell
it because she don't think they're funny.
But they're funny.
So all you got to do is comment, and I'll respond.
And then you'll laugh at my hilarious joke.
And your day will be saved.
It's that easy.
Right?
It's that easy as a pick me up.
I'm always available around the clock.
So it's that simple.
Don't get stuck in the mindset of you're doing this solo.
There's nobody out there.
Nobody's on your side.
Who cares what other people think?
Focus on you and your business, growing it,
trying different things, and you will be fine.
And I think that pretty much covers reselling health.
Don't blow out your back and stay in a positive mindset
even when things suck.
Because they're going to suck.
They still suck for me some days.
But hey, I just know that the sucky days also
come with amazing days.
Yeah, I can't wait for the day when I have more employees.
And the only lifting I do is this.
You move that.
That's going to be a great day.
Dude, you'll never be that guy.
I don't know.
I won't.
I'll always do it myself or try to.
But I'll ask for help going forward.
I'll wait till all your employees are there one day
and you're sitting around point fairs.
I'm going to come in and say, don't listen to this guy.
You don't know what he's doing.
Just because he's paying you a few cents,
it doesn't mean we got it.
We're starting to mute me right now.
We're just muting.
All right.
So we are into the next part here,
the forgotten forms of media to sell.
This is a good idea by Johnny B. So we're
going to talk a little bit about LPs, albums, cassettes,
and audiobooks.
I'm going to start with my favorite
that I probably would say I know the most about,
which is audiobooks.
So I've actually gotten this a lot
because I don't find them often.
I used to find them a lot when I first started.
There's audiobooks to sell on Amazon.
Does he have a store up in your area that's only audiobooks?
There used to be.
You mentioned video way, way back.
There used to be.
One of my community aides used to have.
I don't know where they were getting them from,
but I'm talking hundreds and hundreds of audiobooks.
And whenever I went, I would clean it out.
And they stopped carrying them for some reason.
But the last time I was out that way, new Goodwill they built,
the last box I sent to Amazon that I could send
was all brand new audiobooks I got from this Goodwill.
And they were $2.99 each.
And they had a whole DVD rack full of them.
If you know the Goodwill DVD racks,
they got two sides, two longer sides, and then two
end cap shorter sides.
And it was all audiobooks.
And I cleaned up in there.
I scan them every single time.
And they sell.
They're longer tailed items.
They're not going to sell immediately.
But a lot of them are good profits,
especially if you can find them new.
It might be 10 eScore, but you're new.
I mean, you're going to get the buy box.
It's a new product.
And I don't come across them as much as I used to.
I don't know what you see out in your area.
But I used to see them often.
And now it's like, I guess most people just
buy the digital download of them.
So maybe they don't produce them as much.
But I still scan them.
And I love selling them.
If it's profitable, I'm going to buy it and send it in.
I have one store that has them in town.
My issue there, it's like an antique mall
because they got the different booths and stuff.
And these people have in their heads what they think it's worth
and it's not.
So if I go in that store, those in particular are $8, $10 each.
And I'm like, nah, nah.
Yeah, I will tell you, the actual price
on the back of the audio books is astronomical
from what you're going to get.
Right?
So there was a lot of the ones I scanned
were in the back.
It says, this is 12 disc and it's $59.99 brand new.
That's the MSRP.
And it's not going anywhere close to that.
And a lot of the audio books, like you said, most of the MSRP
are at least $19.99 minimum.
So if it's something like that, people probably
think it's worth its weight in gold.
So it's one of those things.
If you have them, it's definitely feasible.
I mean, if all you got is audio books around you, then 100%
develop a business around that.
I would love just to be an audio book seller.
That sounds like so much fun.
But I have no supply for that out here to even consider that.
I would love just to add them into my stores
for both Amazon and eBay.
But they're just non-existent around here
than that one store.
And that one store is composed of library sales.
Because I see the library marks and stickers even
in the book booths and the CD booths.
I could tell they come from libraries.
So yeah, I do find audio books at libraries.
I will say that.
But they're usually like they got a rubber band around them.
And the discs are all there.
And it's like, I don't think I could sell this beyond eBay.
And then it's like, hope it sells.
I did make one audio book mistake.
I will admit to here.
And it still eats me up to this day.
So I went out to that store that had all the audio books.
And I just finished reading the Arnold Schwarzenegger
autobiography at the time.
And they had it there.
And I didn't get it.
And I got home.
And then I looked it up.
And he narrates it himself.
And the next time I went back, it was gone.
And I was, to this day, I'm like,
I should have got the thing for $3.
What did I do?
But yeah, audio books are profitable.
Longer tail items.
So it's one of those things where, hey, it's
going to sit for a little bit.
But if you can get them at the right price, not $8,
you can get them for under $3.
Because they see all the discs.
And that's what, oh, there's 10 discs.
We're going to charge $3 for this, or $5.
$2 discs?
No.
Be smart about it.
And you can make money on audio books.
And I definitely think people should scan them,
or if you have an opportunity to maybe both buy a bunch of them
at a good price, then it's definitely worth your time.
And here's a few tips on that.
Because I used to just buy audio books in disc form
before Audible was a thing.
What makes them really sought after
is they're fully drama ties, or they have radio drama stuff,
like real sound effects going on.
That usually adds to the value, especially if it's
bought, anything BBC is just a win.
I remember listening to Lord of the Rings, a whole 18 hours
Lord of the Rings.
But it had a full cast, full sound effects.
It was beautiful, way better than the movies.
But that's not a high bar, right?
But anyway, those are good.
And as well as the people, it's a husband and wife team.
They did the Wheel of Time series.
But they've done so much more beyond that.
I think the Kramer's is their last name,
if I remember right.
So anything by those two is good.
That's about as far as my audio book knowledge goes.
And that's when I was a consumer, not a seller.
Just scan them all.
All right, that's audio books.
Now we're going to get into cassettes,
because that's my second most knowledgeable thing here.
And I don't know much about cassettes.
But I have been dabbling in them recently,
because cassettes at thrift stores,
they basically give them away, at least around me.
They're a quarter.
You'll take them?
Please.
A quarter, 50 cents, something like that.
So it's definitely something where there is opportunity.
But like anything else, you kind of
have to have a knowledge base with cassettes, right?
Audio books, you can scan the barcodes.
I all have the ISBN barcodes.
I rarely come across an audio book, maybe if ever,
that didn't have a barcode.
For the most part, though, cassettes,
you're kind of just shooting from the hip.
It's a knowledge-based thing.
Right, some of the later ones, like 90s ones, some of them
would have a barcode.
But most of them do not.
The thing when you're looking for cassettes,
there's a little pad in there.
And I learned this from the Daily Refinement group.
There is a cassette seller there.
If it doesn't have a pad, unless you have replacement pads
in there, don't buy them, because it won't work.
What pads are you even talking about?
I don't remember what they are.
But it's like a little cushion pad that's inside the thing.
You can unscrew it and put the pad back in there.
It's what feeds over the tape.
Oh, OK.
You have the two little things, and it runs.
And there's some little pad there that causes the little tape
not to break.
So yeah, some cassettes do have a barcode.
That's just blocking me out fully.
But when you scan it on Scout IQ,
you kind of just get no results.
It does show that exact thing, but it doesn't
show a rank or anything.
So it's one of these things where it's just
knowledge-based.
And I've been learning a little bit, not as much,
because I haven't been going out as much.
But lots will do good on eBay.
My cassette focuses on eBay.
I'm not doing any cassettes on Amazon.
So I've sold cassettes on eBay late this year.
I walked into that lucky Metallica
stack with Nirvana and everything for $1
at the thrift store.
And I just took a gamble on it, right?
Because most of that old-school rock stuff does pretty well.
Nirvana's popular.
And I made a few hundred bucks off it.
So now I kind of like, when I'm in and I see cassettes,
because even the Salvation Army has cassettes
for like a quarter or $0.50.
So like, lock things up.
You find a bunch of Madonna, lot it up, anything.
Basically, anything there's a lot of, you can lot up,
even if it's not a popular artist.
And there's still a market for it.
I mean, if you look on eBay, there's
cassettes are selling often.
They're kind of making a comeback with LPs.
A lot of the old media is making a comeback.
Besides, I mean, I guess VHS is.
But VHS is more selective, I think.
You got to kind of have certain titles or certain genres.
So I think overall, LPs and cassettes
have kind of made a bigger comeback in the past two years,
just overall across the board.
Even a younger generation, if you go out
and you find a cassette player, one of the old-school Sony
cassette players, I'm sure you'd fetch a pretty penny
for that on eBay.
So it's like, cassettes, there's definitely money.
Even the old-school boom boxes, they're expensive.
They're thousands and thousands of dollars,
especially if you've got the lights and all that crap.
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