1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,480 Welcome back to another episode of the Resellers Mindset Podcast. 2 00:00:03,480 --> 00:00:06,160 My name is Mike, also known as the used book guy on YouTube, 3 00:00:06,160 --> 00:00:09,120 along with my friend and fellow full-time reseller, Johnny B. 4 00:00:09,480 --> 00:00:12,720 We help people start and grow their reselling businesses from the ground up. 5 00:00:12,960 --> 00:00:16,640 We also have a weekly zoom call and private discord for all YouTube members. 6 00:00:16,840 --> 00:00:21,180 Head on over to youtube.com backslash use book guy to join the channel and gain 7 00:00:21,180 --> 00:00:25,480 access to the full length podcast zoom call and private discord today. 8 00:00:25,680 --> 00:00:27,360 Let's get into this week's episode. 9 00:00:27,440 --> 00:00:28,560 What is up everybody? 10 00:00:28,560 --> 00:00:31,920 Welcome in episode 25, the Resellers Mindset Podcast. 11 00:00:31,920 --> 00:00:33,840 Mike here is always with Johnny B. 12 00:00:33,880 --> 00:00:36,800 And now he officially calls himself the book shepherd. 13 00:00:37,040 --> 00:00:40,800 Today's topic is going to be is reselling easy, right? 14 00:00:40,800 --> 00:00:43,840 So we're going to kind of tackle eBay and Amazon. 15 00:00:43,840 --> 00:00:44,960 Do we think it's easy? 16 00:00:44,960 --> 00:00:46,480 How can you make it easier? 17 00:00:46,480 --> 00:00:51,040 How can sometimes trying to make things easier, make it actually harder? 18 00:00:51,040 --> 00:00:52,640 So I guess we're going to dive in. 19 00:00:52,840 --> 00:00:58,160 We'll dive into eBay first, because I think eBay is a more time consuming platform. 20 00:00:58,160 --> 00:01:03,240 So I think more people try to look for easier shortcuts on eBay, me being one of 21 00:01:03,240 --> 00:01:06,880 those people, because, you know, I'm not knee deep in the trenches like yourself 22 00:01:06,880 --> 00:01:11,520 when it comes to eBay, but I'll kind of just throw some of my ideas out there. 23 00:01:11,520 --> 00:01:14,760 And you as a full-time eBay seller can be like, that's kind of stupid. 24 00:01:14,760 --> 00:01:15,000 Right? 25 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:17,640 So we'll just, we'll just, we'll just get started here. 26 00:01:17,640 --> 00:01:17,760 Right? 27 00:01:17,760 --> 00:01:21,680 So eBay, what's going to make it easier on eBay for me, if I was going to do eBay 28 00:01:21,680 --> 00:01:24,720 full-time, I would say, Hey, how am I going to get my time back? 29 00:01:24,720 --> 00:01:28,440 What's an easy way to try to get a little bit of your time back, you think that 30 00:01:28,440 --> 00:01:30,360 you would give somebody that was just starting out? 31 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:32,640 Your pre-sort at the very beginning. 32 00:01:32,920 --> 00:01:36,960 So you're sorting through whatever you've bought in for the day or the week or 33 00:01:36,960 --> 00:01:43,520 whatever, but the more like things you put together to set up your quote unquote 34 00:01:43,520 --> 00:01:44,440 assembly line. 35 00:01:44,440 --> 00:01:46,160 So you're batching at this point. 36 00:01:46,520 --> 00:01:51,320 So since I'm primarily a bookseller, I'll use books. 37 00:01:51,320 --> 00:01:55,480 So when I get a batch of books, I would take the batch of books and sort of into 38 00:01:55,480 --> 00:01:57,760 piles first by publishing. 39 00:01:58,160 --> 00:02:01,600 Cause I know on my listings, that's two fields I have to fill out. 40 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:03,920 So that would be the biggest thing. 41 00:02:04,080 --> 00:02:06,280 And the next would be genre, which is only one field. 42 00:02:06,760 --> 00:02:10,400 And then the third sort within that would be condition. 43 00:02:10,880 --> 00:02:14,800 I normally list in only two conditions, good or acceptable, because I get a lot 44 00:02:14,800 --> 00:02:15,680 of library books too. 45 00:02:16,240 --> 00:02:18,320 So now I have, I don't know, let's say. 46 00:02:18,320 --> 00:02:23,160 Ace books, Western, good and acceptable conditions. 47 00:02:23,160 --> 00:02:24,760 So I made my piles, right? 48 00:02:25,320 --> 00:02:31,440 So if I have enough for a days worth of listings, then I'll move it over to the 49 00:02:31,760 --> 00:02:33,760 queue table, like, okay, here's a day. 50 00:02:33,800 --> 00:02:36,680 And then I'll go do it again and again and again, until I have about a week's 51 00:02:36,680 --> 00:02:37,040 work. 52 00:02:37,440 --> 00:02:39,200 So I have a whole week lined up for me. 53 00:02:39,480 --> 00:02:42,640 And then it's just taking that to the photo booth and then from the photo 54 00:02:42,640 --> 00:02:43,720 booth to the listing station. 55 00:02:44,600 --> 00:02:44,920 All right. 56 00:02:44,920 --> 00:02:46,240 Well, too bad sucker. 57 00:02:46,240 --> 00:02:47,840 I'm not saying that I'm not going to do that. 58 00:02:47,840 --> 00:02:49,520 I'm not selling all the same stuff, right? 59 00:02:49,560 --> 00:02:50,960 I show up at your warehouse. 60 00:02:51,720 --> 00:02:53,120 It's my first day on eBay. 61 00:02:53,120 --> 00:02:56,280 I got a trash bag and it's full of all kinds. 62 00:02:56,320 --> 00:02:58,000 Listen, there ain't no rats in there, right? 63 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:01,560 This is just, this is very profitable merchandise in my black trash bag. 64 00:03:01,560 --> 00:03:01,920 All right. 65 00:03:02,800 --> 00:03:05,040 But there's all different kinds of stuff, right? 66 00:03:05,040 --> 00:03:09,640 So I got, you know, I got toys, I got some shoes, I got a shirt. 67 00:03:09,920 --> 00:03:15,880 So would you recommend like, at least for me, I kind of, and I'll admit to this, 68 00:03:15,880 --> 00:03:19,320 right, when I had a bunch of different things and I was an everything seller, I 69 00:03:19,320 --> 00:03:22,680 would list the things that were harder to list last. 70 00:03:22,680 --> 00:03:27,320 So like if I had something that was real big or like real, real like obscure or 71 00:03:27,320 --> 00:03:30,440 something, it's going to take a lot of pictures, a lot of description. 72 00:03:30,440 --> 00:03:34,080 I kind of would throw that to the death pile and that would be, Hey, that'll be 73 00:03:34,080 --> 00:03:34,520 last. 74 00:03:34,520 --> 00:03:37,320 I can easily list, you know, this video game I found. 75 00:03:37,560 --> 00:03:40,360 Is that like a smart approach or you think it should be the opposite way? 76 00:03:40,360 --> 00:03:44,080 Do you think like you should work, knock out the harder item first and then onto 77 00:03:44,080 --> 00:03:47,080 the easier items for, you know, kind of to motivate you more? 78 00:03:48,520 --> 00:03:50,040 Uh, yes and no. 79 00:03:50,040 --> 00:03:55,280 I'm going to say it's going to depend on from person to person. 80 00:03:55,560 --> 00:04:01,360 For me, I do a better, faster quality job at the beginning of my day versus the 81 00:04:01,440 --> 00:04:01,760 end. 82 00:04:02,040 --> 00:04:04,200 However, some people don't work like that. 83 00:04:04,200 --> 00:04:07,360 There's, there are slow starter more or less, but they have a strong finish. 84 00:04:07,800 --> 00:04:12,760 So depending how you work, it may be better for you to have those things 85 00:04:12,760 --> 00:04:14,760 toward the end of your day versus the beginning. 86 00:04:14,760 --> 00:04:16,200 But for me, it would be the beginning. 87 00:04:16,200 --> 00:04:18,320 I would need to get the harder thing out of the way first. 88 00:04:18,640 --> 00:04:21,520 Cause when I'm at the end of my day, I'm on my last 10 or five listing. 89 00:04:21,960 --> 00:04:25,280 I don't want to be doing something stupidly hard and complicated. 90 00:04:25,320 --> 00:04:27,560 I'd rather do that at the beginning just to get it out of my way. 91 00:04:27,560 --> 00:04:30,840 And then the rest of my day is the same old repetitive, easy stuff. 92 00:04:31,400 --> 00:04:31,720 All right. 93 00:04:31,720 --> 00:04:34,880 So now what do you think about, I list the item, right? 94 00:04:34,880 --> 00:04:37,560 You know, I, uh, I got the game. 95 00:04:37,560 --> 00:04:38,680 I list the game, right? 96 00:04:38,680 --> 00:04:42,600 Uh, I boxed this up right away. 97 00:04:42,600 --> 00:04:45,640 So there's going to be really no packing when it sells. 98 00:04:45,640 --> 00:04:49,440 So everything I buy, I put in the box is going to ship in. 99 00:04:49,680 --> 00:04:52,760 Maybe I write on the outside of the box, you know, PS five game, 100 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:54,480 you know, whatever the title is. 101 00:04:54,840 --> 00:04:56,120 Do you think that's something feasible? 102 00:04:56,120 --> 00:04:59,240 Because I'd really never have seen people that actually tried to inventory 103 00:04:59,240 --> 00:05:02,880 things that way, like where it's already ready to ship, it's already in the box. 104 00:05:02,880 --> 00:05:04,080 It's already in the polymeller. 105 00:05:04,080 --> 00:05:08,680 All you're doing is grabbing it, slapping a label on it and you're done with it. 106 00:05:09,280 --> 00:05:15,360 I mean, if you're not doing a huge, a lot of volume and let's just say you're, 107 00:05:15,400 --> 00:05:17,040 you're listing more higher end items. 108 00:05:17,040 --> 00:05:20,160 Maybe you're only doing like five or 10 or day or something less than that. 109 00:05:20,760 --> 00:05:21,560 Pre-packing it. 110 00:05:21,560 --> 00:05:22,200 It's okay. 111 00:05:22,240 --> 00:05:26,520 I know shoe sellers pre box their things, but all their boxes are the same, right? 112 00:05:26,520 --> 00:05:28,120 All pairs of shoes fit in the same box. 113 00:05:28,120 --> 00:05:32,680 They build these weird gigantic cubes and they just pull their cue or the. 114 00:05:32,680 --> 00:05:33,920 Chinga block thing out. 115 00:05:35,200 --> 00:05:38,560 But again, like chinga, it could all fall down if you don't stack it right. 116 00:05:40,520 --> 00:05:42,560 So I'd say it's okay. 117 00:05:42,560 --> 00:05:45,520 If you're not doing a huge amount of volume, I'd say it'd be a waste of your time. 118 00:05:45,720 --> 00:05:49,520 If you're doing volume though, cause you're dealing so many, it's like pre-cleaning 119 00:05:49,520 --> 00:05:54,040 CDs and DVDs, you know, what's going to sell when, so it's easier and saves you 120 00:05:54,040 --> 00:05:57,360 time and money if you just clean what sells when it sells. 121 00:05:57,360 --> 00:06:03,600 I boxed when I was, you know, I get both buys and, you know, say, say it's a lot 122 00:06:03,600 --> 00:06:06,120 of like 20 CSI books, for example. 123 00:06:07,080 --> 00:06:09,000 I boxed those up. 124 00:06:09,000 --> 00:06:11,000 I wrote on the outside 20 books. 125 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:13,360 CSI tape the box closed. 126 00:06:14,200 --> 00:06:16,160 Do you do that for any, like your book lots? 127 00:06:16,160 --> 00:06:19,880 Do you pre like box them up and kind of have them ready to go, or do you kind 128 00:06:19,880 --> 00:06:21,080 of just leave them out on your shelves? 129 00:06:21,080 --> 00:06:22,120 Like you have sitting behind you. 130 00:06:22,760 --> 00:06:23,800 I leave them out on my shelves. 131 00:06:23,800 --> 00:06:24,560 Like I have them. 132 00:06:24,840 --> 00:06:25,440 I have them. 133 00:06:25,440 --> 00:06:29,160 I used to Saran wrap the lots and then put a little sticky on it and I could 134 00:06:29,160 --> 00:06:33,400 just grab it and put it in a box, but I've stopped doing lots for the most part. 135 00:06:33,400 --> 00:06:37,080 Actually, I took any lots I had down and then I just started doing singles. 136 00:06:37,080 --> 00:06:42,040 Cause for me, I get more money on a single item versus I do in a lot and honestly 137 00:06:42,040 --> 00:06:46,480 doing a lot listing, at least on eBay, it take, it's like the equivalent of five 138 00:06:46,480 --> 00:06:47,400 listings, right? 139 00:06:47,400 --> 00:06:48,600 So it takes a lot of time to do that. 140 00:06:48,600 --> 00:06:50,120 So I took that out of my workflow. 141 00:06:50,120 --> 00:06:51,320 I no longer do lots. 142 00:06:51,320 --> 00:06:54,720 The thing, the good thing with lots is you can sell it quicker, but 143 00:06:54,720 --> 00:06:55,760 you're going to get less money. 144 00:06:55,920 --> 00:06:59,920 So speed versus more money in the long run. 145 00:06:59,960 --> 00:07:01,600 So you got to decide what you want. 146 00:07:02,480 --> 00:07:03,360 Awkward things. 147 00:07:03,360 --> 00:07:08,160 I have pre boxed before back when I was doing everything, like it was big and 148 00:07:08,160 --> 00:07:12,240 bulky and I didn't want to spend 15 minutes trying to find a proper size box 149 00:07:12,240 --> 00:07:14,120 for it, cause I knew I would have that complication. 150 00:07:14,120 --> 00:07:15,760 So I had pre boxed that kind of stuff. 151 00:07:15,760 --> 00:07:20,520 But in today's book selling world that I live in, I do not pre box anything. 152 00:07:21,560 --> 00:07:25,360 So that's like, you kind of think about ways that you can make your life a 153 00:07:25,360 --> 00:07:29,680 little bit easier, but you also have to make sure like you're doing it correctly. 154 00:07:29,680 --> 00:07:29,960 Right. 155 00:07:29,960 --> 00:07:34,000 You know, you can't just throw stuff in a box and then just say, okay, I 156 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:36,240 remember that this box is this book set, right? 157 00:07:36,240 --> 00:07:39,160 You got to have to actually have some kind of labeling system. 158 00:07:39,640 --> 00:07:43,840 And like he was saying, you know, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, 159 00:07:43,840 --> 00:07:48,120 the box system and like he was saying, you know, the book sellers, a lot of them 160 00:07:48,120 --> 00:07:52,280 just use those priority shoe boxes, same size for every single one. 161 00:07:52,280 --> 00:07:54,840 So they literally can just have a whole wall stacked up them. 162 00:07:55,200 --> 00:07:57,400 Now, if you're selling anything and everything, or even if you're 163 00:07:57,400 --> 00:07:58,400 niche down, right? 164 00:07:58,400 --> 00:08:00,200 Your lots are going to be different sizes. 165 00:08:00,200 --> 00:08:03,120 So it's going to make it a little bit harder to, to kind of have 166 00:08:03,120 --> 00:08:05,240 something that's uniform and makes sense. 167 00:08:05,600 --> 00:08:07,800 But there is, you know, possible ways you can do this. 168 00:08:07,800 --> 00:08:11,600 And like you said, you know, if you're doing 40 lots a day, it's not feasible. 169 00:08:11,600 --> 00:08:15,680 510 a day, then sure, yeah, you could possibly get away with doing it and it'll save you 170 00:08:15,680 --> 00:08:16,760 time packing. 171 00:08:16,760 --> 00:08:19,320 But the trade off is, right? 172 00:08:19,320 --> 00:08:24,720 You're packing those items right then versus listing another item, which would in turn 173 00:08:24,720 --> 00:08:30,640 be the more cash flow positive thing you should do instead of boxing your stuff up. 174 00:08:30,640 --> 00:08:35,240 Now, on the shipping front, what I have done is streamlined my packaging where most things 175 00:08:35,240 --> 00:08:37,560 will fit in said packaging. 176 00:08:37,560 --> 00:08:43,520 I have going down to three, I've had four and one of those is those boxes over there. 177 00:08:43,520 --> 00:08:44,520 So you mentioned lots, right? 178 00:08:44,520 --> 00:08:48,160 I no longer do lots, but people buy from my store equivalent lots. 179 00:08:48,160 --> 00:08:54,000 I had several gentlemen this weekend about 16 or 20 books each. 180 00:08:54,000 --> 00:08:58,120 Most of my books will fit in those boxes that I was pointing to behind. 181 00:08:58,120 --> 00:09:02,840 Once the don't or one off boxes and for future orders, that's when I have to spend a little 182 00:09:02,840 --> 00:09:03,840 bit of time. 183 00:09:03,840 --> 00:09:08,720 I dig out my random box pile, what they could actually fit in here. 184 00:09:08,720 --> 00:09:12,720 But even for that, I have a pile for that of, well, there's like four or five other 185 00:09:12,720 --> 00:09:15,640 box types and those orders are few and far between. 186 00:09:15,640 --> 00:09:21,700 So yeah, and I may even look into a certain box even for those larger orders when they 187 00:09:21,700 --> 00:09:26,360 come up because as my store grows, I imagine that happening more and more and more. 188 00:09:26,360 --> 00:09:31,320 So I'll have to get another box type because, but that's those boxes behind me or most of 189 00:09:31,320 --> 00:09:34,120 my lot orders will fit in those. 190 00:09:34,120 --> 00:09:41,200 I definitely think what you said is a huge kind of, to make your life a lot easier reselling 191 00:09:41,200 --> 00:09:43,720 is streamlining your shipping. 192 00:09:43,720 --> 00:09:48,240 And that's another benefit to selling the same thing or the same kind of category because 193 00:09:48,240 --> 00:09:54,280 you can easily say, hey, I've been using this size box more than this, right? 194 00:09:54,280 --> 00:09:56,560 I have the bubble mailers for the Amazon orders. 195 00:09:56,560 --> 00:09:58,600 It makes everything so much easier. 196 00:09:58,600 --> 00:09:59,960 There's no thinking to it, right? 197 00:09:59,960 --> 00:10:03,400 You know, if it's a DVD or a CD, it's this box. 198 00:10:03,400 --> 00:10:05,480 If it's a book, it's this box. 199 00:10:05,480 --> 00:10:07,360 Everything is kind of, you already have a plan, right? 200 00:10:07,360 --> 00:10:09,500 You see an order comes in for 10 books. 201 00:10:09,500 --> 00:10:11,120 You know, the exact box you're going to use. 202 00:10:11,120 --> 00:10:13,640 If it's one book, you know, the exact box you're going to use. 203 00:10:13,640 --> 00:10:18,560 There's no really a huge style of, you know, pile of different sized boxes. 204 00:10:18,560 --> 00:10:21,440 And you're trying to figure out, well, should I put it in this one? 205 00:10:21,440 --> 00:10:22,880 Take the guessing game out of it. 206 00:10:22,880 --> 00:10:24,760 And that's going to make it a little bit easier. 207 00:10:24,760 --> 00:10:30,320 But overall, like, what are some other ways you think where, you know, somebody is reselling 208 00:10:30,320 --> 00:10:31,320 easy, right? 209 00:10:31,320 --> 00:10:35,800 On eBay, just, just like what's something else somebody could do to kind of make their 210 00:10:35,800 --> 00:10:37,960 life a little bit easier on eBay? 211 00:10:37,960 --> 00:10:40,280 You know, there's a lot of people out there that don't. 212 00:10:40,280 --> 00:10:43,880 I think with eBay, it's, it's going to take time. 213 00:10:43,880 --> 00:10:45,120 It's a time investment. 214 00:10:45,120 --> 00:10:49,400 I don't really think you can take too many shortcuts on eBay. 215 00:10:49,400 --> 00:10:53,400 Unfortunately, if you want to have a successful store, I don't think it's nowhere near the 216 00:10:53,400 --> 00:10:55,080 same as Amazon. 217 00:10:55,080 --> 00:10:59,680 And unfortunately, like, if you're trying to shortcut a full time eBay store, I just, 218 00:10:59,680 --> 00:11:01,400 I'm not seeing a path there. 219 00:11:01,400 --> 00:11:03,200 Like I don't even know where you would start. 220 00:11:03,200 --> 00:11:07,120 Well, I got one more thing on the shipping and then I'll move on to the next thing, which 221 00:11:07,120 --> 00:11:08,680 will be inventory. 222 00:11:08,680 --> 00:11:14,500 Shipping, the less steps you take, the less time it will take. 223 00:11:14,500 --> 00:11:15,960 I have rollable tables. 224 00:11:15,960 --> 00:11:21,000 I have a, I have a whole shipping station with the computers on it. 225 00:11:21,000 --> 00:11:24,280 And then a side rollable table will put the orders for the day. 226 00:11:24,280 --> 00:11:29,720 But that rollable table, whether it's my employee or me, we'll, we'll move that table right 227 00:11:29,720 --> 00:11:30,720 to our hip. 228 00:11:30,720 --> 00:11:33,160 So it connects like an L here. 229 00:11:33,160 --> 00:11:36,160 L. So the computer station would be my thumb here. 230 00:11:36,160 --> 00:11:37,960 And then my index finger would be the listings. 231 00:11:37,960 --> 00:11:39,200 Let me just grab it. 232 00:11:39,200 --> 00:11:41,400 Grab, there's zero steps taken. 233 00:11:41,400 --> 00:11:46,800 Because even walking around to grab it, pack it, bring it over to the shipping station to 234 00:11:46,800 --> 00:11:49,120 print out the label, that takes time. 235 00:11:49,120 --> 00:11:54,880 And it seems small, but 20 seconds times 30 or 40 packages adds up. 236 00:11:54,880 --> 00:11:56,440 I'm sorry, but it does. 237 00:11:56,440 --> 00:12:00,080 And when you're paying an hourly person to do that, you look at saving seconds any way 238 00:12:00,080 --> 00:12:01,080 you can. 239 00:12:01,080 --> 00:12:05,040 In personal time, we think about our time a little less than somebody were paying, but 240 00:12:05,040 --> 00:12:06,600 think about your own time. 241 00:12:06,600 --> 00:12:08,720 If you could save time, you could be doing another listing. 242 00:12:08,720 --> 00:12:11,800 You can go out and another sourcing run for the day. 243 00:12:11,800 --> 00:12:14,280 All kinds of things you could reallocate that time to. 244 00:12:14,280 --> 00:12:16,840 So less steps, the better. 245 00:12:16,840 --> 00:12:18,280 Now on inventory management. 246 00:12:18,280 --> 00:12:19,560 Right now I'm running two. 247 00:12:19,560 --> 00:12:24,160 My old one, which is what you see behind me, it's very color coded and very pretty. 248 00:12:24,160 --> 00:12:32,280 However, it takes a lot of time to go down the line to find the exact book versus my 249 00:12:32,280 --> 00:12:38,600 new one, which is what a lot of bigger sellers use, except theirs is a lot fancier. 250 00:12:38,600 --> 00:12:39,600 Mine's a lot lower tech. 251 00:12:39,600 --> 00:12:43,700 I just use simple numbers, six digits in this case. 252 00:12:43,700 --> 00:12:48,600 So it's sequential and finding a number is a lot faster than looking for a particular 253 00:12:48,600 --> 00:12:49,600 book title. 254 00:12:49,600 --> 00:12:56,160 It needs to stick out of the front of the, well, I'll just demonstrate. 255 00:12:56,160 --> 00:13:01,200 Like so, and we can just figure it out and just stack them straight up like that. 256 00:13:01,200 --> 00:13:03,440 Or do you stack them on their side? 257 00:13:03,440 --> 00:13:06,440 They're like that behind me, but they're facing out like this. 258 00:13:06,440 --> 00:13:07,880 So this is not the show. 259 00:13:07,880 --> 00:13:10,960 So you can see it fairly quickly. 260 00:13:10,960 --> 00:13:12,640 And where did you get those things from? 261 00:13:12,640 --> 00:13:15,120 How did you make those things? 262 00:13:15,120 --> 00:13:21,480 This is just Excel and the paper, I use regular printing paper at first, but it was too flimsy 263 00:13:21,480 --> 00:13:26,100 and they would tear and they'd fall out too easily even when you're stacking them. 264 00:13:26,100 --> 00:13:28,400 But this is called card stock is what this is. 265 00:13:28,400 --> 00:13:31,000 And again, you could just put it in your printer. 266 00:13:31,000 --> 00:13:35,200 And then we have anything, one of those chopper things and we just chop it. 267 00:13:35,200 --> 00:13:40,080 But I'm looking into ways to make that even faster because I or my employee has to take 268 00:13:40,080 --> 00:13:42,800 time doing that, right? 269 00:13:42,800 --> 00:13:44,440 But there's probably a better way for me to do it. 270 00:13:44,440 --> 00:13:45,440 Maybe it's a machine. 271 00:13:45,440 --> 00:13:46,440 I'm still looking into that. 272 00:13:46,440 --> 00:13:50,160 Just to, again, always refining systems, right? 273 00:13:50,160 --> 00:13:54,120 But this is probably the best way to do it. 274 00:13:54,120 --> 00:13:58,680 Outside of, there's an additional thing that I've disagreed with so far, but it's putting 275 00:13:58,680 --> 00:14:06,240 them not only in columns like that, they're just like this instead of this. 276 00:14:06,240 --> 00:14:10,020 They want me to put them in, some people have been pushing me to put them in boxes. 277 00:14:10,020 --> 00:14:16,000 And not only that, but it's a sign of a particular box within that shell. 278 00:14:16,000 --> 00:14:21,400 And I'm like, I see the point, but they're already box like. 279 00:14:21,400 --> 00:14:23,880 I don't think I need boxes. 280 00:14:23,880 --> 00:14:27,800 What's the argument for that more space you can fit more in the, on the shelf? 281 00:14:27,800 --> 00:14:30,880 No, I would actually lose some space out of that. 282 00:14:30,880 --> 00:14:36,160 The argument for that is instead of me trying to find the row and column, I build that into 283 00:14:36,160 --> 00:14:42,880 my skew system in addition, and I know the exact column and casing that it's in. 284 00:14:42,880 --> 00:14:49,160 I see the point, but I'm still resistant to it and I'm not doing it right now. 285 00:14:49,160 --> 00:14:51,600 But it may come a point where I may have to. 286 00:14:51,600 --> 00:14:58,200 Because even my bookcases, they have the starting number and the ending number of, okay, this 287 00:14:58,200 --> 00:15:05,560 bookcase, because my shelves are double sided now, my big bad boys, of 00001 to 1200. 288 00:15:05,560 --> 00:15:10,400 And then the other side is 1201 to 2400 kind of deal. 289 00:15:10,400 --> 00:15:17,680 So somebody starts brand new and they want an easy way to manage their inventory. 290 00:15:17,680 --> 00:15:20,800 I got one four foot wide shelf. 291 00:15:20,800 --> 00:15:23,200 It's got five different shelves on it. 292 00:15:23,200 --> 00:15:27,360 How should they approach that without a whole inventory system? 293 00:15:27,360 --> 00:15:30,840 They're just getting into this, but they want to be able to say, Hey, I know it's on shelf 294 00:15:30,840 --> 00:15:31,840 one shelf too. 295 00:15:31,840 --> 00:15:37,640 What would be the easiest way for them to go about having a kind of foolproof starter 296 00:15:37,640 --> 00:15:41,080 inventory system? 297 00:15:41,080 --> 00:15:44,700 So the plan, there would be two approaches in my pain to that. 298 00:15:44,700 --> 00:15:49,120 If you're just planning because you have finite space to never outgrow that space, just make 299 00:15:49,120 --> 00:15:50,120 it simple. 300 00:15:50,120 --> 00:15:52,560 S1, S2, S3, S4, S5. 301 00:15:52,560 --> 00:16:00,020 And then maybe have, if you do columns, S1, C1, S1, C2. 302 00:16:00,020 --> 00:16:05,000 But if you plan to grow, like, Hey, I want to get a lot of bookshelves filled up. 303 00:16:05,000 --> 00:16:07,120 So you would have to have a different kind of inventory system. 304 00:16:07,120 --> 00:16:11,880 And that's when I would switch over to what I'm using, a sequential system. 305 00:16:11,880 --> 00:16:16,400 But you may want to have, in addition to that, you may want to have bookcase B1 and then 306 00:16:16,400 --> 00:16:24,680 a sequential number 00001 through B1 through 1200. 307 00:16:24,680 --> 00:16:26,140 That would be my two approaches. 308 00:16:26,140 --> 00:16:30,760 If you're stuck in finite space, you cannot grow, just make it simple. 309 00:16:30,760 --> 00:16:35,960 I got the burning question that millions of people around the world are going to be looking 310 00:16:35,960 --> 00:16:39,680 forward to this answer I'm about to throw at you. 311 00:16:39,680 --> 00:16:45,640 Johnny B, the new crazy trend is hiring a virtual assistant. 312 00:16:45,640 --> 00:16:46,640 All right. 313 00:16:46,640 --> 00:16:51,700 So Johnny B has to hire a virtual assistant today. 314 00:16:51,700 --> 00:16:57,640 But part of the business, do you think hiring a virtual assistant would work for you? 315 00:16:57,640 --> 00:16:59,680 And you can't say you're not hiring one. 316 00:16:59,680 --> 00:17:00,680 All right. 317 00:17:00,680 --> 00:17:01,680 That's not even on the table. 318 00:17:01,680 --> 00:17:03,880 I'm forcing you to hire somebody. 319 00:17:03,880 --> 00:17:07,720 Where could you fit them into an eBay business that's going to make your life easier, but 320 00:17:07,720 --> 00:17:09,200 it also has to make sense. 321 00:17:09,200 --> 00:17:12,280 I don't want you just saying something just to say, I need something where it's like, 322 00:17:12,280 --> 00:17:16,360 Hey, I'm going to give them this job because it's going to make my life easier. 323 00:17:16,360 --> 00:17:21,360 And it's going to be, it makes sense in my business. 324 00:17:21,360 --> 00:17:26,440 I would, if I had to use one in this case, I do. 325 00:17:26,440 --> 00:17:33,320 I would have them scrape my scrape, scrape websites from Facebook marketplace, Craigslist, 326 00:17:33,320 --> 00:17:37,400 even eBay to find deals for me to purchase. 327 00:17:37,400 --> 00:17:39,360 And they just give me the list in the morning. 328 00:17:39,360 --> 00:17:41,360 And then I decide if I want to buy it from there. 329 00:17:41,360 --> 00:17:44,960 That'd probably be the sort of sourcing, what would I allocate them to? 330 00:17:44,960 --> 00:17:48,680 Now if I had to be a trusted and I would never do this because I wouldn't trust them. 331 00:17:48,680 --> 00:17:54,540 I might have one do my bookkeeping, but I'm not letting them see my numbers and knowing 332 00:17:54,540 --> 00:17:57,040 where my money goes and where it comes in from. 333 00:17:57,040 --> 00:18:02,000 So I would never do that, but that would save me some time. 334 00:18:02,000 --> 00:18:04,320 Another one I might do. 335 00:18:04,320 --> 00:18:13,320 Well, the question people are going to ask is, can I, can I, you know, send them the 336 00:18:13,320 --> 00:18:15,120 photos and they list the items? 337 00:18:15,120 --> 00:18:18,120 Cause that's going to be, you know, that's like everybody's time sync, right? 338 00:18:18,120 --> 00:18:22,680 Cause if 99% of people that are new to selling on eBay are like, they're going to hire a 339 00:18:22,680 --> 00:18:28,440 VA today, it's going to be to take care of the listing because nobody likes listing. 340 00:18:28,440 --> 00:18:34,680 If it was CDs and DVDs, maybe if it was books, hell no. 341 00:18:34,680 --> 00:18:40,360 The reason with that is there's so many flaws with books, knowing all those conditions and 342 00:18:40,360 --> 00:18:44,000 when to use them and how to use them takes so much time. 343 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:47,760 And I would constantly be having to correct their listings. 344 00:18:47,760 --> 00:18:52,720 And eventually they would be at the point where they could list, but I guarantee you 345 00:18:52,720 --> 00:18:55,960 it's a six to nine month journey to get there. 346 00:18:55,960 --> 00:18:59,920 And meanwhile, you paid this person to save you time, but you're actually spending more 347 00:18:59,920 --> 00:19:05,520 time because for me, correcting even my employees listings takes me longer than doing the listing 348 00:19:05,520 --> 00:19:07,440 from scratch myself. 349 00:19:07,440 --> 00:19:10,840 Cause I'm double checking and triple checking because I'm the one that has to press the 350 00:19:10,840 --> 00:19:11,840 button. 351 00:19:11,840 --> 00:19:13,960 I would not allow them to launch their own listings. 352 00:19:13,960 --> 00:19:18,600 They would go in the draft bank and I would have to review it and double and triple check 353 00:19:18,600 --> 00:19:22,800 that they listed it the way I want it done from my store. 354 00:19:22,800 --> 00:19:26,840 Now people watching this may be like, oh, you care too much. 355 00:19:26,840 --> 00:19:27,840 And you're damn right. 356 00:19:27,840 --> 00:19:28,840 I do. 357 00:19:28,840 --> 00:19:30,600 Cause it's my store and my business. 358 00:19:30,600 --> 00:19:35,040 And I don't trust anyone beyond myself pressing the launch button and making sure they listed 359 00:19:35,040 --> 00:19:36,520 it properly. 360 00:19:36,520 --> 00:19:41,760 So I'm reporting you to Cheryl for saying you're going to hire out your bookkeeping 361 00:19:41,760 --> 00:19:45,400 into a VA and she's going to be in your messages yelling at you. 362 00:19:45,400 --> 00:19:46,680 I'm sure it's like a VA. 363 00:19:46,680 --> 00:19:47,680 I'll hire you Cheryl. 364 00:19:47,680 --> 00:19:52,680 I don't know if you'll take $4 an hour, but yeah. 365 00:19:52,680 --> 00:19:58,840 So like, I think, I think when we boil it down to like VAs for eBay, I don't think they 366 00:19:58,840 --> 00:20:04,200 work unless it's, unless you're doing like an eBay to Amazon kind of thing where they're 367 00:20:04,200 --> 00:20:05,200 just out there. 368 00:20:05,200 --> 00:20:09,440 Like you said, sourcing, I think sourcing is the only play for VAs on eBay. 369 00:20:09,440 --> 00:20:13,040 And it's weird because right, you're not even doing eBay to Amazon. 370 00:20:13,040 --> 00:20:17,020 You're just looking for them to be out there on marketplaces, trying to find you a crazy 371 00:20:17,020 --> 00:20:20,560 good bulk deal where you can buy it and have it shipped to you. 372 00:20:20,560 --> 00:20:23,120 It's completely different with eBay. 373 00:20:23,120 --> 00:20:26,800 You know, if you're just doing eBay, a VA, I just don't see it working. 374 00:20:26,800 --> 00:20:28,680 I mean, you need a physical person, right? 375 00:20:28,680 --> 00:20:32,520 If you want to take photos off your plate, you know, you need somebody there next to 376 00:20:32,520 --> 00:20:33,960 you doing the photos. 377 00:20:33,960 --> 00:20:36,640 You can't have somebody, you know, anywhere else. 378 00:20:36,640 --> 00:20:37,840 Not even the next town over. 379 00:20:37,840 --> 00:20:41,040 They got to be there in person because it's a process. 380 00:20:41,040 --> 00:20:42,560 eBay is all an in-person process. 381 00:20:42,560 --> 00:20:46,320 There's really no kind of outsourcing this, outsourcing that. 382 00:20:46,320 --> 00:20:52,480 And especially, you know, it's such an item specific driven, you know, platform and optimized 383 00:20:52,480 --> 00:20:53,480 listings. 384 00:20:53,480 --> 00:20:54,480 Sure. 385 00:20:54,480 --> 00:20:59,160 If you go on eBay, you're going to see 98% of just junk listings, but being the 2% of 386 00:20:59,160 --> 00:21:01,440 the good listings, that's why you're successful. 387 00:21:01,440 --> 00:21:03,020 That's why your business is successful. 388 00:21:03,020 --> 00:21:05,480 That's why you can get more money for the same items. 389 00:21:05,480 --> 00:21:09,000 You know, if me and you sell the same item, the same book, you can get a lot more than 390 00:21:09,000 --> 00:21:10,000 me. 391 00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:11,000 You're taking double my photos. 392 00:21:11,000 --> 00:21:14,360 You're doing 10 times better descriptions, item specifics, all of that. 393 00:21:14,360 --> 00:21:18,040 So I don't think a VA really fits in kind of an eBay only business. 394 00:21:18,040 --> 00:21:23,860 Well, the other main crux of it, honestly, is the photos only go so far. 395 00:21:23,860 --> 00:21:27,560 Having the item in your hand as you're listing, like I have piles of books. 396 00:21:27,560 --> 00:21:28,560 Here's one. 397 00:21:28,560 --> 00:21:32,860 I can only get so much off the photos, even doing all this. 398 00:21:32,860 --> 00:21:35,840 And there may be something I missed that I didn't take a photo of, but when I have it 399 00:21:35,840 --> 00:21:37,340 in hand, oh, it has this. 400 00:21:37,340 --> 00:21:38,760 But I can mention the condition note. 401 00:21:38,760 --> 00:21:42,080 It's not like I have to run my photo booth and take a new photo. 402 00:21:42,080 --> 00:21:44,320 I could just mention the condition note and be done with it. 403 00:21:44,320 --> 00:21:47,680 A VA is going to miss that because they don't have the item. 404 00:21:47,680 --> 00:21:51,200 They're off in, I don't know, Singapore. 405 00:21:51,200 --> 00:21:54,440 And they're just running off the photos because you sent them the photos. 406 00:21:54,440 --> 00:21:58,840 Even if they get everything right, there may be a couple things they miss because of not 407 00:21:58,840 --> 00:22:01,240 having the item in front of them. 408 00:22:01,240 --> 00:22:02,240 All right. 409 00:22:02,240 --> 00:22:08,120 So we're going to end this eBay reselling is easy topic with one last question. 410 00:22:08,120 --> 00:22:11,520 I'll let you answer first and then I will answer. 411 00:22:11,520 --> 00:22:17,040 In your current business, reselling on eBay, is it easy? 412 00:22:17,040 --> 00:22:18,040 Yes or no? 413 00:22:18,040 --> 00:22:19,040 No. 414 00:22:19,040 --> 00:22:20,040 All right. 415 00:22:20,040 --> 00:22:24,000 And I'm going to ask myself the same question. 416 00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:26,740 And the way I run my eBay, I would say yes. 417 00:22:26,740 --> 00:22:28,780 So two different completely perspectives. 418 00:22:28,780 --> 00:22:30,760 We all know I do one listing a day. 419 00:22:30,760 --> 00:22:34,440 Just that, depending on the week, depending on how I feel, if the sun's out, if it's a 420 00:22:34,440 --> 00:22:37,240 full moon, I might not list. 421 00:22:37,240 --> 00:22:40,720 I heard if you list on eBay and there's a full moon, those listings disappear. 422 00:22:40,720 --> 00:22:43,680 But yeah, so right there are two different perspectives. 423 00:22:43,680 --> 00:22:44,680 He's full-time eBay. 424 00:22:44,680 --> 00:22:47,800 He'll tell you, no, eBay is not easy. 425 00:22:47,800 --> 00:22:50,800 There's things you can do to make your life a little bit easier, but it's still going 426 00:22:50,800 --> 00:22:56,040 to take a lot of work, a lot of details if you want to be successful and actually get 427 00:22:56,040 --> 00:22:57,040 sales. 428 00:22:57,040 --> 00:22:58,480 You're not just listing stuff to list stuff. 429 00:22:58,480 --> 00:23:00,920 At the end of the day, you want to get sales. 430 00:23:00,920 --> 00:23:02,280 I list my one item. 431 00:23:02,280 --> 00:23:03,480 It's not a big deal for me. 432 00:23:03,480 --> 00:23:05,320 I'm not doing all the descriptions he does. 433 00:23:05,320 --> 00:23:07,320 It is easy for me, in my opinion. 434 00:23:07,320 --> 00:23:13,200 But I do also adopt his inventory systems, his training me up on how to make shipping 435 00:23:13,200 --> 00:23:14,280 easier. 436 00:23:14,280 --> 00:23:16,920 So it's kind of hassle-free when it comes to that. 437 00:23:16,920 --> 00:23:19,600 I'm not running around for different boxes or things like that. 438 00:23:19,600 --> 00:23:23,360 So now we're going to jump into the Amazon side of things. 439 00:23:23,360 --> 00:23:28,440 And this will be a little bit different kind of perspective here because Amazon, every 440 00:23:28,440 --> 00:23:33,480 time, I mean, most people go from eBay to Amazon because you hear Amazon, it's less 441 00:23:33,480 --> 00:23:34,960 time intensive, right? 442 00:23:34,960 --> 00:23:39,080 You could just send your stuff to Amazon and wash your hands of it. 443 00:23:39,080 --> 00:23:41,560 You really don't have to deal with anything. 444 00:23:41,560 --> 00:23:44,000 And to an extent, I think we both would say that's true. 445 00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:45,920 It's a lot less complicated. 446 00:23:45,920 --> 00:23:49,560 The listing, there's software is where you can list. 447 00:23:49,560 --> 00:23:54,680 You can leverage software as an Amazon to make it pretty simple and foolproof and kind 448 00:23:54,680 --> 00:23:55,680 of easy. 449 00:23:55,680 --> 00:23:59,600 And that same question we asked about eBay is selling on Amazon easy. 450 00:23:59,600 --> 00:24:02,320 I would say yes, yes again. 451 00:24:02,320 --> 00:24:03,720 I'm two yeses, right? 452 00:24:03,720 --> 00:24:06,280 I'm not out here saying anything is hard. 453 00:24:06,280 --> 00:24:09,320 Maybe that's just my mindset because I've worked crappy jobs. 454 00:24:09,320 --> 00:24:12,040 I've worked in warehouses. 455 00:24:12,040 --> 00:24:15,440 Funny story, I worked in a South Philly seafood warehouse. 456 00:24:15,440 --> 00:24:17,480 I lasted two nights and I quit. 457 00:24:17,480 --> 00:24:18,880 Dude, I couldn't. 458 00:24:18,880 --> 00:24:19,880 I couldn't. 459 00:24:19,880 --> 00:24:22,200 It's 20 degrees in the seafood warehouse. 460 00:24:22,200 --> 00:24:25,880 I'm carrying like 50 pound bags of clams all night long. 461 00:24:25,880 --> 00:24:28,400 There's life in back there. 462 00:24:28,400 --> 00:24:30,000 I smelled so bad. 463 00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:33,320 I literally, I had to throw the clothes out that I wore. 464 00:24:33,320 --> 00:24:36,040 I quit after two nights. 465 00:24:36,040 --> 00:24:42,560 So my definition of easy and hard might be a little skewed here, but I think Amazon is 466 00:24:42,560 --> 00:24:44,560 definitely a lot easier than eBay. 467 00:24:44,560 --> 00:24:46,960 What do you think? 468 00:24:46,960 --> 00:24:48,560 I say yes, it's a lot easier. 469 00:24:48,560 --> 00:24:54,520 I would say it has a harder start though because you got to figure it all out and then it dawns 470 00:24:54,520 --> 00:24:55,520 on you. 471 00:24:55,520 --> 00:24:57,160 There's all these other programs you need to add on. 472 00:24:57,160 --> 00:24:59,320 It's not an all in one tool kind of like eBay is. 473 00:24:59,320 --> 00:25:00,320 Now don't get me wrong. 474 00:25:00,320 --> 00:25:06,360 There's some third party tools for eBay too, but I think they're a necessary thing in Amazon 475 00:25:06,360 --> 00:25:09,000 where they're an optional thing in eBay. 476 00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:10,000 I agree. 477 00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:12,080 I think there's still a lot of opportunity. 478 00:25:12,080 --> 00:25:17,600 I'm not sure like maybe if it's how much like eBay limits their backend like to softwares, 479 00:25:17,600 --> 00:25:22,600 but I feel like there's a lot of opportunity for growth in the software space for eBay. 480 00:25:22,600 --> 00:25:27,720 Instead of going into the eBay app and having to search sold comps, why isn't there an app 481 00:25:27,720 --> 00:25:32,120 where you just scan the barcode and it shows you what the item sold for you kind of like 482 00:25:32,120 --> 00:25:36,320 the Amazon apps, the seller amps, the scout leads, the scout IQs. 483 00:25:36,320 --> 00:25:40,240 You can see all that information in real time and that doesn't exist for eBay. 484 00:25:40,240 --> 00:25:45,040 I'm not sure why, but I think it could literally bust eBay wide open for a lot more people 485 00:25:45,040 --> 00:25:50,600 because it makes it the barrier to entry a lot easier and it makes it kind of foolproof. 486 00:25:50,600 --> 00:25:56,200 The argument is eBay, you got to have knowledge to sell things on eBay versus Amazon where 487 00:25:56,200 --> 00:25:59,480 you can just scan something and it's all analytical. 488 00:25:59,480 --> 00:26:01,520 You're looking at how much did I pay? 489 00:26:01,520 --> 00:26:02,640 How much are the fees? 490 00:26:02,640 --> 00:26:03,640 How much am I going to make? 491 00:26:03,640 --> 00:26:07,840 eBay, you got to be like, you walk in, you're like, hey, what am I looking at here? 492 00:26:07,840 --> 00:26:09,320 You got all these different listings. 493 00:26:09,320 --> 00:26:13,400 Sure, you can sort it to sold, but that's really not going to give you a clear picture 494 00:26:13,400 --> 00:26:17,120 if there's 20 people listed and only one sold. 495 00:26:17,120 --> 00:26:19,920 You got to kind of be more analytical and knowledgeable. 496 00:26:19,920 --> 00:26:20,920 Right. 497 00:26:20,920 --> 00:26:27,200 Now you can scan things that have a barcode to an extent or EPC into eBay, but it's going 498 00:26:27,200 --> 00:26:31,000 to pull from eBay's internal catalog, very similar to Amazon. 499 00:26:31,000 --> 00:26:33,400 I'm not going to lie there. 500 00:26:33,400 --> 00:26:40,040 However, it's going to pull off somebody else's listing and a lot of the time it's either 501 00:26:40,040 --> 00:26:45,400 wrong or missing the highlights of that item and the title structure. 502 00:26:45,400 --> 00:26:50,600 You got to redo it a lot of the times because the one it's pulling is complete garbage and 503 00:26:50,600 --> 00:26:55,080 breaks all the eBay rules of this isn't how you should do a listing, but yet it's the 504 00:26:55,080 --> 00:27:03,320 one it gave you and it's like, okay, I guess I'll fix this crappy junk listing and go from 505 00:27:03,320 --> 00:27:04,320 there. 506 00:27:04,320 --> 00:27:09,600 Do you hate me that I actually sold something by selling another listing that had a little 507 00:27:09,600 --> 00:27:11,800 fire emoji in the title? 508 00:27:11,800 --> 00:27:12,800 A little bit. 509 00:27:12,800 --> 00:27:13,800 See? 510 00:27:13,800 --> 00:27:14,800 Yeah, see? 511 00:27:14,800 --> 00:27:20,360 So like he's right with that, but I've done it because, A, I'm not good at eBay. 512 00:27:20,360 --> 00:27:22,400 I don't claim to be an eBay expert. 513 00:27:22,400 --> 00:27:24,480 So I see this one sold, right? 514 00:27:24,480 --> 00:27:25,480 It's the only one that's sold. 515 00:27:25,480 --> 00:27:27,040 I'm just going to hit sell similar. 516 00:27:27,040 --> 00:27:30,240 I'm going to keep Bozo the Clown's fire emoji in the title. 517 00:27:30,240 --> 00:27:34,080 I mean, the item did sell, so maybe it was the fire emoji that got me to sell, but that's 518 00:27:34,080 --> 00:27:38,880 not the correct way that listing should be optimized when somebody's searching on eBay 519 00:27:38,880 --> 00:27:40,400 because that's never going to show up. 520 00:27:40,400 --> 00:27:45,840 And you kind of take that back to Amazon where when you scan something, you're usually only 521 00:27:45,840 --> 00:27:48,280 going to get one listing for the most part. 522 00:27:48,280 --> 00:27:53,020 And that listing is usually filled out with all the correct information in it, right? 523 00:27:53,020 --> 00:27:54,200 There's only one title. 524 00:27:54,200 --> 00:28:00,120 The titles, what Amazon approves in their catalog, the photos are all stock photos. 525 00:28:00,120 --> 00:28:02,240 So it's kind of foolproof when you compare them. 526 00:28:02,240 --> 00:28:04,680 There's really no knowledge. 527 00:28:04,680 --> 00:28:06,040 Like I joke all the time, right? 528 00:28:06,040 --> 00:28:11,320 If I could train a bunch of chimpanzees to go to the stores and scan stuff, I'd be good 529 00:28:11,320 --> 00:28:13,480 to go because there's really no knowledge base. 530 00:28:13,480 --> 00:28:17,960 And it's that easy if you just understand the numbers and what you're looking at compared 531 00:28:17,960 --> 00:28:18,960 to eBay. 532 00:28:18,960 --> 00:28:23,080 At Amazon, it's just about consistency and finding items. 533 00:28:23,080 --> 00:28:28,200 Now we did a deep dive a few weeks back in my media call group and refinement, title 534 00:28:28,200 --> 00:28:29,200 structure stuff. 535 00:28:29,200 --> 00:28:30,200 We use Terapeak. 536 00:28:30,200 --> 00:28:34,000 So if you don't know, that's a product research tool that's built into eBay. 537 00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:38,040 And we were looking at Stephen King's did, and we're looking at all the sales for this, 538 00:28:38,040 --> 00:28:39,040 right? 539 00:28:39,040 --> 00:28:41,560 We found one that had sold. 540 00:28:41,560 --> 00:28:49,520 The only thing in the title was the words I and T. And that is the lowest effort I've 541 00:28:49,520 --> 00:28:51,880 ever seen for a listing ever. 542 00:28:51,880 --> 00:28:53,160 But yet it did sell. 543 00:28:53,160 --> 00:28:54,920 That's kind of the thing with eBay. 544 00:28:54,920 --> 00:29:00,480 There are things that'll make you sell faster and quicker if you do like a proper title 545 00:29:00,480 --> 00:29:01,480 structure. 546 00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:05,440 But in my opinion, and the whole result of that discussion was the end of the day, it 547 00:29:05,440 --> 00:29:06,440 all sells. 548 00:29:06,440 --> 00:29:08,920 It's just when will it sell? 549 00:29:08,920 --> 00:29:13,440 And then there's some stuff that has been, I sold a book just yesterday. 550 00:29:13,440 --> 00:29:15,240 It had been on my shelf for 15 months. 551 00:29:15,240 --> 00:29:16,240 I didn't think this thing would ever sell. 552 00:29:16,240 --> 00:29:17,240 But you know what? 553 00:29:17,240 --> 00:29:19,000 15 months later, it did sell. 554 00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:20,000 It was garbage. 555 00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:22,960 It was all chewed up, gnawed up, written in all throughout the book. 556 00:29:22,960 --> 00:29:25,600 And the book was Heidi for those that were interested. 557 00:29:25,600 --> 00:29:27,760 And I was a jerk, McJerkface. 558 00:29:27,760 --> 00:29:31,640 I put in my condition notes just blasting this book to smithereens. 559 00:29:31,640 --> 00:29:35,400 Probably why it didn't sell 15 months, because I think it was one of my last listings 15 560 00:29:35,400 --> 00:29:36,400 months ago. 561 00:29:36,400 --> 00:29:37,400 I'm like, you know what? 562 00:29:37,400 --> 00:29:38,400 Screw it. 563 00:29:38,400 --> 00:29:39,400 Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. 564 00:29:39,400 --> 00:29:41,920 It was really funny in my opinion. 565 00:29:41,920 --> 00:29:42,920 But it did sell. 566 00:29:42,920 --> 00:29:43,920 It did sell. 567 00:29:43,920 --> 00:29:46,920 It just took 15 months. 568 00:29:46,920 --> 00:29:50,440 In comparison, you're kind of like 90-10. 569 00:29:50,440 --> 00:29:54,560 I don't know what your percentage is in your mind of eBay to Amazon. 570 00:29:54,560 --> 00:30:02,120 Just kind of in your experience with Amazon over the past year, in comparison to eBay, 571 00:30:02,120 --> 00:30:04,760 what was the biggest benefit? 572 00:30:04,760 --> 00:30:05,760 What did you see? 573 00:30:05,760 --> 00:30:07,760 Was it the time you spent listing? 574 00:30:07,760 --> 00:30:09,200 Was it the research needed? 575 00:30:09,200 --> 00:30:13,680 Was it the finding a price to put your items out? 576 00:30:13,680 --> 00:30:21,080 What was the biggest relief when you started doing Amazon in comparison to eBay? 577 00:30:21,080 --> 00:30:28,520 The biggest relief was the time saved. 578 00:30:28,520 --> 00:30:31,400 One listing to one listing on Amazon. 579 00:30:31,400 --> 00:30:32,880 It's night and day difference. 580 00:30:32,880 --> 00:30:34,640 Yes, I go overboard. 581 00:30:34,640 --> 00:30:40,880 Even if I weren't to go overboard, I would still say doing an Amazon listing is 10 times 582 00:30:40,880 --> 00:30:44,320 faster than an eBay listing with minimal effort. 583 00:30:44,320 --> 00:30:48,440 It just is, because it's literally price done. 584 00:30:48,440 --> 00:30:49,440 Scan price done. 585 00:30:49,440 --> 00:30:50,440 Scan price done. 586 00:30:50,440 --> 00:30:54,800 If it's eBay versus eBay, I've got to type something in the title, upload the photos, 587 00:30:54,800 --> 00:30:58,680 and let's just say I skipped all the item specifics and just did a condition now. 588 00:30:58,680 --> 00:31:07,120 Just those three things took me 10 times as much time versus scan price next. 589 00:31:07,120 --> 00:31:12,760 There is a speed volume thing you can do with Amazon. 590 00:31:12,760 --> 00:31:16,880 I'm hiding a little bit of the Amazon word because you have to scan the item to even 591 00:31:16,880 --> 00:31:21,040 get it to be able to list, and then you have to maybe interpret the data on Scatly or 592 00:31:21,040 --> 00:31:27,360 Scout IQ depending on what you use, and then make a judgment call on some things. 593 00:31:27,360 --> 00:31:30,840 Then maybe if you're cleaning books or putting stickers on, there's that workload onto it. 594 00:31:30,840 --> 00:31:32,560 I'm not going to hide it from you guys. 595 00:31:32,560 --> 00:31:36,120 You guys listening to this probably already know this, but if anybody knew people, there 596 00:31:36,120 --> 00:31:39,000 is a little bit of work involved on Amazon. 597 00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:46,080 The listing part, just the listing part on both platforms, Amazon's king. 598 00:31:46,080 --> 00:31:51,480 It's crazy to see the difference and the contrast in the platforms and how it's easier some 599 00:31:51,480 --> 00:31:53,360 ways, but how it's not easier. 600 00:31:53,360 --> 00:31:58,480 I think the big headache with Amazon is understanding the fee structure. 601 00:31:58,480 --> 00:32:04,240 A lot of people don't really understand how it is to be profitable on Amazon. 602 00:32:04,240 --> 00:32:07,840 I guess you could say the same on eBay, but it's a lot more prevalent on Amazon because 603 00:32:07,840 --> 00:32:11,340 the fees are a lot higher. 604 00:32:11,340 --> 00:32:15,600 When it comes to numbers, I think that's the biggest hurdle for Amazon sellers. 605 00:32:15,600 --> 00:32:21,160 There's really no way to make that easy besides just having the knowledge of understanding 606 00:32:21,160 --> 00:32:25,640 profitability in a business, not sales in a business, because all you see on Amazon 607 00:32:25,640 --> 00:32:28,640 is, hey, I did this much in sales. 608 00:32:28,640 --> 00:32:31,000 Really not, hey, I made this much. 609 00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:36,080 It's one of those things where it's just like, hey, look, I did $100 in sales today. 610 00:32:36,080 --> 00:32:37,840 Well, Johnny, good for you. 611 00:32:37,840 --> 00:32:41,720 How much of that money did you actually make? 612 00:32:41,720 --> 00:32:45,760 It's a dark side that nobody really wants to put out there. 613 00:32:45,760 --> 00:32:50,760 Now I think you made a great point, and I'm going to mention Amazon's flaw. 614 00:32:50,760 --> 00:32:54,080 What a many. 615 00:32:54,080 --> 00:33:00,240 Interpreting that stupid chart, the little tornado wavy looking chart of how much you're 616 00:33:00,240 --> 00:33:06,880 getting, when you're getting it, and the little subsequent tabs in there, hot garbage. 617 00:33:06,880 --> 00:33:09,320 I hate it. 618 00:33:09,320 --> 00:33:12,760 Understanding what you sold and how much you got out of that, figuring out how to even 619 00:33:12,760 --> 00:33:14,360 navigate to that. 620 00:33:14,360 --> 00:33:16,140 This is where Amazon drops the ball. 621 00:33:16,140 --> 00:33:17,560 It's not intuitive. 622 00:33:17,560 --> 00:33:20,000 eBay, super easy. 623 00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:21,640 I can understand it instantly. 624 00:33:21,640 --> 00:33:29,800 Now, first time I saw this underwater radar chart, I'm like, what in the hell is this? 625 00:33:29,800 --> 00:33:30,800 It's got different numbers. 626 00:33:30,800 --> 00:33:35,440 I was like, okay, I had to go to YouTube to figure it out because I need somebody to explain 627 00:33:35,440 --> 00:33:36,440 it to me. 628 00:33:36,440 --> 00:33:37,440 I may have asked you a question. 629 00:33:37,440 --> 00:33:39,640 I don't remember if I did or not. 630 00:33:39,640 --> 00:33:43,040 I try not to waste your time too much. 631 00:33:43,040 --> 00:33:47,480 But it took me 20 minutes to figure out, okay, here's what they're saying, matching it up 632 00:33:47,480 --> 00:33:50,680 to what the hell I'm looking at. 633 00:33:50,680 --> 00:33:57,680 Amazon has a lot of great things going for it, but it reflecting its data to its sellers, 634 00:33:57,680 --> 00:34:00,480 unless you... There's no way you can understand it off the get go. 635 00:34:00,480 --> 00:34:01,480 I'm sorry, you can't. 636 00:34:01,480 --> 00:34:04,160 No, I agree with you there. 637 00:34:04,160 --> 00:34:08,800 I think we're going to wrap this up with one last question here. 638 00:34:08,800 --> 00:34:14,920 Do you think people make reselling a lot harder than it needs to be? 639 00:34:14,920 --> 00:34:21,920 Yes, I think people way overthink it, way overanalyze it, and they try to make it perfect. 640 00:34:21,920 --> 00:34:24,400 The other way they do it, the reverse is true. 641 00:34:24,400 --> 00:34:30,120 They try to make it the quickest way, maybe even the laziest way, just to get their time. 642 00:34:30,120 --> 00:34:34,680 They only want to spend an hour a week on it and try to figure out how they can do it 643 00:34:34,680 --> 00:34:35,880 at a big scale doing that. 644 00:34:35,880 --> 00:34:37,720 I'm sorry, that's just not possible. 645 00:34:37,720 --> 00:34:42,480 Or your account's going to get banned or broken because you didn't put forth the effort. 646 00:34:42,480 --> 00:34:43,760 You just summed it all up right there. 647 00:34:43,760 --> 00:34:47,400 A lot of people make it a lot harder than it needs to be. 648 00:34:47,400 --> 00:34:51,960 Reselling can be easy, but it's never going to be sit back, kick your feet up. 649 00:34:51,960 --> 00:34:53,960 Everything works for you and you have to do nothing. 650 00:34:53,960 --> 00:35:00,960 There is going to be work, even if you get it to that place with the VAs. 651 00:35:00,960 --> 00:35:05,720 That's going to take months and months, if not years and years of building your business, 652 00:35:05,720 --> 00:35:11,240 building processes, building procedures, kind of like we had Jared on last week. 653 00:35:11,240 --> 00:35:13,320 He's all processes, right? 654 00:35:13,320 --> 00:35:14,480 Processes before profits. 655 00:35:14,480 --> 00:35:19,800 I feel like that should be somebody's YouTube reselling slogan, so feel free to steal it. 656 00:35:19,800 --> 00:35:40,960 We appreciate you guys listening to this episode and we will talk to you next week.