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An update video was posted yesterday on a homeless guy he helped a year ago. The comments are full of Bible proverbs, the true meaning of Christmas, the viewers saying they are better people just by their viewing. It’s starting to sound like a cult.
I agree on the proliferation of reseller videos. I’ve seen some resellers say that it is a vital part of their income stream and are encouraging others to do it, so that’s part of it. I don’t get how they are all attracting their own audiences to make it worth it. Are they all just making or watching reseller videos for 10 hours a day to support each other? Do they not have actual hobbies or interests outside of this bubble?
Sold for $13
12/16/2019 at 1:30 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 441: How Do I Go From Rookie to Veteran Scavenger? #71743I received my 11,000th feedback on my main Ebay store this weekend! 😀 Now onto 12,000!
I also did what I said I was never going to do – I turned my 2nd Ebay store into a Premium store. I was fine on the basic store level forever with it, but I’ve gotten a lot of new items in that will not work well with my main Ebay store. I’ve also been sitting on about 100+ items I haven’t wanted to list because I didn’t have the free listing space with the basic store. I also asked my husband what I should do and he said to upgrade the store, so I just listened to him and stopped overthinking it.
I was thinking about merging the 2 stores together, but my main niche store is hovering around 13,000 items as it is. Since I’m already way over the limit of “free” listings, it wasn’t worth it to add up to an additional 500 listings that don’t go along with the theme of my main store. As a bonus, I was able to use the $50 free coupon to get more free shipping supplies, yay.
I had 5 Etsy sales this past week. I had a really slow start to December with only 1 Etsy sale, so it was nice to have it working again. I have a small pile of items I’m going to list to it today since the store seems to be overall working out.
Here are my last 10 starting dates for Ebay sales. I still haven’t ended/relisted any items because I’m lazy and don’t care:
Start time: Aug 04, 2019 12:56:47 PDT
Start time: Nov 19, 2019 11:26:00 PST
Start time: Nov 19, 2019 11:26:30 PST
Start time: Jul 05, 2018 04:40:57 PDT
Start time: Nov 05, 2019 13:20:20 PST
Start time: Oct 20, 2019 11:23:45 PDT
Start time: May 31, 2019 13:07:43 PDT
Start time: May 29, 2019 11:11:58 PDT
Start time: Jun 01, 2019 10:47:07 PDT
Start time: Jun 01, 2019 12:22:35 PDTAlso, have you noticed how vicious the people in the comments of his videos are? They call anyone who questions what he has to say “haters” or “jealous.” They say “you have no right to ask for more information about what he’s going through. He’s obviously going through a difficult time. He shows what he wants to show, his personal life is none of your business.” He has made his personal life everyone’s entertainment! Also, if someone is constantly asking the viewers for money for idea or effort of another, you have EVERY RIGHT to question WHY. Ugh.
I’ve never posted comments on his videos (or any Youtube video) because I don’t want to fight the onslaught of insanity over this guy lol.
Yeah, I was thinking about this video again last night too. I was trying to figure out what made me feel weird about him, and I realized it’s the constant asking for hand-outs. Hand-outs for the Potter’s House Lady, hand-outs for Hans, hand-outs for the homeless guy he gave money to a year ago. If you’re actually a good guy, just donate money to people and are quiet about it. Real decent people don’t post public youtube videos in order to elicit sympathy. Real decent people don’t constantly show off how good of people they are; they are just good people.
If he’s making $250,000 a year off youtube alone, without including his shop, why does he need to constantly ask for money from his viewers to help people? All in the persona of a nice guy with a friendly smile, family, etc,. It actually sort of creeps me out.
It’s working fine on desktop mode for me. Sent 15 last night and 8 more this morning. 1 just resulted in a sale as I am typing this.
I don’t use it on the phone, so I don’t know how that’s working.
Yep, the original story was completely misleading and clickbaity. He reposted the video with context at the beginning.
I don’t know why he just didn’t post that originally. I’m sure his intentions are “good,” but how am I supposed to know what “good” is as a viewer as I only see one side of a person as portrayed by that person in the videos they post? I still don’t like how the original video was misleading, so I’m going to still feel sort of shady about this whole thing no matter what.
Yeah, the Ebay catalog is garbage compared to Amazon or the way Half was. Even when the ISBN pulls up the correct book, you have to make sure it has the right binding and publication information. It’s wrong a lot of the time, so you have to correct it in your own listing so the buyer knows what they are getting.
I don’t sell as many cds and dvds as books, but I find the catalog information to be better for them when I do list them, if the titles are even available.
You’re probably gated on Amazon for CDs and DVDs. Some books are also gated for new sellers.
How odd. In the original video he said he wanted to give the proceeds to his mom and other relatives that had money stolen from them. I guess if he’s not going to give the money to them, it would be sort of fraudulent for people to bid with the intention of helping out his family members?
If you look at comments on his Facebook page, there are people stating that they are going to bid to help out his family. Hmmm…
Oh, also according to the suggested pages, Crazy Lamp Lady is also “Relic Recoverist” on Youtube. Spike TV just needs to give her her own reality show at this point.
Did anyone else go on a cleaning binge after watching the Potter’s House?
Ah, thanks for the update. I guess I should read more of the Ebay messages that come my way.
I saw that video the other day and my eyes were like O O the entire time! You’d have to hire a small staff of 5-10 people alone to make headway into that type of inventory. Since a lot of that stuff looks unmovable due to the sheer amount of it, you’d have to also rent that warehouse space for probably thousands a month. Where else could you possibly move it all to? There are already tight aisles several feet high all through the warehouse, so you’d need a warehouse that size or much larger just to handle it all and have office space for processing. I’d think you have to have an additional $10k-15k alone the first month or so to cover the cost of warehouse space and staff to start processing it, so an $8k cost is more like an $18-25k+ cost right off the bat before you’ve sold a single item. I don’t blame him for auctioning the bulk of it off right away, especially since he still has the extreme expenses from the Potter’s House.
I think a lot of this might be down to normal market fluctuations – my sales on Monday were incredibly high on both of my main stores – Amazon and Ebay. Tuesday, sales were slow on both stores until the evening. Today, sales are steady and consistent on both stores and it is still early in the day. I’ve added nothing in weeks to my Amazon store and have hardly had the chance to list much on Ebay and both stores are performing the exact same way for this time of year.
New items listed might draw attention to the new listings and bring in sales that way, but I do not believe they overall drive the sales ability of a store.
The first rule of online scavenging is not to talk about online scavenging! Just kidding. I’m so into online scavenging that I’m currently working my way through a 3 week free trial of Eflip. It’s not exactly for me, but I get how it can be utilized to make good buying decisions. I’ve also purchased a few good items that I’m glad I had the subscription to find. I don’t know if I’ll keep it beyond the trial period, but it has been fun.
We had 25 packages go out Saturday, over 50 go out today, another 25 going out tomorrow that have been labeled. Since printing slips for the shipment going out tomorrow at 8 this morning, I’ve had another 16 items sell on Ebay that will be shipped out in 7 packages, as well as 8 new Amazon orders come in. Going from 1 ship out to the next. I also had time to sneak into a convenience store to get snacks after bringing the mail in and managed to do some RA lol. Yay Q4
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