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Yeah, it just looks like basic stuff that you’d look at and go “oh, that might be worth something on Ebay” and sure enough, it is. It’s just large, so you need to pack it carefully, or crate it, or have UPS pack & ship for you if it’s actually valuble. Or do local pick-up. Or sell it locally. Pay $597 to learn when to box up an item or crate it. Gawd.
Oh god, $597 to make $3k-$7k a month. That’s not even that much money.
anyone seen “becoming a god in central florida?”. i’ve been looking forward to watching it at some point. just came out this week.
“On Becoming a God in Central Florida” is a dark comedy starring award-winning actress Kirsten Dunst that takes place in a small town that is adjacent to Orlando in the early 1990s. Dunst plays Krystal Stubbs, a minimum wage employee at a waterpark who is looking for a better life. To reach her goal, she lies, cheats and cons her way up the ranks of Founders American Merchandise (FAM), a cultish pyramid scheme that ruined her family in the first place. As Krystal dives deeper into FAM, things take on a very serious turn as the business begins to affect everyone that is close to her.
Yeah, exactly, you can tell people that you “worked” only 2 hours a week, but then leave out the part of the thousands of hours of work that went into you only having to work for 2 hours that one week. You are technically not lying. It’s slick what they do. A lot of these people are selling only partially true information like that.
pdf BOLO lists? Yeah, I never understood those. I also don’t get paying for webinars. I guess they were for clothes? Toys? Current popular items?
Ebay and Terapeak provide free information on current trends and pricing. Going to Target/Walmart/Best Buy/other websites shows what people are looking for and buying now for new items. I really don’t see the advantage of paying someone else to do the work, because you’re just paying for relatively current information. You’re not paying to learn how to figure it out yourself and create your own BOLO lists.
I went out sourcing at thrift stores for the first time in 2 months the other day and instantly thought “oh my god, I can’t wait until winter comes so I can just list through my backlog without interruption again.” It was sort of fun in a way since it had been so long, but it was also exhausting. I guess it’s fun when you’re just doing it part-time, but when it’s full-time it sort of loses its shiny appeal unless you specifically think of it as “this is a fun date activity, we can get something to eat after doing this, it’ll pay for this meal, not our bills” sort of fun expectations.
I also wonder what is up with the people that think they want to work 2 hours a day, or 2 hours a week. What will they do with all of that free time? Watch more Netflix? Post more on Reddit?
I see some funny posts on FIRE reddit, or articles on Marketwatch pop up about 30 year-olds that retire early and are bored as hell. Some just go back to work after a year or two. Others are clearly unhappy. People don’t realize they have to manage free time as they would work time. They think that not working will make them happy, but it is its own form of misery for a lot of people.
I honestly thought this forum was more immune to this sort of hustling pressure, so it is a bit shocking to read this thread and see that multiple people have been taken in by “gurus.” Whether they have proven helpful or not, eh, that’s not the point to an extent. At the very least, if you’ve got something good going on, you will not declare it in public for free. You will not even declare it for pay. The “gurus” might have a good thing going for them, but they will tell you about other commonsense ways to develop your business. They will not freely share their sources, they will not tell you how to actually think and develop ways to actually better yourself in your business. No one would do that for $200 or $300. They will tell you what you want to hear, what you can use to make some money right away (not even that in some cases, as referenced in that article above), even though it is not sustainable.
A “guru” will reference his bank account, but the high number in his bank account might be from being a guru, or working on a business that is not the one he will have you pay for him to talk about. It is bait & switch. It is smoke & mirrors. It is real, but it is not real.
Ebay businesses are good, basic exploratory learning process towards stepping up and creating actual businesses. Ebay businesses are also actual businesses. However, they will never be referenced like that by gurus. You will hear them being discussed as “get rich quick,” “how I made $1,000 by going to Goodwill in 1 hour this afternoon.” They will give you tools and ideas to quickly set-up something, anything, but they are not sustainable. They will show you the “fun” of going out sourcing, but not the “fun” of packing, listing, photographing, going to the post office, doing it again the next day, and the next.
Who can run a sustainable business? The only person that can run one is you. That is how all businesses work – long, thought-out research and work. Processes put in place. Work. Organization. Notes. Implementation. Changes. More organizing. More notes. More work. A nonstop loop. That is reality. A “guru” cannot actually change your reality, no matter how much hw sells you the idea that what you are doing is wrong and that what he is doing is the right and only way.
“But Behdjou and Gazzola have a growing list of unhappy clients. One, Molly Cox, lost around $40,000 selling meal-prep containers on Behdjou and Gazzola’s advice. Others told me they’re out $4,000, $4,600, $9,000. In a secret Facebook group, dozens of them have gathered to discuss attempts to get their money back and seek advice about how to unload hundreds of unsold jar openers, locking carabiners, and lemon squeezers.”
did they ever take a moment to stop and think about what they were selling?
My dream announcement for the 4th: Unlimited fixed price listings, 2,000 free auctions for $400 a month!
Most likely my reality: $400 for 10,000 fixed price listings, no more free mailing supplies to better serve our customers, increased final value fees!:'(
Yikes, well, that’s imaginative!
You can list used makeup on Mecari.
seriously everything can be found on this podcast or forum lol.
Ah, it sounds like people are paying more for motivation than for mentoring. I can’t even imagine waking up at 3 am daily, geez. From looking at her store, it looks like she sells 500-600 items per month. I’m going to estimate gross sales from 9k-14 a month. That’s just Ebay alone, not sure what her poshmark numbers are like. That is a really good monthly income.
I can see sustaining that level of work and sales for a few years in order to retire early, or to eventually coast by on half the level of of work, but not indefinitely.
$200 for a month of phone calls? Am I reading that correctly? Good lord.
Her store appears to be a lot of fast-moving, low-dollar items. What is there to learn? The Goodwill Outlet is full of clothing like that. What are you paying $200 for? These mentorships are so confusing.
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