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Jay, Ryanne: I bought a new truck from GM. Later, I went back and told them I paid too much. This truck is probably worth $25,000 instead of the $35,000 I paid. They are going to get back to me. I’m still waiting.
07/28/2017 at 12:29 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 320: Spinning Plates, Keeping It All Going #20973It’s all part of the AI (Artificial Intelligence) revolution that’s coming our way. Even if this doesn’t work very well Ebay and other sites will be expanding beyond textual-based searching. I agree, this could be very hacky out of the gate, but these times are a-changing.
07/27/2017 at 5:23 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 320: Spinning Plates, Keeping It All Going #20937eBay will soon allow buyers to search for items using images Similar to what they are looking for. https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/27/16048884/ebay-shop-photo-matching-artificial-intelligence-ai
07/25/2017 at 1:02 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 320: Spinning Plates, Keeping It All Going #20767T-Satt: I can whole-heartedly agree with you on newbies or maybe not-so-newbies who come to work for whatever sized company and immediately have unrealistic demands. I was green at one time too and it took me a while to realize that it takes a lot of work to be successful, stay ahead of the competition, etc.
07/24/2017 at 12:53 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 320: Spinning Plates, Keeping It All Going #20677I’m actually going to disagree or augment what Jay and T-Satt stated about, “We’d be better off if the majority ran a small business rather than be an employee”.
1. Not everyone is up to the task of running their own business.
2. I believe we are better off when we have strong businesses all across the spectrum.
a. Strong small businesses tend to be more nimble.
b. Medium sized business are great as well.
c. Large businesses have the resources to take on tasks that small and medium sized business can achieve. Large companies can also make products affordable for people other than the wealthy. You’d never have a smartphone developed by a mom-and-pop company.
3. I agree people would be better off and certainly appreciate what it takes to run a business if we all had to have some idea of how accounting, sales, customer satisfaction, etc. worked.07/24/2017 at 8:29 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 320: Spinning Plates, Keeping It All Going #20665I saw this news story. I thought of Jay and that he might like it. http://www.nbcnews.com/business/your-business/why-does-everyone-suddenly-seem-have-side-hustle-n783771
07/13/2017 at 1:12 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 318: Spending Money Should Be Painful #20333I agree with Jay and Ryanne that spending money should be painful. I know you guys aren’t into buying new cars and that’s fine. I have a few automatic payments set up for our land-line phone (my wife refuses to allow us to get rid of it) and heating/cooling. However, I refuse to automate any other bills like our credit card. We buy lots of stuff on the credit card, but pay it off each month. It would be a very poor move on my part, in my opinion to have that bill automatically deducted each month. It is way to easy to spend. I tell my teenage daughter that I need to feel the pain of writing out that check each month.
07/11/2017 at 1:37 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 318: Spending Money Should Be Painful #20253T-Salt: I am not talking about detailed investment or financial planning. I talking about a person who miss represents himself. The President of the U.S. gets criticized for “alternative facts” as well he should if he’s making stuff up. I’m saying Robert Kiyosaki is selling lots of books, giving paid seminars (some are free where he sells merchandise) and panders to people with his “alternative facts”. Remember Oprah and, “A Million Little Pieces”? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Million_Little_Pieces
Same thing with Kiyosaki except he’s still selling his lies and becoming more rich as a result. I’d prefer to buy a book from someone who really has used these techniques. Check out this book, “The Millionaire Next Door“. Excellent book with a similar, but truthful message
07/11/2017 at 11:29 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 318: Spending Money Should Be Painful #20244There are so many good sources for financial guidance. I would not suggest Robert Kiyosaki or his “Rich Dad, Poor Dad” book as a source for this information. He did declare bankruptcy, which doesn’t necessarily prove him to be bad. A person could learn a lot form that experience. However, the main premise of his book, Rich Dad, Poor Dad was made up. I think Kiyosaki’s book even states in the front of the book that some portions may not be factual. See this link for more information.
It is Saturday 9:45 PM CST. Ebay is having trouble producing labels. I called Ebay. They said lots of people are having this problem. Told me to wait an hour or so to try it again.
My wife tells me we’re back in the land of broadband Internet now. 🙂
Stupid squirrel chewed through some lines on the telephone pole next to our house. Killed the squirrel and our Internet connection last Saturday. I thought it fried our modem so I bought a new one, but that didn’t fix the problem. Called the media company a couple times and finally we figured out that they have to come out and fix something on the pole. They’re supposed to come out on Thursday. I did go buy a hot spot so we had some form of connection (other than cell) over the 4th of July weekend. I did sell some stuff. Had to go to the library to print labels because we couldn’t connect to the wireless printer and I wasn’t going to fight with it since hopefully everything will be back up and running on Thursday. My wife was home on vacation from her job so she wasn’t too happy either. Have a good day.
06/30/2017 at 1:36 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 316: Craigslist Road Trips- We Live For A Deal #19929Steve Shultz: Did you get a new dog?
06/16/2017 at 9:14 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 314: Selling on eBay while in the Military #19470Jay: The item that had an issue with the warranty was a lug or t-wrench. Here is the link. http://www.ebay.com/itm/391389310265 I think I originally did a sell-similar on someone else’s listing. I guess they had the Warranty attribute selected.
06/14/2017 at 12:38 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 314: Selling on eBay while in the Military #19400I thought I would pass along this (possible) tip. I received one of those emails/messages from eBay this week stating that some of my items need to be updated. I clicked on the link to review the items. One of them had eBay verbiage in red stating that there was a problem with the Warranty attribute on one of mu items. It stated that “No” was not a valid Warranty type. In the interface that was provided “No” was an option, but maybe that was just because that was what I had specified. I selected the “No warranty” option and submitted the change. The item sold the next day. It had been listed for many months, maybe a year.
It could be a coincidence or maybe eBay had previously considered this an invalid item until the attribute was fixed and after I fixed it they may have pushed the item up in the search rankings. Whatever happened the item sold quickly after I fixed the attribute.
The tip is to not ignore eBay’s suggestions for fixing listing defects.
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