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XnView MP.
Free program. I use it to folderize my pictures. Simply Shift+click the batch you want in a folder. Pres Alt+4 and it puts the selected in a folder that you name.
It does levels, contrast, colors too if you like.
To crop a photo, you press Alt+M, drag your crop box, press enter, mouse-wheel to next.
It goes without say that you want to do the least amount of editing possible for speed.
Also, look in to something that can auto-batch-crop your photos. Several things out there exist for that but I’m not sure which is best.
J&R should go. When you think of re-seller Youtubers you think of them on your list.
Heard about this thread from listening to the vlog. I am interested in going to the GW Outlets in Indy area. Are you guys experienced with the Outlets in your city? I wonder how busy they are on a weekday? I see they have regular looking shopping carts, do you just load up, pay and take to your car and wait for the next round of bins? Would you suggest wearing gloves or is that just people online being sarcastic. Any further advice? Any location suggestions? There are 4 stores. I would assume the best strategy is to get there early (for me anyway since I’m from out of town). If I arrived right at 9am would I be waiting on them to get stuff around or can I dig in right away? Thanks for the help.
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01/25/2017 at 10:03 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 294: Finding the Valuable Caches and Going All In #11116Clothing is great because you can have thousands of inventory in 1/8th of a small bedroom. Basically no storage costs. There is an unlimited supply of it and I can go to the source at anytime. Easy to ship, 65% goes in a poly bag and 30% go in a legal flat rate envelope, 5% in boxes from the Ebay store coupon. Clothing is efficient to list, no testing, limited cleaning, no counting all the pieces, no preparation. Best of all is that it’s interesting. I remember in highschool about dreaming of affording certain brands and now I can get them for next to nothing compared to the price of new. I have a Brooks Brothers alpaca and wool flannel lined jacket on as I write this and I paid less than $7 for it. This is just one example of something really exciting for me and it is all a part of the business.
01/24/2017 at 6:25 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 294: Finding the Valuable Caches and Going All In #11070Yes, all men’s clothing. My goal is to expand and add man hours.
01/22/2017 at 8:43 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 294: Finding the Valuable Caches and Going All In #10901• Total Items in Store: 633
• Items Sold: 55
• Total Sales $1,554.73
• Average Price Sold: $28.27
• Cost of Items Sold: $165This global warming gave me a 66 degree day when I was out sourcing. It was the busiest day I think where the checkout lines were 30 minutes long. These temperatures also keep people away from Ebay though. Seems like a lot of people are complaining about sales on Reddit and Youtube. I want to know if someone knows where to get information that shows Ebay sales by specific category year by year or monthly. Does something like Terrapeak offer this?
01/17/2017 at 10:30 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 293: How To Hire Your First Employee #10595My CPA says go the contractor route. I don’t think it would hold up though with a very diligent IRS auditor. The question is how diligent are the people at the IRS? I hear they are cutting back severely in funds with that department.
I would honestly rather go the employee route because of employee loyalty and long term association. Are the taxes really similar to just paying a dollar extra per hour?
01/17/2017 at 4:05 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 293: How To Hire Your First Employee #10542A lot is clear now. But still Im getting mixed signals on employee vs contractor. For me, the photo person would work from their own home and on their own time. Id be telling them how to do the photos though and probablt providing equipment.
Just sold a Brooks Brothers sweater with 3 holes in it for $55.
01/16/2017 at 9:35 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 293: How To Hire Your First Employee #10471• Total Items in Store: 643
• Items Sold: 68
• Total Sales $1,630.02
• Average Price Sold: $23.97Squareup isn’t available in my state. So I am looking at a similar company Patriot. There’s a really good tutorial on how to do payroll yourself on Excel by Tutoring Pop https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kun-aYUz_M&index=2&list=WL
Sorry Just now seeing your reply.
I list 11 things a day or maybe 10 if I’m low on time. I list about 5.5-6 days a week.
I do it all in a 300 sq ft space (office + storage).1:30:00 to 2:00:00 to do 11 listings which are typically similar (shirts, jackets, pants) but times slow when you run in to something that needs spot cleaned, or if its a very wrinkled garment that needs steaming. This process also involves measurements, packaging, and weighing. This does not include the actual listing part. This is done with a flat lay style photography. My average sale price is $25 and I source things around $3.
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I thought this was so cool that someone else discovered this and made an educational video on it.
Using this method gives you the power to know (not guess) what to pick and how much to list it for.
Jay, $2.96 is my cost of goods average for 2016.
Sales $2140.08
Quantity 82
Avg $26.09
Returns 0.98% in Q4Highest week ever by about $400. Funny how last week was barely $1000 because of Holiday broke and drunk people. Bought an Accord EX manual sedan that gets 35mpg and it is so far a much better car for the business. Easier to put bags in and more space.
Could be my mind over thinking it but I wonder if anyone has experienced this. When I price my goods I price everything to the same formula which is basically on the high end of solds. I then run a perpetual sale that ends every 24 hours. Well when I do 33% off I get nearly double or triple the amount of sales as when I do 32% off. I wonder if buyers have an app that show individual sellers pricing trends and see that I bounce from 33% to 32% daily. Or, I could simply be right at the perfect price vs demand curve at 33%. I think it is weird how exponential the difference of 1% makes though. It could be just coincidental around the times eBay is recovering from the holidays.
How many items can you photograph in an hour?
Here is a picture of some cool pants.
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