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He has a much heavier duty construction than what we have. Ours is a steel frame with steel panels. Three guys installed it in about 8 hours. It’s solid, but definitely just a large glorified shed.
Our building and insulation looks like this: https://gatorbackcarports.com/3214-2/
It cant hurt covering up in the raw metal. I think it does help keep the sun from cooking the insides. We were told it also keeps condensation from collecting on the metal and dripping into the building.
But I imagine trying to heat/cool the building with all the air cracks + concrete floor….and see money flying out the door. I’d want to spray foam the walls if I really wanted a temperature controlled room.
eBay is a like a self-correcting machine
03/28/2021 at 8:15 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 507: The Professionalization of Online Selling #87089That’s right. Are you the one who was babysitting a warehouse for a year while waiting for the company to dissolve?
Did you end up in another full time job in a similar field?
A big storage like that will be great.
Our steel building came with the double bubble foil insulation, but I was surprised how thin it is. I cant imagine it does much good because its so thin. It’s like bubble wrap we use in packing.
It’s said to have maybe R-1 value: https://www.greenbuildingadvisor.com/article/stay-away-from-foil-faced-bubble-wrap
If I wanted our steel building to be climate controlled, I’d put in stud walls and put in real insulation.
Yeah, might have been stills that aren’t in the movie. It does seem pretty crazy plot for a movie in the 1920’s.
Just found the movie through some searching. I think you could safely list as such and let a real movie buff correct us.
I’d vote for Devil’s Cabaret. https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/401326/the-devils-cabaret/#overview
The devil gives his assistant the task of getting more people into hell, which the assistant does through a swinging nightclub.
Sounds like fun for 1928!
If you sell clothes, I highly recommend having climate controlled space.
But if you just sell hard goods, your building will be fine. Cooling a space that big will not be cheap. Double bubble is nice but thats more to keep it the metal walls/ceiling from dripping moisture. I know our metal building is very very NOT airtight.
03/28/2021 at 10:24 am in reply to: A blocked non-paying bidder opened case 2 months later for INR #87056That is very weird. Sounds like a glitch as eBay continues to fiddle with things behind the scenes.
Be interesting to see how this plays out. I know there’s are those sellers who purposely keep their sales under the current threshold so they can keep the money tax free.
In 10 years eBay will extend the feedback length to 100,000,000 characters and explain to sellers that “it’s just business” and to “get creative” by offering novel-length feedback as purchasable, leather-bound publications via vanity press for display in their homes.
Our grandchildren will write PHD thesis on the dramatic back and forth of product feedback of articular items.
03/27/2021 at 12:12 pm in reply to: Thoughts on selling mint condition 1838 Queen’s Coronation Newspaper #87037I love it. If $500 is high but yours is in better condition, then $2000 makes sense with Make Offer. If you’re patient, you’ll hopefully see collectors send offers and help you determine the market. You can always lower the price.
This week, we sold a stuffed coyote for $500 (purchased at the dump for $20). The history of sales for stuffed animals was $300 at the highest, but our coyote was really cool because it was in a “growling posture”. We listed it at $650 with Make Offer.
It took eights months and we got an offer of $500 (plus $200 shipping). Result.
Yeah, pace yourself. It’s a marathon and not a sprint.
Big congrats. We know that excitement well of selling things we found for cheap and making real money!
Not sure what your long term goal is, but the biggest challenge to any scavenger is endurance. You had a great two months, but what can you do to do that for six months, a year, three years? Burnout takes out more scavengers than anything else I’ve seen.
But if you can build good systems, sell items you enjoy being around, and balance your time between work and play, eBay can be a pipeline that keeps pumping out cash and buying your time.
It’s a double edged sword. I’m torn.
The current feedback system is garbage. You currently learn nothing about the item or seller with so few words so now at least we can get some context. But it may just be more room for grumpy people to be grumpy.
Overall though, it’s much more in line with every other online selling platform.
03/26/2021 at 3:51 pm in reply to: If Law Passes Georgia Sellers Will Have to Put Personal Info in Every Listing #87011What’s the reasoning for this law? What problem are they trying to solve?
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