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Welcome JFH. Where do you dumpster dive? Are you actually going behind businesses and seeing what’s in their dumpsters?
11/15/2016 at 8:08 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 284: Where did you learn about money? #5908You seem to have consistently solid weeks. Shows that you’ve really built that pipeline.
You could try CL to find employee. We took our time and looked into our network of people we knew. A daughter of some friends made sense because we knew we could trust her.
This sounds like true scavenging like what Martin does in Montreal: https://garbagefinds.com/
If you like buying and selling plush, then no problem.
But if you really aren’t making good profit, then it seems you could spend your time better on other items.or just focus on buying plush you KNOW will sell for $50+.
You can pay extra for tracking, but no way to get it free if you just want to put on the stamp.
So you either save money on shipping but get no tracking.
or you mail it with tracking for a little extra.Why not just charge the buyer a little extra shipping for the security?
11/15/2016 at 2:12 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 284: Where did you learn about money? #5890I wouldn’t talk to young kids about salaries. The numbers are too abstract. Sounds like you have a good system of talking about money.
But I would have benefited as a teenager if my parents had been transparent about their income and expenses. This would have taken a whole different relationship between us which would requite much more openness about a lot of things.
There’s obvious shame/fear when it comes to talking about money with even your spouse, let alone kids or friends. Do I make enough? Am I good enough? Will they think I’m wasteful? Will they think I’m bragging?
Being transparent about money is like talking about sex.
11/15/2016 at 2:06 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 283: Running Our Businesses Without A Safety Net #5889Would you mind sharing what kind they were? Im always looking for these expensive tapes, but no luck yet!
Amazing that you already have 6000 items and want to almost double it.
What’s your process for listing, assuming you’re doing it alone.
Because you sell books and ephemera (photos, postcards?), I assume listing is much quicker?Agreed on search. I’ll see if we can’t just show truncated posts.
And yes, we need to make the mobile version of the forum dynamic so it resizes for the phone. It looks better on landscape mode.
Welcome guys. It’s always amazing to hear the ways which we all found the scavenging life. Really glad you could be there for your father. What other people say doesn’t matter.
Its really just a numbers game. I think some people become angry or suspicious because it sounds too good to be true. You need a certain amount of money to pay bills and live. If you can make this money on eBay, then you solved the equation. People want to make it more complicated, but it’s not.
That’s incredible! You are the master of identification.
11/15/2016 at 6:56 am in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 284: Where did you learn about money? #5838The fact that you made over $2k last week is proof something is working.
We’ve been enjoying/hating focusing on our death piles over the last 18 months. We’re hoping to be completely finished with our backlog this winter. It doesn’t make sense to have unlisted inventory piling up.
11/14/2016 at 7:50 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 284: Where did you learn about money? #5823Good question. Jim is at his annual Ecuador event: http://jlcollinsnh.com/category/chautauqua/
When he comes back, I’m sure he’ll pop in here.I feel that once you start having serious income, you can afford healthcare.
Its simply not affordable for working people.11/14/2016 at 7:47 pm in reply to: Scavenger Life Episode 284: Where did you learn about money? #5822I guess if you keep anything for 30 years, it’ll be valuable. It was a crap car.
Extremely helpful. It’s the tags that we never used properly.
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