eBay Buyer Told Me To F**K OFF! | S08E04

In today's episode we’re talking about the weird, wonderful, and sometimes completely bonkers interactions we have with buyers online. Whether it’s lowball offers, bizarre questions, angry messages, or even someone telling you to F.O. So grab a brew and let’s share some reselling battle scars.

I'm joined by the infamous "Bargain Bell" for this podcast.

Plus the usual honest interactive reseller chat you've become accustomed to!

My YouTube channel - https://www.youtube.com/@CarBoot_Chris?sub_confirmation=1

My Website - http://www.carbootchris.com

Transcript

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Welcome back to the podcast. In today's episode, we're talking about the weird, wonderful, and sometimes completely bonkers interactions we have with buyers online. Whether it's lowball offers, bizarre questions, angry messages, or even someone telling you to fuck off. Well, grab a brew and let's share some reselling battle scars. My name's Chris, aka Camaboot Chris, and I'm a full-time UK online reseller. I operate mainly on eBay, but also on vintage and whatnot. I'm bringing a regular podcast all about reselling with a bit of fun thrown in too. Hopefully to keep your company to entertain you and maybe a little bit of education. Who knows? Welcome to the Everything Reselling Podcast. Good evening, everybody. Welcome back. Welcome back to Monday, the podcast, our Monday night show. Every week we're here. I'm Carboot Chris. Bargain Bell is with us today. Say hello to everybody. Hi, everyone. There you go. That's pretty much all you're getting out of it tonight. But yeah, welcome. Thank you for taking the time to join us on the show. If you're listening back, if you're listening on Spotify or Apple Music or any of your favourite audio channels, then thank you very much for listening today. And um, hopefully you'll join us again in the future. And maybe one day you'll come and join us live on YouTube on a Monday night at 8 pm. Because that's where these podcasts originate from. So yeah, welcome everybody. How's Belle? Tired. Tired. She's had a radio therapy this this late this afternoon, haven't you? Yeah, and it's made me very tired. Maybe that hasn't made me tired. Maybe I'm just tired, but definitely tired. I think you were tired anyway, so it's like a double whammy, isn't it? Let's see who we've got in the chat. Make sure you get hellos in the chat, guys and girls. Get your hellos in because Bell is going to say hello to as many people as possible in our live chat here on YouTube. Excuse me. In just a moment. But coming up on the show, we're going to share all our buyer craziness that we've had lately. Have a think about experiences that you've had with your eBay buyers, your vintage buyers, maybe your Depop buyers, maybe your Facebook buyers, any of those. Have a look about weird. We want to hear about weird interactions, maybe angry stuff, maybe some drama, maybe some just sheer craziness. Let us know. I've got one to share. Belle's got a bit of a weird one to share as well. Even though she doesn't sell a lot, she still gets weirdos, don't you? Well, just yeah, guess they are. Guess they are. Yeah. So, yeah, get your thinking caps on and just put a pin in it and we'll come back to it shortly. So Belle's gonna say hello now to as many people as possible. And just give us two seconds while we line up the uh the music. I've not sorted it out. Hang on a second. School boy era. And we're doing for a minute. One minute, get your hellos in, off you go. So we've got Kevin Hawthorne, Jeff Davis, Alice, Abu Chris, Helen Graham, uh, Deborah Sardine, Karen Evans, Mark Hill, Republican Picker, Pixel Fix, Limelight Vinta, Chris Tyler, Paul Hillman, Speed Foot Flips, Lizzie Scotty Dogs Crafts, Kirky Vintro, Nothing Major, Dan, Cyril Smith, Rosie Marsden, and Fluffy the Muffin. That's it. That's it. That's so quick tonight. Everybody's quiet tonight. Where's everybody? Everybody's quiet tonight. You did that in about 30 seconds. Well, that's because the chat's that big. The music's still going. I mean, that is the quickest ever, isn't it? Yeah. Uh Fluffy the Muffin says, sending you lots of love. Thank you. And Dan said, I'm selling new boxes of Pokemon cards on Facebook. People message me saying they're interested, then well, then they disappear. That is just a typical one, that Dan. It's one of the things that just puts me off with Facebook a lot. 60 people in here. Some of them aren't really chatters. I know. No chatters. Some lurkers. Lurkers, not. Who's lurking? Put your hands up in the chat. You don't even have to speak. Just put your hands up and do an emoji just to let us know you're a lurker. And that's all I want. Just give us an emoji of some kind. Emsdem's joined us. Hi, Emsdem. And Night's Life. Oh, Night's Life is in. Jewels B says some of us are lurking. There we go. Jewels has come out of the lurkings. Oh. Just for you. Cavalis. Once I listed several dog collars on marketplace, all different sizes and colours. And the moral of that story is the moral is the story. What? Have we missed something there? Kirky Vintro has given us a wave. Maybe a lurker. Hello to the lurker. I know they did say hello before. Is that a new name? Yeah, I think so. Yeah, I'm not sure about the name. Some best wishes for Belle. We've got Dorothy Watkinson's lurking. Hi, Dorothy. Paul Jokes from Wales, who was at the car boot the other day. Jeff says lurkers, it's not stalking until a judge says it is. Technically, it's not if you're putting yourself out there for everyone to lurk. Liz says I'm having trouble left-handed. What does that mean? I don't know. People are putting a lot of cryptic stuff in the chat, aren't they? Sandra Pag said, Hi, I'm lurking. Well, I think that's eating my tea, not rating my tea. Could be rating a tea, I guess. Rating. I give it a five out of ten. Our tea was a very simplistic one. While I was in my radio therapy session, Chris went to Aldi, didn't you? And got you got a packet of rice and a packet of chicken. Chicken and rice. Chicken and rice. And I had two ships. So yeah. Steady cam man's in. Dan says, where does the summer go? I know. If you look at the weather forecast now, it looks like that's it for summer, doesn't it? It just looks like rain for the next 10 days. Although you can never really trust it, because apparently the weather app on your phone, it has to show you the worst case scenario for the day, which is stupid, isn't it? That's what you said, wasn't it? Yeah. It shows you the worst case. So if there's a chance, even if it's like a minute of rain, they have to put it on, but it's gonna happen. That's what my forecast says for the next 10 days. Every single day. Rain, rain, rain, rain, rain, rain, rain, rain, rain. But what happens is when you go into it, that's a bad example. When you go into one. Oh, have we just got rain? It's basically just rain the whole time. But it's stupid, isn't it? It makes it really depressing because then you just think there's permanently rain. When you do that, you need to change it to the precipitation, and then it gives you a better idea how many times it rained that day. Yeah. Okay. I can't be bothered, but I'm just giving it an example. But aren't you glad that I said cut the grass yesterday? Yes, we did need to cut the grass. Uh Rob Walker, let the music play. I'm lurking. Always enjoy. Hello. Nice to meet you. Thank you for dropping in. Deb says her heating is on. To be fair, I was asleep. No way. I was asleep under the blanket before we came up. No way, that's ridiculous. It's June. It's the first of June. You don't put the heating on. I don't care how cold it is out there. There is no heating going on in this house until at least December the 1st. That's probably right. I do apologise. Lizzie. Oh, Lizzie Scott's got a broken wrist. Oh. Yes, she did tell me. She did tell me. I'm sorry. I hope you're doing okay. Sending lots of loves, Lizzie. Hope it's better soon. Pumpkin Picker says, I got sent a lowball offer for a vintage new inbox pancake pan on vintage. I counted, they sent an even lower offer. Oh, this is a bit like one of yours, isn't it? Than the first. Then they blame their child. I said I didn't believe them, so they called me rude. Oh god. It's just a nightmare, isn't it? Get rid of the weather out, get a weather rock much more accurate. Cookie wants cooler weather. She does. Cookie definitely wants cooler weather. She's not been coping very well. Wow, Pixel Fix has put the heating on as well. Are you crazy? These are the months, right, guys? This is just a bit of like these are the months you need to bank that energy bill so that you can pay for winter. Seriously. But if you're cold, you're cold. Put a jumper on, put a dressing gown on, put two pairs of socks on. Anything but the heating. You're just lucky that I going through hot flushes. Going through hot flushes. So I'm running at like a few degrees hotter than normal these days, so I'm not cold at all, hardly ever. Peter Ray said it's still quite hot down south. I mean, it was 18 degrees today here and it was wet. It was very wet. It's been raining. It was still 18 degrees. That is not heating weather for me. No way. We took the dog out at half seven this morning for a walk, didn't we? And I put my cardigan on thinking it's gonna be cold. By the time we'd got to the prom, I'd taken it off and was walking around in bare arms because I was boiling. Bare arms. First of June, you're kidding me. But I'm not being I know we're talking a lot about this warmth and weather and stuff, but last night in bed, I was boiling. I woke up a couple of times. I was sweating last night. I I almost got up and opened the windows. I was that warm last night. That's because I forgot to change the quilt over when I changed the bed into our summer quilt. We've still got the winter one on. Oh, we've still got winter on. Yeah. Yeah, Peter Ray's Peter Ray's got it. Geez, wow, put a jumper on and save the electric mill. 16 degrees. That's still not that's still not heat in weather. But if you need it, you need it. But for me, I would not put it out. Chris's new channel name is Credit Chris. Credit Crunch Chris. Yeah. Not CBC, CCC. Yeah. Okay. Before we crack on with the show, and before we talk about the crazies, uh, which is what we're all here for, I want to say a big thank you to all our members. I get it out of the way because sometimes I forget and that's not good at all. So scrolling across the bottom of the screen right now is all our channel members here on YouTube. Thank you everybody for supporting the channel. It really does help us. It helps us continue the duck race, it helps us give out free prizes, it helps us post stuff, and it just helps support us for the channel. So thank you very, very much. It's $2.99 a month for just one level. One level, $2.99 a month. It's less than a Greg's latte, I think just about. And that gets you into our Discord as well. So it is if you want a medium latte. Exactly. Yeah, or a toffee latte or something like that. So it gets you into our Discord with a lovely little group of resellers and a few non-resellers as well. And we just chat shop and non-shop. So if you fancy joining that, come and join us. And we appreciate everybody who's scrolling across the bottom of the screen, all our members. Thank you all very, very much. Just looking at Monkey Thrifter there. Not seeing Monkey Frifter for a little while. Hope he comes back soon. He's um he's he is is on a sabbatical. I don't know. No, he's on Facebook, so I'll still see him in his pubs and his he's probably off on holiday again, isn't he? Yeah, he's he's bobbing around. And Tam's not been on either recently, has he? He's kind of sort of having a no, he's been on here, but he's not put out any videos recently. So hopefully we'll see Tam again soon. 28 degrees in North Carolina. Won't be 28 degrees when we come to visit. That is nice. Sadie Cam Cam says I sold a DVD in the early days of Amazon. The buyer gave me bad feedback because they didn't enjoy the film. Oh, brilliant. Can't write it, can you? Cannot write it. Kavalis said, once I listed several dog colours on marketplace, all different sizes, colours, etc. A guy messaged about one of them and made an arrangement to collect from my home address. Is there a punchline with that? I don't know if this is going over both our heads, Cavallas, because this is the second time you've tried to say this to us. Is there is there more to that story? Have I missed something? Okay. We'll come back to it. I'm not sure. I'm not sure, Cavallis. I think it's gone like that. Pixel Fix, I've had folk what? I've had your buyer that doesn't know how to work something going mad, calling me a scammer. Oh, yeah. I know that that does happen, especially with electronics. I reckon um Derek the Tap peddler, I'm pretty sure he's shared experiences like that because he sells a lot of electronics, and you know, the first thing the first thing people do is call you a scammer if they think it doesn't work. Whereas they can open a return, no problem. People think that they've been scammed. Well, I got it, didn't I, when I sold the our old coffee machine and it didn't work, but I was I was happy to just do a return on it. But like you said, straight away they were like, Why would you sell something that's broke? I said, I was like, Well it wasn't broke when we sold it. It was working when we were using it, so it wasn't broke when we sold it. And to be fair, when it came back, I I'm not convinced it was broke. I think that when he put the pod in, sometimes if you put more like if you put the pod in and put more than a couple of holes in, then the water spills out of it. And I think it was doing that, but had no pods left in the house because I'd sold the machine to try it out properly, so we just decided to get rid of it rather than yeah, we just tipped it, didn't we? We didn't want to bother selling it again. It wasn't like a lot of money either, was it? No. Uh right, Kavalis is back. Tam's there again. He says, I'm here again tonight. Tam's in. Oh, yeah. Hi, Tam. Hi, Tam. This one will do. It's just something me and the missus is trying out. Oh, you mean like the dog collars? Oh, that totally went over my head. Yeah, and left. I was left standing on the doorstep. Gobsmax. Oh god, how embarrassing. We might have just been joking, I was just being serious. Pumpkin Picker said a man on eBay asked if they can come to my house to try some shirts on I had for sale. Oh wow. Can you imagine that? Well technically technically, we had the guy come around to try the coat on. Yes, we had the same, didn't we? Yeah, he was sat in our conservatory. No, but that was somebody who's that was somebody who knew us. Well, didn't know us, but watched the channel. Yeah, so it's a little bit different than a stranger. Did we know them? Did we know them? What's the definition of a stranger? It weren't a complete stranger, it was a name in the chat. Somebody we did we know them? No, but right then no, but it's not the same as a complete stranger. Still came round and had a natter with us and tried a coat on. Yeah, a channel supporter. I don't know. I can't remember. Channel supporter, that's a bit different. Well, at least you've had some interactions before, but stranger danger. You clearly weren't taught it. I have asked people. People have asked like, can I try it on before I buy it? People have asked. Like local pickup. I think somebody did once come. Tried it on on the front in front of the house. Yeah. Didn't they? That was another code. Didn't come in though. And it didn't fit. They didn't have it in the end. They just wanted to see if it fit. But that was a weird experience as well. And what about the young lad that came for the basketball shirt and he came from like London? Oh yeah. Was it London? Yeah, what? No, it wasn't London, but it was quite far away. It was it was about a two, three hour trip at what he made. And he got here at like 10 o'clock at night, didn't he? He said he said it was for a university party or something. He was going straight back to it. He bought this shirt, came, collected it, he drove about two hours to get it, yeah, and went back to this party. And then mine was blown. And then when he got here, he had no internet, and we we were struggling because we couldn't remember our internet passwords, so he could connect to the Wi-Fi because he didn't know, he couldn't get his maps back on to get him back home again. But literally sat there and said, That's what my youngest lad would do. Seriously. Yeah. I know, very strange. Helen said the worst one I had was a phone call at 10 30 pm when I was asleep, wanting to know if they could get delivery the next day. Wow, I wouldn't even dream of it. But the thing is, I guess sometimes people just think maybe you're a business. You think people think you're Amazon or something, and you they can just ring you. We're weird. That is weird. That is a good point, Pumpkin Picker. They said at least a coat can be tried on over clothes. True, true. Alex Retto Grip has joined us. Hello. Babs Devin. Change the name again. Yeah. Hi Babs. Fancy frightening the life out of Chris last night. Oh, yeah, yeah. I don't know who was here on the eBay live yesterday. Yeah, it wasn't a huge audience, but Belle absolutely scared the crap out of me. I didn't mean to. Whilst I was alive on eBay. I need to dig that clip out. You need to just stop being so jumpy. I was literally in the zone and she crept up behind me with a brew, and I'm like, I'm surprised the brew didn't just go everywhere. You yelled down the stairs that you were spitting fetters and wanted a brew, so I made your brew and brought it up, and you was in mid-flow of talking. So I thought, I'll stand here and wait till he's finished talking. And literally, you finished talking and looked round, so I didn't even have a chance to notify you. I was there. Well, you know why I looked round? Because I felt a presence. You know, you can tell if somebody's like, that's weird, there's someone there. It's not my she was like a phantom in the background, just creeping in. But yeah. Kelly. Hi Kelly. A guy came to collect a bundle from me. The cost was 500 when he arrived. He said, Here is 490. I had to buy, I had to pay my bus fare to get here. Cheapy. Oh, and that's your responsibility, is it? Cheeky. Wow. And I said, come on, fucking £10. Give me it, hand it over. Did you let him off with it? I guess it's a bit of an awkward situation, isn't it? There on the doorstep. Standoff over £10. Yeah, yeah. It's a principle of it, though, isn't it? It is a principle, but yeah. That's like somebody saying, I'll buy it off you if you pay me postage. You'd say no. No, some people do say that. But you'd say no. Well, people send you offers and they make offers based on oh, this is the offer that includes the postage. And people do do it. Yeah. Alex said I had an eBay, I had eBay call me up today to try to get me to do eBay live, I assume that is. I had an hour and a half chat with them talking about all sorts of stuff. Lovely lady from Island. Oh, very nice, Alex. And did you actually sign up in the end? Or or did did you just keep her ranging on the whole time? Pixel fix of folk that send you a message at 11 pm and then question marks in another message two hours later. Lisa said, I hope no one ever rings me, but you don't get a choice, you have to have your details on eBay. Yeah. I've had a couple of phone calls, but and that's in like 11 years of being a business seller. Don't think it's normal practice, is it? Two or three phone calls in that time, not many at all. Hi Andrew. Hi Andrew. Tam said in regards to the channel, I privatised all the content, just not for me anymore. Reselling is tough enough as it is. I'm putting all my energy into that. Oh, that's fair, do that. Yeah. And it takes some balls to make a decision like that as well. Well, you've got a busy life as well with your boys. Hectic life. You've got to put your priorities, you've got to put your ducks in a row and decide what's what's the most important thing. YouTube is a tough slog. And you never know, you might decide to come back. Chris says, How are the Cars selling you bought in the last video? I haven't sold any yet. I only listed them a couple of days ago. But I did add two offers. I've had two offers. I had a £25 offer and a £30 offer. So I'm just waiting to see. I'm not sure if I did I accept one and I counted another. Probably should have just accepted them both, to be honest with you. But one was on the more expensive, one of the more expensive ones. So we'll see. I've had lots of people watching, but it's probably people who watched the video as well. Alex said the other thing he's thinking about it. He said he's getting to grits with API developer keys and using bots to run his store more efficiently through Discord, which has been a game changer in the last couple of days since he's been using it. That sounds incredibly technical. Dan says I never did understand why we don't get paid to get to a job. That's the least they should do when you deal with idiots all week. Do you want to share your little interaction? It's not dissimilar to what someone's already said today, haven't they? Yeah. You've had a few weird things, but you actually had one at the weekend, didn't you? And it kind of added to one that I've got. So that's why we decided to do tonight's chat about this subject. Yeah, I've had a couple. Go on them. How do we get rid of us? Just tap it and then cross it off. Yeah, so I had one, I had one the other week. I had um an NFL shirt up that Chris has been giving me some of his like cheaper ones to list on my vintage. So I had an NFL shirt up in it. The originally the men's ones have been up for like 10 quid, which is which is pretty cheap for an NFL shirt. So I this person had favoured it, so I sent them an offer of £8 on it, like you do. And then they sent me an offer of £4.85. So I thought, you know what? I've had it up for a while, let's just get a sale, get it out of the way. So I accepted £4.85, which bearing in mind it was up at £10 prior to this. That's less than half price. So yeah. And I didn't message them because they didn't pay. So then I always message and say, once payment's made, I can have this posted out, blah blah blah blah blah. So on this particular one, I said I can have it posted out in the morning. And he replied with, or they replied with, is that the lowest you'll take? So they made you an offer, which was cheeky anyway. I'd already give them an offer, they then made a cheeky offer, which I accepted, and then they asked me if I'd accept a lower price. So I basically replied with a laughing place, laughing face and just put, how about free? And then they never come back to me. Did they see it? I don't know. I don't know. But I just thought, you know what? What do you want from me? What seriously? It was a £10 item and you were getting it for less than half price. That makes me think, right? Like, did you make them an offer and then they counted it even lower first? Right. That makes me think that because you accepted like less than half the price of what it was, it made made me think that they probably thought, oh, I wonder actually. I wonder they'll take less. Like they must be desperate for this price. No, I was just thought, let's be nice. Let's just take it. Sometimes you do just have to take the little offers, don't you? When something's been up a while, you just think, right, just get it out. I got it for free off Chris. It's not like it cost me anything. For free. Hang on. Hang on. Hang on. How much did it cost you, babe? How much did it cost you? Got it for free. For free. That's poor timing. I know. You need to give me a warning if you're going to do something that requires a VT. My brain doesn't go that far ahead when I was not. I told you last time you need to give me a nudge underneath. And I know there's something coming that I can use a VT on. Okay, that's the secret. And then you'll be like, which week? What are we talking about? And then I had one this. It wasn't well, I say this week. Oh, you've got another one. Yeah, I say this week because they've done it again this week. But I had a dress up for five pounds. And it's I'd only wore it once, a George Asda dress, summer dress thing. I had it up for a fiver. I sent an offer of four pounds when somebody favoured it, because I'd had it up for a while. They sent me, they then sent me an offer of £2.80. And I just thought, no, not £2. I'm not having £2.80. I'm not having that. So we declined it. I just thought I got bothered with this one. So I declined it. I didn't send them anything back, didn't counter it. I just declined it. And then this is probably that was about a fortnight ago. And then yesterday, they sent me another offer of £2.40. So I was like, what the hell? So I just declined it. Why people are so cheeky, aren't they? It's much worse on Vince for that kind of cheeky offer thing. I think it's much worse on vintage. And I know now and again you get offers like that on eBay, like really low ballers, but to have the balls to do that, like to give you one offer and then another lower offer, I find that really, really strange. I don't mind, I don't, like I said, I don't mind taking lower offers as I showed in the first example. But when sometimes people are just being damnright like cheeky, I just can't be bothered. I'm just like, I'd rather not sell it. You get to that point. I'd rather not sell it. And if I'd never sell it, I'll take it down. I'll give it to a charity shop. I'll do that before I send it out to some cheeky bugger who basically wants it for free. I know. Well, I had someone else the other week, didn't I? Who was had they bought they bought tights off me? It was like three quid for these tights. Were they worn ones? No, they were new ones. If you know, you know. Yeah, they were new ones in packets. But they'd sent me, and then during the messages, they were like, because I think I'd accepted an offer on them. So they were like, Oh, thanks a lot for accepting the offer. I was like, No worries, I'll have it sent out, blah blah blah blah blah. And then they replied to me going, Oh, I've seen that red dress on you on your thing. I really think it's really nice, but um, I haven't quite got the money. This dress was for about three pounds as well. Oh, I haven't quite got the money, and I was like, Oh, well, hopefully it'll still be here, you know, when you have got the money, that sort of thing. And then they cancelled the order on the tights, just cancelled them. Not even like you've had a conversation at this point, yeah. We've been we'd been having like a chill. You're like you're like BFF, aren't you? At this point, and then she ghosted you, and then they just cancelled the order for the tights, and I thought they obviously wanted the red dress thrown in for free, and because I'd not bell for the sob story. Oh, I see what you mean. Yeah, yeah. They were like, well, not having the tights at either. It was no skin off my nose. I was like, whatever. Crazy, crazy buyers. Lisa said, I I have someone going up in 50ps the other day. Oh, it's embarrassing. I know everyone wants something for as cheap as possible, right? We're in cost of living crisis, and you know, people a lot of people don't have much money, but sometimes it is a bit it's a bit too cheeky, isn't it? You know, everyone's got to make a bit, haven't they, as well? And half the time when you're selling stuff on vintage, you're only making a very small amount of money. You know, you're selling your own stuff a lot of the time as well, like Bell does, and it's you know, you you you're selling stuff for peanuts, yeah. And people want it for even less than peanuts. Everyone's gotta make a bit. I think it's because I personally would never put an offer in, you know, if I put an offer in for something, very rarely do I put it in for less than like two or three pounds less than what it is. You know, obviously, if it was a higher priced item, you know, if it was like 30, 40 quid, I might try like getting a fiver off, or even a tenner if I was lucky. But when it's like five pound or less, nah. There's a limit, really. Lisa said that she's also had people sending offers and then putting lower offers in afterwards. And who else have we got here? Says, can you turn offers off on vintage? I've not sold on there yet. Uh no, you can't turn offers off, not here in the UK. Somebody asked me this. An American, someone put a comment on in the last couple of days. I don't know if it was you, Flora, or or whatever, but someone asked me that they also wanted to turn off offers on vintage, but that they were in the US and they've been told that you can, but obviously, you definitely can't turn them off here in the UK. It's not possible to turn them off. But I don't know whether that's different in other like territories like France or America or whatever. Dan says we get offers for less than what I paid. Well, we all get that. I mean, even on eBay, sometimes people send you a £5 offer on something that's £50, you know. And chances are if you've got some up for £50, it probably on the, you know, but the chances are it costs you more than £5 nowadays, anyway. Yeah. And Jules said on eBay, I doubled the price of some of my duplicate items and put 15% advertising on. They sold before the cheapest ones. Oh, interesting. Nice little tactic. Don't worry, Chris. It's my fault for choosing a made-up word for my name. Oh, well, you you can change your name, you know. You can change your name, I think, once every month. I don't want to change his name. That name. You've got a made-up name, but then you've created a logo for your made-up name. Look, they've got their own logo. But that made up name could mean something to them. That's what I'm saying, not just a random made-up name. Oh, I could stamp for something. I just assumed it was just something. I don't know. It could start to do something. Let me know if let me know what that actually means, then. Like, I know you said it's a made-up name, but for those listening, the person that I'm reading about here, their username on YouTube is PHL O G R. Flog Flogger. It's probably Welsh. Rosie said, I always put more money on vintage items to allow for offers. I list things at the same price as on eBay on vintage. I just I just cross-list it at the same price. Over time, though, the price differences change because on eBay, everything gets a price reduction every month, you know, some kind of reduction. But it takes a little longer to do the price reductions on vintage. So sometimes after a few months or something being listed on both platforms, there is sometimes a disparity on prices on each one. But I just check. If someone sends an offer like on vintage, I'll double check what the latest eBay price is in my store because my eBay store price is the lead price. That's the one that I go off. So sometimes the vintage price is a bit out of date, so I'll always check back to see what the current price is before I decide on any offers. I was trying to find my first little stalker one that I had the other Jeff said I know a guy who I once accepted all offers and experiment. What a guy. Everyone should go sub that person. And just in case you think I'm jesting, that was actually me. Yeah. I I do do it sometimes. Like if it's better, it's if it's a quiet week, sometimes I will like literally in the morning, I'll say, right, today until I'll set a time or do 24 hours, I'm going to accept every offer incoming, no matter what it is. But you have to honestly be honest with yourself when you do it, and you have to like be all in. And I do think now, if you do it now and again, it can help your store a bit. But I'm not doing this as gospel, it's just something that I've done a few times, and it's only if I'm having a terrible week, like I will just say, you know what, I'm gonna take everything, even vintage offers. I'm gonna take them, even if it's 50%, I'll take it. Just to get the juices flowing, basically. Flogger. But in the sense of flogging stuff, he's just spelled it differently. Oh, okay. Flogger. Flogger, right? There you go. So it's not Welsh. Oh. It could be a Welsh word. Carol says, I cannot understand when someone sends you an offer, you accept it and they don't pay. I always pay immediately if they accept an offer. I get those all the time. Yeah. Every single day. Honestly, every single day. It's like, why would you put an offer in unless you were seriously interested in it? But people do. Dan's got a message for everybody. For anyone just starting, stick with it. This is our third year, and sales are much better now. Good, consistent feedback, and it pays off in the end. That's good to hear. It is. Tan says he's sick of getting all American listings in his vintage. I get a lot at the moment. And you can tell when they are American because the values are like random, like £7.84. You know, nobody listens lists something for £7.84, do they? And that's normally an American listing. But the the frustrating thing for me is I've seen quite a few American listings on vintage that I would have liked to have bought. But on mine, I've not been rolled out with the ability to buy from America yet. I believe it's a slow rolling process and it's slowly rolling out to everybody. But I'm not there yet, even though, you know, I've been on a while, got a pro account, all that business. You know, I would like to buy from some of these Americans, some of these Yankees. I will say weird always won this the other week, didn't I? When somebody sent me a message saying on a pair of boots, saying nice nice boots. And I can't remember. I was looking for it then to try and see, but didn't they say something like, and you look fit in your picture, or something like that? Remember when I was sat in the conservatory and you were like, What have you got is your what have you got as your picture? And I'm like, picture of me and him in our fat stage. So, yeah, it's not a great picture. But I was like, Okay. Didn't you go and look at their picture to see what they were all about or something? I can't remember. I was trying to middle-aged. I was trying to find out, I was trying to find it so that I could Jordi Reseller. This is what when I do an accept all offers day, or some you can do anything right. You can do it for an hour. You can say for the next hour, and you probably get no bloody offers, but you could say for the next three hours or whatever. But this is why sometimes you have to take one for the team to make some sales, and it is true, honestly. It does seem to work sometimes. You just gotta get the juices flowing, take one for the team, take a take a lower offer on something in order to get a few more things selling, and that's what I do only very, very occasionally. I mean, it's been a while since I did it, but you know, maybe I've done it about three times in 2026, so it's not it's not an often thing. I always buy from countries that have landed men on the moon. I've I thought it was I didn't think it was real, the moon landing. Isn't it a isn't it a big fake? Was it a tin hat or it's a big fake, innit, Jeff? That's what everyone in the UK thinks that that the Yanks made it up. Uh I'll give you my crazy buyer because that's the title of tonight's I'm getting hot. You're getting hot. I am there's no bloody heating needed in this house. I just need to go like this. I can warm up. I don't even need to touch her. I can go like this. Yeah, but it's one way or the other at the minute, isn't it? I might she's radiating like radiation. I'm probably radioactive now. Yeah, I might to be fair, that might be what's heating me up. I'm either boiling at the minute or I'm freezing, like it'll be 20 degrees outside and I'm freezing. Oh, Tam says, Looks like Vintage's gonna beat my eBay week for the first time ever. Times are changing. Ooh, interesting. That's good though. It's good, it's good to have more than one outlet for sure. Okay, so here's let's lay the scene down for what happened here. Because I've never had someone tell me to do this on a message on eBay, right? Someone made me an offer via the best offer system. They made an offer of £12 on a $15.99 jersey. I accepted it, it wasn't a bad offer, and I've had the jersey for a very long time. Like, I've I think I've had that one listed for about a year. So at this point, you take anything for something that you've had for a year, pretty much. So I just accepted it, and then straight after accepting it, it didn't go to payment because obviously not everyone has that like instant payment thing on. So they didn't pay for it, but they sent me a message, and it basically says, Do you use every? So I thought, hey up, here's another one that doesn't like the use of every. So I messaged back and I said, you can choose which one you use. I have two payment methods set up on my woo-hoo! I have two payment methods set up. I have every for $2.99, or I have Royal Mail 24 for a faster option and a royal and a Royal Mail uh option for $4.99, and that's for the smaller parcels. So I just said to them, uh, you can choose if you don't want to use every, just pick Royal Mail 24. And yes, it is a little bit more expensive because it's a faster option. And then they messaged back, everything was going fine at this point. They messaged back and said, Oh, I I'd had the reason I ask is I had an every parcel stolen from me by the driver that assumed the driver, and I had to report it, and the the seller wasn't very helpful, and uh, eBay had to refund them. So I said, I just messaged back and I said, No problem at all. Just like I said, just pick Royal Mail at checkout and I'll send it via Royal Mail. And then after that, I sent another message and I while I was typing there, and I sent a message and I'm saying, I send to be I said, to be fair, I send a lot of mess I send a lot of parcels every week, and I find that roughly every and DPD and Royal Mail are roughly the same in their reliability levels. But that as you said, that's just how I find it. And I said, you probably just got a bad local courier that that doesn't do the job properly, or something like that, you know. And they messaged back and said they messaged back and said this is it, they just said this you've just lost a sale due to your ignorance, and then they sent a second message fox drop Oscar. That's it. Dot dot dot F dot O dot dot dot fuck off basically. What did I say? I gave I gave him his two options, every royal mail. I was just discussing postage issues, and I said I said in my experience that there's not much difference between them, but you maybe had a local problem there. And he said you've just lost that sale due to your ignorance. Fuck off. Never in my eBay career, 11 years as a business seller, 26 years as a private seller, 26 years I've been on eBay since the year 2000. I've never had somebody tell me to fuck off in a message. And I was thinking that vintage was the worst place for buyers, being rude and naughty and just damnright cheeky. Has anyone else been told to fuck off? I know I've said that a few times, but I know I'm thinking you just like that word now. But that's what they said. So I apologize if there's kids watching. I do apologize to the parents and the children. He doesn't mean it though. But because you probably say it again before the show is out. It's gonna be said one more time at the end of the show, that's all I can say. I've never had that. But you know what happened, right? I immediately blocked them. I thought, I don't want your £12. I didn't even reply to the Foxtrot Oscar. See, and I blocked them and I went on the corner of your message screen. I went to the top corner and you can hit report and you can report your message to eBay. And there is a trail that That says, What do you want to report? Abusive language, inappropriate language, whatever. So I clicked that, I sent them the report, I told them what the content of the message was. I was told to Fox Drop Oscar in a message, and that's not acceptable. And I reported them. And today I got an email from eBay because they actually tell you when you make a report that they'll report back to you of what they've done about it. Which is great, isn't it? Yeah, that is good. But let me tell you what they told me from the result. I can't find it now. Hang on a second, bear with me. I may have deleted the email. Well, that kind of screws up the end of that story. Well, it doesn't, because I can remember, you know, I'm not that C now. Uh basically, eBay emailed me this morning and said we don't have enough evidence to take any further action in this matter. Clearly they don't mind people saying. Oh it's fine. Yeah, you can tell people to F off. They didn't quite write the words though, did they? Well they didn't, but it's plain to see what it is by his choice of language and his aggressiveness at the end. That's your assumption that that's what FO stands for. Tell me what tell me what the what it would be then. Could be anything. Like what? Uh favorite ostrich. Yeah, that makes sense. Those are the only two words that I could think of. Beginning with an F and H. And there you go. Chris says, uh, Chris Tyler said report for abuse. I did, Chris. I reported it, and I got told there's not enough evidence. It's uh okay, it's not the whole Foxwall Ostra bit in there, but come on, it's pretty obvious, isn't it? Jeff says he hates it when he loses a cell because he's ignorant. Johnny Forty Court said uh always good when a knob head outs themselves before they buy so that you can block them. Yeah, they probably would have been a pain in the backside, wouldn't they, anyway? Deb says, as funny as you were telling us that, Chris, I bet you were shocked. I was very shocked, really, Debs. Honestly. Yeah. And I guess that is true, isn't it? I mean, they're a buyer. You're not you're not there to make friends with people, are you? But I just thought I'd give my experience, like to give them a bit of like it's not all bad, you know, mate. It's not all bad. Clearly, they didn't want that. They didn't want my opinion. Yeah, they wanted him own, and that was it. Yes, I reported him, Rosie, yeah, for what it was worth. That's true, Carol. At least he didn't add to the end. Maybe partially. Deb say I say it to the father Ted, Jack, well, back off. Oh, baby. That's swearing without it, you're a lady. Babe. Babe, there's kids watching. Chris said, read their feedback here now for a laugh. I bet I can't. I bet I can't even go into their profile. That was a good idea though. I probably should have done that. I didn't do. I just went straight to block. Jewel says fabulous onliner. Fabulous onliner, yeah. I don't think that's what they meant. Jeff says, where do you keep your favourite ostrich? I forgot about you, quack. Feedback for this person. Oh, they've got they've well, they've got no problems on the feedback. They've got 116 positive, no neutral, no negative. They've sold one 1,900 items with 42 followers, and they've got feedback positive, 100% positive. They've clearly had a bit of a moment, haven't they? Yeah. You brought the worst out in it. Yeah, I must have done. Flogger says, I'm wondering how those messages even get through needs an eBay swear jazz is going to be able to do it. Well, to be fair, it said f.o. They they know. They're obviously an experienced person on eBay, they know not to write it, you see. Kelly said I had a really aggressive guy once. I reported and was told by eBay that he had an open case against me. I was shocked. He got in there first. Oh, bloody hell. Jeff said my dad was a US Marine, so someone cursing at me has no effect. I've been cursed out by the best. Rachel Fantastic has joined us. Hi, Rachel. Dan says, now eBay Live has been going a while. How does it compare to whatnot? It's the same as what I've kind of sort of talked about before, Dan. I feel I prefer it to whatnot. I feel like you can probably achieve slightly better values. I'm not talking massive increases in values. It's still, it's still low volume, low value, high volume is the is the model for live selling. That is it, pretty much. So, but I just prefer I kind of prefer it. I feel like it's a little bit more serious, more serious buyers on there. I don't know, I can't really explain it. It's not quite turned into a social platform. Yeah. Whatnot feels very social media-ish, you know. And I keep saying there for a chat. Yeah, people could some people just go live on whatnot and don't actually sell anything. I mean, what's the point of that? I don't get that at all. There's plenty of other social media platforms, isn't there? Yeah, go live on Instagram, you know, go live on YouTube, go live on Facebook. You but don't go live on a selling platform. I don't really understand that. Because I think they've just found a place where they can naturally get followers because people are on there looking to buy, aren't they? That's why people go where you wouldn't go on to Instagram and just go on to some random person's live. Yeah. You're expecting to go on and be buying stuff, aren't you? But then they utilize it as a I think people do use it as a social media type platform as well. You know, they might only sell 10 things in in an hour, but in the mean in the middle of it all, they'll just chat to everybody. For me, that's not really what it's about, but I guess each to their own, if if that's how you want to carry it on, then that's fine. I'm still I'm still happy. I mean, I did I did the what I did a whatnot show I did an eBay live show yesterday at five o'clock, Sunday, five o'clock. I think I took £400.50p in two and a half hours, and that's plus postage on top of that as well, because they don't include the postage, but you actually make a little bit on your postage. Because what I do is $2.99 for the first item and then £50p for each additional item. So you do end up sort of making a little or small amount on the postage as well. So yeah, it ends up being a bit more than what you end on. So I probably finished on about 4.30 or 4.40 for yesterday's show, which I've I was very happy with. I kind of aim for 300 per show. Like if I do a three-hour show, my goal is to hit 300 to make it worthwhile, like £100 an hour. Anything less than £300, I kind of come away a bit disappointed. Anything more, and it's a Brucey bonus, but it seems to be doing alright at the minute. How things will change, like we said last week, when eBay start putting fees on eBay Live, I think it's going to change a lot. I think people's methods will change, people's strategies will change, and some people will just not carry on selling on eBay Live when fees come in because it won't be worth their while. And I completely understand that. I don't know where I'll stand with it when it happens, but we'll see. We'll see where where we go. Uh Bounty Hunt said yes, had that for a new box set. They had given good feedback, the message he'd not received the item and that her phone had been stolen, and the thief had left the feedback on eBay. What? That's a bit random. That's a tall tale, isn't it? Jeff says, same as whatnot, as long as the no-seller fee holds. Whatnot is kind of TikTok-ish. Yeah, very much social media-ish. Yeah. Paul jokes from Wells says, I see my wife's been spending money on items she bought from you. I don't like it. Yes, yes, yeah. She spent a fortune at the on the live yesterday. I think she got spent about three pounds on stuff and got some bargains. Chris says people befriend for larger discounts. You think so, Chris? To be fair, we you we did have people come in our whatnot shows and literally cry, poverty in there, and then people would gift them stuff. Yeah, they did people did do that, didn't they? And at first it's like really sweet, because at first you're like, feel sorry for people, and then that you've got really nice people in the show where you're going, oh that's really sweet of you. But then when you see the same people doing it on other shows, you're thinking, these are clearly just hopping from show to show trying to see how many freebies they can get. Yeah. So yeah, I think it is open to a bit of abuse, a bit of um, is it abuse? Is that the word? Yeah, yeah, I'd say that's a good word. So yeah, there was this there's a few things on there that's not amazing. Part of the reason why I don't go on it anymore. I've still got credit to spend on whatnot. I need to go back on and find some stuff to buy. Rachel's not sold a giraffe yet. She's got another giraffe. She's got two giraffes. Well, she sold one giraffe, now she's gone and bought another one. It's like Rodney's lawnmower engines. She just keeps getting more and more giraffes. Yeah, right. People can't get enough of those giraffes. Nothing major said, Oh no, that's to Jeff. Jeff and they're just chatting together. Alex says, How would you convince someone to do eBay live if they'd never done it before and not much social media experience? I'm not that confident in front of a camera. Well, firstly, you don't actually put you don't have to put your face on camera. You could do it hands, whatever you're selling, you could show without putting your face on. You obviously need to put your voice on, but not your face. You don't have to have your face on. I would say eBay Live's great for cash flow, right? Cash is king, isn't it? And cash flow is really important in your business. And it it can really boost your cash flow. Like, and then you can use that money to go and buy bigger and better bundles and do some deals with people and you know go and buy some more better stock. But yeah, right, I think shifting a lot of stock in a very short period of time. Like when we're when we're on on a really good like on a really good show, we can we can go through a hundred auctions in three hours. Like average of one every three minutes. Sometimes you can go faster if you do them sudden death. So you can clear a hundred items in three minutes. If you can average five pounds an item, that's 500 quid. Obviously, it depends a lot on what your what your cost of goods are, how much you're willing to sell things for. You don't have to start things at a pound. You can start them at whatever you like. On Sunday, I was starting things at £1, £2, £3. I was starting at £5. I sold some items at £20. Somebody made me an offer on a bundle of items for £70. So that made a really good chunk up of what I sold yesterday. We did a £70 bundle, and it was still profitable for me, even though it is discounted on my eBay store. So it's good for clear out, it's good for cash flow, clearing a lot of items in a short amount of time. Yeah. And some people feel like it gives your eBay store a boost because you've sold a lot of items. eBay's algorithm sees that you're selling a lot of items. I've not noticed that as much, but it's definitely not harmed my store. I think more for you, it's the getting the turnover of old stock out the door and some cash back in your pocket to start again, isn't it? Yeah, yeah. And to be fair though, what we do with our eBay Live, and we started doing it towards the end of our time on whatnot, is we have we have our stock that we will do like at one, two, three pound starts, like just rant, you know, whatever stock you you've got or you can get your hands on cheap. And then when you have we have premium items on the side. And every now and again, once we've run a few quick auctions, quick cheap auctions, I'll have some stock there that's also listed or that's just come down off my main eBay store. And we call them premium items, and we'll start those items higher. So we'll do five pound starts, £10 starts, £20 starts. I've even done higher than that. I've done like £30 starts. When I because that started when I did my when I got rid of all my Harry Potter collection. And we found that it was really good. I had I had some high-end stuff on there that had I put it on eBay, would have gone for twice what I'd sold it on whatnot. But I was still, I think the highest item I sold on that day was £50, wasn't it? Yeah. So and that's when we realized if you've got stuff that people want and it's still a bargain, yeah, they will pay for it. I mean, that particular item that sold for $50 was worth at least $90. So they were getting a good deal. When we do when I do like premium items that I just show now and again throughout the show, what I tend to do is it's stuff that's listed on eBay and I'll do it at a discount. So say I've got a pop figure, like that I've got on eBay for £30. What I'll do is I'll bring it onto eBay live and I'll say, okay, just for this show, I'll do this for £20 right now. I'll start it at £20. But this if you're gonna buy it from my eBay store, it's £30. So I'll do it at a discount. I'll sell it now and have a nice big load of cash flow coming in. And it does work. I'll take a lower, I'll take a lower profit margin. Yeah. Because not everybody's not everybody's there for the cheap stuff. There are there are some there are some people who collect for themselves and just want just want good stuff. So it's always worth having the higher value stuff there. But have your mindset of if it doesn't sell, it's not the end of the world because it's on your eBay, or you'll sell it somewhere else. You know, this is just a chance for you to get rid of it and someone to get a discount and someone to get a bargain, but you don't have to sell it. Yeah, so that's the way we go in. So if we came out and all our premium it's were still there, we wouldn't be that bothered because you're like we tried, it's fine. Yeah, yeah, and I think also like with live selling, whether it be whatnot or eBay live, if you want to do it, if you want to like go all in on it and do it maybe more than once a week, then really what you need is a supplier. You need to have a regular supplier, maybe stick to one or two categories. I was gonna say that falls into what he said there and he said, and then knowing what category to sell, I think clothes is so oversaturated at the moment. I do really well out of electronics at the moment, cameras, Blu-ray players, high price, etc. Yeah, yeah. I I tend to agree with you on that. The the couple of times that we've done clothing on eBay Live, it's been a bit of a struggle. Yeah, I know some people do well on it, but I've found it harder to do it. Your die-cast cars went down amazing. Yeah, that was a they were we had two amazing shows doing die cast cars. There's a lot of things. If I could source, if I could source Hot Wheels, Matchbox, and all those, like brand new, for like cheap prices, I'd buy a shitload of it because we did amazing on those two shows. Yeah, they were flying out. Your car boot shows do all right because that draws in a different audience of people not really knowing what they want to buy and just seeing what random stuff you've got. I think the car boot style shows are good for for the audience that follows us, yeah. Because people come from YouTube and they just want to see random, they just want to see okay, what have you got today? I'm not interested in Funko and a Funko show. I'm not interested in a Hot Wheels show, and I'm not interested in a clothing show, but I am interested in a random what's coming out next show, you know what I mean? People who were stocking up for Christmas and stuff like that. Yeah. But I found clothing has been a hard slog. So we tried doing jerseys, didn't we? Jerseys was tough. Jerseys was hard, it's too niche. Yeah, that's what I fit. I felt like it was too niche, and you're considering doing a trainer one. So I think the thing with the categories is it's not about picking them, it's trying them. Try the category because it all boils down to what stock you've got. You might have a pile of clothing, because Chris tended to bring out your vintage stuff, and people just weren't really into like that sort of, but had you had sportswear like Adidas Nike or what you know, stuff like that, that probably would have done okay because people would have been interested in that. So I think it depends what you've got. Yeah. When it comes to I've seen a few people, Alex is talking about electronics here. I've seen a few people selling the electronics and doing quite well on eBay Live, so that could be worth a go. Could be worth it. There was a couple in between Jeff said eBay Live and Whatnot would be awesome for someone who gets their stock dumpster diving. Exactly nothing but time. Yeah, definitely. Totally. Uh Kelly said, Do you buy from Whatnot to resell Chris? I used to. I don't really anymore. I've not been on Whatnot much recently. I but used to buy some stuff on there. The problem is it's an investment in time, isn't it? You know, sitting there for three hours trying to pick up sort of stock. I'm not sure. Like sometimes I have eBay live on here, like when I'm working, but not that often. Not that often. I probably need to do it more, to be honest. Jeff says a nice big cash flow is great on the sound of that. But have Belmott. Yeah, true. True. Not sure dressing a potato up will sell the clothes, Jeff, unfortunately. Because that's the shape I've got at the moment, potato. Didn't wasn't there a song about potatoes during lockdown? There was, wasn't there? It wasn't it David Williams or or uh Matt Lucas did a song about potatoes. Tell me tell me that I'm going mad here. I I've just got this. The minute you said potatoes, I had this song in my head about potatoes. Am I right or wrong? I'm probably wrong. Is it about people looking like potatoes? No, I don't think so. Okay. I don't know what it was about, even it was when everyone was going nuts during lockdown and people were making songs and things, you know, on YouTube. Possibly was. Matt Lucas. Yeah, I'm sure he did something about potatoes, but don't ask me what it was. Okay. Well, selling online is a crazy place, isn't it? Mm-hmm. Even you found that, and you're not even a professional seller. You just sell a few bits here and there, don't you? And I still get the crazies. You still get them. But yeah, I think the thing is don't let them get to you. Just if you don't want to sell it, don't sell it. Simple as. Let them go somewhere else. Chris Tyler says, any more wholesale unboxings to do, Chris? Yes, I have. I've got loads of boxes downstairs I need to unbox, and I'm gonna do videos on them. So yeah, I've got some vintage wholesale supply boxes to unbox. Cyril says, I enjoyed it when you did clothes. I got a lot, a lot of you in change. You did, Cyril. You got everything all the pounders. You got everything for a quid. It was hard doing clothing. I really found it difficult. It is this, it does become disheartening because, like you said, if you're giving up your evening, you want it to be at least a little bit worthwhile. I think that show we gave ourselves a low. We were like, let's just try and get to a hundred quid. Yeah, we gave it a low bar. We realistically were just like scraped it was like dragging ourselves over the line. Yeah, and when when we got to whatever we wanted to get to, we kind of called it a day, didn't we? We ended the show because it was like you kind of do have to you get to a point where you kind of think, I think that's enough for tonight. Yeah, but thank you, Cyril. I'm glad you got loads of cheap stuff because without you buying that, then we'd have to do that. We've got nothing. Exactly. I'd rather sell something than nothing, even if it is very small margins or maybe no margins at all. And we are still in the phase of trial and error, aren't we? It's all about testing what what sells, what doesn't sell. We've already sold in quite a lot of categories, haven't we? We did a game in one, which oh no, was that one? That was on whatnot. That was whatnot. We haven't done one on that went down very well, didn't it? Which I I didn't think it would do, but it didn't one, but we had some good games on it as well. And that's so if you do have good stock, it you can do quite well, but you've got to be prepared that most of the time when you sell on live selling, most of the time it's going to sell for less than what if you list it on the core platform. It almost certainly will. There are Occasions when things go above what your expectations are, and it still does now. Even yesterday, some stuff went above my expectation. You put it up thinking you're gonna get a quid and suddenly it's on a 10. Yeah, sometimes that happens, but on the whole, probably nine out of ten items will sell for less than what you could get if you're prepared to wait a little bit longer. And I think the way we found it works is it can be a little bit of a slog at the beginning because I think, like you said, when people are having to pay that first postage, they don't want to pay a lot on the item, so you tend to find that people are a little bit more reserved in how much they spend, but once they've started to get a pile or stuff, then the prices you get a few more bidders in, don't you? What have you changed from the first show to now, says Dan? I well, I was gonna say what Bell sort of said there. What I what I do now is my first the first load of items that I sell, I try to do one pound starts and just let things go. So you gotta choose what you're willing to do the one pound starts on, right? Because like Belle said, what happens is, and this definitely, definitely happens, when people buy their first item, you they'll probably pay less than what they would normally pay on a live because of that first postage cost. They're including that in their cost of item. So if they if you sell something for one pound, really it's cost like on my show, it will have cost that person four pounds because of the postage. So then you've got to think, is it worth four pound? But once they've bought one item, it's 50p per item postage after that. So then somebody might have bid three pound two or three pounds on that item and paid only 50p postage. So what you've got to do is you've got to get the juices flowing early doors, you gotta you gotta take one for the team like a few times, just to get a few people in the bag who have 50p postage, and then you can start introducing some slightly higher prices, start bringing in some of your premium items because then those people might be interested and they'll only pay 50p postage. You know what I mean? You've got to get that $2.99 out of the way early, ideally. You've got to do that early, get a few in, get them going. And that's one thing that I've learned this time round is a good idea to do. Uh Liz says I watch a soft toy sell on eBay Live, he's on every night. Says he was headhunted from whatnot. Oh soft toys, you wouldn't have thought that would have been a big sell-up. And you can get them cheap as well, can't you? Thank you, baked potato. That was it. I knew there was a song. Thank you, baked potato. Do you remember it now? No, but that's what you can sing to me now because I look like a baked potato. I'll dig it out in a bit. Deb says, my favourite unboxing video that you did. I laughed so much with all those leather coats stuck together. Oh god. That was awful, wasn't it? You know what though, I made a lot of money out of those in the end. I had to get them all dry cleaned. Even the dry cleaners was like, we don't really dry clean leather, but if you're willing to take a chance, we'll we'll try our best to clean them up for you. And they did an incredible job cleaning them up. And I made a ton of money on them. But it took so much effort, so much time, I would never buy them again. Never. Chris says that you needed to do another disaster video. No, I don't want a disaster video. I don't like them. I know people on YouTube like them, but I don't like them. Jeff says it's £21 plus postage on most of everything eBay Live across the pond. Wow. I don't think we can sell international on eBay Live yet, Jeff. I don't think it can actually be done. It might be showing you £21, but I was told that there's no international, uh no GSP or anything like that on eBay Live at the moment. I'm sure it'll come in at some point. Dan said spot on, Chris, once I've bought one item on a show, you want to use your free postage and buy more. Exactly. Exactly that, Dan. You've got to get that first purchase in the bag as many times as possible in the first like half an hour. You need to get a line of people in the show who have all got free or cheap postage from that point onwards. So you have to take a few for the team early doors and let do a load of one pound starts and do them quick. That's what I think. Do you think with eBay Live you're getting more individual buyers? Yeah. I know you still get the odd one where they'll bulk buy. Oh, somebody bought 18 lots yesterday. Yeah. You always get that one person that's or one or two people that end up bulk buying, because they tend to be the ones that end up bidding against each other. But you I feel like on the eBay one, we are just getting more like buyers that are buying like one or two items. Yeah. Not like there's not many. There's not many that will buy one, but there's quite a few that will buy two items, you know, and make use of that second cheap postage. But I think there's more on eBay at the end of the show when I'm packing up, I feel like there's more packages, like more number of buyers. Whatnot, you tended to get a lot of multi-buyers, you know, like buying like 10 items in one go. Well, I say that, but yesterday I did pack somebody. One buyer bought 18 individual lots, and a couple of those lots were bundles as well that had multiple items in them. They bought a lot of stuff. But yeah, Jeff's Jeff's Jeff says, use the first items as lost leaders, yeah. And I think that's where you the way you have to think of it. Like on whatnot, you had you kind of had to have a budget for freebies, didn't you? Yeah. So you had to pay for your own freebies. Well, most of us paid for our own freebies anyway. Let's not go down that route. But I think that because there's no freebies at the moment on eBay Live, I think you can kind of put that towards making the first items loss leaders. And I think that's a really, really important strategy. You've got to get those first the first purchases out of the way. Jeff says Costco sells a hot dog, a drink, and a bag of chips for one dollars fifty, losing millions just to get people inside the store. They do it here in the UK, it's very cheap. There's loads of people go for the hot dogs and stuff. What's IKEA? Ikea do it as well. Ikea do very cheap. Yeah. Very cheap cafe. IKEA meatballs. Oh, lovely. Okay. Right, it's quarter past. You haven't done the duck race yet. We're gonna do it now. And you're doing it. Rot, paper, scissors? Nope. Rot, paper, scissors? Nope. Ready? I'm gonna punch you in the face. Show everybody what you duck, what look at the duck. Oh, do you want to you want to say what you got? Describe it for people who are listening. Don't forget our listeners. I decided to splash out on this week's raise. I was shocked. Hence the fact it's a chicken, not a duck, because the ducks were more expensive. But we went to a tabletop at the weekend and there was a young girl there who was selling all these crochet by hand little animals. This particular one is a little yellow chicken with a little, it's got a little tag on it with oh, it's even got what it's even got washing instructions on it. Yeah, so it was like four pounds for this. So Chris was seriously, when I was saying to Chris, I'm gonna get it for it was like, You're gonna spend four pounds. I was like, Yeah, they deserve it, and it's really, really cute. So if you get this prize this week, it's been made with love by some local Welsh young girl, and I've spent my hard-earned cash on it. I spent £1.25 as well, so you're getting a five pound prize today on my favourite sweeties, mini mockies. I love these sweets, love them. Yeah, I couldn't I couldn't bring myself to stretch to pay £6 for a duck. Yeah, that would have been a bit much. But they are really cute. So tonight's winner gets the little chick and the mini mocky sweets. For those listening, just listen to this bag of sweets. Is that S M E R S M A R or S? S M E R. S M A R A S M R. Well, whatever. So, do you want to tell people specifically who are listening on Spotify and Apple Music? Do you want to tell them how they can get into the duck race? Yeah, you have to get your ass over to YouTube. There you go. Yeah, if you'd like to take part in our duck race, and if you've never listened to one of these shows before I'm wondering what the hell a duck race is, it's exactly what it says on the tin. It is a virtual race we've put on the screen with ducks that are dressed up in outfits. If you would like to become one of them ducks, then just after this video was finished, after this show was finished, come back to the video and in the comment section below leave a comment and that will automatically put you into next week's duck race. We always do forget, because I don't know how many people don't get in touch, but if you do win a duck race, you do need to contact Chris in some way. Because if you don't, we only give you a week to claim your prize, and then it gets rolled over. You lose it. End of snooze you lose. And we do now do for the last is this will this be the third year we've done our champions of champions? So yeah, we started a couple of years ago where if you win a duck race throughout the year, we have an extra one just before Christmas with all the winners, and you get to win a hamper that we put together for you as well. So yeah, just a little bit of fun. Everyone likes a free eBay. We have some lovely people that donate prizes. So if you do want to donate a prize, then again, just get in touch with Chris. Yeah, please do. Uh so yeah, that's it. Okay, right. We're ready for the duck race, guys. And the ducks are all ready to go. This is the 20th and 11th duck race. Wow, that's a lot of duck races, isn't it? Limelight's wishing that they'd entered now, they want the chick. Yeah, your loss. Never forget to enter a duck race. And the ducks are off, they have flown out of the south in line 49. Toddy takes an early lead with a naked duck number 21. Duck Dangler's there as well, number 28. Samantha Clark in third place, it's pretty close at the front with Pumpkin Picker coming forth with a purple duck. Nothing majors up there with the red. And Mark Hill's there with a naked duck. Uh stats tell us that naked ducks have the best chance of winning a race. So if you're looking at a naked duck now, then that could be the winner. It's most likely going to be the winner. We'll soon find out. And I can only imagine people listening what they're imagining with naked ducks. Well, imagine what you're like. Shabba is now leading, and guess what? It's another naked duck. Bobby Sardines up there, Paul Hillman, Helen Graham. We've also got Cloud9 allotments now towards the back of the pack. Speed foot flips is floundering, pumpkin pickets, lost it. AMPR's got no chance anyway. So, what else? Emerson. We've got Rosie Marsden in the middle with Panda Duck, Tap Pebbles coming through the centre of the pack, and let's go back to the front. Simon Elliott lead to the Viking, Peter Ray's worlds there as well. Dorothy Watkinson and Deborah Sardine, Mark Hiltich, all very close. Wow, all the ducks are in a line here. It's very hard to see who's going to win this. Who's commentating? Do you want to comment? Richard Payne is there with Lin Lynn. Richard Payne and Lin Lynn currently neck and neck with the lead in today's duck race. Net Spresso's coming up. Allie Evans is there now. Ali Evans is leading. That's cheating. She's got a big nose on there. Um Ali Evans now dropped off. She's not going to win. Right. The pack now splits with just 15 seconds left on the pack. Net Spresso is leading this duck race. Net Espresso could well win it. 10 seconds to go. Dorothy Watkinson. Nothing major now, Leeds, with the heart duck. We've got no idea who's going to win this race. Net Espresso's winning, but Janie Vu comes through the middle. Win the duck race. The purple stripy duck. It wasn't a naked duck. Is Janie Vu in chat tonight? I don't think I've seen you in the chat. Well, that doesn't mean she's not lurking. Janie Vu wins. If you're here, Janie Vu, please give us a shout. You are a winner. You have won the little crocheted handmade duck. Janie Vu, these are your prizes. You got the little chick and you got the sweetie. You need to send me a message. You need to send me a message, and you've got one week to claim your prize. Otherwise, the duck will roll over. And the sweets will be eaten by me. So there you go. Pinch punch, first of the month. No, don't do that. It's it's white rabbits. Well, blame Chris Tyler, because he just told it me. That's that's stupid. It's not pinch punch. It's who does white rabbits? White rabbits, white rabbits. Did you do it? Yeah, I did it this morning. I didn't do it. You're supposed to, it's supposed to be the first thing you say on the first of the month. But it never is. No, it's not. Normally it's like morning where you start farting or something like that. So it's never the first thing, but if it is, you get good luck for the month if you can say white rabbits three times on the first of the month. We're going wrong then, isn't it? Yeah, probably. Pinch punch, said says Debs. Just on in relation to the that's flipping news. Uh I'm just currently debating whether to do an episode two or not. It's not quite hit the 2k views, which I said I wanted in order to do a second episode. But Chat G is telling me I should crack on and do a second episode. Oh, Chat G says it then. Oh, we were in it, we were in a planning meeting about the video series, and we were talking about whether we should do another one or not. I said my limit was I wanted 2k views to make it worthwhile. It's not quite got there yet. But Chat G says, well, when it's a new series and when it's different content to what you normally put out, it can take time to build up. So maybe you should do two more episodes before you decide to not do any more. So we'll see. But the thing is, if I'm gonna do another episode of That's Flippin News, I need clip suggestions, and I have got quite a few. I've got about seven clips at the moment I can use. I just need a few more. I like to get to ten, and then ten clips in a show is probably enough. So if you see any clips worthy of that's flipping news whilst you're browsing YouTube or whatever, let me know. Send me a link and tell me what's happened in the video, and I might consider putting it in. Should put you getting scared by me. Oh, I don't want it to be self-promotion though. No, I know, I know. It's gotta be everyone else. If someone else wants to do a show and show that clip, then that's fine. That was Janie View's second duck race win. She previously won number 60 back in 2023. Oh, bloody hell. Did you think we'd be doing the duck race for this long? No. This might be the last year for the duck race. I feel like I feel like 2026 might be the last year for the duck race. Ricky Riesell's hole in his ceiling. Oh, okay. You need to send me the uh send me the coordinates for that. Look at Rahel's videos. There's loads. Who's Rahil? Don't know. I've not heard of Rahil. Is that supposed to say Rachel? Oh. I've just realized I'd like to miss the C out. Rahil. One one letter and it creates a whole different word. Uh yeah, there'll be another there'll be another boot sale video at the weekend. This weekend's boot sale video is doing really well. I think we're on about 5k on that already, which is great for one of my videos. So yeah, that's doing really well. So I'll try and do more drama in the future. Only seems to be the only videos you can get views on these days. Right. I think we are ready to call it a day. Tea cakes is literally coming as we're going. Thanks for joining us, though. Better late than never, in it. Bloody hell. It's it's we're nearly an hour and a half in. We're gonna call it a night. We're gonna call the end of the podcast, but please stick around for just a couple of minutes because you don't want to miss Chris's final thought to end our show, okay? I've got it written down. But I thank everybody for taking the time to come join us as always on our Monday night show. If you're here on YouTube, thanks very much. Don't forget to hit the like button, drop us a comment for the next week's duck race, and don't forget to subscribe if you don't already. Really would be great if you can. If you're listening on Spotify, Apple Music, or whatever your favourite audio channel is. If you're listening to the podcast, please hit the download button, it'd be great, and that helps us sort of grow even further on the podcast channels, which is very nice, isn't it? I can't stop it. Jesus. It's terrible. But I was going straight to bed after this. You do look tired, but thank you for joining us. I'm sure everyone appreciates it. Right, let's do Chris's final thought, and then we are out. We'll go straight out at the end. So I've already said me goodbyes and thank yous. You know, when you yawn and you try not to move your face, that's what Bell just did then, wasn't it? You finished? No, there's another one coming just say what you've got to say. Stop it. Right. Okay, Chris's final thought. No. You did that on purpose. You are gonna get banished. You're out. It's because I held the last one in. Just hurry up. Right, okay, guys. Chris's final thought. Selling online isn't just about the products, it's about people. Most buyers are brilliant, some are a bit odd, and a tiny handful seem determined to make life difficult. Don't let one rude message outweigh a hundred good customers. Block when you need to, laugh when you can, and remember if someone tells you to fuck off over a discussion about postage companies, that's probably their issue, not yours. See you next week. Take care of yourselves and look after each other. Bye. That's it for today's episode. Don't forget to like or make a comment. I always reply to comments. And if you're on YouTube, hit the subscribe button. If you're on one of the audio channels, hit the download button, and we'll see you next time.