Reseller Dilemma's... What Would YOU Do? | S08E05

On today's podcast we're putting ourselves in some tricky reseller situations. Testing your morals, your business sense and maybe your friendships. We're  going to ask one simple question... what would YOU do?

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On today's podcast, we're putting ourselves in some tricky reseller situations, testing your morals, your business sense, and maybe even your friendships. We're going to ask one simple question. What would you do? My name's Chris, aka Carboot 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 you company to entertain you and maybe a little bit of education. Who knows? Welcome to the Everything Reselling Podcast. Hey everybody, welcome back. It's Monday night again. Welcome back to the podcast. I'm Carboot Chris, your host, and as you'll see, if you're watching here on YouTube, is I'm on my own this evening. Belle is feeling a bit worse for wear this week. I don't know whether the radiotherapy is is kind of catching up with her a bit. So she's having tonight off. And she's got three more sessions, only three more sessions to go, and then she's she's done with radio therapy. So hopefully she'll be back up and running again next week. Anyway, I hope you're all good. I hope you've had a good week in the reselling world. Or if you're not a reseller, because there are a lot of you who aren't resellers, I hope you've had a good week in a real job, you know, earning real money, not like us resellers. It's not real, is it? But yeah, welcome everybody. Tonight we're talking about reseller dilemmas, and I've got a series of hypothetical dilemmas to put to you all that hopefully will engage with you and get you in with some interesting answers, some honest answers. Yes, hopefully some honest answers. But in the meantime, there's a question I'm gonna end with towards the end of the show after the duck race, so you'll need to stick around for the whole show. And that question is if you could go back to one moment in your reselling life, where are you going and why are you going there? Now, when I asked this question, I'm thinking about if you could give yourself one piece of advice. Is there something you would buy that you didn't buy? Is there something you wouldn't buy that you did buy? Is there something that you would change? It's all hypothetical. We don't have a reseller time machine, but I thought it would be an interesting question to ask. And save it though, don't put it in the chat now, save it till later, and we'll come back to it because it's it's one that takes a bit of thought, you know? So have a think about it and come back to it later on. And I'll remind you, just keep it there. Anyway, I'm gonna say hello to as many, as many people in the YouTube chat as possible. And uh, if you're listening on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon, Alexa, or any of those podcast channels, audio channels, then welcome to you as well. Please feel free to hit that download button. Come and join us over on YouTube one day on a Monday night at 8 p.m. We're live. Come and join us one day and just say hello in the chat. But I'm gonna say hello to as many people as we possibly can in the chat in just a one-minute allotted time period until the piece of music runs out. Let's just get it lined up. We've got one minute music. We're off. Right, let's see who we've got in. We've got Jamie D. Um, we also have Lynn Lynn, Karen Evans, Rosie Marsden, Deborah Sardine, Steady Cam Man, Paul Hillman, Mark Hill, Kavalis, and Jeff Davis. Welcome to all of you guys. Deborah Sardine's in. Liz Scotty, Fluffy the Muffin, Limelight Vinti, Emsden UK. Uh, what else have we got? New names, Pixel Fix, Rachel Fantastic, The Vinyl Nutter, Sharon Island, Rosie Mars and Cheryl Hughes, Helen Graham's here, Phil Higginson, L. Raventa Ross, Chris Tyler, Frey Andy Bentos, Lisa, Carol Harris, welcome to you. Lots of people in. I think that's it. Are we at the bottom of the chat? That's it. We are showing us 60 people live watching here on YouTube. So welcome to you all. If you've not said hello, get your hellos in. The music's still going. Come on, let's see what else we've got. Let's go back a bit and see because someone said a comment here. Who was it? It was Deborah Sardine said she did an antiques collector's fair over the weekend at Exeter. Best ever fair I've done in 10 years. Wow, that's amazing. That sounds like a good one. Well done to you for that. Not easy doing those, doing stalls at those places. Brombery sellers in, not seeing Brombery Cellar for a while. Welcome to you. And I think. Is that our time up? Oh, I'll tell you what's happened. It's gone on a loop. The music. Bloody hell. One job. It's done two minutes. I thought that was a bloody long one minute. Uh, Ready Steady Retro is in. Paul Hillman's here as well. And that is everybody. And there's the music finished. So there you go. Well, for those of you who watched the weekend video where I picked up the £25 camera, I sold it today. So that's been up because that came from last week. Last weekend, not this weekend, just gone. Weekend before. So it's been up a week, and it's sold today for £215.99p. So pretty happy with that. Got to be happy with that from £25, haven't you? Obviously there's fees to come off, but there's no there's no promoted listings because I don't promote for the first 30 days. So I got away with that one. That would have been a hefty chunk. Say hefty chunk, I only do 2.5% though, anyway. So what would have been about 6 quid for promoted listing? But 6 quid in my pocket, innit? So I got away with that one. So I just paid the normal the normal fees really, which probably work out without promoted listings, probably about 14-15%, isn't it? So yeah, 25 quid sale out the door today. Let us know. There you go. Jeff comes in. I had a similar camera, so I knew it was worth $250-ish. Nice one, Jeff. Were you, Jeff, were you a bit of a photographer? Because it's quite an expensive camera to have if you're if you're not really in into photography, innit? So do you like doing the old photos? I had a go with it, obviously. I tested it out before I listed it. It was really good actually. It took some great photos. Yeah, it was a cracking pickup and sale, Carol. Thank you very much. Yeah. Uh Sharon Island says I'm enjoying M's Den's videos. Of course. Who doesn't? Everybody loves Em Den videos. Well, whichever channel they release videos on, in their multiple hundreds and thousands of channels that they have. Kevin Hawthorne's in from Florida. Welcome to you. Yeah, Chris. Hope they don't return it. Yeah. No, I made it pretty queer. No, I didn't make it pretty queer. I made it pretty clear in the description it didn't have the rubber. It didn't have the rubber with it. Isn't it? I made it pretty queer that it didn't have the rubber with it. Yeah, so those you finder rubbers are only less than five quid to buy. I debated like just buying one and shoving it on. But I decided, you know what, I'm just gonna list it without. And I did put on the listing. I put on the listing you can pick up one of these rubber things for less than five quid. So yeah, hopefully they did notice that. And they got it at a discount anyway, because I think I listed it at I think I listed it at 2.40. And because I send out 15% offers, like sometimes I sent an offer out on it, and they accepted the offer and purchase. So yeah, not too bad. Lisa sold a Redskins varsity jacket for £93.99. Oh, that's lovely. That was it like a suede or a leather one. I'm guessing so at that kind of price. Hmm. That is a good sale, nonetheless. Carol said the lady was telling you the truth when she said it was worth £25. Yes, she was. She said it was a good deal, and it was a good deal. Unlike the previous video from the week before, which on a similar note they told me that it was a good deal, and they bumped up the prices of what it was worth on eBay, and really it's not really worth that much. Those cars that I picked up, so yeah, I'm gonna be lucky, I think, on those cars, you know, to actually break even. 160 quid. Gonna be lucky to break even on those. Fluffy the muffin, love to Belle if she's watching. I think she's downstairs chilling out, but she'll probably get an early night, I think, tonight. Elra Venta said I had a buyer on Vinted accuse me of selling a fake because the specific top wasn't on the company's website and it was older labels. I got I got direct from the company X store stock from 2025. Some people are just weird, aren't they? Some people are strange, very strange. And our vendor also said I found an article showing the top. Thankfully, they then realized it was actually real on a product that they sold. Or at least you managed to resolve it in the end. But god, you shouldn't have to go to that bloody length, should you? Oh, it's a wool varsity jacket. Nice. That's good. Flip and fill promoting at 2% but sending 15% offers. Interesting strategy, yeah. I've always done decent offers anyway, flip and fill, but what I used to do before was I used to promote at 10% and send 15% offers. So it's a much better strategy now, isn't it? They were saying our event said they were saying about not wanting to pay for a return. So red flags were ringing, but seemed to have placated them. They even said they would contact the company to authenticate. I told them they should. Yeah, and the company will probably just ignore them. But yeah, try and get them off your back and uh hopefully you've solved that problem. Sharon Island says I bought a glass clock from Vinted for £7.19, and it turned out to be French Crystal. Sold it on eBay for £215.56p. What a cracking flip that is, Sharon. A vintage classic that £7 into £215. You'd be lucky to even get that kind of flip at the car boot sale, wouldn't you? So you've done really well with that one. Well done. By the way, Sharon, did you know what you were looking at? Did you have you got like a save search set up? Because I have like, I don't know, about 50 at least save searches on vintage and eBay, by the way, similar save searches. So I look for certain things. Did you have this like vintage clock or something? And then every vintage clock that gets listed, it comes up on your save search feed. I I have quite a few save searches. Uh Carol said, with all the negativity in the world at the moment, it's an absolute pleasure to watch Paula Marie's videos. They always make me smile and laugh out loud. Oh, yeah, definitely. Good videos, I like them. Lisa said, Has anyone noticed you can't do dynamic promotions capped anymore unless you promote at the price eBay say? I've not noticed that specifically, but I just do a flat rate promotion now anyway. So I've kind of not even really tried to do dynamic recently. I'm gonna have a look later though. I'll have a look tomorrow maybe and just see what's happened with that. I wonder if they've turned it off or stop doing it. Sharon said I don't have the searches set up. I just liked it and thought it may be something special, but didn't know for sure until it arrived. Oh, nice, Sharon. Just a gut instinct purchase. It don't get any better than that, does it? Hmm. Sorry, just having a sip of me, brew. For those listening, hearing gulping down the microphone. I need to keep my throat lubricated so that I can do this podcast on my own tonight. How do you save searches on vintage, Chris? Oh, you just when you search for something, I don't know if I can show you. Uh when you search for something, like in the search bar as per normal, then you just click the flag next to it, and that'll save it as a favorite search, and then you can just go on your favorite searches as a big list, and it'll tell you when there's something new that matches a search. I wonder if I can show you here. Might not be able to see it on the screen. It's dead easy to do though, dead easy. Right, okay, so it comes into your oh you're not gonna be able to see it, are you? So it comes into your home page, like when you log in, press home, you just go on to search. So I'm gonna search for something random, like what can I search for, guys? Walking dead t-shirts, right? So what you do is you press search, like you normally do, so it's got all walking dead t-shirts now. Well, vintage search is shit, we know that. So I've got random things that probably aren't gonna be walking dead t-shirts. Actually, the results are not too bad today, so I stand corrected. So then what you do is in the corner next to the search results, you can't see it. Right, you see up here, there's a little flag thing. You just press the flag there in the right hand corner, and that's now save the search, and it'll all you do is you go to home then, oh no, you go to back onto your profile, and you go to where is it? As you go to search for something now, you go to type in and it gives you all your save search. I'm not gonna show you my save searches, but as you go to type something in, it'll have all your save searches there, and it'll tell you if there's anything new that is connected to your save searches. So I've got a few on there, I've got absolutely loads. But the important thing is it gives you a number, and that's how many new items there are under that save search. Hope that helps, and you probably you probably didn't follow that because I made a dog's dinner of explaining it, but I hope you found it useful. Cheryl said sold some post office scales, they were delivered. Buy said weights weren't there, and I had to refund. I knew they were there, and eBay backed me. They got quite aggressive, and then nothing. What a nightmare, Cheryl. I hate it when stuff like that. You know, it's a standoff, isn't it? It's like one word versus another, is a pain in the backside. Hi, McCauley over on Facebook. Hope the magic's going well. And Belle is she's okay, she's tired today. She's had radiotherapy for the last couple of weeks, and she's at the back end now, so she's got three more sessions left. So hopefully she'll she'll start feeling a bit better after that. It's mainly the fatigue, it's not like chemotherapy that makes you feel physically sick. It's the radiotherapy is more about fatigue and tiredness, and so and she already suffers from ME anyway, so you know it's like a double whammy. Vinyl Nutter, I picked up some good stuff on searches. There you go. There you go. Always good to have some saved searches. Peter Fox is in. Hi, Chris. How are you? I'm good, Peter Fox. Welcome to you. That's a new name. Drop us an intro, you know. Tell us who you are, and do I know you or do you listen on the podcast or whatever? You know, let us know. Carol, oh, sorry. Carol says, got you. Right, Carol. Did you manage to follow that? And have you tested it? Saved a search and then gone back in and found your save search. Once you've done that, you're never gonna look back, you'll be saving loads of searches. Limelight, are you still using listing monster? Absolutely, every single day Limelight. I very, very rarely list using normal eBay every single day. Today, I today I did a pile of 26 games and Blu-rays and stuff that I bought from Colin Lingus. I made 13 of them live today, and tomorrow I'm gonna make 13 of them live again tomorrow. So it should be a quick lot of listing tomorrow, and then I can crack on with some more, some other listing. So, yeah, every single day, listing monster. If any of you guys are interested in finding out a bit more about listing monster, you can get a free trial. And if you use if you mention my name or use my link that is scrolling across the screen, you get 14 days for free. Once you get into it, it's so bespoke. They literally, it's not it's not like any other AI lister that I've tested, and I've tested maybe three or four now. It's not like any other AI lister, it is so bespoke, they literally do everything, they get the back end of the AI ready for everything that how how you like it to appear on your listings. So, in that respect, it it makes sure that just because two people are listing using listing monster, it doesn't mean to say their listings are going to look the same. In fact, it they absolutely won't look the same. Even if they listed the same item, their listings would not look the same because it's bespoke to how you want it listed, or your layout, or your description, or your SKU boxes, how you like that written is all automated. It's it's brilliant to be honest with you. I can't see myself going back. Honestly, honest to God, I can't. Anyway, you gave me an introduction to promote that, so thanks, Limelight. Yeah, there's a link down below if you do want to look further into listing monster, but please use my link. I get a kickback as well. Uh, life in the first lane, evening all. Oh, Lana's birthday on Saturday. Yes, let's do it. Uh uh uh uh We need we need the special, the special one here.

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Happy birthday! Woo!

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He's only popped in to say happy birthday to Lana. Well, happy birthday, Lana. Hope you have a good one. Uh uh Brumbery Seller uses Listed Monster as well. Yeah, I've seen your videos, yeah. Cool, it's brilliant. I absolutely love it. What else? Oh, there you go. Carol does understand me. Well, listen, Carol, if you do have any trouble, send me a message and I'll talk you through it. I'll send you like a screen share, but you know, if you have if you're having trouble, I don't mind. You you can send me a message. Mine is on Wednesday. What's on Wednesday? I'm not sure. Oh, birthday, you mean? Happy birthday. Oh.

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Happy birthday Woo!

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Happy birthday for Wednesday if that's what you meant. If not, then count that as your birthday. Happy birthday. Oh, Carol, how bloody hell? Is it anyone else's birthday today?

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Happy birthday Woo

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Carol Harris's birthday, happy birthday to you. Bloody hell, everyone's birthday, isn't it? Better than crosslist. I have I've used crosslist for a month, but crosslist is more for crosslisting. Listing monster is about AI listing. And I know crosslist does some AI elements as well, but I can't speak I can't speak for the difference of crosslist to listing monster for the AI listing aspect. I only tested crosslist in regards to crosslisting. But I'm not with them now. I still use Celerator for crosslisting. So lots of birthdays. Saturday the 13th, Deborah Sardine. Bloody hell, is that another one?

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Oh happy birthday! Woo!

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It's a lot, innit? Happy birthday to you, Debs. Wow. Lots of birthdays. Cyril Smith, honestly, I don't believe it. Sid, Sid's Emporium. Is it really your birthday? Are you just taking the Mickey now? I think you might be taking the Mickey. If it is, drop a drop a line. Right. Let's talk about the main thing that we came here to talk about, and that is reseller dilemmas. Now we all have difficult decisions to make sometimes. Oh, go on then. Let's do it for Cyril Smith.

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Happy birthday!

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Happy birthday to Sid's Emporium. Yeah, so let's do some hypothetical. No, it's my cat's birthday. Forget it. We're not doing cats as well. But on another note, welcome to the timekeeper to our membership scheme. Just joined our Discord, so welcome. Appreciate you joining. Hope you enjoy it. Here we go. Let's because I've got this written down here now. Come on. Right, reseller dilemmas. Are you ready for this, guys? I need your interaction, otherwise it's gonna get very boring. Reseller dilemmas. Here's the first one, and these are just hypothetical. So have a think about this and give me your answer in the chat. If you're listening on Spotify or any of your favorite podcast channels, just have a think about this. You can say it out loud if you like, what you would do, and I'll read out some of what the viewers here are saying that they would do. So our first dilemma, and I'm gonna do it, I'm gonna and you could pick any item for this, right? Any item you like, but because I sell a lot of jerseys, I'm gonna pick a jersey. You tell me what you would do. So you're at a car boot sale, and a seller has a rare sports jersey on a rail for five pounds, you know it's worth £500. Maybe it's signed or it's a vintage, you know, jersey from back in the 70s or something like that. And the seller says, just take it, mate. It's just an old shirt, you can have it for a fiver. What do you do? Do you pay you five pounds and leave? Tell them it's worth more, tell them to sell it themselves, it's worth more. That could be an option. Or maybe you'll say, Oh, you know what, mate, it's worth a bit more than that. Here's 20. Or if you know for sure it's it's 500 pounds, here's 50. What do you do? What are you doing? Give me your honest answer, right? There's no judgment here, and in one way, there's no right or wrong answer, it's just what we all do. What would you do in that situation? They're asking a fiver for it. What would you do? Here we go. Let's see. Let's see what people are gonna do on this one. My goldfish is five. No, Laura, we are not doing that one. Here we go, let's see. Right, Husty's Emporium. The first one in says, Oh, bugger, it's gone. No, it's not. Husty's Emporium says, I'll take it for a fiver. Line like Vinti, I'll pay the five pound they ask for. Rachel, fantastic. He asked for five pounds, give five pound. Cyril Smith, I would thank them and pay a fiver. Some people would offer a quid, says Rachel. You know what? They actually would, wouldn't they? Definitely they would. Shown Island, I'll pay whatever he wanted for it. Pixel Fix, I'd pay five pounds and risk risk that it may not be legit. Oh, we didn't mention whether it was legit or not. But yeah, that's a fair, that's a fair like thing to say. Well, you know what? You know, it could could be a fake, but what I'm saying is you've eyeballed it, you know it's worth £500 quid. You know it is. I'm not saying there's any doubt there. So you know it's worth £500. Jeff, quietly pay the five pound and leave. Oh Jeff, Santa, Santa. I mean it's not dishonest, is it? How much are you asking? Five pound. Here's your five pound. See you later. That's not dishonest. Is it? Husty's Emporium, charity shop. If it's nice, I if it's a nice one, I might go back and give them some more. Vinyl Nutter, pay you five pound, it's your bread and butter. Chris Tyler, ask if they'd take three pound. Phil Higginson, I had this with a coin this week. I paid the asking price and slinked off. Married Theresa and paid them the five pound. Deborah, if they're asking five pounds, pay it. Laura says people need to do their homework, Sodom. Uh, yeah, pretty much everyone says pay what they're asked. There's not much really going on around that. Timekeeper says, I think it depends on the situation. I'd personally see it as a profit based on knowledge that you've gained. Good point. Yeah, yeah, you work to get that knowledge. It doesn't just come to you, does it like that? Unless you're using AI to snap things, and then it does, doesn't it? Uh, would you like cash or check, sir? Yeah. Malvern, dude, pay the five pound, try not to smile too much. And Ems Den. The most honest people in the reselling world, the PM of reselling has said pay the fiver. That's it, innit? Lots of people just saying pay it. Pay it. Yeah. Oh, different one. Finally, we get a different answer. Secret Carper said I'd pay a lot more like £20. I bought a ZX Spectrum Plus 3. He wanted £10. I gave him £30. Well, bravo to you, Carper. I have to say, I'll give you a round of applause for that one. That's awesome. That is good. Well done. I appreciate that. But I think 99% of us would agree that we would pay the £5 and go. I would put there's one as there's one caveat, maybe, but it's unlikely. Sometimes if I if there's a if it's something that someone's and they're not going to be, but if if it's a child selling something at a boot sale and I know it's worth a fair bit more than what they're asking, I will give them more, but they're not there to sell vintage jerseys worth God knows what, are they? But if I was buying, say, a Furby and the mum said, Oh, it's it's little Joe's Furby, he only wants a pound for it, but I know it's a vintage Furby and it's worth 50. I'm probably gonna give him more. But that's probably the caveat that I would put on it. Like, who's selling it? Is it a kiddie? You know, is it for their pocket money? But but in this general situation, you know, I'd pay the fiver probably and and go. I mean, we've seen it, we've seen it on videos, you know. Loads of us YouTubers, we find something, it's worth money, it's a treasure hunt. That's what I make videos on. We find something cheap, we flip it as as high as we possibly can to make a profit, and that's what we do. Yeah, but I think generally, what I wouldn't do, here's what I wouldn't do in this situation, is I wouldn't barter, absolutely not, right? If I know that that five pound jersey is worth 500 quid, if I know that that five pound jersey is worth 50 quid, I'm I'm not going to ask ask for £3. If I know 100%, if I have doubts, if I think it may be fake, if any of that stuff in, I might then barter. But if I definitely know, then I'll just pay it. I'm not going to try and do a deal on it. You know what I mean? So there you go. Um married to reselling. Yep, I've paid kids more at garage sales. Yep. Em's Den said if it was a kid, we would pay more. Yeah, I think I think a lot of people would. A lot of people would. And you don't know if it's worth anything until you sell it, unless you know for sure, Husty. Right? There's certain jerseys now, right? If we're taking this jersey example, there's certain jerseys that I've sold for some decent money, you know, hundred, two hundred pound jerseys. I don't think I've sold a jersey for more than 200, but I've I've sold up in that end, like one or two occasionally. And when you get a sale like that, it kind of sticks up here. You know, you know when it's it's worth it.

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So if I know I I would I would, you know, pay it.

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Pixel Fix, many moons ago, I worked as a buyer in cash converters. The morals of the manager were non-existent. I eventually got moved to the front till, I was not roofless enough. Pixel Fix, did you know that I was a buyer? I was senior buyer for cash generator. So me and you have done the same job. Well, we we technically do the same job now for both resellers, but yeah, I was well after I had my shop, early 2000s, when I was giving up my shop, I applied for a buyer job. Uh, in fact, I applied for an assistant manager job. Yeah. Assistant manager at Stockport's Cash Generator, it's not there anymore. And I didn't get, I got down to the last two, right? So I was well chuffed with myself. I was only a young lad. I was like 21 or something, 22. I was dead chuffed with myself. I got down to the last two. And they rung me up and they said, Look, you did a you did a you did a great interview. We really like you. You've not got the job. I was like, oh, fucking great, you know. And you've not got the job. However, we'd like to offer you this job. And they offered me the senior buyer. So I was in charge of the buying table. Oh my god, we had some we had some tales to tell on that job. I'm sure you did as well, Pixel. Jesus. You know what? After I'd done that job, I went into the police, and I don't think I had as much confrontation in 13 years of the police as the amount of confrontation that I dealt with in cash generators. Not with not with colleagues, with members of the public. It stood me in good stead, put it that way. Anyway, that's my little tail gone. Pixel Fix, didn't know that was back around. Yeah, mine was mine was 2001-ish. No, 2002-2003, I think. Around that point. Yeah, so many tales, Pixel Fix. Yeah, yeah. Oh such dodgy stuff as well. I'm not gonna say anymore. Some dodgy stuff going on. Right, let's get another example up of a reselling dilemma. Okay, someone offers you a storage locker, 500 pound cash, no viewing, no refunds, but the person selling says that there is some valuable stuff in the storage locker. Would you buy it? And what's the most you're gonna gamble? They're asking £500 cash. Are you gonna buy it? Are you gonna take the gamble? Like, the person who's selling the storage locker is saying that there's some valuable stuff in there. 500 quid. I mean, you wouldn't have to flip that many items to get your money back, would you? It could be it could be an amazing gamble. Like, you could get five grand worth of stuff back, it could be full of like old gaming stuff, you know, like gold. Could have all sorts of gems. You've seen the storage locker programs, it could have some amazing stuff in there. I you know what, I'll tell you my position now, because last time I let you lot talk, I would gamble because I don't mind a bit of a like a bit of a take a chance, you know. I don't mind that. You've seen in my videos I take a chance on a lot of things. Sometimes you win and sometimes you lose. I would probably say, like, I'll tell you what, we'll do I'll do you 400 quid if you're guaranteeing me that there's some some decent stuff in there. It's a storage locker, it's gonna be full of stuff, full of stuff. But yeah, let me know what you think in the chat. What would you do? Husty said I'd offer a fiver. Let's stick with the theme. Deborah Sardine, nope, too good to be true. Oh, Pixel Fix likes a bit of a gamble. I think I would for 500 pounds, says Pixelfix. Now, it's funny you should say that, Pixel Fix. I've got a storage locker. So, is it a deal? I guarantee there's some value in there. I'm not saying how much value, but I guarantee there is. Come on, shake on it. I didn't think so. Secret Carper as a gambler, yeah. I'll take it all day long. Uh, where shall break even? says Pixel. Uh Cyril said I would have to ask roughly what's in it before I took a risk. I think that's good. Yeah. Yeah, that's a good answer. Maybe you could get like give me a give me a an inkling, you know. What's the theme in there? Is it clothing? Is it games? Is it furniture? Because if it's furniture, I'm like, no thanks. I don't give a shit if there's something antique from the year 1500. I don't want it. I don't want to deal with furniture. But yeah, what is it in there? Maybe, says some people. Most of the time, lockers are full of rubbish. Uh, limelight said they don't have space for stuff out of a locker. Flip and Phil says anyone who's saying gamble, send me 500 pounds and I'll send you a mystery palette. Ah, that's a good point, Carpi. Yeah, I think you gamble with these clothing bales, says 500 is not that much. That's absolutely true, yeah. Every time you buy blind clothing, like quite a few of us in the chat or listening or whatever, buy clothing blind sometimes, don't we? And that is a gamble. But a lot of the time the gamble is based on experience, isn't it? That you roughly you roughly have an inkling of what's going to be in it if you bought from that company before, you know, you bought the the specific kind of bail that you you know roughly, but maybe the first time you ever buy from a new company that is a gamble, definitely. But yeah, so I think most people are passing on this by the looks of it. If we knew the person well, then maybe maybe, but not if we would but if not, then we wouldn't gamble, it could be full of heavy rubbish. Yeah, too risky for Sharon. Yeah. I think most Husty will never buy anything blind. Tea cakes have always done okay with lockers, but would never buy blind. But if guaranteed some good stuff, then that's not really blind if you trust the person. Yeah, fair point. There's lots of variables in this one, isn't there? It's a bit flaky, it's a bit of a flaky one, so yeah, I can appreciate it's probably 50-50. In fact, there's probably more people who wouldn't risk this one. Pixel fix. I've took risks on eBay listings that are poorly worded or bad picks, not showing the full lot, and it can pay off. Yeah, I know what you mean with that. Chris Tyler, it could be packed with old phone holders. Yeah, okay, okay, that's an interesting one. It's a bit flaky, wasn't it? Is there's too many unanswered questions in that to get people in, isn't there? Hmm. Okay. This next one I've called the charity shop error. Now, this is gonna test your morals very, very closely. And I'm looking at the answers to see who's answering this one. The charity shop error. A charity shop. Now, this Phil, Phil, listen up on this one. What would you do especially? A charity shop prices a gold coin at two pounds. You know it's worth. I'm gonna say, I'm gonna just put a number, £500. It's just a round number, isn't it? It's it's a number that's big enough for you to actually question your own morals. If I said £100, it's still a lot, but it's like okay, it's a hundred pounds, you know. You could walk away with a hundred pound and not say nothing, but five hundred pounds is such a decent amount. In fact, no, let's scrap it, right? A thousand pound coin. You know that this gold coin in the charity shop is worth £1,000 at least. What do you do? Buy it, say nothing. Buy it, walk out as quick as you can. Tell them. Tell them it's worth money, or maybe you offer to pay more because you can say, Well, I think you've underpriced it. Here's uh £10, here's £20, here's £50. Or here's another option go away, sell the coin for a thousand pound, feel feel guilty, and go back and make a donation. A donation of your choice. If you go back, if you sell your coin for a thousand pounds, this is complicated now, isn't it? Are you gonna go back and donate some money back? Because you only paid two pounds for it. And if so, how much are you gonna donate back? That's a question. Yeah? How much would you donate back if you did go back? Interesting. I'm not answering this one until the end. Oh dear. Let's see where everyone's gone with this one. Life in the first lane. I'm I can't I'm not supposed to swear. But basically, F them, give them the two pound. What else have we got? Teaces, buy it, and ask if we've got any more. Don't be daft, no charity shop these days would do such a thing. Yeah. Uh Raventa says Phil would take it and spend the profits on Cadbury's. Cadbury's what's that? I can't read that last thing. Secret carpet. Sorry, I have no morals on this one. I'll give them two pounds. The CEAs are on way more than me. That's true. Chris Tyler says buy it and then sell it to Phil. Ems Den says buy it, but when it sells, donate some money back to the charity. Hell no, says T cakes. The CEO won't be sharing his wages with anyone. Ooh. Pixel Fix, take it, because we'll not see see anywhere near that. Would I? What I would do though is make sure I make plenty of donations for a while with unwanted goods. Oh, that's that's another way of doing it, isn't it? Yeah, fair enough. Cortex says, buy the coin, sell it, make an anonymous donation to the charity. There we go. What donations would you all give back? That was that's what I was asking. Buy it, make a good amount, give some back. Thomas said he would hackle at two pounds. Yeah, would you take a pound? Phil says, buy it and slink off. Husty said it depends if it's a dog's trust, RSPCA, or Oxfam. Very picky. Oh, here we go. Deb says, I've actually done this. Oh, interesting. A diamond and gold ring for three pounds. It was sparkly, so I bought it. Mum now wears it proudly. They priced it. I bought it. No guilt. The CEO wouldn't care. There you go. Deborah. What's it worth though, Deborah? What's the value of it? That that bit we you missed out. Cyril said I'd buy it, sell it, and probably go back and give some back. Lime light, I'd just buy it and not say anything. Oh, Krillin's in. Krillin sent a $2 super chat. Thank you, Krillin. The bunny men are in town tonight. Oh, awesome. Steve O. For anyone who doesn't know, Steve O, who follows the channel, is also a channel member, is the bass guitarist and backup singer for Echo and the Bunnymen, and they're in New York. Awesome. Nice.

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Most people are saying they would buy it.

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I probably wouldn't say anything looking at this. I wouldn't go back in. Okay. Alkna says national charities are businesses. If they research and do their research and it's wrong, then it's their error. However, if it's a small local charity, then I would probably make a donation. Hussey says we're all definitely off to the fire pit of hell. I told you I was going to test your morals, and oh, you lot have got no morals. That is for sure. The CEOs at the British Heart Foundation got a 35k pay rise, and they're all on their way over 200k, says Lisa. Wow. Wow. I think I might have to change roles. Oh, Deborah said it's worth about 450 quid. I had it valued. Lovely. Lovely. Look at all the money charity shops throw in their skips. What's the difference? That's true. They don't give money back to me if I paid £20 and it sells for £15. That's true, Husty. That's true. Well, that's not the question, is it? For me, I were if it sold for a thousand pounds and I paid two pounds for it, I think my own conscience would say I should I should donate something back afterwards. I would make sure that it sold first, and that there were no returns, of course. Like past the returns window. And I'd probably like, if it was a thousand pounds, I'd probably like I would donate £50 to charity. Honestly, I would. But I might not donate it to the same charity I bought it from. I think somebody mentioned that earlier. I'd probably just donate it to maybe a charity that's close to me or the family or something like that. Well, at least it's going back to charity, isn't it? That's probably what I'd do. But only if you get that huge markup, like two pound into a thousand pounds is a huge markup. Yeah, I think just just to make sure you head to the pearly gates, you've done your bit, I would do that. But not everybody at this would do the same. Hats are evil says uh hats are evil says once I was at a car boot, I had a box, had a box with a watch in it, opened the box, was a Rolex inside, gave it back to the seller. He was a bit shocked. Wow. So you said to the seller, oh, this is a genuine Rolex, you should probably go and get that valued or whatever. That's very kind of you did. The problem is, if I picked up a box with a Rolex in it, I would immediately assume that it's fake because there's so many fakes. I wouldn't even know what to look for, like for a for a genuine Rolex. Honestly, I wouldn't. But yeah, if you know what you're looking at and you gave it back, then that's good.

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Let's see.

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Carol Harris would donate £100, so 10% of the sale price. That's very kind of you, Carol. That's a very nice thing to do. You're the only one here that's not going to help. Everyone else is going to help. Evening ABL Dave. Hope you had a good holiday. Okay. Okay, I think we've exhausted that one. Oh, who's ready for another one? This is fun, isn't it?

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Right.

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Here's a here's a tricky one. It might not be tricky, but let you decide whether it's tricky or not. Are you ready for this one? This one is called a competitor or a fellow reseller's mistake. So another reseller that you know, maybe it's someone you follow, or maybe it's someone in the community, someone on YouTube even. They you you follow their eBay store, right? Now you're an expert in let's say watches, because somebody just talked about a Rolex. So a fellow reseller that you know, maybe you've spoken to them, maybe you haven't, maybe you follow them, whatever. You see that they've listed a watch on their eBay store that you know is worth £300, but they've listed it for £30, right? Now, this could be a typo, maybe they've missed a zero off. Could be a typo, or maybe they've just not researched it right. Maybe they've not researched it at all. And they've they thought, well, I only paid a pound for it, so I'm selling it for £30. In reality, you know it's worth £300. You spot it first. What are you gonna do? Are you gonna message them privately and say, hey, hey Dave? Have you I've seen that you've listed that watch. Are you sure that's the right price? Because I'm pretty sure that it's worth 300, not 30. Do you do that? You message them. Do you just buy it immediately? Quick. Buy, buy it now. I'm not even making an offer, I'm grabbing that. It's their fault. They're a professional reseller, they should have done their research properly. And hey, hey ho, see you later. I'm having that. All's fair. You listed it for 30, I'm having it, I'm gonna flip it. Your own fault for not doing it right. Or maybe you just ignore it and think, oof, don't know what to do about that. I don't think anyone's gonna ignore it. What are you gonna do? The floor's open to you. I've I've had this situation before where I've seen a fellow reseller selling some underselling something like by a considerable amount, and I sent them a private message. This is why I put this one in the list. Uh I'm not saying I'm a saint or anything, but I felt bad. I I could have bought it and flipped it, but I didn't. So I sent them a message, I think it was on Instagram, and I said, hey, I've just seen that you've listed something. I don't know, it was ages ago now, I don't even remember what it was. You know, it might be worth a bit more, it might be worth you it might be worth you, you know, checking the price on it, or is it a typo, you know? But that's what I would do. What would you do though?

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That's the question. Let's see. Let's see what we've got. Let's see.

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Deborah Sardine says, yes, I would let them know the real value. That's very good of you, Debs. GTFC says tell them resellers stick together. Jeff said I would give them a nod and a wink to let them know an error. Husty says no love in the wild. Love you all, by the way. I'm only playing. Sharon said, if it's someone I know, I'd let them know it's worth more. Uh Cyril said I'd pay the £30 and buy it. Secret Carper, I'd buy it and then tell them it's worth more. Please check and cancel order and relist it. Oh, so you'd buy it in order to take it off sale to stop them making a mistake. That's good. I like that. Emsdem, we would message them to let them know they could get more. And Lisa, if it was worth that much and underpriced so much, it would probably be sold super quick. Yeah, but Lisa, I said you're the first to see it. They've just listed it. You're a stalker on this person's store, and you've ended up being the first person to have eyes on this item. So you're the first. You can buy it and snap it before anybody else if you want. Oh, Reventer. It depends if they're a nice person or don't boot dive. Yeah, that's a good one. So you're gonna do the kind of like, do I like them or not? Do I like this reseller, or is it one of the resellers I don't really like much? That's fair. That's fair. Johnny Forticots, I've flipped stuff from Nick Hills and Lex Oliver. Cool. But is it something that's been accidentally underpriced, like considerably? Like, you know, I'm not saying you've gone on a live show with someone and sniped something for a pound and managed to, you know, people do that all the time. Somebody's you've spotted a watch that's definitely worth 300 quid. They've listed it for 30. It could be a typo, they've missed that zero off. What'd you do? Krillin said, I did return a gold watch that was in a dresser full of clothing that I purchased, but the lady didn't know her dead husband even owned that watch. Ooh, could be a mystery in there. Good of you to go and take it back, though, isn't it? That is good of you. Especially in you know, when it's just you know it's come from a family who's lost somebody. It could be something really important in their family, you know, history or something, a family heirloom or watch that everyone knew the person for. That's a really nice thing to do. That I like that one. Tea cakes, no loving business. I would buy it and resell it and take the piss forevermore. That's good. Steady can man buy it quick time. ABL, it's usually the other way around for me. A couple of times I've typoed a comment instead of a decimal point. No one's buying a pair of vans for 19,900. Yeah, that's good. Depends if I like them or not. Respect to Chris. Jordi Reseller, I said I would buy it. They've got the asking price, it's no different than buying from a car boot sale. Yeah, but it is a little bit different, Geordie, because it's someone that you know. So you've got even even if you only feel like you have comes some kind of connection, you watch them on YouTube, or maybe you follow them on Instagram, or you're in a community of the same people. So there is that makes a big difference between someone you know and someone you don't know at a car boot sale. It's kind of it does make a difference, I think. Like up here, like mentally, it makes a difference. Uh Rachel said, if I like them, I'd be kind. So if if it was on your store, I would buy it. Oh, thanks for that. Very kind of you. Remind me to feature you in the next in the next thing me jig. That's flipping news. Ready steady message them, I believe in karma. Now everyone's turning nice, you turn coat, says host is emporium. Yeah, people are desperate not to go to hell. You know that stranger things hoodie, Chris. Brum reseller, a friend, a fellow record dealer had a record listed on his website for 0.0 pounds. I took a screenshot and sent it to him. Funnily enough, he changed the price price on it the same day. Oh, there you go. Well, that was very good of you to do that, Brum, wasn't it? Very good of you. I guess the old saying, I don't know if it applies to this, do unto others as you'd had done unto yourself. It's that kind of thing, isn't it, really? What goes around comes around for all you miserable gets out there. It's all theory. I'm just saying. It's you know, everyone does different things in life. Oh, it's sold the same day, said Brum.

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Oh, Chris, there you go. Chris said the same thing. Yeah.

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Chris Tyler said the same sort of phrase. Husse's Emporium. There was there once was a reseller that left a Nike sign once, no names mentioned, George Ross. He left a Nike sign. He decided not to buy it at the boot side. I went round the corner, purchased it, and sold it. Ah he missed he missed it, did he? Is that what you're saying? He missed it. There you go. That was an interesting one, wasn't it? We're all gonna fall out by the end of this, aren't we? I've already fell out with Rachel Fantastic over that one. Let's see what else I've got on my list here. I'm not gonna do them all. I've got loads. We're already an hour in, Jesus. Right. Here's an interesting one. You're out carboot. Like, I'm using car boots out because it's what most of us go to, but you're outsourcing with a reseller friend, a friend of yours, right? You're you've got your your spidey senses on, you're looking at the tables as you're walking past, you know. Oh, what's over there? Yeah, what's over there? And you spot a hundred pound item on one of the tables. Your friend walking next to you, IKEA bag over his shoulder or her shoulder, they're they're busy looking on the other side of the aisle. Or they haven't spotted it anyway, but you've spotted it. Do you give your mate a nudge? Hey, look at that over there. 100 quid that is. That thing over there, that's worth 100 quid. Or do you kind of just drift, drift over to the item on that store, pick it up, start negotiating, make the purchase, make a nice little flip. Do you offer it to your mate? You know, maybe it's a bit hard up, maybe reselling's not been going great lately, or maybe you're just gonna be nice and say, Hey, have you seen that over there? We're sourcing together. This is a joint enterprise, so we're looking together. Maybe you'll give him a nudge and say, Hey, should we go have a look at that? That's gonna be worth money. That maybe do a joint deal, or maybe let your mate have it. Maybe you're gonna be really kind. Maybe you've bought loads of stuff already. What would you do? Eh? Hundred quid. 100 quid sat on a table, but you're outsourcing with your friend. Is it a joint enterprise or are you operating on your own? I guess it depends. Do you and another question that goes with this is if you're outsourcing with your mate, and I've seen a few resellers who sometimes walk around a car boot sale together, is there a a written rule or an unwritten rule about this kind of situation? Do you agree it in advance so that there's no arguments? Is it just like first dibs? You know, when we're walking round, it's first dibs. I don't know.

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What do you reckon? What would you do? Let's have a look.

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So I'm trying to get back through the chart, see where I was up to. Deborah Sardine said I'd start a great business down in hell selling used tridents and singed red capes. Someone has to do it. Deborah Sardine said I'd gently waft over and do the deal, I'm hard up to. Pixel, if they needed it more than I'd let them. Steady cam man, I'd drift over and buy it and then gloat. Cyril Smith, I'd get there first, buy it and tell him what I'd got and maybe go halves. Oh, that's good. At least you've gone halves. Maybe you did say maybe though, you maybe. Linland says go halves. I I agree. Deborah Sardine is ruthless, isn't she? She is ruthless. Ross said, I'd get it unless it's something I know that they sell. That's a good point. Like, you know, if it's something that you don't normally sell, but you, you know, you got it's probably gonna be worth something. Yeah, perhaps give your mate a nudge and say, hey, you've seen that over there. You know, I'm not really interested because I can't be asked with furniture. So maybe that's something you're interested in. That's good. That's a good one. Uh Husty says, rule number one, never go sourcing with a mate. First dibs says Sharon. Em's Den says first dibs. If you spot it first, first dibs. Ooh, M's Den, you naughty people. I source with others all the time. Unwritten rule is all fair. I don't argue, it's all good sometimes. I don't bother with stuff, they get it, and vice versa, and they give us stuff and it's not formal. Yeah, I guess that's just the way. As long as you're all like nice, decent people, I think that's the way it goes, isn't it? Like if you know someone likes buying handbags, you'd say, Oh, you know, well, have you seen that seller over there? I got loads of handbags, you know. Some people do it with me at the c at at the car boot sale here. You know who you are if you're watching, but I've had phone calls from people at a boot sale who's also walking around a boot sale saying, Have you seen such a thing on on a store around the corner? You know, they might not be interested in, but you might be. And that's really nice. That's a nice thing to do. I guess it's A bit different if you're walking down an aisle and there's a hundred quid on the table. You know, what are you gonna do? Shit, you know. I guess I think most people would accept that it's first eyes, first dibs, first person to it's not a race, but I guess if you go over to the stall, you get there first, and you pick up the item and you're looking at it, at that point, it's like any purchase at a boot sale for me. At that point, it's in your hand, it's up to you to decide whether you want it or not. I guess after that, it's up to you then, you know, if you decide to do anything with your mate. But I think for me, it's if you've got your hand on the item first, then it's your item until you decide to put it down again, I guess. Secret carpet, but if it was like trainer lady, I would be happy to share. Yeah, that's a good point, yeah. Yeah, when me and uh me and John Luke were at the same tabletop sale, and we both bought from Trainer Lady. We ended up both asking for her number, and we ended up doing a joint deal in the future. It was a good job, really, because I think at that point in time, neither of us had enough cash in the bank to do the deal ourselves, it would have been thousands. I mean, we spent thousands of pounds with trainer lady. I don't know what it was in the end how much we spent. We probably between us we spent about 10, maybe 10 grand. I don't I can't remember now. But you know, we probably spent about five grand each. But I think at that point in our reselling journeys, neither of us actually had you know that amount of money to spend because trainlady literally presented us with an incredible amount of stock, thousands of pounds worth of stuff, and it was like, wow, I actually don't want to do this deal on my own, I don't want to take the risk of the deal on my own. That was another thing, you know. We were concerned that we were gonna buy this stock, we were gonna get it back and find out it was all fake or there was some issue with it all or whatever. So it was half half a deal each, half the risk. It was a joint venture, and and it kind of worked like that, you know. So, in that respect, that was good. Queenie Conquest, welcome. I often walk around a boot sale with Cheryl, UK vintage seller. We just pick up stuff while chatting, no rules, no envy. First, first two, it gets it. Yeah, I reckon that's the way to go, isn't it? First dib says Rosie. Deborah Sardine said, I've got no friends anyway, so I'll be wafting along the stalls on my own. Jeff says, Go to heaven for the climate, hell for the company. The opposite way around. There you go. That was interesting. That was an interesting one. I'm just looking through my list, see if I I'll do one more. One more, then we're gonna do the duck race, and then we're gonna talk about the reseller time machine, okay? So remember the time machine that I pinned to the top? Just have a think about that.

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Let's see, which one shall we do? Let's do this one.

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This is one especially for the I think I know the answer to this one, right? But this one especially goes out to the content creators out there. The secret bolo. You discover a category that nobody seems to know about. A secret category, you're making hundreds every month. A YouTube video could make thousands of pounds in ad revenue, it could go viral if you share this bolo. But you risk the future of the category. You're making hundreds every month. But this video could could make you a healthy amount in one video, but also could expand your YouTube channel going forward. So in the long run, it could make your channel bigger. You know, like some resellers, I think Jamie, I think it happened to Jamie Dodger. I mean, I think he got uh I might be wrong here, guys, but I think I remember Jamie Dodger getting an a very early, like viral video in his very early days on YouTube, and it literally sent his channel through the roof, and it overtook a lot of people's myself included, channel. And not only that, he's got a better channel than me, so you know fair dues, but it sent a lot of people it sent a his channel big, and therefore he got you know bigger quicker. But what would you do? And put yourself if you're not a youth content creator, most of you aren't. Put yourselves in a content creator's position. You're thinking about you're not just thinking about one video, like, okay, I might I could get 100,000 views from one video and earn whatever you get from a hundred thousand views. You know, you might earn 500 quid from 100,000 views quite easily. You could earn a thousand pounds from a hundred thousand views. Not only would you get the quick hit, but it could grow your channel very, very fast, make you monetized immediately, and take you into thousands of subs just from one video, and then all your subsequent videos then compound in views and end up having this big channel that you're then making hundreds of pounds every month. What do you do? Do you gatekeep it or do you share it? I think it's a fair example of what can happen on YouTube. I've thought about it many times like this one, like myself. Sometimes you teeter on the edge of sharing something that really you probably shouldn't share. You teeter right into a grey area, and you weigh it up, you do weigh it up as to whether it's worth it or not. I'd say there's occasions when I've shared things I shouldn't have, and there's okay there's lots of occasions when I haven't shared things because I know it's not worth it's not worth crashing it. There's something right now I'm not I'm not going to say it. I'm not gonna say it. There's something right now that that I make money on. But I'm not sharing it. No, I'm not sharing it. Sorry about that, guys. I have to protect my own income and my own business, and occasionally one or two things you just don't share. That's my view. What would you do? Let's see, let's go back. Just looking through the chat. Is it used underwear? Retro Sheller, keep it to yourself. Don't say a word, said Pixel. I think everyone's gonna say keep it to yourself. That's my prediction. YouTube is so short term, it could be long term though. Imagine, like some people, I think Jamie Dodgers did have a viral video very early doors. Imagine if it was that, and then it takes him into 30,000 subs, like really quick, and then every single one of your videos ends up doing really well, lots of monetization, long-term gains. Maybe it's also thinking about long-term. Depends, I guess, what your priority is. Do you want to be a reseller, do you want to be a YouTuber? That's a fair question, as well, isn't it? Phil's got an interesting point here. Someone will let the cat out of the bag eventually. May as well be you. I think that's a very good assessment, and it definitely does. Somebody else will talk about it eventually, I guess. Flipping YouTubers deserve all they can get for this one. Fair point. Chris said, didn't Nick do that with cellar tape? Oh, I don't know. I don't know about that one, Chris. Debs says, keep the bolo to myself. Even I'm shocking myself with how ruthless I am, says Debs. Debs, you are you are proper like ruthless. Keep it to yourself, says Sharon, until someone else talks about it, and then maybe you could talk about it. Uh Emsden, we would keep the bolo to ourselves as it's unlikely that any of our videos would go viral. What if it did though, Emsden? Would you sacrifice it? Right. Here's one just for M's Den. UK. Would you sacrifice a bolo for a viral video that gets you a million views? I know I'm stretching it now, a million views, and puts your sub count into like the thousands, like 30,000 subs, a million view video, which gives you a fair few hundred quid, thousands of pounds. I I'm really trying to get you to say that you would share it at this point. And then you got this huge channel. You are the PM of reselling at this point, right? But you've got to sacrifice a regular bolo that you make hundreds on every week. You've got to sacrifice it for that. Would you do it? Waiting for the answer. Jeff says, make the video, but be sure to highlight how you lost your shirt. How you lost your shirt on this new undiscovered bolo. Win win. How you lost your shirt? Oh, what does that mean, Jeff? I've missed it. I've missed a point. Don't be that guy, says Retro Sheller. Is it the Ashes DVD? No, it's not. Keep it to yourself, Rosie. Husty says, wait until the market's dead and then tell people. Tech and sports style. Ha ha. Yeah, yeah, that's it. Only fans, says Jules. Only fans is so last year. Nice one, Jules. I like that one. Cyril says, keep it to yourself until it starts slowing down, and then you can maybe share it. Yeah, that's good. You wouldn't know it's a viral video until it goes viral, surely. Yeah, that's true. That is true. I'm playing devil's advocate here. I'm trying to say that if you definitely knew. There you go. Classic example says Brum reseller is the Tyson cards in question of sport. Yeah, true. The Question of Sport games are just like worthless now, aren't they? I had one, I couldn't even shift it for like a tenner, and it had all the cards in it as well. But I never shared it because that was the first time I'd ever found one. But yeah, the the price on those has just gone, hasn't it? Now absolutely tanked. Worthless now, basically. I wonder who the first person was to share the the Tyson card thing. Cause then it got shared everywhere after then, didn't it? I'm still waiting for Ems Den to come back to us and tell us how they sell their soul for the devil. Talking about hell. Jeff says, make the video, but edit it in a way that makes it seem like you lost a lot of money on it. Make the bolo seem toxic somehow. Okay, so Okay, so you try and make some money out of it in a dramatic way. In a way that people don't realise if it's a bolo. That's kind of that seems very backwards, that Jeff. That seems very that seems like hard work, that to me. Emsden are still adamant. The bolo is the regular income, so no, I don't think we would sacrifice it, even if we could buy more sausages with the extra money. I don't believe the Emsden. Honestly, I think you're fibbing to me there. I think not about the sausages. I think that you if you could go viral with a million view video, you would share it. I reckon. Come on. I think you'd sell your souls. There we go. Yeah, double bluff hustle. Yeah, that's what that was the phrase I was trying to think of. Let's say a big thank you to all our channel members. Where are they? We've got a new member this week, the timekeeper. Aston. Welcome. You're in the chat today. Thank you very much for joining us. Hope you enjoy the Discord. Don't forget you can put all your questions or got any chat to come up, share anything that you've picked up, and please put it in the Discord, get some conversation going. Thank you to all the rest of our channel members here on YouTube. If you're listening on Spotify Apple Music or your favourite podcasting channels, then you can join us over on YouTube on a Monday night at 8 p.m. You can also join our channel membership and you get entry into our Discord. Amongst other things, you get other benefits as well, but that's the main one. You also get early access to new videos, etc. But the main thing is come and join us in our little community of resellers. It's not a it's not what I would call a guru group group. That's not what we're there for. We're a sharing group, we're a community group, we're a group of resellers that all help each other out. And there's 60 plus of us in there. I'm not sure exactly what the latest count is. It's probably somewhere around 65. But uh thank you, everybody, all the names going across the screen right now. Thank you, everybody, for being a part of our membership group. Very, very much appreciated. And let's see, let's go back to the chat for a minute. Who wants to know a bolo? Deborah Sardine, I'm going to church on Sunday. I found out I'm ruthless tonight. Going to beg for forgiveness. Yeah, you've got to go to the what is it, the confessional thing. I don't know what you call it. I'm not really a churchy person. M'sdem, we would not sell our souls, you cheeky sad. No. Fair enough. The 212th duck race. Who would have thought when we started doing a duck race that we'd we'd get to number 212? It's just mental, isn't it? We're not even allowed to say that anymore. We're not even allowed to say the word mental in this world anymore. It's a crazy, oh not even sounds to say crazy. It's ridiculous how we've managed to get to 212 duck races. So after the duck race, we're going to talk a little bit about the question I left pinned to the top of the chat, and that is the reseller time machine. I'm going to ask you that question. If you could go back, what would you do? But let's get ready for the duck race. So just give me a moment, guys. If you're listening, you don't know what the duck race is, every every week live on YouTube, we do a duck race, and it's based on people who comment on our previous week's live show. So once the tonight's show has ended, if you come to YouTube, you make a comment on the video, because it turns into a video from a live show. If you make a comment, that will get you into next week's duck race. It's completely free to enter. You will win a prize. Tonight's prize is a rollover, guys. Last week, the winner did not claim their prize, which means this prize will roll over tonight. The mini mock is my favourite ever sweets. Well, my favourite sweets of the moment are still here. I've not eaten them. They're still there, very tempting to eat. They're still available. And also the crocheted by hand, little duckling or chick or whatever you call it that Belle bought at the boot sale, handmade, that is tonight's prize. Those two items. Unclaimed. Please, guys, please. If you enter a duck race, the very least you need to do is come back and check. Even if you don't watch the show in its entirety, fast forward to the duck race. Just make sure you didn't win. Because last week's winner has not claimed it. So it's gonna be tonight's prize. Anyway, here we go. Let's let's let's share the screen. Two minutes on the clock. Oh, I've not I've not shared that properly, have I? Nearly went then, and nearly went. I don't remember seeing your name, but then I get AI to do the list, so I don't actually see people's names. You'll have to see, we'll look out for your name. Too late now, Husty, anyway, innit? You've got to be in before the show starts. Naughty. Right, we're sharing the screen, we're getting ready for the duck race. Right. Is that working now? Yes, it is. Uh okay. Shuffle the ducks. All the ducks are in a row. We are ready to go.

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And they're off. The duck race is off again. It's a 212th duck race here on the carboot Chris channel on YouTube.

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And who's taking an early lead? Linlin Jeffries is takes a lead with Mark Hill now as well with a naked duck. Rosie Mars and up there with the purple duck soft sales there as well. Sandra Parker and Net Espresso's close in the middle there with a naked duck. Naked Ducks, as we know, are more likely to win than any other duck. Speedfoot flip is closing in on the lead there. Netspresso still leading slightly by a small beak. Emsden UK coming up through the middle, and they are now taking a lead. Emsden UK leading the race now. Tiny Cloud in second, Simon Elliott. Simon Elliott taking a lead. It's changing by the second. Rachel Fantastics there, close at the bottom. Deborah Sardine is in the middle there. Peter Ray's world as well. Peter Ray Deborah Sardine takes the lead now. In the policeman duck, towards the back of the pack, Jeff Davis is floundering. Line like Vince's had enough. And Sandra Parker, well, she's thinking about it. Maybe she will, maybe she won't. Nothing major takes a lead with Karen Evans and Karen Evans is slightly leaking. Jamie D's up there, Scotty Doggycrafts, and it's all very, very close, 40 seconds on the clock. And Sarah Marsden is really at an unfair advantage. Look at the size of that beak. Look at that. That is huge. That's what she said. Sarah Marsden is close at the front. Next presso is very close. Peter Ray's world with a very pretty looking duck tonight. Simon Elliott leading. Sarah Marsden is leading because of the huge beak that she's got. That's very unfair. If that ends up winning, then there's got to be some kind of investigation into the size of that beat.

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Peter Ray's world's winning with 10 seconds to go. It's going to be Peter Ray. He's absolutely swimming it to the finish line. No problem at all. Peter Ray's going to win this one. No, she no, he's not. Peter Ray's not winning. At the last second. Dorothy Watkinson stormed it. Peter Ray is rubbed. Absolutely robbed at the last second. Dorothy Watkinson wins the race. Well done to Dorothy. Is Dorothy in the chat?

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Dorothy Watkinson has won. We need to turn that duck off. Dorothy, are you here? Put your hand up in the chat, Dorothy, if you're there. You have won the handmade little chick that Belle bought. Four quid that cost. Handmade stuff is expensive, isn't it? Four quid for this little duck. And you win my favourite sweeties. These are amazing. Once you start eating these, you are gonna be addicted, I'm telling you now. So well done to Dorothy Watkinson. Has Dorothy won this one before? Has she won a duck race before? Can we have the stats, please, Jeff? Carboot Chris, you said you didn't have a time machine, but you offered that crocade chick as a prize last week before. Bell picked it up on Saturday's video. Oh yeah, Jeff, you're right there. Yeah, I have got a time machine, yeah. That is true. I must have. That's just confused everybody. Well done to Dorothy. I don't think she is she in? Is she in today? I'm sure I've seen Dorothy Watkinson. Uh maybe. Maybe not. Maybe not. Anyway, Dorothy, if you're watching back, please send me a message. Don't forget. Don't be the one who doesn't claim their prize, especially when it's sweeties. Craziness. Oh, there she is. Dorothy Watkinson. There you go. Dorothy, send me a message, please. Instagram, Facebook, you know where to find me. Send me a message, and we'll get that prize off to you this week. Nothing gets past Jeff. It is true, innit? And now he's picked up on that one. Dorothy's third duck race victory out of 212. And Jeff's referring to his spreadsheet of winners right now. I wonder how much information he actually does have on that spreadsheet. Probably quite a lot. I'm thinking about doing an eBay live show this week, just in case anyone's interested. I'm I might I was gonna do it last week. I just ran out of time. One day we'll tell you why we're short on time at the moment, and it's not to do with Bell just to do with Bell's radio therapy. Something else going on. Excuse me, something else going on at the moment, which maybe we'll tell you about very soon, maybe next week. But eBay Live this week, I might do a trainer show. I've got quite a lot of trainers in stock at the moment on eBay, and I might try and get the numbers down a bit. So I might like do 50% off on all my trainers, possibly. So look out for that. I'll advertise it anyway. I'll stick it on the socials, I'll put it out on YouTube and I'll put it out everywhere like I normally do. So uh if you're interested in trainers, look out for an eBay live. I might do one this week. Not sure what day though, we've got a lot on. Yeah. So that's what's coming up this week. Right, let's talk about the pinned comment that I put at the top of the chat. Have a look at the top of the chat, wherever it is. Is it over here? Is it over here or is it down here? I'll look at the pinned comment. So let me just bring it back up here. So the reseller time machine. If you can go back to one moment in your reselling life so far, what would it be and why? Now you could go back to a point where you buy something that maybe you passed on that you ended up finding out was worth a lot of money, or maybe you would decide not to buy a load of stuff that you bought that was a disaster, you maybe you lost a lot of money on it. Maybe you go back to a very precise point in time and give yourself a piece of advice that might stand you in good stead for the future of your reselling. What would you do? Where are you going? What point in time, and why would you go there, and what would you do? You know? So give us some comments in the chat. I was thinking about this, and I found it really difficult to kind of pinpoint because I'm the kind of person I don't have any regrets really about anything. Even the bad buys, you know, you learn something from the bad things that happen to you, whether it be professionally or whatever. You can learn from the bad things, and you learn just as much from the bad and things going wrong as you do from the good. I'm always a person I try to be, sometimes it's really difficult, but I try to be the person that doesn't have regrets about anything because you can't change it, you can't go back, and if you could go back, you would do the exact same thing again. That's my belief because you make decisions in life based on the facts that are in front of you at the time that you make a decision, so therefore, you can't change it. But what I'm saying to you is theoretically, if you could go back in time, if you could go back and change something or give yourself a piece of advice, what would you do? Let's go back to the chat and see what we've got. Have we got anything? Here we go. Rosal Raventa said I'd travel back and I'd start reselling sooner, particularly when as as a skint student at university. The amount of money I could have made over the years, especially buying bikes, that's interesting. That's a good one. And Ross also follows up with I imagine the city breaks I could have had and all the pints I could have got at uni. Haha, yeah. Let's see, anyone else got any examples? Husty's Emporium said I'd have followed along the coattails of tech and sports. We started at about the same time, and I often think of where he got to and where I still am. Never compare yourself though. I don't just don't compare yourself. We're all on different journeys, aren't we? Jeff said if I could go back in time, I'd stay in school and become a doctor instead of this reselling gig, it's hard work. Any more? Come on, give us some examples. I'll give you mine while I'm waiting. Okay. So I've been a reseller for 11 years. I started off part-time in 2015, but actually, I was a reseller way, way back, if you remember me talking about it, back in the year 2000, I think, around 2000. No, it was 99, no, 2000 to 2002, I think it was. I was I had my own shop in Stockport, right near the bus station. It was computer games and media and DVDs and all that stuff, and it was a physical shop. And I did that for two years, barely made a thing. I mean, I came out of it in the end, having not really made any money, and I came out of it in debt, you know, through trying to finance it and stuff. I was very, very young, I was early 20s. I must have been 20 or 21 years old, something like that. Very young to have my own shop. But if I could go back, I'd go back to that journey. And there's two things that I would try and do. The first thing is when I started that shop, I know that I I started without enough cash flow, so it it was very difficult to buy stock and get the business going fully. I didn't I had some, I started it with some savings, but it wasn't enough. So I would go back and I would make sure that I had more money at the start of that journey. And the second thing I'd do, I know this is cheating, I couldn't I couldn't decide which was the most important. The second thing I'd do is it was around that time, if you think back to when eBay sort of started in the sort of the mid-90s, was it 96, something like that? And and to where it started taking off, which was early 2000s, it really started to take off. And I was on eBay, but as a profession as a person, I I had I've had my personal eBay account since the year 2000. So I know around the time I started my shop, I also started my personal eBay account. Now, I don't know why I didn't do it, but while I was running my physical shop, I wasn't selling online, and for the life of me, I can't think why I made that decision. I should have had everything that I had in the shop. I mean, you would do now, nowadays, but this is back in the year 2000, this is early days of online, like before it really took off. But I should have listed everything on eBay so that it was for sale online and in the shop, but I didn't, I was just selling in the shop, and that was a fatal flaw in my business, and that's one of the big reasons why I didn't survive I should have been selling online, and if I could go back, I would go back to that point and I would say to myself, get all your stock listed on eBay, and maybe I wouldn't have gone bust. And who knows what would have happened from that point. Who knows? Let's see what all you guys have put down. Jeff says high street shop, is that what you call it? Yeah, basically, yeah, high street shop. Just like a bricks and mortar shop, high street shop. Yeah, I think most of us would call it that. Deborah Sardine, if I could go back to the beginning of my reselling 25 years ago, I wouldn't let other resellers bully bully me. A lot of gentlemen resellers were horrible to me in the beginning. Oh, that's horrible. That is horrible. Yeah, good that's a good one though, isn't it? Very good. Sorry to hear that though. Husty says, I'm at that point in my business. I'm at that point now, my business is on life support, but I ain't giving in, and ChatGPT is helping me get back in the game. That's good to hear, Husty. That is good to hear. I'm sorry to hear that that maybe things aren't as good as they should be, but I've got my fingers crossed for you. I really have. We've all got to make a bit. Aid old age old adage said, Jeff, you've got to have money to make money. True. Indeed. Chris Tyler said, Do you watch Craig's List Hunter? Anyone like this in the UK? He's the only one I see doing see on YouTube doing this. Love the live walk-ins. I don't I don't know what that is, Chris. I don't know. I don't watch him. Brum reseller cannot rely on customers coming in even more so now. Yeah. I mean, when I had my shop Brum back in early 2000s, I mean that was like you'd like to think you could rely on people coming in the shop back in those days. You know, that was when high streets actually had people walking around them and people going into shops. It was in the early days of eBay, things were slowly starting to move online, but I wasn't quick enough, and I should have been. I look back on that, I don't regret it because I'd as I said before, I would have made the same decision as I did do because for whatever reason I don't remember what it was or why I didn't like to sell on there or whatever, I didn't do it. I just went for the high street shop, just the walk-ins, and it was difficult. I think I lasted two years and then I gave up gave it in. Came away with a load of debt. But I'm okay now. Limelight, yeah. Back then though, Chris, wouldn't you be having to wait for cash payments to arrive in envelopes? Yeah, I mean there was a lot of scams. I mean, I remember around that period of time, I remember getting scammed on eBay. And I wonder if and I wonder if that might have put me off completely like selling on there at that early stage. I was buying on eBay, don't get me wrong. I had my account from the year 2000, so I was actively buying on eBay at that point. I might have even bought stock for my business, you know, in my shop. But for some reason I just didn't go all in and and sell on eBay either, and it was a big mistake in the end. Husty says one thing Tech said once is if you knew eBay was closing at the end of the year and it was to be no more, how quick would you list your death pile? Yeah, that's true. Sharon said I'd have focused on sourcing better quality items from the beginning, better brands, etc. Yeah, that's a good point. El Ravento, I would travel back in time and buy the BM warehouse in Milton. Is that MK Milton Keynes? Is that is that right? Before BM got it and then make the ghosts in the warehouse go viral and sell the merch. I have no idea what that conversation is, El Ravento. No clue whatsoever about that. Ghost at BM Pete the Craigslist hunter, if anyone wants to have a look. Carolina Claws, thank you, Santa, for putting the link in.

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Is that it? No one else wants to travel back in time and do something differently.

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Thought we might have had a few more. No more time travellers. I think have we done enough have we done enough theory and reseller dilemmas for one night? Have we all gone to hell? I think we have most of us. Especially Deborah Sardine. She is there's no two ways about it. She's going straight down there. Straight down. And I'm pretty sure she agrees with me as well. Deborah, speaker Deborah, she said I'd go back in time and marry Elon Musk. Really? Fair enough. Right then. Okay. Well, we've gone longer than we should do, really, because Belle's probably well, she's probably fast asleep by now, but if Belle was here now, we'd have finished about half an hour ago, I reckon. Uh Husty's Emporium is also going to hell. Uh Jeff said I'd go back in time and help Doc Brown with his research. And Emsden says, thanks very much for a good night. A great night. I've dumbed it down a bit there. Everyone in the chat, hope you have a lovely week. It's been a good chat, guys. It's been an interesting one. Something different, isn't it? Just have a bit of a light-hearted look at ourselves and what we do and how we do it. Are we ready for Chris's final thoughts in the style of Jerry Springer? Before we finish, I want to say thank you to everybody who took the time this evening to come and watch us live here on YouTube. Thank you very much. Really do appreciate it. Thanks for all your wishes for Bell. If you're listening on any of the podcast channels like Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon, Alexa, and all that. If you're listening on there, thank you so much for listening. Don't forget to hit the download button. That's a bit like subscribing here on YouTube. So hit the download and be served up with the next episode immediately that it's made live. So thank you very much. Come over and join us on YouTube sometime. And uh, we're gonna finish with Chris's final thoughts, and then we're gonna be done. We are gone after that. Here we go. Right. At the end of the day, there aren't always right or wrong answers in reselling. What one person sees as a smart business, another sees as the wrong thing to do. That's what makes these conversations interesting. We all have our own line, our own values, and our own way of doing things. The important thing is being able to look at yourself in the mirror, and at the end of the day, you're happy with the decisions that you have made. Take care of yourselves and each other, and we'll see you on the next one. 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.